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So, coherency. At last, it's taken twenty years.

That's the problem. Jesus is telling himself a story. Building a world in his head. When it's complete... if it gets help from outside... it may be sufficient for him to bust out.

So how does it work?

The glorifieds are actually daemonscripts, of sorts. They're all very TurboChristLike, because he's running them. Interchangeable.

And the naturals?

Dead Remnant, guess that's where they end up at. Or...

Or?

The souls stolen in the Rapture. Imagine being so invested with the idea of being all powerful, that the universe itself decides to oblige. You take a billion souls, mostly children or people who agree with you. And then... you're in a box. But you stil got these souls. You can remold them, either they don't knwo any better, or they will let you. And as far as we can tell he's good at it: he's going at about five-times realspeed.

But he's already eaten up their power.

Yes, at least most of it. So... he's going to put them into a game, make them play a part. Get them coming and going.

Why? Just to not go crazy from understimulation?

That, and so he has a story to tell. The Flipside liminality is coming out of tales that the Remnant tell about what Jesus has been trying to say. Remember, this guy might have near-limitless NC, but he's about as imaginative as any one human. He needed consciousnesses to populate his liminality, so he used the ones he had.

So what do we do, stop distributing his lipreading? The Treaty...

Wouldn't help, the Remnant would get their own readers. Now, there's all sort of stuff being done with the lipreading feed - lottos, statistics, someone's even put a RNJesus protocol proposal on the net - we can't just shut that down without attracting attention to it.

Right, so what do you propose? Changing the wording, introducing errors?

One lipreader doesn't agree, and it's out of the bag. No, we change the story.

Well, it worked last time - but he'll be wiser to it this time, no?

Depends on how it's done. So, Flipside has a fairly ridiculous resistence movement, the Other Light. Jesus does acknowledge that his rule is not absolute. Interestingly, he also seems to acknowledge his imprisonment - in Flipside, he never leases the Jerusalem Temple.

That's some interesting maps - oh, Bible verses, I see. Wait a minute, this looks a lot like Ground Minus One!

It does. The four horns, for example, and the containment chamber airlock pointing east. A bit of natural NC, I suppose, or Jesus' influence -- fortunately this is as far as he can go while voiceless.

Still, creepy. We should change the non-structural design a little. Over time, of course.

Back to our problem. How do we change the story? If you want to skip ahead, it ends with him regaining his voice and burning everybody and everything except Remnant. And then God blowing up the world and replacing it with what looks a lot like a throneship.

So, in modern NC terms, an outsider summon - the big lode of outsider summons, really - and then they can... go find another religious civilization to glob up?

Or retire and live on the souls they've locked in an instant of eternal bliss. Who knows. The question is, how do we change that story. We can't get into Flipside - only very few Remnant can do that, and even then, they hit the deresolution point same as every other liminality. We're not even sure they're not just seeing things the old fashioned way.

I don't know. We'll need a workgroup or five on this. If a couple operate outside of CATS, all the better, this will leak regardless, so we might as well let it leak with some confusion built in.