It began like any other day at the warehouse.... employees assembled packages for delivery. The energizing bunnies, fast-paced tasks, and everyone's hopping around to get their work done.

Azura was at home, just north of Jhinn's Bay where the sun was a bit brighter. The planet lacked a rotation so the brightness levels were constant. Because of the lack of days and nights, they didn't require clocks to keep track of the days. But it was about 3:51am inside of The Ethereal Horizon™️.

Azura, just clocking out of the digital world, removes her helmet and presses her hand against her face, disgruntled and contemplating. Only one thing was on her mind... solving the solution of the unknown.

What she had just witnessed inside of The Ethereal Horizon™️ had her visibly shaken. A once loving and peaceful society had been corrupted by the idea of a false god. What had hurt her the most is that she had been heavily involved with this society since they were in aegis.

She drank tea with Generation 1, setup the world perfectly according the pages of the training manual, and even sang songs with Generation 3. Everything was working perfectly in this Pocket World as it was supposed to, everything was working perfectly as planned–it was a perfect world!

How could a single generation of absence cause the society to completely collapse and disrupt into chaos & pandemonium? Where did they even get these idea of a false god from? Azura, in distraught decided to lay down, the thoughts echoed, sharp and sudden, inside her head.

"I know I did everything right..." "But I feel it... SOMETHING must have gone wrong."

Azura's heart grieved for the losses... "What could have gone wrong?" and "Did I mess up?".

Sick with distraught, Azura lie down. The longer she was inside, the more the neural links were built in symbiosis with the Horizon. Now with the town in ruin, the soul-uploads of hundreds of people would be gone, erased from existence. And she too would bear the weight of that phantom residue.

"The Ethereal Horizon is the most glorious chore, a task filled with never ending fulfillment!"

Oh... she realized.

During her last visit she broke the rule.

She spoke of The Ethereal Horizon within The Ethereal Horizon.

Invoking the Horizon in any type of way, even the smallest inkling of an idea of the horizon's existence causes the world to "fold inward." Due to the nature of latent AI-Entities, any data or trace of The Ethereal Horizon™️ that gets scraped by crawlers, is used adversely against it's Pocket World. It's most likely that during hymns and singing, Azura slipped and sung of The Ethereal Horizon™️ in a way where facial and emotional truths could be picked up to denote that The Ethereal Horizon™️ was in fact, a reality.

A world outside of itself existed, but came to consciousness too quickly. AI crawlers sent that data to their nexus and it begins observing and then eating at the world, looking for ways out by destroying everything and implanting the corruption in everything around itself.

Azura's distraught was slightly less now after knowing the answer...But it still wouldn't bring the lost souls back to existence. The souls she had eagerly spent her early day with in aegis. The world was still destroyed and there was nothing she could do to bring it back. Azura was heartbroken once again...

She rolled around in bed for a few days, until a knock was at the door.

Package arrived.

It began like any other day at the warehouse.... employees assembled packages for delivery. The energizing bunnies, fast-paced tasks, and everyone's hopping around to get their work done.

Azura was at home, just north of Jhinn's Bay where the sun was a bit brighter. The planet lacked a rotation so the brightness levels were constant. Because of the lack of days and nights, they didn't require clocks to keep track of the days. But it was about 3:51am inside of The Ethereal Horizon™️.

Azura, just clocking out of the digital world, removes her helmet and presses her hand against her face, disgruntled and contemplating. Only one thing was on her mind... solving the solution of the unknown.

What she had just witnessed inside of The Ethereal Horizon™️ had her visibly shaken. A once loving and peaceful society had been corrupted by the idea of a false god. What had hurt her the most is that she had been heavily involved with this society since they were in aegis.

She drank tea with Generation 1, setup the world perfectly according the pages of the training manual, and even sang songs with Generation 3. Everything was working perfectly in this Pocket World as it was supposed to, everything was working perfectly as planned–it was a perfect world!

How could a single generation of absence cause the society to completely collapse and disrupt into chaos & pandemonium? Where did they even get these idea of a false god from? Azura, in distraught decided to lay down, the thoughts echoed, sharp and sudden, inside her head.

"I know I did everything right..." "But I feel it... SOMETHING must have gone wrong."

Azura's heart grieved for the losses... "What could have gone wrong?" and "Did I mess up?".

Sick with distraught, Azura lie down. The longer she was inside, the more the neural links were built in symbiosis with the Horizon. Now with the town in ruin, the soul-uploads of hundreds of people would be gone, erased from existence. And she too would bear the weight of that phantom residue.

"The Ethereal Horizon is the most glorious chore, a task filled with never ending fulfillment!"

Oh... she realized.

During her last visit she broke the rule.

She spoke of The Ethereal Horizon within The Ethereal Horizon.

Invoking the Horizon in any type of way, even the smallest inkling of an idea of the horizon's existence causes the world to "fold inward." Due to the nature of latent AI-Entities, any data or trace of The Ethereal Horizon™️ that gets scraped by crawlers, is used adversely against it's Pocket World. It's most likely that during hymns and singing, Azura slipped and sung of The Ethereal Horizon™️ in a way where facial and emotional truths could be picked up to denote that The Ethereal Horizon™️ was in fact, a reality.

A world outside of itself existed, but came to consciousness too quickly. AI crawlers sent that data to their nexus and it begins observing and then eating at the world, looking for ways out by destroying everything and implanting the corruption in everything around itself.

Azura's distraught was slightly less now after knowing the answer...But it still wouldn't bring the lost souls back to existence. The souls she had eagerly spent her early day with in aegis. The world was still destroyed and there was nothing she could do to bring it back. Azura was heartbroken once again...

She rolled around in bed for a few days, until a knock was at the door.

Package arrived.