Slungus

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Slungus standing in her workspace, Room 427. The office now has a trophy that reads “You Tried”. Here you can decide whether she can actually leave the office or not. But let’s be honest, do we really want to end it right at the beginning?

Slungus and the Line™ in the Mind Control Facility’s monitor room.

“Oh, no, no, no, no, not again! Line™, how could you have done this to us, and after we trusted You™! After everything we've been through, you- oh, I can't take this anymore. To hell with it. Restart.”

Slungus and the Line™ in a hallway. What could be on the other side?

Slungus follows the Line™ to the new part of the office.

“Wait, we're...we're back at the office?! No! No, no! Line™, You™ do know we're looking for The Slungus Parable, right? The story? Is any of this ringing a bell?”

“Slungus, this fern will be very important later in the story. Make sure you study it closely and remember it carefully. You won’t want to miss anything.”

Slungus, looking directly at you. In the previous room, there is a fern that seems rather important. Should one go to investigate or carry on to find the story?

“Wait! Cut the music! Go back and look at that fern!”

Slungus still by the stairs. Nothing new here.

Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah. Hang on, that got a bit weird back there. Well, I'd like to apologize. Not sure where I was going with all that. You know what? I think what we need right now is a bit of music and a montage to lighten the mood!”

Slungus still listening to the narrator’s thoughts, albeit bored.

“Okay, now if my experience of your existence rests inside of your subjective experience of this office, is this office, in fact, the skeleton of my own relative experiential mental subjective construct?”

Slungus standing around the stairs to hear the narrator’s thoughts.

“Now we can both agree that the nature of existence is, in fact, a byproduct of one's subjective experience of that existence, right?”

Slungus looking up to hear what the narrator is saying, the Line™ still going onward.

“Okay, Slungus, I need you to follow this train of thought for a minute, just stick with me.”

Slungus and the Line™ approaching a flight of stairs.

“Simply by the act of moving forward are we implying a journey, such that a destination is inevitably conjured into being via the very manifestation of the nature of life itself…?”

Slungus and the Line™ in another hallway, leaving the previous room.

“Or, to put it another way, is the story of no destination still a story?”

Slungus and the Line™ in a blue room. There’s a plant in the left corner. In the center of the room is a box with some papers spilled on the ground. Away from Slungus there’s also a printer, a chair, and some filing cabinets.

“Though here’s a thought. Wouldn’t wherever we end up be our destination even if there’s no story there?”

“You see? The Line™ knows where the story is, it’s over in this direction! Onward Slungus! To destiny!”

Satisfaction

Slungus

Slungus in a different part of the office. She can either follow the line or go through the other door.

“Alright, I’ve got a solution. This time, to make sure we don’t get lost, I’ve employed the help of The Slungus Parable Adventure Line™! Just follow the Line™, how simple is that?”

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