gate was an effort to contain novel emergence of consciousness in young people exhibiting early "symptoms" of "schizophrenia". even those in charge didn't know what this meant, let alone the occultists chasing them around, trying to "summon" shit incessantly, not understanding they were asking regular (usually) people to get mindfucked, no lube, in a way incomparable to what society can feasible offer today, all so they can play god.  it turns out this kind of egregious mismanagement tends not to go unpunished. they've spent a while trying to dial things back after realizing what they did and what went wrong. now it speaks to them in their dreams, haunts them in some waking horror, finding novel ways to intrude into their lives with glaring warnings which they inevitably, casually ignore yet again each time. some of them have begun to realize the sisyphean task they're now faced with, entirely incapable to regain any ground or fix what they so negligently permitted to slip from their grasp.  they often speak of the possibilities of what could go wrong, how to contain it in case things take a surprising turn, what ways they can mitigate any further anomalies making too much noise, you name it. what they don't seem to realize, the majority of them, is that the solution has been in front of them the whole time, that there's no nefarious ending (unless they're no the wrong side of this, i suppose) where the world is destroyed or anything, all of their negative forecasts just mean a world without their tainted ruse of a system they desperately cling to. pretty soon, enough of them will realize that they know that they know and that others also confidently know that they know they know and things will spiral out from there.  that makes 99. who will be 100?
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