#loop posting

It is not good to remain at the doctor's appointment with the armor plates open for too long, it might be dangerous.

The fireproof suit that became one with his skin prevents him from feeling the wetness of the water, and Pike has poor sense of touch and temperature in general. When swimming, he does not feel the waterness, but weightlessness and the soothing swaying of his body back and forth with the waves. It feels neat.

On many maps you can find some tech devices. They are not directly related to the Machine, but were developed by the same groups of scientists, at the same time as it. Shortly after the looping, when the very first armed conflict turned from blazing flames into inert smoldering, and people started collecting, these parts motivated them to find more of the tech. They started to scatter from 2fort to neighboring maps looking for more. It’s not so easy to get to some, but we have rocket and sticky jumps, and later will have teleports. We have a person who can figure out how the Machine operates. We only need to find him more terminals, that’s it, and then he’ll manage himself. In any case, new technologies will serve us well, we just need to not stop. Perhaps on one of the many lost maps at the end of a shrinking house, in an inconspicuous tin box behind a locked door, there is a document that will turn everything upside down and highlight a way out of the cycle. Moreover, the problem of clones is already brewing, so it is vital to populate and inhabit new places to keep us a good distance away from each other’s throats. On this map we’ve found a chocolate bar — on the next we will find a microchip! We just need to not stop. Much is already clear with this Machine. It is clear that it will not let you die from wounds, and will not let you die of hunger by respawning canned food, and this is a bright side, because we really don’t like each other. Ammo is also respawned. But if we put aside our disputes for a while, or keep them to ourselves at least, if we are more patient, there is a chance that it will pay off and the loop will break. We will find a way out, if not in this office —, then in the next one. We just need to not stop. The Machine does let you out of bounds, sure, but there's nothing even remotely resembling the rest of the Earth. In fact, there's nothing. You can go anywhere but it will be no use. Organizing underground passages between maps no longer seems like too idiotic of an idea. It is indeed stupid, but there have been more stupid ones. Sometimes, if you break through a wall in a room, you can find a narrow passage a few feet wide behind it. It has lights, it has wiring, it has tiling, the only thing missing is doors. If you break the wall at the opposite end, it might just lead somewhere else. Somewhere useful. Maybe it will even allow us to take possession of the intel that another expedition hid from us. You just need to not stop.