CORG scientist Paracaesar creates 3 artificial modifiers 0703 Rata, 0704 Uld and 0705 Skuld for the Forgetower project. The purpose of this has yet to be revealed, all we know is that this project is top secret. Because it is top secret, any leaks, such as escaping the lab means they will be culled.
These three modifiers are created with divine grace, and function as modifiers with extraordinary powers, though they can't regain divine grace organically. Rata's ability is to alter perceptions/cognition, Uld memories, while Skuld is able to explore the future via dreams. Even as Rata was killed, her alterations remain and is able to communicate with the hosts. For Uld to be able to alter memories, he needs to fully understand the memories he is modifying. This ability has its drawbacks - On those with dual personalities, it will only work on the base persona; Against logicians, the logical loopholes are easily found and the memory fails to incite effect; Due to the need to understand existing memories, altering one with complex memory structures will exceed Uld's computational powers and risk his sanity.
Skuld's ability allows her to create a dream of the current state of reality. In effect, this lets her predict the future, as she can theoretically find a dream with the outcome she wants, copying the actions directly to achieve said outcome. When she activates her ability, a checkpoint is created which she can "reset" her dreams to. There is a little bit of Inception here, where she is able to create checkpoints within her checkpoints, dreams within her dreams that she can reset to at a whim. Of course, this comes at a cost of wiping out her memories with each use. Each of her dreams takes up a short amount of time in reality. Additionally, she is also able to undo memory alterations, although this requires processing time and leaves her vulnerable.
Present day (events that occured in reality):
Locked in the CORG lab as experiments, Rata often visits Skuld and reads her stories. One day, she does the same, before visiting Uld and escaping the lab. Unfortunately, she was promptly caught and dismantled, though her consciousness would remain in Skuld. The next day, after watching Corg destroy Rata's parts, Uld approaches Skuld to check on her feelings after losing a good friend. However, Skuld expresses indifference, leading Uld to conclude that they are different in nature.
That night (day 1), Skuld remembers Rata's request about visiting the outside world on her behalf. She thus unleashes a continuous stream of dreams. In summary, these dreams comprise of her
, meeting the administrator, going on their dates and obtaining the camera. However, CORG always caught up to them at the beach.
Back in reality, Uld approaches her again, informing her that Rata had approached him (along with his misinterpretation of Rata's message). Here, he reconfirms his initial conclusion that Skuld does not share his mindset (and that he should work alone). For, even after hearing all of Ulds bull-, all she can think of is how to find and play with the admin :(.
Skuld once again activates her ability. Having previously overhead that the admin will be going to the amusement park with Ver, she decides to head there directly, meeting the admin for the "first time". Here the admin ditches Ver to hang out with Skuld (F for Ver). She repeatedly rewinds her dreams to spend more time with the admin, and the time in reality progresses to the next morning.
(day 2) Having overused her dreaming ability, Skuld has now forgotten who Rata is. To prevent getting caught, she is unable to use her ability in the day, patiently waiting for nightfall. That night, Uld wrecks the CORG lab, escaping alone. Seeing the ensuing chaos, Skuld decides to escape as well and look for the admin in reality. Since this is now day 2-night, Skuld would have no foresight on the admin's activities from now, and she aimlessly wanders the streets.
During this time, Uld has been assaulting modifiers for access keys, causing Odin and Thor to return from XuHeng and investigate. An unlucky Skuld runs into Uld who once again tries to recruit her. Unfortunately she fails to understand his Chunibyo fantasies, only wishing to play with the admin. Since he cant have her as an ally, Uld resolves to kill Skuld, who senses his intent and flees into a small alley, activating her ability.
This marks the checkpoint of all the events that happens in the first two parts of this chapter. In short, Skuld successfully finds the admin, but they'd always end up dying. Knowing that this would always occur if she turned right, she decides to turn left, where she would encounter Uld who attempts to rewrite her memory. Having understood Uld's vulnerabilities, she traps him mid rewriting, unleashing dreams within dreams within dreams, rapidly rewriting new memories and wiping old ones. This intense computational cost overloads Uld's CPU, leaving him in a vegetative state. In this final act of sacrifice, Skuld's rapid activation wipes all her remaining memories including those with the admin.
---Odin and Thor appears---
Instead of heading back to HQ, Odin and Thor seek out the incapacitated Uld. Insisting that he is the culprit, the duo turns Uld into ashes. Beckoning for Thor to return to the HQ, Odin turns around and ambushes Skuld, who hasn't travelled far from the scene, killing her.
In this reality, the admin has yet to meet nor interact with Skuld. However, as fate would have it, the memories (data) of these dream encounters somehow made their way into the admin...
Skuld's dreams (day 1 & 2):
When Skuld first leaves the lab to explore the world, she encounters the admin, and through a series of accidents, obtains a plaster from the admin (this plaster has significance). Here, they exchange names, and the admin tells her a fake name -- the name of a BBQ store, which is mispronounced as tantan. They agree to head to the beach, and in trying to avoid capture,
Realising the futility of escaping the beach, Skuld decides to find the admin directly at the amusement park. Another accident leads to the admin applying yet another plaster on Skuld. Since the admin has a prior appointment with Ver, we agree to accompany Skuld for just one ride. Skuld then repeatedly activates her ability to enjoy different rides. Here, Skuld discovers she'd rather see the admin enjoy the ride than her personal enjoyment. If previously Skuld is merely attracted to the admin because we were nice to her, now this has developed into.... love?
---Significance of the Ferris wheel: Just as they were about to ride the Ferris wheel together, time in reality progressed to the morning of day 2 and Skuld was awoken, interrupting the dreams---
Skuld's dreams (day 3):
(day 2-night) These are the dreams after her encounter with Uld. Skuld successfully evades confrontation with Uld (right turn at the checkpoint), causing him to turn his attention to harvesting access keys from modifiers. Unfortunately for Poseidon and Zenki who took a shortcut back from dinner, they were prime targets. In this assault, Uld critically damages Zenki and alters her memories. Barely escaping, they were then picked up by the passing admin. Odin, Thor and the admin decide to form a task group to find the culprit.
(day 3) The next day, the task group fails to find any useful information, with Thor deciding to venture alone henceforth. (day 3-night) Uld once again finds Skuld and attacks her. Sensing danger, a patrolling Thor quickly arrives and scares away Uld. Summoning Odin and the admin, Thor leaves Skuld to them and runs off to chase after Uld.
Thor returns shortly claiming she failed to catch up to Uld. In reality, Thor is already being controlled by Uld. Odin very quickly realises through her speech that Thor is not herself.
In her current state, Skuld has forgotten Uld, CORG, and that her previous encounters with the admin were simply in her dreams. Thus, she believes that the admin should remember her. The reason for this memory loss? Skuld rewound her dreams 252 times to look for the admin (988-736). It was not simply down to chance that he found and saved her.
Back in AG HQ, Odin discovers that Skuld is an artificial mod, but only discloses it to Ookuninushi and Heimdall. (day 4) Since skuld would only talk to the admin, we are assigned to accompany her. Some clues: remembers the admin buying clothes the first time they met; suggests eating at the tongtong BBQ store; guesses the trinket in the wrong/right hand. The latter is the first time her prediction ability was revealed in the story. Lastly, Skuld receives some scrapes, and the admin applies a plaster. Here, Skuld mentions that the admin applied a plaster on her 100+ days ago. Clearly, she is no longer able to tell dreams from reality. Based on this irregularity with time, Odin concludes there is something off about Skuld. Note that Skuld rewound this day
[day 5] This is the most eventful day. As we are about to head to the amusement park as planned, Skuld suddenly decides against going. This is because she has already used her ability and realised that going to the park means certain death. Thus, they simply hangout in the HQ and fold paper planes. From the photo taken, we realise that
This fateful meeting is where we encounter the parallel events of part 1.
We are attacked by Thor, before being killed by a brianwashed Ver.
Skuld tricks Shu into entering her room and uses her ability. This is likely to ensure Shu hasnt been affected by Uld, before tasking her with protecting the admin. Unfortunately Shu gets corrupted shortly after and kills us both.
Skuld confirms Apollo's suspicions regarding Thor, and he successfully defeats her with an ambush. Unfortunately, Zenki awakes at this moment, still brainwashed by Uld from earlier, murdering Apollo.
Heimdall and Ookuninushi are assaulted by Uld mid investigation. He controls Heim and flees, though she manages to break free due to the logical inconsistencies. They are then slaughtered by Thor.
Of these, only 1. and 2. are mutually exclusive. In every single encounter, Odin was found dead in her office with her sword through her chest.
[day 5-Amusement park] The second part of this story restarts after we folded paper planes on day 5. Having failed to escape the horrors of the fateful meeting, Skuld runs over and exclaims that she now wants to go to the amusement park, despite her refusal a few moments ago. thus, we head the the amusement park escorted by Ver and Osiris. Because Skuld has previously experienced our deaths at the amusement park multiple times, she expresses wariness, unleashing countless checkpoints with her ability. The most significant of our experiences that day, is that we finally got to
. Here, she reveals that she did try being frank with us about our situation, but that only led to worse outcomes. We were then promptly flattened by Thor.
Eventually, we reach the haunted house, where Ver has been controlled. Osiris barely managed to knock out Ver, before Urd appears and controls her as well. Fortunately for us, Ausar discovers someone messing with Osiris's body and takes over, ready to strike at Uld. Thor then suddenly appears (yet again) and the two ultra powerful modifiers duke it out. A huge shoutout to Ausar who is able to hold off Thor whilst protecting Skuld and the admin. Sadly, Osiris' body is unable to withstand such powers and Ausar eventually succumbs.
The admin decides to take a gamble at the maze. Skuld uses her ability to avoid Thor at every bend, finally evading Thor and escaping the amusement park. From this success, the admin finally guesses that Skuld is somehow able to predict the future, and she explains everything. Not wishing to worry us, Skuld lies that it only took her 40 tries at the amusement park, though the reality was a grim
Realising that the real danger lies with AG, The admin decides to lie to Skuld, sending her to Omorfies, while we'd head back to AG HQ to save the rest of the modifiers. Of course, the events of the meeting would replay itself, with Ver attacking us and Odin dead. Whilst we were about to be slain, Ver2 appears, saving us. As it turns out, Skuld returned and undid Ver's memory alteration. Of note is how Skuld is seemingly only able to undo the alteration of those incapacitated, as these modifiers would attack her on sight.
In the final showdown at the Hangar, both Uld and Skuld unleash their special powers, with Skuld nearly achieving victory. Unfortunately, a controlled Tyr and Hodur arrive, leaving us with a decisive defeat. Just as we were about to be controlled, Skuld blocks it, and Uld hesitates in altering her memory. With this act, we understand that this is Uld's vulnerability, the dangers of altering a mess of memories...
Having known that Uld once used his powers on her, Skuld resolves to end it all by returning to that point in time. This means going back the the very first checkpoint and taking the left turn to be attacked by Uld, thus never meeting the admin, and losing her entire memory in the process
Lastly, note that the picture count between escaping the amusement park and the final picture is 142. Since in the final showdown, Skuld promised the admin she wouldn't use her ability anymore (except the final time), 142 represents the number of times she went to Omorfies/searched for the admin/died trying to save Ver. All because we lied to her :(.
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