#lore!!!!!

Goodbyes are hard, aren’t they?

[Alterna Statues] An idea I've had for a few days!

What are they?

Why do they exist?

These 'statues' are not really statues, technically they are the remains of a human, covered/replaced by the liquid crystals from the fake sky! Like fossils! But...more ominous.

The statues were created as a result of the failed rocket launch that ended most life in Alterna!

As we know, the energy from the rocket boosters overloaded the crystals causing a massive cave in and debris to rain down upon humanity.

The crystals themselves serve as a way to record and/or display human desires and memories(?).

So, in this idea, during the tragedy, crystals that fell onto people would sort of flash freeze them and envelope their entire bodies. Then, the liquid would solidify and absorb the person's memories, desires, personality, etc.

This whole process is the reason as to why EVERY single one of the currently found statues seems to be frozen in time, with a mortified expression in their faces, as if running away from their end. It effectively "kills" the person, but at the same time doesn't.

The body is dead but everything that made the person, themselves, that made them human, are all recorded in the crystals. The statues 'soul' is alive, but they aren't.

That person isn't a person anymore, they are the crystals resembling what they once were, unmoving, unable to express emotions.

It is unknown whether or not the effects can be reversed. Agent Neo 3.5, codenamed L1, an expert in the preservation of the mind/ anything human, HEAVILY PROHIBITS touching the statues with bare skin.

Current hypothesis for what might happen in this case are:

-The one that touched it will have everything the statue recorded transferred into their brain, most likely killing them from the overload of information in the process.

-Everything will transfer to the new host of the information, but it will most definitely cause some sort of identity crisis (or more) as the subject is unable to decide who they are due to having 2 extremely detailed and real lives in their brain. They would be more like 2 people in one body, fighting for control, an unperfect fusion.

-Crystals will spread immediately upon contact, flash freezing the subject too, and condemning them to live out eternity together with all the other statues.

Further analysis from the previously mentioned L1, proposes the possibility of transferring the information onto a digital medium. If such is true, then it might be possible to create a new body from DNA samples and dump all the information into it, as had already been done with her, reviving whoever the statues were.

Or perhaps not.

Research into this phenomena is still ongoing, and the possibility of giving whoever these eternal monoliths of sadness and despair were, a second chance at life, is still low.

Who knows how many still sit inside their dome shaped cage, forced to never be able to see the blue sky, buried beneath tones of debris and water? Hundreds? Thousands?

We do not know.

All that we do know is that our Agents, along with some outside help from a certain octoling engineer/idol are doing their utmost to research this phenomena and crack the code to it's inner workings.

More updates on said research will be given out.... whenever I want to write.

END OF LOG 1.

THANK YOU FOR READING! :D

(Mild spoilers for 4th another day below)

I’m totally down to hear some behind-the-scenes lore for your stuff! Especially from With Two Seeming Bodies but One Heart! It’s so good I can’t even begin to tell you.

!!!!! <3

omg hello I adore you for sending me this thank you, it's LORE TIME.

So for But One Heart I haven't stated it outright, but I am fully moving away from the watchers lore here. I thought hard about including it, but there's a hundred different iterations out there, and having not watched Evo yet myself I didn't feel super comfy with the territory so I said 'hey what if I did cool meta without watchers in it'

SO instead we have more directly minecraft-meta-influenced storytelling, with coding and admins and servers and players all being quite real, but also a little bit unknowable. They're binary sure, but they're something More too, and that something more can really bite you in the butt if you're not careful. There may even be some end poem references coming down the pike...

That means the Grian Angst in this bad boy is gonna be entirely the result of his own choices as admin, and some unintended consequences of those choices playing out in interesting ways 👀

He and Jimmy are the key players in the bigger picture for But One Heart, and their meta directly impacts each other. I cannot WAIT for y'all to see how it plays out 😁!!!!