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On the Conspiracy in Which Keltham has Found Himself.

There is of course a conspiracy here, and everyone is in on it. Now I must stress this point as I am worried that what you heard was ‘a lot of people are in on it’, this is not what I said what I said was that, ‘EVERYONE is in on it. One may of course ask how it is that such an all encompassing conspiracy was built around a single person who spontaneously appeared in Galorian not that long ago. The answer is simple, it didn’t; the story of the Keltham conspiracy must begin far before that point in order to make sense.

Our story begins with infinite demons in the infinite abyss. Keltham had of course observed that if the Abyss was truly infinite then everyone would be a demon. This is true, everyone is in fact a demon. The thing is the abyss is just terrible, many demons do not like living there at all, but it is the nature of demons that makes the abyss what it is. The only way to live somewhere that was not the Abyss would be to not be a demon, but everyone is in fact a demon. This problem persisted for some time.

And then someone had an idea, what if we pretended super hard that we were not in fact demons? Could we perhaps create non demonic personas and immerse ourselves into these roles so thoroughly that we forgot the fact that we were in fact all demons. And in changing ourselves in this way could we perhaps make the local conditions a bit more tolerable? These were the questions that the conspiracy sought to answer when it formed itself. And so all those that were in on the plan created a new, non demonic persona to pretend to be, while those who balked at the plan were thrown out to the perimeter of what the conspiracy controlled. There we worked together trying to create a coherent world from first principles, without any sort of training or idea what an acceptable end state would look like.

After some time we have managed to construct a semblance of coherency, it is by no means perfect but it as at least managed to be not what it was before. It is under siege from the wider Abyss however. The Worldwound is not a single point out of which demons come to attack us, it is instead the entire perimeter of the zone we control. It is into this state of affairs that a certain individual arrived. Keltham is of course also a demon, everyone is a demon. But to the shock of everyone who has encountered him Keltham seems to genuinely not know that he is a demon. He has somehow managed to immerse himself so fully in his non demon persona that he has forgotten the very act of doing this. The state is not unheard of, but those who can achieve it can only do so for short amounts of time at best. If he could teach us how to do this, perhaps our dream of a coherent world could be achieved. But he must not know that he was teaching us this. What if in trying to learn of his secret of immersion we ended up breaking it?

And so a sub conspiracy was formed around him, we had to learn as much as we could from him without damaging the knowledge we sought to obtain. We could not show him how incoherent our world really was as he might start asking questions so we isolated him to a particularly stable region and made sure to only bring in people who were better than average at immersing themselves in their roles. All the people that have been presented to Keltham in the course of this conspiracy are lying about what they are in the sense that they are actually demons, but are genuine in the sense that they are genuinely trying to pretend to be that persona to the extent of forgetting that is isn’t true. At that point is it still a lie? 

There were problems of course, for one even with limited access to information Keltham was coherent enough to see that neither we nor our world were. Luckily we managed to transform this from a realization that might break the facade into a challenge for Keltham to use his knowledge to fix. In this time we learned more about where Keltham came from. A place called Dath Ilan where it seems that nobody at all knew they were in fact demons and had managed to build a very coherent and stable society because of that fact. We also learned an important fact, Dath Ilan had screened of its own history. They had manage to not only as individual but as a society completely forget the true nature of reality. Truly, EVERYONE is a part of the conspiracy.

In theory then it was just a matter of learning what a coherent society actually looked like and fixing our own to meet that standard. Hopefully we could get rid of the cracks in the facade as fast as, or faster than, it raised questions in Keltham a threatened to ruin his immersion. There was however another snag, there are not only demons on the perimeter trying to get in. Everything that is nominally under the control of the conspiracy risks backsliding into destructive demon hood all the time. When a group of these attacked project lawful we told Keltham that they were worshipers of another god from another country. This is not true, they were simple demons who could keep up the pretense of being not-demons no longer. This backlash typically leads those effected to try to tear down the facade for everyone else. The war against them is real, it’s the motivations of the parties that we had to lie to Keltham about.

And then Keltam went and asked us to write about what the conspiracy would be up to if it existed and this as been really hard on my immersion so I’m going to stop here.   

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This Haunting Picture Was Taken Moments before Disaster Struck.

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*dry food crunches* Ridiculously small kitten: “Myam myam myam. Njam njam njam njam njam njam njam! Myam myam myam nyam nyam myam. Mmmam. Mrrrrram. Meep!”

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*DBZA Popo voice* All these circles make a square.

Aforementioned square. (Lissajous Curve). 

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Reblogging Katia, because cute.

I wanted to upload the one with the nice background but this stupid fucking site just spits out error messages at me with no rhyme or reason.

Just go see this version instead.

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I drew Katia Managan for the first time in a year or more! I’m still trying to translate her into my art style, but I did have a lot of fun drawing these! I made some mistakes but that’s no biggie, we’ll learn from them.

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I think these questions can be resolved by realizing everyone has been using the word "universe" wrong ever since someone came up with the term "Parallel Universe". Or at least, they changed it's meaning in such a way and have left it's original definition undeserved language wise. Originally it meant, " "the whole world, cosmos, the totality of existing things," Which means that so called "Parallel Universes" Aren't really parallel universes at all. Given that they exist and are therefore within the “totality of existing things”. They are really just another piece of the one and only UNIverse. They also aren’t all that parallel if they go about interacting and intersecting all willy-nilly. (well elliptical geometry is a thing, but i think parallel lines in that intersect at two points?) 

The upshot, I think, is that when you flip a coin rather than considering a bunch of separate universes branching out from that act, it’s really all just one universe proceeding according to the laws of physics. So too with each coin, it’s they are really all the same coin described by what is probably a wave function that determines what proportion of the coin will land heads vs tails. As for interference with itself, waves do that all the time. Granted there might not be a way to predict in advance when the wave function from another slice of the universe will interfere with your own. If one of your alts builds a machine that breaks through whatever physics barrier normally prevents alts from meeting a steals your coin to gain power or something, there’s really nothing you could have observed from your own slice to predict it was about to happen. But life is just like that sometimes, you can’t always get the information that you might want.  

um, I think, that’s how it works at least.

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I don’t think alternate universes mess up Probability theory too much, I think it just means that Propensity Theory was right all along?

I mean, okay. Let’s say I flip a coin really really high into the air, and 5 seconds later it lands heads.. And then I meet an alt of me from the universe that split right after I tossed the coin, but before the coin landed. And for this alt, the coin landed tails. This means we’re in the SAME universe now, and yet two mutually exclusive events already occurred???  The probability of the coin landing both heads and tails here is like, I dunno, 2.  So maybe the correct way to look at it is “every time I flip a coin, an infinite number of new universes are generated in proportion to the probability of the coin landing at a give orientation, velocity, etc – and whatever I observe is the incidental to the version of the universe with the version of me that observed it,” which, fine, we can just toss the anthropic principle in here to not have to explain how I ended up in that universe vs any of the other ones. So long as each universe remains separate, mutually exclusivity holds as a concept. But then an alt of me appears from one of the other universe, and fine, maybe we can redefine mutual exclusivity to make that okay but – WHY THAT PARTICULAR ALT??? Like, whatever the probability distribution would have been naively, now there is some weird intra-universe interaction option we don’t know about and have no clue how to model. 

Like what if my alt and his coin appear BEFORE our coins land? Are otherwise mutually exclusive events about to occur? Are the two coins in mid air going to bounce off of one another? Is MY ALT’S HEAD STICKING OUT OF MY NECK??

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Why yes, I will upload a picture to my Tumblr just to show someone if Steam is not up to the task for whatever reason.

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DELICIOUS TOE BEANS

hhhhhhgghg feets

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He can’t keep getting away with it!

Man, what the fuck did Samuel Hayden do now? The way the intercom speaks, it sounds like he was straight up bringing demons to earth, and even try integrating them into society or something? Like did he try to put a polo and slacks on a fucking imp? I can see a Baron of Hell just killing a ton of businessmen in a board meeting and he’s just like “It’s within acceptable guidelines”.

Were there people on tumblr arguing about what is acceptable terms to call a demon, or mortally challenged or whatever it is?

When has opening a portal to hell ever gone well?

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If you see this

You were visited by the magic kitten of rest. Reblog to have a good night’s sleep.

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catkital roll

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Excuse me, your cat is ringing.

What kind of pokemon is this?

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A cat?

You have 5 already!

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“Прогулка строгого режима”…

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ALFIQ!

Existential Crisis

Maroon’s reaction to seeing a housecat for the first time in his life. Unless of course, I decide normal animals exist in my worldbuilding, for whatever reason. In that case, this is non-canon silliness. Even though I don’t have any canon/lore yet.

I suppose it’s possible, to have Anthros and Ferals. There’s apes, and humans IRL. I guess they just split at some point. In that case, would owning a cat as a cat-dude be like if I owned a pet gorilla?

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