Hard to say. It seems, from looking around here, that the implication is that this world - or at least this station - was once some sort of...multidimensional hub...? It is possible that the brochures were once entirely filled out when the station was working, but that they became blank or disappeared once worlds were destroyed...?
[ this is all a little too hypothetical for her to not add, clarifying: ]
It's just a possibility, of course. I have no evidence one way or the other. But that's the first thing to come to mind to make it "fit" the narrative. Perhaps the information inside is proof of some sort of regeneration of the destroyed planets...that said, I suppose for the moment it should at least give an estimate of how many different "worlds" we represent - perhaps.
I don't know how or why you're automate a brochure like that, it seems... excessive.
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But no, that's not an unfair conclusion to make about this place in general. It's clearly and ingoing-outgoing center both, given the number of tracks and the variety of stores we have here. It's sort of like the big one in DC, actually.
[ Still, to think these represent incomplete ideas of destroyed worlds? I suppose it makes sense for them to be monitoring them beforehand to know they were destroyed, but... ???? ]
I wouldn't commit to the hypothesis without further information and actual evidence, but it's probably important to theorize. Still - it looks like according to that book, something changed in 2007...?
Yes. So...someone had to have been here at least at that time, assuming it wasn't a weird prank...but I think we learn more by working on the tentative assumption it was not?
I've been trying to think this whole time. The whole thing with the switching out of the founders statues was more like twenty years ago than ten, I think? So then I tried to think more globally or nationally, but it's honestly probably more intimate than that.
[ LUCY I WASN'T IN THE GAME THEN I FOUND SOMETHING ABOUT IT IN MY RESEARCH FOR THE GUIDE AND I FIGURED SHE WOULD KNOW SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN AN NPC AT THE TIME BUT I FOR THE LIFE OF ME HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR AN HOUR NOW AND CAN'T FIND WHERE I FOUND IT BEFORE ABOUT HOW THERE USED TO JUST BE ONE FOUNDER STATUE AND THEN THEY ADDED MORE DUE TO HISTORICAL CLARIFICATION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT I AM A FAILURE AS A RESEARCHER ]
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They did, but we all knew about it. That is...if I'm recalling my Founder's day history correctly, Vanderweele was the only known Founder until it was discovered that wasn't the case - but I don't think we "forgot" about it so much as we were misled. Even those without the application acknowledge that. It's connected, but perhaps in a different way?
I didn't mean that knowledge was particularly special, just that's one of the only big dates I can pick my brain over. The actually made the discovery before then, just changed out the statues after that. ... And I don't recall when the current mayor first took office.
[ Which when she thinks about it is a little weird. But she's just parsing out options. ]
If I recall correctly that was...fifty years ago? More? Less...? [ the statues. she's never really Cared about recolle history that much... ] But now that you mention it, I don't remember when he did, either, and I've lived here for several years.
[ Which is even more unsettling really. She's not even sure when the subway was last open and... God if she can hear that one girl saying The Grid is real and that pisses her off. She kicks the podium the book's on lightly. ]
[ She finds a finger going to her lips, and when it does she looks down at it. She's never been a nail biter, really, but she keeps doing this. Elda grumbles, lowers her hand and then nods. ]
...No, perhaps not. After all, we weren't born on the app.
So...this company is made up of people who either predated the oddities in our world or whom awoke in the same way we did, but much earlier...probably.
This might be a weird thing to be stuck on... but that Gou woman, right? She says she's from Aht and is a "humanoid" so she's an alien, right? But if that's the case and your theory's right, why isn't she just back on Aht? The whole idea if bring people to life and the plants pop back, right?
I think maybe the planets can't pop back up fully? At least, going from the odd "things" we've had added to our world...perhaps features off them are coming back slowly, and eventually the planets themselves will? Like the chocobos, and the fruit.
Yes. I don't think he would have had any reason to lie to me about it...and I've spoken with those who say they do recall chocobos from their original world.
The chocobos are less surprising than the fruits. [ But okay if we think about it like that... ]
That would mean that the fruits, chocobos, and then some of the oddities around town like those clown vending machines with the ammo or the little cleaner robots are from other worlds.
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... But what about losing blue and green, or taste? Those were just broken and then wrapped up. Glitches?
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[ this is all a little too hypothetical for her to not add, clarifying: ]
It's just a possibility, of course. I have no evidence one way or the other. But that's the first thing to come to mind to make it "fit" the narrative. Perhaps the information inside is proof of some sort of regeneration of the destroyed planets...that said, I suppose for the moment it should at least give an estimate of how many different "worlds" we represent - perhaps.
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[ Exhale. ]
But no, that's not an unfair conclusion to make about this place in general. It's clearly and ingoing-outgoing center both, given the number of tracks and the variety of stores we have here. It's sort of like the big one in DC, actually.
[ Still, to think these represent incomplete ideas of destroyed worlds? I suppose it makes sense for them to be monitoring them beforehand to know they were destroyed, but... ???? ]
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That's someone's personal note, isn't it?
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[ So yeah, public records.
... That's a fair idea. ]
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They did, but we all knew about it. That is...if I'm recalling my Founder's day history correctly, Vanderweele was the only known Founder until it was discovered that wasn't the case - but I don't think we "forgot" about it so much as we were misled. Even those without the application acknowledge that. It's connected, but perhaps in a different way?
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[ Which when she thinks about it is a little weird. But she's just parsing out options. ]
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[ Which is even more unsettling really. She's not even sure when the subway was last open and... God if she can hear that one girl saying The Grid is real and that pisses her off. She kicks the podium the book's on lightly. ]
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...No, perhaps not. After all, we weren't born on the app.
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That would mean that the fruits, chocobos, and then some of the oddities around town like those clown vending machines with the ammo or the little cleaner robots are from other worlds.
[ Tilting her head the other way ]
... But what about losing blue and green, or taste? Those were just broken and then wrapped up. Glitches?
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