Coincidence or Collapse
The coincidences and glitches become more and more conspicuous for Fatima and Trey: Are they simply paying closer attention to their experience or is it evidence of a malfunctioning simulation? At her yoga studio, Aaravi, too, is experiencing numerous anomalies, breaks in continuity, and a mysterious message, she never penned and yet in her handwriting, “Remember, nothing is ever truly gone.” Timmy is enduring his own anomalies: The radio whispers to him at work, urging him to “find the truth.” The Game Keeper is warned by his assistant, Lance, that the four seekers, Timmy, Trey, Fatima and Aaravi, are getting too close. And the game keeper wonders if he is both the puppet as well as the puppeteer.
Do Sims Grow Like Trees? The seekers learn that the simulation is truly an energy conservation device, “filling in details” for objects and individuals...
At master control of the sim, the Gamekeeper is agitated: He didn’t program the “superposition”of Timmy’s son—The simulation’s AI has in some way corrupted...
The Illusion of Time and Space. The Guardian issues a proclamation: The heroes must evacuate their current level of reality because it is collapsing....