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	Message: : the Déjà Vu page only mentions "There are many scenes of déjà vu in : Marathon Infinity. Not least the three Electric Sheep levels. Get caught : in the loop and you start out over again." and then shows a comment : about Star Trek TNG (which sounds curiously similar to the movie : "Groundhog Day"). : considering all of us keep repeating jokes about remembering something, as : if it were from an old dream... , i'm sure we can do a lot better than : that. : so i went on a quest to find déjà vus , fuzzy memories, suspicious : connections and the like. some of these may be a bit of a stretch, but i : thought it better to write them down and let them be dissected :) : : Oddly , this is familiar to you, as if it were from an old dream, but you : can't exactly remember... : -- Marathon Manual, p. 4 : haven't even played the first level and we're already in déjà vu land. : i've never seen any discussion about this either... what exactly could we : be remembering? we're about to open the door to a new adventure, maybe : this is reminds our reincarnated soul or resurrected body about a pyramid : in the Yucatan peninsula? : : the room flickered and tore, bending into somewhere else: : ~~~ffs`~~~~f~~~[system error #25 at _Jackson]~~~~%*|\]~``se which she : caused to be consumed by an ashless fire. : -- Never Burn Money (Terminal 4) : if you managed to get to the Gheritt White term, this other one certainly : produces a strong sensation of déjà vu . even if the character's gender : is wrong, the themes are very similar if not the same, connecting an : in-game garbled text term with a seemingly out-of-universe secret term : story. : : is unreachable or inactive (#2271). if this problem persists contact your : system administrator at admin@thermopylae.com : -- Welcome to the Revolution... (Terminal 1) : you read the term fast, get the nagging sensation that something in there : reminds you of something you've read before, check again. wait, my : sysadmin is from Thermopylae!? but that was more than three hundred years : ago... i couldn't have been there, could i??? (i always read this message : as coming from the SO's own suit or cyberimplants, an internal error reply : to his failed attempt to contact Leela). : : (almost everywhere in Marathon Infinity!) : lots of déjà vu situations during the 'normal' levels in Infinity, since : we're reliving overlapping timelines. Toth's activation, 'killing' : Durandal, the dam, etc. then we have the Electric Sheep levels, all the : same but all different. then the dream levels, all different but with : continuing stories. and then the three fragmentary versions of Aye Mak : Sicur, parts of the same giant map we will see finally (and for the : pfhorth time!) in the last level of the game. : : self willed the peril of a thousand fates : [...] : find yourself : starting back : -- Ne Cede Malis (Terminal 2) : most of the Toth-style terminals in Mi sound recursive to me, saying almost : the same thing over and over, always in a different way. : : Melancholia, Anger, and Jealousy. : -- Defend THIS! (Terminal 2) : Despair, Rage and Envy. : -- Marathon Infinity chapter screens : i think i started to sense something was odd when i saw the "Rage" : chapter screen during my first play of Infinity. checked the Story page : and yes, as lots have pointed out the three main sections of Infinity are : named with synonyms of the three stages of Rampancy from Marathon. i do : like the idea of being a rampant cyber warrior! : : another time : another time : -- Electric Sheep Two (Terminal 0) : almost the definition of déjà vu : : Sometimes the button only gets you landed right back in the beginning of the : maze again, and the food won't satisfy. : -- Eat the Path (Terminal 0) : find the food, push the button, hit the treadmill, find the food, push the : button... : : I'm getting sick of coming back to hangar ninety six, but there is no : avoiding it. This is what my existence needs. My existence is the demise : of many others' arms and legs. : ok this one seems more like a recurring nightmare. : : Except that you can't remember exactly, is that it? : -- Bagged Again (Terminal 0) : here is Tycho spelling it out for us. we're the déjà vu masters. but how : does he know? : : (Blam!) (Ouch!) (Aaaaarrrrgghhh!) "Damned #%*@!ng : pfhorlings..." [breathe a couple of times, press tab with shaky : fingers...] "OK. here we go again..." : -- all of us, a thousand times, a thousand deaths. : yep this is the mother of all déjà vus . getting killed and trying again, : and again, and again. same narrow corridor, same crushing platform, same : lonely loon singing far away, but it's never exactly the same, until we : achieve one more small victory and teleport out... to find ourselves again : in the same situation a couple of months or years later... ~*addic7ed&&&% : best, : yaco\
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