/lit/ - Literature

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But slowly errors in reproducing normal behavior crept in, and spread, and each generation passed on more and more "mutations" (let's say) to their children, leading to a net brownianization of all movement. Brownian motion is now reaching the point where all original pathways are effaced, only extremely attentive observers with uncommon distance and perspective even notice their absence, and nobody remembers what the inner calm and certainty of being attuned to the magnetic field feels like anymore, having never experienced it, so nobody notices that they are sick and in pain.

Your job can't simply be to correct your own movements according to dead models followed by nobody else (all you will do is enter into fatal collisions with others on the new, random trajectories), or even to affect the net movement of the filings around you by colliding with them strategically. Your only goal should be to reactivate the magnetic field. There will be initial chaos, as a lot of things currently out of place are forced back into their proper places. But the only alternative is the continued descent into pure chaos, until not even chance remembers of the old structures and patterns remain.