Friday, July 27, 2007

Forteana in Virtual Worlds

...In video games, anyway.


Excerpt:
It was a true world’s end, where only crude and unpredictable physics applied.

Walking along this rugged landscape, I came to a narrow chasm. As it was impassable, I jumped into it, and found that it actually formed the mouth of a cave leading underground.

Down I went, and at the end of the cave I found—a pile of human corpses.

Eight bodies lying in a stack makes for a hair-raising find on its own. But truly disturbing was that they were all identified as minor characters, at least some of whom I knew were still “alive” elsewhere in the game.3 Imagine finding a graveyard of clones of people you know. That’s what I experienced.


I leave speculation about Fortean phenomena in the real world to the reader.

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