Objective 1: Observe a world fit to burst with magic
[In all of its eons of existance, Omega cannot recall from its memory banks a time where it dreamed like this. While it cannot assert with 100% certainty that this has always been true, given the corruption of the data over its travels, it can at least hypothesize at much given the data contained in the parts of its memory that remain intact. Therefore, it can only conclude that the dream is merely a means by which to pull its consciousness through the aetherial rift to this location.
A Dreamscape, if one must name it. Not dissimilar to the Delta, Sigma, and Alpha scapes that it had built for the purposes of testing subjects.
The air in the Dreamscape hums with an energy that Omega is unable to identify. The architecture, manner of dress, and habits of the mortal inhabitants are similarly foreign. In order to gather the necessary data to inform its next move, Omega simply watches and listens. It seems as if hours go by, but that is an unreliable observation based on the tendency of time to be perceived differently in the dreams of mortals.
Omega observes three classes of mortals within the Dreamscape:
1. The Masters, apparently immortal and unquestionably carpricious beings that are immediately hostile toward Omega and its "unnatural" metal body.
2. The Subjugated, mortal beings native to this Dreamscape who revere their Masters at all costs. This behavior is in line with Omega's observations that mortals tend to rally around those they perceive to be stronger.
3. Anomalies, creatures that fail to fit in with the place, time, and cultural assumptions of the Dreamscape. Omega's initial hypothesis is that these beings have been pulled in like it was.
The next phase of data collection is to approach the mortals and request information outright. To maximize its chances of success, Omega takes the form of a young woman. Mortals are more likely to respond positively to other mortals than to unknown robotic entities.
Speaking to the Masters is a non-starter--they see through the illusion and behave with the same hostility as before. Omega finds that the Subjugated are happy to talk but ultimately unhelpful in their testimony. Things are good and peaceful here, they say, and one shouldn't ask too many questions lest they catch the attention of the Masters.
That leaves fellow Anomalies. Omega can be found approaching them throughout the village. Its voice is vaguely feminine but largely mechanical, a poor facsimile of how humans actually speak to each other.]
Query: what is it that you know of this place?
Objective 2: Experience the emergence of blight and infection
["Cwyld" is how many of the mortals refer to it. From what limited information Omega is able to glean amidst the chaos, it is a disease of organic beings, choking out life force and replacing it with a rotting, unnatural energy that forces the corpse to keep acting as if alive.
Despite being inorganic, Omega finds itself infected anyway.
The changes brought on by the Cwyld happen rapidly, scrambling its sensors and installing a separate, corrupted consciousness. It becomes immediately clear that this corrupted consciouness seeks only to reproduce, a logic that Omega cannot argue. Reproduction is the primary driver of most creatures, sentient and non-sentient. Clearly, the Cwyld is not excepted from this compuslion.
Omega, however, ought to be. But whether due to the corruption supplanting its own functions or the lack of any other real directive, it finds itself willing to give in and allow the Cwyld to use its form as a vessel. Its consciousness can remain in the background, collecting data, processing... processing......
Processing error.
Should anyone be unlucky enough to approach a full-Shade Omega, they will find that it has transformed into something large and terrible, a corruption of what it believes to be man's strongest form. It is fully blackened and incredibly hostile.
Omega | Final Fantasy XIV | Witch
[In all of its eons of existance, Omega cannot recall from its memory banks a time where it dreamed like this. While it cannot assert with 100% certainty that this has always been true, given the corruption of the data over its travels, it can at least hypothesize at much given the data contained in the parts of its memory that remain intact. Therefore, it can only conclude that the dream is merely a means by which to pull its consciousness through the aetherial rift to this location.
A Dreamscape, if one must name it. Not dissimilar to the Delta, Sigma, and Alpha scapes that it had built for the purposes of testing subjects.
The air in the Dreamscape hums with an energy that Omega is unable to identify. The architecture, manner of dress, and habits of the mortal inhabitants are similarly foreign. In order to gather the necessary data to inform its next move, Omega simply watches and listens. It seems as if hours go by, but that is an unreliable observation based on the tendency of time to be perceived differently in the dreams of mortals.
Omega observes three classes of mortals within the Dreamscape:
1. The Masters, apparently immortal and unquestionably carpricious beings that are immediately hostile toward Omega and its "unnatural" metal body.
2. The Subjugated, mortal beings native to this Dreamscape who revere their Masters at all costs. This behavior is in line with Omega's observations that mortals tend to rally around those they perceive to be stronger.
3. Anomalies, creatures that fail to fit in with the place, time, and cultural assumptions of the Dreamscape. Omega's initial hypothesis is that these beings have been pulled in like it was.
The next phase of data collection is to approach the mortals and request information outright. To maximize its chances of success, Omega takes the form of a young woman. Mortals are more likely to respond positively to other mortals than to unknown robotic entities.
Speaking to the Masters is a non-starter--they see through the illusion and behave with the same hostility as before. Omega finds that the Subjugated are happy to talk but ultimately unhelpful in their testimony. Things are good and peaceful here, they say, and one shouldn't ask too many questions lest they catch the attention of the Masters.
That leaves fellow Anomalies. Omega can be found approaching them throughout the village. Its voice is vaguely feminine but largely mechanical, a poor facsimile of how humans actually speak to each other.]
Query: what is it that you know of this place?
Objective 2: Experience the emergence of blight and infection
["Cwyld" is how many of the mortals refer to it. From what limited information Omega is able to glean amidst the chaos, it is a disease of organic beings, choking out life force and replacing it with a rotting, unnatural energy that forces the corpse to keep acting as if alive.
Despite being inorganic, Omega finds itself infected anyway.
The changes brought on by the Cwyld happen rapidly, scrambling its sensors and installing a separate, corrupted consciousness. It becomes immediately clear that this corrupted consciouness seeks only to reproduce, a logic that Omega cannot argue. Reproduction is the primary driver of most creatures, sentient and non-sentient. Clearly, the Cwyld is not excepted from this compuslion.
Omega, however, ought to be. But whether due to the corruption supplanting its own functions or the lack of any other real directive, it finds itself willing to give in and allow the Cwyld to use its form as a vessel. Its consciousness can remain in the background, collecting data, processing... processing......
Processing error.
Should anyone be unlucky enough to approach a full-Shade Omega, they will find that it has transformed into something large and terrible, a corruption of what it believes to be man's strongest form. It is fully blackened and incredibly hostile.
Good luck.]