Ω → one [video]

[oforder]

[ The camera depicts a small room in the Deeps apartments; considering how nice a lot of those apartments are, the room this broadcast is coming from is actually rather subdued, and unimpressive, with only the bare minimum of amenities. Unless, of course, you count a device in there the likes of which many of you have likely never seen before; a flat, golden disk laid out on a table, with a green, translucent cube of energy hovering above it, rotating and revolving three hundred and sixty degress in place, sometimes changing directions. Two circles rotated around it as well, in a gyroscopic fashion. Someone then begins speaking, but the source of the voice is off-screen. The contact is listed as 'Wilhelm.' ]

This dimension has its own Collective Unconscious.

[ The voice is eerily calm, and barely inflects at all. Any interest present in his words can only be implied; he addresses it as casually as if he were talking about the weather. ]

The 'Valkyrie' promised me a way to save my own universe from the activation of Anima, without the use of the Eternal Recurrence. I am unaware of how such a feat would be possible, but I am willing to cooperate, for now.

[ At the very edge of the screen, Wilhelm's fingers drum on the desk a few times, before the camera raises, implying that whoever was holding it had just stood up. He then walks over to a nearby phonograph, and placed a record on it, while turning the crank. The music of German composer Richard Wagner began playing, as Wilhelm returned to his desk. ]

The Compass is showing me a presence similar to that of U-DO here, only bearing its own individual consciousness instead of one large hive mind. This world, if nothing else, is fascinating.

Comments

[hasturtheunspeakable]

"'Collective Unconscious.' I haven't heard that one in a long while."

[oforder]

Few people have. In what context have you heard of it before?

[hasturtheunspeakable]

"Nineteenth-century human psychology."

[oforder]

Coined by Carl Jung. Of course.

[ He was close, but... not quite. ]

His view of the Collective Unconscious was purely theoretical. The truth is more complicated than that.

[hasturtheunspeakable]

"Would you tell me what that truth is?"

[oforder]

Perhaps. But to what end would it be? Truth always manages to be suppressed by the sheer force of cognitive dissonance.

My role here is not to teach. For now, it is to observe, and to learn.

[returnmyrice]

...Um. I...don't know what a lot of those terms mean.

[oforder]

I was not expecting anyone to understand the importance of any of them. In the end, it matters very little. I am the only one who can monitor the Collective Unconscious in a place like this, anyway.

[returnmyrice]

...Oh. I'm still kinda curious, though. I should go to the library here...

Oh, um, is that an important duty?

[oforder]

The Collective Unconscious is exactly what it sounds like. The unconscious minds of all living things, making up all intelligent life itself. By monitoring it with this Compass, I can predict all possible futures; though, not necessarily which future will be the future that occurs.

[returnmyrice]

...Oh, wow. I don't think my world has anything like that. But aren't there infinite possible futures at any given moment?

[If nothing else, the kid is definitely smart.]

[oforder]

There are. But it becomes easier to tell which future will happen based on the thoughts and actions of others.

[returnmyrice]

You mean, like picking them based on behavioral patterns?

[oforder]

That is perhaps the absolute simplest way to describe the way the Compass works. Of course, the truth is far more complicated than that, and behavior is only a very small piece of a vast and confusing puzzle.

[returnmyrice]

It's a start, though, and I understand it better. Thanks for being patient with me!

[oforder]

Of course.

[ He didn't reveal anything too damaging. Only how the Compass works, and nobody except for himself can use it here. ]