: Here we are back again in world whare trees grow towrds us from the sky and
: the Loon crys its mournful call into the void. Abot that cry, this is a
: vacuum level, so how would we here said Loon? Or is it simply an oxygen
: free emviroment? But we see snow covered mounts and trees and clouds.
: Trees generaly give off Oxygen, and snow is made of water, which has
: Oxygen, and the same for clouds. Prehaps I am over thinking it, but I
: thought that it should be noted.
You're on a PC, right? It's a pitty you can't play Phoenix Falling, which takes place on a terraformed moon of a distant planet. At one point we're told by one derranged AI that if we follow another derranged AI, life support will fail. Sure enough on the next level, we see our O2 meeter dropping even though the sky is overcast. One scenario you can play with AO is Ben Potter's Fell, which includes a level called The Felt Need. It's a "vacuum" level, but you are told at the beginning that the Pfhor are purging their systems and can subsist on nitrogen, chlorine and fluorine, but you can't. The bottom line is that there undoubtedly is an atmosphere in the Land in the Sky - you just can't breathe it. Snow doesn't have to be made of water - you're familiar with dry ice, which is frozen carbon dioxide, and methane is known to form ice, snow and clouds. And of course the trees may be based on an entirely different metabolic system than oxygen. More important than all these things, however, is that this is a dream level - anything goes.
: Also, I don't know if this was
: intentional or not, you can see whare the jumping off points for the
: preveous incarnations of this level were, because the wall texture is
: different. Intentional or not, my opnion is that the textures should be
: the same for the whole level, but whatever works for you Forrest.
I think that this was deliberate. We play variations of this same level at the conclusion of each successful branch of each chapter. Each time we ascend further before being allowed to drop into the hole.
: Anyway, follow the path to the hole in the world, and read one of the
: weirdest terminals ever. I think it is talking about the big bang, and how
: some type of being, possable the W'rks, are screwing with everything,
: untill they gather into one small area, and are finealy destroyed, or put
: into some kind of sleeping state by the energy they hold. That how I read
: it anyway. And it goes on to say that our ansesters know nothing of whay
: sleept beneith them, sounds like the PID W'rk to me. It ends with the
: chilling line: and they know nothing of regret
