#oz rambles

at this lab his coworkers happen to be the curator, settings/tk, and stanley. he isnt friends with everyone but he knows of them, this will be explained why later.

at some point, the possibility of another interplanetary war breaks out and its highly speculated that it would be because of earth/earth would be the one hit first with some sort of nuclear weapon from an enemy faction. thus, people start pivoting to bunkers

the company the narrator works in diverts all their resources on creating stasis chambers. the idea of making a sort of time capsule that slows down a persons aging process by keeping them asleep in a vat, while also keeping their minds active via an adaptive software that takes a user's memory to make a simulation that keeps them engaged while keeping their memory jogged.

they place the capsules in a bunker with intense security ensuring no one comes in, or comes out. they expect things to go to shit so they make it so no breaches happen.

eventually, the moment earth is waiting for hits, and everyone rushes to the bunkers.

Narrator, Curator, Settings/TK, and Stanley all get in their capsules and the software makes them a simulation for them to be in.

For the Narrator as a focus, his simulation is just TSP-TSPUD. Everyones appearances in it are just the simulation taking his memory of them and his perception of them and using them like reoccuring characters. Kind of like in a dream where your mind reuses assets from your memories in an nonsensical way that you understand. Everyone in the simulation is just how he remembers them.

Curator, he remembers her as being philosophical and friendly. I HC she's of the same species as he is, whether its whole or mixed like the Narrator, which is why he remembers her and her voice. well.

TK/Settings, he remembers them as someone the company hired ages ago but that theyre trying to get fired For some reason. He didn't know them all too well so all he knows is that one day they dissapear. A part of him hopes they were just promoted tho. Thus 432's appearance is gone but everywhere in the game, but settings may or may not be them

Stanley, he barely knew him since all he knew was that he was good at staying quiet and doing his job. But he does hear from beyond the grapevine of who stanley is like skateboarding and having a wife, but nothing directly from the man himself. Thus making Stanley appear boring in the game while also having a personality that isn't as obvious, which is a mix of rumors he heard + speculation on the narrators behalf.

With everyone in the capsules, the war breaks out and bombs drop. But.... nothing as bad as anyone predicted. The war ends and people leave their bunkers ready to rebuild.

Only, The capsule facility didnt get the memo. Theyre prepared for the world ending, so when it doesnt, it doesn't believe it.

People outside try to break in to get them out, but the security is too strong, people are dying trying to get in, so the survivors call it quits and just focus on rebuilding.

centuries, millennia, time passes by and theyre still down there. society has moved on and theyve been long forgotten. the city around them expands and moves up, leaving the underground abandoned and forgotten

now, since its been so long. the security measures break down and decay. the vats are doing alright but a few have already broken due to age, killing the users inside. the four we know are fine.

someone in this future set out to explore these underground places when they find the bunker and the capsules. now they could break them out with their modern tech but. the tech there is now so old anything new wont work. so they have to use the tech around them.

They find the narrator and go into his simulation via a computer, and end up as Stanley in the game. They basically play TSP with the goal of trying to get him out of it/letting the simulation shut down. The failsafes dont work (escape pod), so they keep playing.

Eventually though, they get to the figurine ending, and somehow through this, we get the narrator admitting to wanting to be free from stanley and living his own life. Causing the simulation to take it as a prompt to end it and let him go. Thus letting him free.