"While the catalog contains short excerpts from each of these discovered works, it's the additional notes added to each entry by subsequent researchers that place each title in its full context. You'll end up poring through these research notes for clues about the existence and chronology of other authors and works. Picking out specific names and years points to the codes and titles needed to unlock even more reference pages in the computer, pushing you further down the rabbit hole."
"You'll slowly start to unravel and understand how the game world's myriad authors are influencing each other with their cross-pollinating writings. The treatises, novels, pamphlets, and journals discussed in this database are full of academic sniping, intellectual intrigue, and interpersonal co-mingling across multiple generations of work. It all ends up circling a long-running search for a metaphysical key to life itself, which most of the authors manage to approach but never quite reach a full understanding."
"As you explore, you also start to learn more about the personal affairs of the researchers who collected and cataloged all this reference material and the vaguely defined temporal capabilities of the information-synthesis engine in the computer you've all worked on. Eventually, you'll stumble on the existence of core commands that can unlock hidden parts of the computer or alter the massive research database itself, which becomes key to your eventual final goal."
A catalog holds short excerpts of discovered works while researcher notes provide full context and clues to other authors and chronology. Tracking specific names and years reveals codes and titles that unlock more reference pages in a computer, leading to deeper research. The interconnected treatises, novels, pamphlets, and journals show cross-pollination, academic sniping, and long-running pursuit of a metaphysical key to life that remains unresolved. Exploration uncovers personal affairs of researchers and vague temporal capabilities of an information-synthesis engine. Discovery of core commands allows unlocking or altering the research database. A parallel narrative features Liam, an unseen voice warning of an encroaching threat.
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