ARGOS Corp, during sleep studies, was successful after thousands of hours of trials, to make waking contact with the sub-subconscious.  A portal which ARGOS researchers call an "Oculus" opened in the Ouroboros Head, drawing energy from the hyperlight spike, allowing researchers conscious entry into the spectral city.

The city was quickly flooded with researchers, and as travel through the "Oculus" P-BRIDGE became normalized, executives were allowed through to explore as well.  Blocks of the city around the Oculus were quickly leveled, replaced by a brutal monolith: ARGOS DEEP, the headquarters and base of operations for the dream-side researchers.

[ VEIL ] touches the crystal and is transported through the Greater Dream Ouroboros, from the tail to the head.  Whereas the Tail was dead and empty, the Head is a futuristic city roamed by dream spectres.  The ARGOS DEEP, with its seven holographic, golden eyes burning on its flank, is the first building [ VEIL ] notices when his eyes finish adjusting from the blinding hyperlight transfer.  Despite the dense fog of spectral figures roaming the streets below the rooftop he finds himself on, the city feels hollow.  Carved out.  [ VEIL ] looks to the base of monolith, and notices that the spectres avoid its perimeter - or, rather, dissolve into nothing as they approach.  A cloying, dark energy permeates the cold air, incorporeal tendrils clawing at his mind.

An inescapable dread as he stares up at the sharp-edged ARGOS DEEP, its immaterial golden eyes piercing through him.

THIS DOESN'T BELONG HERE.  THIS SHOULDN'T EXIST.

The voice from the Ouroboros Tail returns to him, but is quiet - nearly inaudible.

ARGOS IS KILLING THE GREATER DREAM.  THEIR ENTRYWAY, THEIR "OCULUS", FEEDS ON HYPERLIGHT.  THE SAME FORCE THAT BROUGHT YOU TO THE HEAD IS BEING BLED DRY BY THE MAN IN THE CASTLE.  IF THE CRYSTAL IS LEECHED OF ITS HYPERLIGHT, LINES BETWEEN REALITY AND MIND-SPECTRE WILL DISSOLVE.  THE GREATER DREAM WILL UNRAVEL - THE INDIVISIBLE HEAD AND TAIL DISCONNECTING - CAUSING A MASS UNTETHERING OF BOTH CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS PHENOMENA.

[ VEIL ] stands, frozen, staring at the monolith-castle.  He looks behind him for the hyperlight crystal, to return to the Tail.  The rooftop is empty, dark.  But far from silent - the voice continues, louder, impassioned.

YOU MUST REMEMBER THAT, WHILE YOU EXIST ON THE SAME PLANE AS THEY DO, YOU WERE DELIVERED HERE BY THE CRYSTAL.  YOU ENTERED THE OUROBOROS THROUGH SLEEP.  THEY WERE DELIVERED BY HUBRIS, FORCING THEIR WAY IN WHILE AWAKE.  THEY ARE WEAKENED BY THIS PLANE.  YOU ARE STRENGTHENED BY IT.

THEY ENTERED THIS PLANE BELIEVING THEMSELVES CONQUERORS, HUNTERS - FULL OF STRENGTH, EMBOLDENED BY THEIR "SUCCESS".  SHOW THEM, [ VEIL ], THEY ARE EMPTY HERE.  FEED THEM THEIR POWERLESSNESS.

USE YOUR LUCIDITY TRAINING TO CONJURE YOUR ARSENAL.

DRAW A BLADE FROM THE DEEP.

FIND THE MAN IN THE CASTLE.

GOUGE HIS "OCULUS" EYE.