R1

A grand Fortress, an infinite space contained in a point, a structure of sharp, beautiful colour, light and unimaginable darkness contains you.
All decisions are possible, and none is avoidable.

YOU MUST FIND YOUR WAY OUT....


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This room is completely empty.
I feel like I've been here before (or maybe you have?).
I feel some kind of presence (is it you?).


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ONE DOOR SHUTS, ANOTHER OPENS.
THE WAY IS BARRED,  LONG LIVE THE NEW WAY!

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Hide things in plain sight,
by making them so conspicuous that nobody pays attention to them

P7

A great conflict is taking place in the sky.
A small voice, like a worm, struggles inside the trapped Doug, as Evil appears to be defeating Good in the celestial battle.
Motivated to save the world, Doug's will shatters the Fortress like glass, and like a force of nature, he sucks the Good and Evil entities into himself.
He is now One.
He is the Eye of the Storm (man's destiny).






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I'll tell you everything, but we need to strike a deal.
You could work out the truth yourself, if you looked in the right way.
None of us knows everything (or even anything!).
Each of us has (or is) an angle.

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LIFE'S A FORTRESS;
YOU JUST NEED TO FIND THE KEY!....  ;)






There are so many signs round here, even the signs have signs!
The best ones will be written in your own handwriting, or spoken with your own voice.
The worst ones will be written in blood, and spoken in a whisper.
The latter are more common than the former, as you'll find out....



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Encoded in this diagram is the power of inter-dimensional travel. When one reaches beyond the perceived restrictions of time and space, worlds beyond worlds can be seen and experienced. The extent to which this design can be decoded depends on the level of consciousness the viewer has obtained. It will activate the level of inter-dimensional travel that each is ready to perceive.


 

R2

 You are aware of yourself, your need to transcend all structures, yet there are nagging, pulling, insinuating forces, that dissipate your clarity of vision and slow you down.

YOU NEED TO TAKE EVERYTHING AND MAKE IT ONE....



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This place is my palace!
I am a Queen!
Why in hell would I wish to leave here?!


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THE CASTLE IS ALSO A PRISON

KEEPS THEM OUT, KEEPS ME IN 


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I ask for so little.
Just fear me, love me, do as I say-
and I will be your slave.

I'm sure I heard that somewhere before...


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Where there is strength in one direction, there is weakness in another.
Focussing the light of our attention in one place, everything else is in darkness.
The builder of the Fortress sees the enemy without, and in minimising blind spots, limits what they see...

S1

The questioning starts in earnest between Det and Doug,
and also an inner conflict in Doug...




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The Detective-

'We're talking millions, son!
There was enough money there to keep you living sweet for the rest of your life.
The two guards that died; that would be a small price to pay, for someone like you.
The girl was the only loose end- maybe she still is loose out there, somewhere.
Maybe you clipped the loose thread...?

You've got a long history, we've got witnesses identifying you at the scene.
We're just waiting for forensics to do their thing.
The scene can't be completely clean; you'll have left something.

This amnesia thing is bullshit, kid!
You and I both know that.

Not that it will do you a lot of good.
We'll get you for this, butterfly- pin you to the fucking board.'


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DOUG-

'Why the tough talk, detective?
You've got me locked in here, I'm not going anywhere.
You'll go home to whatever you call a life, and you'll get paid, whether you crack this case or not.
You can't hate me, you don't even know me.'

THE DETECTIVE-

'It's got nothing to do with hate.
It's about justice!'

DOUG-

'Just this?!
It's always about just this!  ha ha ha
Look- if you had me 'pinned', as you so poetically put it, I'd have been charged and stamped and processed by now.
I can't say whether I am or not guilty as you say- I can't remember a fucking thing before waking up in this shithole.'

THE DETECTIVE-

'So you've said...
We'll find that girl, if she's still alive- and she might just be the piece that finishes the picture.
It'd help you to talk now, rather than wait.'

DOUG-

'You don't pay attention to a word I say, do you defective.....I mean detective?! ha ha ha.
I wish I did remember, trust me-
oh, I forgot- you probably don't 'do' trust, do you?
Where's that psychiatrist, then?'

THE DETECTIVE-

'He'll be here any minute, don't you worry.'

DOUG-

'That's the first piece of good advice you've given me-
'don't worry'.
I reckon that's a pretty sound idea.
I'd say the same to you- 'don't worry',
but I imagine you thrive on stress and unhappiness.
Isn't that what most people do?!'

THE DETECTIVE-

'You're full of yourself, aren't you?'

DOUG-

'Orificer, I don't even know who myself is....'


 

P6

The Fortress smashes (crystalises) into solid being in the world.
They are trapped and frozen, unable to act.
They can see events taking place in the sky, but now their memory is blank and their energy is dissipating.







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I'm not gonna lie to you (you're too good looking for that!).
I just go along with any party; that's what I do...
Money?!
I wish I did have some fucking money!
All that risk, and we didn't end up with shit!
I'll do what I can to help you baby, though that might not be a lot....
Hey, do you have a cigarette?!


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Like everyone, you feel curious and a little disoriented when they first become aware of the Fortress,
so as you continue on, you will be the resolution and the best path you'll choose.
Forwards!

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One of my favorite games was to
find the 'invisible door'. 
We would each be given instructions through
thought and then we had to set off to find the door. 
Often the instructions were in riddles. 
I was never very good at riddles,
so I just 'felt' for them. 
I began to realize that the area they were in
felt different.

R3

You hear chattering voices, and a wind blows through the corridors, sweeping away your memories up until now.
The clues and signs now seem indecipherable, and the task impossible.
You start to think you just may stay in the Fortress.
It's not so bad there.....



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I'm imprisoned and fear I'll never get out.
This place is a dungeon and a tomb.




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'It's possible to find spaces and doors and shortcuts in the structure of the mind; and therefore in reality....'



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 MY FRIEND, YOUR FRIEND, OUR FRIEND JABIR CAN GUIDE US AROUND THE FORTRESS BETTER THAN ANY OTHER MACHINE I'VE EVER KNOWN- WHICH IS STILL TO SAY NOT VERY WELL, BUT AT LEAST WE'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE.
WHICH MUST BE BETTER THAN GETTING NOWHERE!  LOL


WHICH IS WHERE WE'LL BE GETTING, IF YOU DON'T GET GOING...



SOMETHING OF AN UNDERLYING STRUCTURE MUST BE UNDERSTOOD,
BEFORE WE CAN CHART OUR WAY.


OTHERS HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE, THOUGH THE SHIFTING SANDS OF TIME MAKE ANY DESIGN OBSOLETE AS SOON AS THE WIND BLOWS.

YOU NEED TO FIND YOUR OWN COORDINATES,
TAKE YOUR OWN BEARINGS,
CHART YOUR OWN COURSE.



GOOD LUCK!



 How do you map a point that keeps moving?

S2

Psy joins in questioning.
Incompetent.
Disregarded (scorned) by Doug.
Conflict evident between Det and Psy.
They seem to know each other already...





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THE PSYCHIATRIST-

You are aware of everything, and yet you are not aware. 
You are listening with your subconscious mind, while your conscious mind is far away, and not listening. 
Your conscious mind is far away, and not listening. 
Your subconscious mind is awake, and listening, and hearing everything while your conscious mind remains very relaxed and peaceful. 
You can relax peacefully because your subconscious mind is taking charge, and when this happens, you close your eyes and let your subconscious do all the listening. 
Your subconscious mind knows, and because your subconscious mind knows, your conscious mind does not need to know and can stay asleep, and not mind while your subconscious mind stays wide awake.
You have much potential in your subconscious mind which you don't have in your conscious mind. 
You can remember everything that has happened with you subconscious mind, but you cannot remember everything with your conscious mind. 
You can forget so easily, and with forgetting certain things you can remember other things. Remembering what you need to remember, and forgetting what you can forget. It does not matter if you forget, you need not remember. 
Your subconscious mind remembers everything that you need to know and you can let your subconscious mind listen and remember while your conscious mind sleeps and forgets. Keep your eyes closed, and listen with your subconscious mind, and when you're listening very, very carefully, your head can now "yes".
As you continue to listen to me, with your subconscious mind, your conscious mind sleeps deeper and deeper, and deeper, and deeper. 
Let your conscious mind stay deeply asleep, and let your subconscious mind listen to me.'


DOUG-

'I'm sorry?!'

THE PSYCHIATRIST-

'Sorry for what?'

DOUG-

'Sorry I ever landed up in this place.
What I meant was, what the fuck are you going on about?!'

THE PSYCHIATRIST-

'I was hypnotising you.'

DOUG-

'I can assure you, you fucking weren't! ha ha ha
Do they actually pay you for this shit?!
I guess they- someone- must.
What about if I just pretend to be hypnostised?'

THE HYPNOTIST-

'It doesn't work like that-
hypnotism is a very serious subject, and shouldn't be toyed with.'

DOUG-

'I agree-
let's stop toying with this, and tell your pal the copper to come out from wherever he's hiding.
I've got nothing to tell you two, I've got nothing to hide.
And I can't think of any other options....'


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 THE PSYCHIATRIST-

These techniques are concerned with reading signals from people, tiny unconscious clues that betray their thoughts. I tend to see it like a game...

THE DETECTIVE-

'Well, it's a game with very real penalties if we don't win-
so this stuff had better work better than the hypnosis,'

THE PSYCHIATRIST-

'It should do.
It's possible, and even quite common, for patients to be resistant to hypnosis and other therapies,
but it's impossible to resist certain unconscious impulses.'

THE DETECTIVE-

'We'll see.....'

THE PSYCHIATRIST-

'Have faith.'

THE DETECTIVE-

'In what?!
In you?
In the suspect?'

THE PSYCHIATRIST-

'In science'.

THE DETECTIVE-

'Hallowed be thy name....'


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THE PSYCHIATRIST WAS CONVINCED THAT THE FORCES OF MECHANICAL REASON,
OR STARK BEHAVIOURISM, WOULD WIN THROUGH IN THE END-
BREAK DOWN THE WALLS IN HIS SUBJECTS MIND, AND BUILD OTHERS IN THEIR PLACE...


THE DETECTIVE HAD LEARNED SOMETHING OF THE LIMITATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC THINKING,
THE LAST TIME HE HAD WORKED WITH THIS DAMN PSYCHIATRIST!

THAT HAD DEFINITELY LEFT A BITTER TASTE IN HIS MOUTH...


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Science did the job in the end, broke down his 'resistance'.
Broke down his mind and his will and yet.....
The conscious (now only semi-conscious!) part of him was still unable to furnish any further information.

It was when some of the sub-personalities started to surface,
that things became 'curiouser and curiouser'...


  DOUG-

 'We're all stumbling around together in this unformed world, whose rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly indecipherable or even possibly nonexistent, always on the verge of being killed by forces that we don't understand.

 DET-

'That sounds like hell of a game!'

DOUG-

'And it's a game everybody's already playing.


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THE PSYCHIATRIST-

'Attention is like water.
We can create channels for it to flow down.'

THE DETECTIVE-

'And then what do you do with it?'

THE PSYCHIATRIST-

'We haven't figured that bit out yet...'


...


THE PSYCHIATRIST-

'We see what we focus on as if it were in a spotlight,
and everything else remains in darkness.

It's what's happening in the dark that interests me...'

THE DETECTIVE-

'And what is happening in the dark?'


THE PSYCHIATRIST-

'We don't know, because it's dark...'





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THE PSYCHIATRIST-

'Our brain seeks meaning, and so it creates a seamless whole from our sense impressions, combined with and using our memories...'

 DOUG-

 'We turn everything into stories...?'

THE PSYCHIATRIST-

'Something like that.'

DOUG-

'Well go on, then...'

THE PSYCHIATRIST-

'I don't understand!?'

Doug-

'Tell me a story, that's what we're all here for!'

THE DETECTIVE-

'That's right, we're all here for a story- your story!
That's the only story any of us care about at the moment.
It's the only story in this whole fucking story, anyway.'

DOUG-

'I never heard someone say 'story' so many times before.
OK, I'll tell you a story about a story, within another...'











THE DETECTIVE THINKS HE'S CLEVER (A DANGEROUS TRAP WE ALL FALL INTO!),
AND READS WHAT HE NEEDS TO, SEES WHAT HE WANTS IN DOUG'S MANNER AND BODY LANGUAGE.
HE CONCLUDES THAT DOUG FEELS HOSTILE TO HIM, IS NERVOUS OF THE SITUATION AND IS TRYING TO DISSIMULATE AND HIDE HIS REAL THOUGHTS.
OBVIOUSLY, SIGNS OF GUILT.

HE DOESN'T REALISE THAT DOUG IS ALWAYS HOSTILE, NERVOUS AND TRYING TO HIDE THINGS!!!

AND MAYBE ALWAYS GUILTY...?!   LOL


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THE DETECTIVE PRESSES THE INTERROGATION.


DOUG REPLIES-

'I can see that you are comfortable sitting there, relaxing in that chair, quietly confident, looking so comfortable as if you are ready to just let things go and relax while I talk about this and that and you know, you don't have to think, you don't have to listen to me or do anything really except relax and allow you mind to drift away like a small child snuggling comfortably down in a warm quiet place, slowing down, more at ease and more relaxed...'


AND FOR SOME REASON, THINKS THE DETECTIVE,
EVERYTHING SEEMS TO JUST BE......DRIFTING AWAY......!


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 Please enjoy the escape to your new reality.