LogFAQs > #916690423

I go to Team Q's version of the Decontamination Room, but it immediately pisses me off. Eric's treatment of Q is annoying. Eric has trouble calculating numbers, and he's from Nebraska. He reminisces about meeting Mira at his job at the ice cream shop. Though at least Mira makes the segments bearable. "Me, an angel? You've got to be kidding." Q notes that Eric's like a different person when he's talking about Mira. Eric even apologizes for being so scary to Q. Then they start to speculate on the purpose of what's going on. Q suggests that it's all part of the experiment; investigating the effect a closed space has on emotions. Eric wonders why they chose ordinary people instead of researchers and military professionals, and Q suggests that maybe they're planning on sending those types of people to Mars in the future--a colonization. Mira then brings up the weird fact that in transporting live koi from Brazil to Japan, the koi often die if they're on their own, but are more likely to live if there's a piranha in the tank, because it activates their self-preservation instincts. So that's what's going on here. Injecting emergency. Eric's the one that wants to press the button; Q tries to stop him. Mira knocks him out and says she'll leave the decision to Q. Just as with C Team, I choose to abstain from pushing it first, then go back to push it. Q seems panicked; Mira seems amused. Eric blames Q for killing them and says he was against pushing it from the start; Q calls bullshit. Eric's daddy issues start acting up again...it's clear that he's a deeply disturbed and traumatized individual...ah, here we go. "Chris didn't do anything wrong... I was the one who... Please... Forgive him, Dad... Cold. It's cold... the water was so... so cold..."

This time, D-team is the one that thinks they've been there before.

DREAM... KEY... QUARK... MOM... DEAR... ARM. Heh, fun. Eric passes out, and as usual, Mira's calm. Eric's back. Q wonders if maybe every time they wake up, they have to go through the same scenario over and over again. Eric and Mira want to leave, but Q reminds them about Gab. But now Gab's been chained up...huh. That wasn't a thing in the other two versions of this route. Maybe Zero releases Gab if Q-Team dies? Mira says Q's suggestion is like the Sleeping Beauty problem. Eric doesn't know what that is, but Q knows it's a famous paradox. The experiment begins on a Sunday. the subject is put to sleep, and a coin is flipped. If it's heads, the subject is woken up on Monday, asked a question, and put to sleep again, and that's all. If it's tails, the same thing happens, but then their memories of Monday are erased and they're woken up again on Tuesday and asked the same question. The question is "what is the probability it was heads?" The paradox is that even though the probability it was heads is obviously 50%, there are three possible situations. "The coin was heads, and it is Monday"; "The coin was tails, and it is Monday"; "The coin was tails, and it is Tuesday". Eric's not convinced. I'm actually with Eric on this one; the probability is 50%. Mira read a book on it once. "Wouldn't waking up without your memories be just like being reborn?" It's called metempsychosis. How important are memories for making you who you are? And then they leave, finding themselves unable to break Gab out of his chain. Just like Carlos and Diana, Q refuses to leave, but this time, it's because he doesn't want to leave Gab behind. There does seem to be an additional fragment open on each route now.

C-Team: 3 unlocked fragments untouched, 3 locked fragments
Q-Team: 2 unlocked fragments untouched, 3 locked fragments
D-Team: 3 unlocked fragments untouched, 2 locked fragments
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