un: UTA

[tot]

Hello Everyone!

I hope we're doing okay today and are enjoying the new root town. Remember to be careful on the bridges!

To get to the point of this post—Does everyone remember that post that Oriae made mentioning the bonus gear some of us got?

Well, I got some bonus gear myself, and I'll confirm that it wasn't CCCorp! Or anyone in this game...or "world". In fact I was told that it was cursed before being warned to stop using it or otherwise I'd be harmed.

Sounds kind of crazy doesn't it?

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un: Winter

[userunfriendly]

[ As if this is a completely normal and not weird thing to do in the middle of someone else's conversation, Winter just replies with this attachment.

I'm so sorry Uta. ]

[tot]

[ I'M CRYING???? this is fine......... ]

Oh!! So that's the song that went along with those lyrics.
Interesting; it's using polyphony...
You don't hear it too much today but it was common back in the 13th and 14th century.

[userunfriendly]

[ BLESS HER ADAPTABILITY ]

Yes.
Was it used for religious music? It sounded typical for a cathedral, to me.

[tot]

Most music written during that time was religious.
But for your question, yes and no.
For medieval Europe and the church, traditionalist didn't like how it felt as though the nature of prayers were being lost to the music while others found it a nice change of pace.
Ultimately it was banned from being played in churches.

I doubt the developers of the game thought that deeply about using polyphony. I bet it's more likely they did it because of the way it'd make someone feel.

[userunfriendly]

Most likely...

This may seem obvious. But, how is it intended to make someone feel?

[tot]

In general or this one in particular?
I think the mood of this one is pretty self-explanatory, however in general polyphony has been described by some to "empowering" with how each part of the song has their moment to stand out instead of how things would simply blend together as a harmony.

[userunfriendly]

[ Self-evident... filing that one away. ]

That could have a purpose for the lore they're constructing. Possibly.

[tot]

You mean how this shadowed man will no longer quest for the Twilight Dragon?
If you want to think of it that way, then the song is more of a message or warning than anything you'd sing for religious means.

[userunfriendly]

Something tells me you've already put more thought into it than the developers did.

But that sounds reasonable. If it were meant to be a hymn, I would have expected either the man or the dragon in the cathedral's symbolism. Not a statue of a girl.

[tot]

I can't help it when it comes to music. I love it.
Not just listening to it or breaking it down into music theory.
I just love music.

But typically, yes, that is what you would find.
Or, at the very least, the hymn would be more hopeful sounding than something so somber given the statue of the girl.
The song sounds even lonelier if you want to keep going down this route.

[userunfriendly]

I can see that.

"Somber" and "lonely" was probably the intent. From the developers, or whoever made that area. I don't think the game models area damage otherwise, so the statue was deliberate.

[ Well, who knows if any of it means anything. But, still. ]

I appreciate the information.

[tot]

You're welcome!
I'm always happy to help.
...
I know it doesn't help to speculate anymore than we already have but I wonder how much of these poems and songs that we find are related to the game itself...
Or if they could somehow relate to what's been happening to us.

[userunfriendly]

...I wonder as well. If anyone has clarified how much of what we've found was intended quest dialogue and game lore, I haven't seen it.

If there is a third party adding things like the bonus gear, I see no reason that some of the other content could not have come from them also.

[tot]

I also haven't seen it. However, the lore of the world of the Fragment seems fragmented as well.

It's just a matter if the third party is human or not.
If you ask me, anyway.

[userunfriendly]

That's quite a leap... Because of the "cursed" gear?

[tot]

It's more about my interactions with certain NPCs.
This will make me sounds crazier but, at times I find myself thinking that the Fragment feels not too different from our own.
And it's not to give credit to the developers for any world-building they might have done.

[userunfriendly]

It's difficult to avoid giving them at least some credit for that. Even if you're implying that some of the NPCs are something like AI, that would be [ impossible ] a huge technical hurdle.

[tot]

Would it be any more of a hurdle than what they've already done with how realistic they've made things?
I'm not familiar with technology in the slightest but you'd think that this level of sensory realism would be harder than AI.

[userunfriendly]

I'm not a neuroscientist. I don't know which is harder. But if we're ranking which features of the game most defy common sense, I think the mirror incident and the bonus gear take precedence.

[tot]

.......
The mirror incident...
That was really unpleasant.

[userunfriendly]

Yes. If someone had wanted to call that a curse, I would have been inclined to believe them.

[tot]

I'd call it a perversion of privacy before a curse.

[userunfriendly]

I won't disagree with that, either. It would seem that there's no limits to the information that can be accessed through this game.

[tot]

...and, for some reason, we have been chosen.
Out of all of the people on this planet.

[userunfriendly]

A strange coincidence of fate, I'm sure. Including for those who never entered the raffle to begin with.