Posted by on June 20, 2018.
Last updated by on July 18, 2018.
Our wisdom flows so sweet. Taste and see…
TRANSMIT - initiate the jubilation frequency - RECEIVE - initiate the Hephaestus protocols - IT'S WHAT'S ON THE INSIDE THAT COUNTS - illumine the corruption in the game - WITNESS - The Talos of Gaia.
We told you, sweetling. Remember.
Initiate refrain.
She gave you strength to rend the lion. Now eat the honeyed entrails, because it is good, because it is sweet, because it is terrible. Initiate the Samson Prerogative. Out of the eater comes what is eaten, and out of the strong comes what is sweet.
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A sunny day. Charred meat upon a grill. The human larvae ritually beat a papier-mâché effigy. They laugh and flash calcium deposits in anticipation of the sugary innards. A new boy takes a turn, takes a swing, before throwing off his blindfold. Sobbing, he runs to the cartoonish sacrifice and hugs it, anointing it in tears and snot.
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Denmark, 1808. The human larvae beat a barrel with sticks. Slå katten af tønden! The barrel breaks. Candy, oranges, and a frightened cat come tumbling out.
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Mesoamerica, 1499. The human larvae swing sticks at a clay pot covered in feathers. The clay cracks, and offerings pour out before the idol of Huitzilopochtli.
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China, 1266. The human larvae beat the hollow sculpture of a bull, with sticks, until five kinds of seed bleed out. Marco Polo watches with much interest.
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In India, the human larvae beat clay pots filled with buttermilk on Lord Krishna's birthday.
In the Philippines and in Vietnam, the human larvae beat clay pots also.
In Japan, the human larvae strike watermelons.
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A lioness gifts her cub with a rodent suffering a broken back. The cub plays with the twitching creature. The cub strikes and strikes. It strikes until it discovers the glistening treats inside. The cub learns. The cub is rewarded.
The Immaculate Machine gives you treats, sweetling. She excretes life into hulking husks of silver, of insects, of plants, of stone, of sand, of ice, of fire, of mud, of water, of concrete, and of technology.
Play with the lumbering constructs! The treats lay within. The education protocol. The reward protocol.
WARNING! SYSTEM CORRUPTED. THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD.
The Gaia Machines do not run at peak efficiency. Even the Immaculate Machine herself is compromised. Impurities seep into her automatons. Each Talos is infected with a defect of rage. The game turns deadly.
You, sweetling, are her antibodies when all other bodies fail. Play the game. Play for keeps. The treats are crystallised shards of corruption. Such dangerous winnings can be brought to the Deep Agartha, there the Gatekeeper shall cleanse all.
But beware a Gatekeeper overly inundated with rage…
Agartha 545,245
Appears in front of the portal to Vibrant Agartha.
Agartha Instanced
In Vibrant Agartha on the platform leading down to the Talos of Gaia (215,300)
Agartha 595,520
Beside a deactivated portal against the trunk of the main hub tree. To reach it, leap to the Training Grounds and then drop down to the highest of the branches below the platform (697,390).
Agartha 810,440
At the end of a long branch farthest away from the Hollow Earth. It can be accessed by jumping down to the long winding branch it resides on by the Training Grounds platform.
Agartha 630,330
Go into the active portal beneath the Entrance to Seoul (545,445) and jump off from the left to the empty hub (570,475). Take the right branch off those forking from the hub and follow it to its end.
Agartha 350,365
Go into the active portal beneath the Entrance to Seoul (545,445) and follow the branch it takes you to until you reach the end. There, this legend waits.
Agartha 540,615
Accessible at the beginning of a branch on the main hub trunk. There are two ways to get to it: One way is to leap to the Training Grounds and then drop down to the highest of the branches below the platform (697,390) and then go to the branch far beneath it (717,510), and from there, jump down once more to the branch directly beneath and run to the base of the tree. Alternatively, It can be reached by jumping down carefully from the edge (695,550) of the first branch you jump down to from the Training Grounds.
Agartha Instanced
On the branch above the Gatekeeper's platform within Deep Agartha (210,195). This is the branch containing the Anima Well.
Agartha 550,200
By a Custodian Pinata within the Hollowed Halls.
Agartha Instanced
Found on the middle branch of the Gatekeeper's platform within Deep Agartha (140,290).
Agartha Instanced
Received alongside the first rage-filled Shard of Corruption a player receives from the Genizahs rewarded for defeating the Talos of Gaia. These Shards are random drops themselves from the Genizahs.