Phase Q/Future Forward
You look ahead, focusing. Intently.
At the same time, you look slightly to the side, and slightly further to the side, and so on and so forth, as well as all around you in every degree in every pseudodimension. You also have a simultaneous knowledge of septillions, octillions, nonillions of events happening outside of your pseudosensory awareness.
Sure, there are still things you’re not conscious of. But not many.
As you start to enumerate the categories of things you don’t know, each bucket quickly fills up with items. You see, when you have such acute perceptions, it’s easy to gain new knowledge.
Also, you retain certain general shortcomings, such as an ignorance of the base levels of the metaverse. It’s said that nothing in the metaverse knows the base levels. Not even the core signal handlers.
You bathe in a warm rainbow of emotions, exercising your self-designed sentimental circuitry. You gave yourself twelve trillion different emotional sensors, each one of which can combine with any of the others. You can do the math to figure out how many different aggregate emotions you can experience.
Each one makes your previous experiences in other worlds pale in comparison. You plunge thirstily through your complex maze of emotions, savoring each one like a precious gem. You designed them more for aesthetics than utility.
In this place, if it is a place, it’s not really clear what to do about utility. You no longer really seem to need usefulness.
Sure, you still face the occasional minor little quandary. But it doesn’t seem to impact you materially one way or another. Whatever outcome, it will still affect you, but you’ll have an intensely happy time either way.
So does it still matter how usefully you do things?
Hm.
Maybe later on, it will come in handy. For now anyway, you may as well continue doing at least the occasional useful thing. A little cleaning here, a bit of organizing there.
You’ll find things to do.
In exploring the reaches of this nondimensional world, you learn that you have far greater ability in organizing your megamind. As you play and explore, you learn more and more not just about the world itself, but also that you can choose which thoughts follow which, at least here. Like playing a game.
Unlike previous worlds you’ve visited, here you feel less at odds with the complex environment. You feel more harmonious, even with the other megaminds roaming the vol. Somehow you’re able to plan and arrange seamlessly, flawlessly.
Logic here has clear distinctions, each one highly visible in your megamind’s eyes. And the logic matches up impeccably with what you encounter as you float about the pseudospace. It feels great, applying your self-designed capacities to explore this special place. Your desires and your realizations seem to meet up, like two sides of a Zlipper. The world feels good.
You just wish you knew what it was.
Phase Q: An interactive adventure.
