LORE

Poetry and prose breathing life into the finished art pieces.  Much of the referenced detail text comes from one or more of these.  All content herein is original.

ENTRIES are short snippets of lore, most of which directly relate to the main arc of the VEIL story.  EXCERPTS are freeform poetry lore entries.  SIDEQUESTS are longer lore entries, tangentially related to the main VEIL arc.  All lore exists in the same space - be on the lookout for repeated names and terms.

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[ ENTRY.000 ] – PERMANENT_VACATION

The final lucidity trial completed. [ VEIL ] feels the familiar frigid water of the sensory deprivation chamber return as he descends from his dream state. Eyes still cemented shut, he allows the water …

[ ENTRY.001 ] – HYPERLIGHT_ANOMALY

[ VEIL ] shakes his head as he scales another of the endless black stone hills, trying in vain to dislodge the possession. The voice grows louder, despite his fighting against its permeation, and …

[ ENTRY.002 ] – WASTELAND

(Four thousand one hundred and seventy-two.) He didn't remember falling asleep, or waking up. The wasteland sprawls in front of him, formless and infinite(?), stretching its countless incorporeal limbs out in all directions. No …

[ ENTRY.003 ] – MAN_IN_THE_CASTLE

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 …

[ ENTRY.004 ] – UNMATTER_BLADE

Stark against the ever-receding darkness of the sky, clearer even than the monolith-castle towering over the spectral city, [ VEIL ] wills a new object from the fabric of the Greater Dream. Atoms align …

[ ENTRY.005 ] – SLEEPSICK

One second, he stood at the base of the looming ARGOS DEEP, frigid spectres walking through him; the next, complete darkness. [ VEIL ]'s hand, still outstretched in front of him, now grasps at …

[ ENTRY.006 ] – ARG-ULTRA

ARG-ULTRA is suspected to be a human experimentation shadow program designed and undertaken by the ARGOS Corporation, intended to develop procedures and identify methods by which to capture consciousness digitally through intense sleep studies. …

[ ENTRY.007 ] – DESPAIRCODE

ARGOS::[ ARTCLE START ] Here we report the first draft sequence of the DESPAIR CODE. The sequencing was performed with the use of a hybrid approach. At the first stage, a rapid fragment library …

[ ENTRY.008 ] – OCULUS

The air smells of ozone, metal, moisture. VEIL, walking quickly through the labyrinthine entrails of the ARGOS DEEP, faces another split hallway. To his right, a well-lit white hallway stretches to another T. Just …

[ ENTRY.009 ] – WRATH

Silence, broken only by the whispers of unknown forces swirling within the OCULUS - matter and unmatter chasing one another, twisting in whorls, two parts of a trinary joining to sustain the bridge between …

[ ENTRY.010 ] – ALT

"PREPARE SYSTEMS AND TRAVERSAL GEAR FOR TRIAL 97A. SWITCH THE ACTIVE CONFIGURATION - OVERRIDE CODE: A-L-T. BEGIN PRE-CHARGE." Deft keystrokes, click-confirmation on-screen. OCULUS control indicators flash - red, red, green. Operators move about Auxiliary …

[ ENTRY.011 ] – HIVEMIND

NIGHT CAME SLOWER WHEN IT EMERGED. THE DARKNESS, WEIGHTED BY A NEW PRESENCE. THE DIM LIGHT OF THE MOON, STAINED BY AN INTRUDER - SOME INCOMPREHENSIBLE FORM. A MIRAGE WITH COUNTLESS HUNGERING EYES. A …

[ ENTRY.012 ] – CHRYSALIS

"The hyperlight spike through head and tail of the Ouroboros shatters; and with it, the cycle of [ ARC 2 ] meets a violent end. Energy blooms from the entity and an ontomorphosis occurs …

[ EXCERPT.000 ] – MOURN

EVERY DAY IS THE SAME THERE IS NO TIME ANYMORE ALL THERE IS TO DO IS MOURN SWEEP THE ASHES BEHIND everything is so manic now contemplative silence, the ashes littering the floor - …

[ EXCERPT.001 ] – MEMORIES,MIRAGES

ABOVE:: PALE, BLUE-GREY IN THE WAKE OF DAY'S END THE MOON RISES ABOVE THE DECAYING LIGHT CRESCENT BLADE IN-HAND WEARING A REFLECTION ITS FACE STAINED WITH PHOSPHORESCENT BLOOD BELOW:: PALLID, VIOLET-WHITE BREATHLESS GASPING IN …

[ EXCERPT.002 ] – SIMULATION

HAVE I IMAGINED IT ALL? I AM BECOMING PARANOID ETERNAL EXIT AND REENTRY -- LIGHT'S FLASHING DECEIT -- HOW MANY CYCLES HAS IT BEEN? FLICKING EYES BETWEEN REALITY AND ILLUSION WHICH IS MIMICKING THE …

[ EXCERPT.003 ] – NOSEDIVE

you pray to your god through a screen — ( i can see you in the reflection ) cry to cold servers praise him in his holy form of steel and wire and give …

[ SIDEQUEST.001-1 ] – ANOMALY277

I need to find the second disk. All of my body cam capture data, every millisecond spent in that hole, every megabyte I scraped from that system - all lost if I can't get …

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