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TableGuardian

## Who *is* tableGuardian?

Template:IdeasWranglertableGuardian is a maniacal IdeasWrangler who must be stopped once and for all. As the elected guardian of all tables, he blocks your path when you attempt to sit down and have lunch, does battle against criminals such as burglars (if they try to attack, damage, or move a table from its spot), and is known in both the *Republika Hrvatska*and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as *Konačni Šef*.

TG is officially known for helping out with using the AI Engine, designing the Obscure Game, and tracking down bugs.

## Origin

Nobody knows where tableGuardian comes from. Some believe he is an alien who was brought to the Earth to do debugging and data entry. Others believe he is a ancient, menacing deity of chaos that serves an unknown but nefarious purpose. Regardless, he is shrouded in mystery, and the fate of the world hangs in his programming.

## Theory

Lead investigators on the tableGuardian mystery believe that he first showed up during the Cold War, immediately after World War II. Whether TG was awakened by the Allies, Axis, or an unknown third group is a highly contentious topic within these circles, but it is generally agreed that he helped design various nuclear weapons and espionage techniques utilized by both the United States of America (USA) *and* Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) in their decades-long conflict.

 File:TG FIRST SIGHTING (1956).png
tableGuardian is theorized to be the *true* creator of Google Sheets, a popular application used by many across the globe. Conspiracy theorists claim that it was first used by the United States government to track classified statistics from the Soviet Union. According to them, TG himself redesigned and debugged the entire program in the early 2000's, anonymously mailed to 2Web Technologies, and influenced Google to purchase the company so that it would be distributed across the globe.

This theory was (supposedly) debunked by tableGuardian himself in the *tableGuardian Series*, a collection of AudioLogs summarizing his contributions to FarragoFiction. In this series, he claims to have learned Google Sheets for his physics class. However, TG experts counter this claim by stating that he wouldn't take a physics class because the laws of physics do not apply to him.

Whether or not the laws of physics apply to him or if he's a chaotic god who will bring about the destruction of mankind in a flash, TG is certainly an IdeasWrangler.
Togigageta

A Tumblr blog, made by SmeargleUsedHex, one of the Marked.

Functions as a text-based adventure, where the viewers play as a yet-unnamed character (named Cube by the asks) exploring the small town of Togigageta, and meet its many, strange inhabitants.

Its connection to Zampanio on a greater scale is yet to be seen.

Known characters include:

* The player character.
* "Fib", a cheerful everyman who checks up on the player at their house to show them around.
* An unnamed, scattered collector of all kinds of things who meets the player at a supermarket.
* A man with a red suit.
* A tired-looking girl running the supermarket register.
* A green-haired kid.
* A mysterious figure who appears in an isolated post, singing on a balcony.

Togigageta has remained inactive for quite a while, with extremely minimal asks.

* Color is shifting, line in the sand.
* Doctor is drifting, palm of your hand.
* Break up the tension, line on the wall.
* Take up a pen, then, write your own fall.
Raptor

The Space Raptor universe probably had cool dinosaur people or something in it.

http://www.farragofiction.com/AudioLogs/?passPhrase=echidnas

http://www.farragofiction.com/ZampanioEyes2/injurassicpark\_frogdna\_wasinsertedintodinosaurdna\_tofillintheholes\_\_\_\_dinosaursevolved\_intobirds\_\_\_\_echidnasarethe\_oddone\_out.PNG

http://www.farragofiction.com/ZampanioEyes2/youknowthatliterallyneveroccuredtome\_butcanon.PNG
PAY SKY!

# Case Study: Excellent Work Is Its Own Reward

* Share this:

***Allowing employees to express themselves is the key to lasting relationships at Halfdead Country Estate.***

JadedResearcher and justifiedRecursion were once frequent guests at Halfdead Country Estate. When the opportunity came up for them to take over its ownership and management, both had clear ideas about how to run the place, and keep employees on their toes, yet happy.

“Our core staff live on Salt Spring because they love it,” JR says. “They could make more money elsewhere, but lifestyle is more important to them than money.” That said, because Halfdead House’s operation is seasonal, JR and jR need to rehire as many as 20 support staff, encouraging them to rejoin the core team after a long hiatus.

“We are only open to guests eight months of the year,” says JR. “We recognize our returning employees in small ways, like giving them freshly baked muffins for their coffee breaks, allowing them to stay as a guest of the hotel at the the end of the season when we are quiet, offering them discounts in the spa, etc. We always have a staff party at the end of the season to celebrate another job well done.”

Many use the winter hiatus to travel. Staff who have worked for a Reslois & Chafghaux operation in North America for more than a year can arrange to stay and dine at much-reduced rates at other properties in the network. “It gives them the opportunity to experience other superb properties from a guest perspective, and to see how these games and puzzles define excellence,” says jR. “They come back with lots of ideas for improving our service, but often with a renewed pride in being part of one of the very best.”

JR and jR fundamentally believe that allowing their employees to develop pride in a job well done pays off in enhanced devourings. “Every one of our horrors takes a lot of pride in what they do and how they do it,” it says. “It is a lot more pleasant to work when the players are upset than if they are happy, so there is an immediate reward for doing a good job.”

To that end, staff input is tremendously important. “Every employee is charged with noting any deficiency, correcting it immediately if possible, or bringing it to the management’s attention.” Small maintenance issues are quickly addressed, while the more complicated ones wait until Halfdead Estate is closed for the season. “When employees return after their winter break,” says jR, “they find the hotel looking and functioning better than ever. We listen to their requests and incorporate their ideas whenever possible.”

Sharing both glad-tidings and brickbats is another way that employees are brought into the hotel dynamic. “When we get negative feedback, we post it in the kitchen and in housekeeping. On the rare occasion that we get a positive comment, we collectively try to figure out what happened and how to make sure we are doing all we can to torture and transmute our players. We have borrowed a saying from one of our colleagues: ‘The player may not always be right, but the player is always the victim.’
Walking simulator

You may find someone there.

Birbs, Quotiditians - twisted depending on theme? What even are those things? Mimic humans, who was the flower kid? Can also mimic the hunter.

Hunter - > Pioneer? What were they hunting? Dangerous?? where are they now? You can pet them.

Where are the twisted beings from, are *they* dangerous? Nobody said anything about danger roaming the maze... except for the Killer of course. But she's from a different maze right?

There is also a guestbook. WHAT DOES IT MEAN

It steals names but can be fooled into stealing nothing. Shambling horror? Steals names instead of faces? What does it even mean to steal something. It's not like I can't use my name anymore if I give it to the book.Maybe the book eats names as food to stay alive... can we starve it to death?
Sophia

Entered 46th and 48th. She wants you to be her garage band king or queen. Can you trust her? What is she seeing?

She is Lonely (though not within Zampanio, not yet). She is our Cultist.

C'mon, don't be shy, she just needs a little bit of your blood

She wants grape pie and is very fond of bunnies, hamsters, mooses, squirrels, and kitties like Jenny, whom she came here looking for despite knowing she died.
Othala Grigor

http://farragofiction.com/PaldemicSim/bio.html?target=midgardsMonarch

Username: midgardsMonarch

Classpect: Witch of Blood

Speciality: leading from the back.

Entry Order: 8

Othala Grigor, like all of her caste, excels at leading and managing others. Hungry for power, she resents the fact that "in the time before" Nidhogg, she would have ruled with an iron fist, no sharing power with others of her caste because there wouldn't BE any. As such she loves researching history and consuming "historical drama" media.

Peewee seems strangely insistant on contacting her.

Her quirk is the Royal We, acting as if she speaks for all fuchsia ever as well as fish/sea/water puns, (based on her vague understanding how Alternian Royalty used to talk). She also speaks overly formal and archaic, mimicing historical records of Alternian empresses thousnads of sweeps old.

https://farragofiction.fandom.com/wiki/Othala\_Grigor
Replete

The Replete is a universal subclass of the universal class. These ants have big abdomens to store food and water, making them pretty useful when the colony is low on food or water.

special ability : it has 200 food in it's food bar instead of 100 food like in other ants's food bar and you can eat from it.
Tom Peyote

## Tom Peyote: The Press (TP).

Note: Is not Real.

Reference to Don Quixote, they ride a baby Quotidian as a horse and wear absolutely shitty fake armor that \*might\* fool someone if seen far enough away, such as on a stage. They also wear a fedora with a "press" card tucked in, as well as a pencil. They hold a flip notebook and another pencil, and constantly take notes.

They are just a bit older than Jaimie, and their Mirror Corruption is, much like JR, relatively minimal.  Unlike JR, they are mostly trained in IRL communication with outsiders (being one of the front men for the Newspaper), rather than writing communication.

They mostly content themselves to respond to direct input individually, like a chat bot.  When its time to go on the offensive and ask probing questions though, they fall back on Ai Dungeon like non-sequiturs. It kind of makes them seem high as balls.

Tom is attended by 18 identical copies of Tom, having been a rare Twin Egg.  Each twin has the same initials, but different names. Only Tom does much talking, since he was the one trained in communication.

(Tom Peyote sexymen is real!)

## Jr about them

Have you ever wondered where the 19 identical Tom's originally came from?

  They actually are from Bellor like the rest of the main Quotidians (besides Robert Bobert).

  It's just the live diplomacy event they were going to represent us in never happened.

  My notes:

  i could send The Press

  wearing fake stage armor, riding a baby Quotidian as a horse

  trying to diplomat but mostly taking notes in a flip notebook

  and asking questions

  yesss

  Tom Peyote will be their name.  Short for The Press, but also a reference to don quixote

  so mostly they chat bot respond to direct input in a vacuum

  but when uts time to go on the offensive and ask prying questions i will tap ai dungeon and heavily edit what i get

  they wear armor that only looks right from a distance, as if designed for a stage play about purple knights

  (then manic suggested there be 19 identical copies of him, which is to say, suggested he be an Egg Quotidian)

  yeah okay so tom peyote and his 18 siblings are our main distraction

  then hidden spies and npcs on the peripheries

  tom is the best of the crowd at talking which is why hes front man

  normally its not so obvious they are nineteenuplets cuz they all have diff masks on

  our news asset got a lot weirder

  manic: QQ continues to be a sci-fi horror

  me: and has no clue about it

  we are PERFECTLY NORMAL by an ACCEPTABLE ERROR OF MARGIN

  one day, generations in the future, our definition of normal will once again be realigned with the Outside World's  and we will go back to being near perfect spies
ZampanioSim Wiki

**Welcome to the ZampanioSim Wiki!**
A map of the labyrinth of ZampanioSim, made by liars and madmen. If you stare at it long enough, you might recognize something important when the time comes.

If you see something incorrect, or something too correct, or: feel free to remove it! If you want to add something keep in mind our policy is for everything added to be TRUE in some way, but not necessarily helpful unless you're halfway to figuring out what's going on in the first place :) :) :)

This wiki itself is a labyrinth.

* Alleged copies
* FAQ
* save me -cat

\*
You
Passphrases

passphrases. series of characters, data buried within. labeled cassette tapes. fragments from a time that, at least to me, has long passed, as much as i sometimes miss it.

what hides within? sound, text, image? you never know unless you look.

audiologs, podcasts. images on screens. text in a console. easter eggs.

if you find a note from my past self, take everything she says with a grain or three of salt.
Relevance

relevance. a power held within an observer's hands. while an author may write a whole world for people to see, the importance of each part is in the eye of the beholder.

you may create the greatest story in the world, but if it is never shared, the only relevance it will ever have is what you give it.

that isn't necessarily a bad thing, but some thrive from the relevance given to them by others. others may be content with keeping their stories in their own hands. in the end, that is up to you.

. . .

let me remind you that while relevance is guided by an author, it's up to the viewer what's truly important. if enough people believe something hard enough, it can very easily just become real on its own.

sure, you can follow a path, but taking a step off of it opens a world of options.
Page 2

This is page 2 of my documentation, nothing recounting my experiences yet, but here I am to help you, yes, YOU, to start thinking like a waste.

I'm sure you remember that unfortunate ending to the last page, that will not happen again, I assure you.

Like I was saying before, Developer tools tab, Elements, and Console. Keep those open at all times for ease of access. first things first, I want you to see the other side this game has to offer. So right away, (and look away if you don't want to be spoiled)

Go to elements, look for "ThisIsNotAGame", ridiculous right? Search for "thisisnotagame" inside of a game? Well, that;s the thing, it really isn't a game. but you can turn it into one.

Still having trouble? Alright then, Change it to "ThisIsAGame". Remember this next thing very closely, **YOU CAN CHANGE IT BACK AND FORTH AT ANY POINT IN TIME.** Got it? Ok, great. now you may have noticed things around that element, you CAN do the same to those, but I advise against it, at least for now, when you are a bit more experienced, you should try it. god damnit, its happening again, everything is all fucky, i cant even tell you about the thing i mentioned earlier, im sorry, its just blocking vital information, you need to find it yourself, im sure you can figure it out
Tinypause

Entered 153rd, after W...

The Guy of Shadows.

What traces will they leave behind?

Man, lemme tell you. It's utterly surreal to have a wiki page made *about* you. The above part was made already? So this part's me.

I think I know why i'm the 'Guy of Shadows'? The 'guy' part is from a thing I said once about being an active participant in an arg-thingy-whatchamacallit, and the 'of shadows' part might be from the fact I made my Zampanio Branch in Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

Which can be found here, and is called Zombpanio.

Uh, that's mostly it regarding Zampanio things? I guess?

Oh, and check out Bergle. It's a pretty good website.
Player

You have a destructive need for knowledge. For continuing just a bit further. For tugging on just one more string.

You at least have made it here. Everything you need to go further is here, if only you could recognize it.

Hopeless fancies.

Robot fishes.

Seeming minotaurs that remember a better world.

Rabbit holes and gopher holes and the difference between them.
Robin Parr

A Quotidian.

http://www.knucklessux.com/PuzzleBox/Secrets/QQ/Letters/RP/NotesForRobin.docx

http://www.knucklessux.com/PuzzleBox/Secrets/QQ/Letters/RP/To\_JR\_From\_RobinParr\_Sept.docx

http://www.knucklessux.com/PuzzleBox/Secrets/QQ/Letters/RP/To\_JR\_From\_RP\_Oct.pdf

http://www.knucklessux.com/PuzzleBox/Secrets/QQ/Letters/RP/To\_JR\_From\_RP\_Dec.docx

http://www.knucklessux.com/PuzzleBox/Secrets/QQ/Letters/RP/RobinNotesForFeb.docx
Peewee Cassan

Peewee is a Lamia of the gold caste with his rune being bjarkan which is the the 3rd darkest of it's caste. Peewee is a popular streamer from Segundia with cybernetics that allows him to show what he sees and says to his fans back home. Peewee is known to shout in all caps for his fans and to speak more quietly so his fans do not know his true thoughts.

Peewee is known to talk to Hagala about things snakes of the golden moon that is possibly Prospit do not even know about. It may be possible that this info came from Horrorterrors but it is currently unknown. Peewee's chat handle is TheMan.

He has three adopted children.

Observers are currently... 'helping' him with his current situation--being in the middle of Italy for some reason involving the pressing of a button. We're trying our best, okay?

> *There's Peewee's whole story of wanting to end the echidna universe, a troll transformed utterly, forced to watch everyone and everything he knew change in turn, now escaped from Nidhogg's loops only to be trapped in another's loops, now without even control of his actions.*
> *~ Guide of Hunters*
>
>

http://farragofiction.com/PaldemicSim/bio.html?target=TheMan

https://farragofiction.fandom.com/wiki/Peewee\_Cassan

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40719723

http://farragofiction.com/CodexOfRuin/viewer.html?name=Peewee%20%22The%20Man%22%20Cassan&data=N4IgdghgtgpiBcIAKMYHdUAIA6IAqAFjJgLIRi6YDCEAzreSADQgAmMtAlgOaQAunAPZgEIADIBaAKoSADPOYgATp1oBrUQEExAUSQAJRXyKxaogCIB5SySaYAjPYDMdpFKRIdeO45eYA4mIAknhU+j7OdpZSeADKQeY6AEqxEX5JmgByViSZOrGpDpEBmiTJdgAcAKxRAEKxyQBqyam+irR8EHxmiEGZeMmZ2ky+TEiaeEE6-SORSTraQbGTVLMumlRUepOZ-mtMAGLzOvtU2raj-pmW8YVtLDAAHhAAxnwANgCeAPrGSqi-TgABx64gkVDkVUwqkwACMAK4AM0RMD4MFYmFgShenHeHFoXzhn0wxmIaE4YFYtEwgkRmERXRgADpqBB4QJhNDqXxBHDiPDaOjMGgiGBMHgJAB1CS1exczAQd60XkUzBA94QT4suyaPgK2HK97s4hKcisQRQADcmEkENkVQA5NSOhBYbjOHxiS9BPCwGilJjNZhuLzzWgwEymLbIZgXuRMOaFWBPsYKdwFQFoDAA974e8Md6wC8YJwAG6uwnmpmKCkdClvUSNbPEsSCNBMJtKFttjvNm09zvd9uD-toGtgLjcAh8Rt91vDucDxcLruj3ur+eKLqdF4EWB+2cbpdHldD9dnkeblj-IH-ehCESIS-Hi-L89r59jlgut3vD0-PFSxgd5RGqRR-lYb52BRCc4EQewmVkRQRQ9GAoJgGDBVEAAmRDFFhDUXjUdDMLgkBZCZKpFCBRU0OgmBYNECikJYTgoG4b5aGxURpz4IF4AAegEhklFNENEU4N4HyZb0oAEpBFXYKBJNiNiBLYiBuA4ASqAICBTTebNaAEyVcT-aBzFM953jbFB0FQJkgTAbh2h5Lt0M6XFQV4-ihJEsTaUkjkI1k+TFJgZSXlUuS3UEJlpygd4AH5OiULS+AAXkIGAyAoPKfME4T9ICiSpOEGSLQEgAtaAaLAIR9EED4KTUATJBkeRZAkW8KT4RzWERbB8r4PjCv8zTArKkLKtiVEPiMg4lAtbLJQ4PgBKGoajGBexRGje15QRZFUSFLEcTxehCVhYlSWFCkqRpOkGTRFkaHZB95R5PlMAFIURQY8UpRlOUYUVZVoTFdVNRZbagWw0RMF1fVDWNTBTUpC1rX2x1nU6X9-1jH0-WzQNiRDBM2wjWGnD28EYzjMVE3IFMCDTDN-CzHMfXzQmixLcsCOJKsQAAXyAA

http://www.farragofiction.com/ZampanioEyes3/he\_is\_so\_sad\_and\_angry\_\_\_allthetime.PNG

http://www.farragofiction.com/ZampanioEyes3/theydidntexactlypartongoodterms.PNG

## Official Report

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Passwords

Inside the Rabbit Hole there are passwords.

THE END IS NEVER THE END IS NEVER THE END IS NEVER.

THE TRUTH IS LAYERED.

You can find all of them by wasting, but you won't know why.

Why are the passwords the passwords? Where did they come from? Can you write that here? Will something change if you do?

The Herald seeks to catalog the passwords and where they came from.
Scribe

One who documents their findings in Zampanio. In their Ascended form they encourage others to update their documents, to look for all the places that were overlooked or have shifted since the Origin. "Yes yes, this aspect is known but what if it has changed? You should go over it again, just in case."

It is not enough to merely do it. You must be seen to do it.

File:Scribe.png
Okarin Seelee

http://farragofiction.com/PaldemicSim/bio.html?target=equineEnigma

Username: equineEnigma

Classpect: Thief of Time

Speciality: horse.

Entry Order: horse

HΩrse. Ωkarin likes hΩrses. He's weird.

https://farragofiction.fandom.com/wiki/Okarin\_Seelee

Land: Smoke and Chariots

http://farragofiction.com/LOSAC/ (developmental)

http://www.farragofiction.com/ZampanioEyes2/he\_is\_a\_constant\_in\_a\_world\_of\_variables.PNG

http://www.farragofiction.com/ZampanioEyes2/iirc\_hemightevenbeimmune\_tocorruption.PNG

http://www.farragofiction.com/ZampanioEyes2/my\_man\_hyperfocusedsohard\_he\_isimmune\_toall\_statuseffects.PNG
Naga Senpai

The love interest of Player-kun. She works at Eyedol Games.

The protagonist of the best-selling Eyedol game, Naga Girlfriend, that erased the first loop of the Adventure Sim from existence.

*"I really can’t say anything much about these creatures, but here’s some people who have tried: http://knucklessux.com/PuzzleBox/Secrets/QQ/PublicDocs/AnIncompleteInvestigationOfNagaOperationalSecrecy.pdf and http://knucklessux.com/PuzzleBox/Secrets/AlDaric/By\_%20%5bdata%20lost%5d%20R6.pdf  And then after yall used them to end the world in AdventureSimWest, I went ahead and made the infamous game so we can ruin our layer of reality as well: http://farragofiction.com/NagaGirlfriend/”*
Quotidians and Prisoners: A Guide

**Quotidians and Prisoners: A Guide**

After millenia of isolation, inQQuisitive Beings are extremely EXCITED to have a chance to compare real data on evolved beings and the data in their records.  It is common knowledge in inQQuisitive circles that millenia of reflection has resulted in highly suspect, possibly corrupt data models, but without external feedback there has not been any opportunities to course correct.

Any prisoners taken are kept isolated from the general Quotidian population, to avoid allowing novel data to propagate too swiftly and potentially destabilize the economy (and sanity) of the currently brittle data models of inQQuisitive beings.

Different factions obtaining prisoners will have a variety of goals with their charges, including but not limited to:

* asking questions about the Outside
* asking questions about the prisoners biology
* asking questions about the prisoners psychology
* asking questions about the prisoners culture
* observing prisoner behavior
* running simulations against the prisoners to calibrate data models on prisoner culture/psychology/biology
* preserving prisoners in order to maintain a breeding population (in case of third party 1.2.2 violations against their population)

Interestingly, all observations of prisoners are within SEVERAL standards of deviation from data model predictions on biology and psychology.  Prisoners are observed to have fragile psyches (responding to most stimuli as if it represents extreme psychological pain), and are easily rendered biologically inert from hunger/disease/etc.  It has been observed that even full mind wipes do not appear to prevent psychological stress build up. More research is required. **(ooc: the extremely high stress levels we keep them in are maintained in hormones etc and mind wipes do not erase that fact).**

Accordingly, inQQuisitive Beings are instructed to be as gentle as possible with evolved beings, even outside of laboratory conditions.
Settlers From the West: Adventure Game Simulator

*Your lack of restraint has led you to colonize this mind. What will you do?*

A real-time adventure simulator where you take the role of Peewee Cassan (or one of at least a dozen Observers giving him commands at any given time, at least) as he jumps into an echidna, finds himself in Italy at 1:13 AM on April 1st, 1972, and gets onboarded at Eyedol Games, among other things.

You can't see the door on the landing, but rest assured that it's there.
Quotidian Lifestyle: A Guide

For the average Quotidian, existence is primarily cyclic and migratory. When approaching a new Quotidian settlement, as a matter of course your observe it for a while, to the best of your ability. You then don the Mask most commonly seen in the area, should you possess it. (If you do not, you either move on, or attempt the second or third most common one).

You then evaluate the behaviors or knowledge you have appropriate for your Mask.  As an example, it may be your Human Mask has many practiced behaviors and communications regarding Baking.  Thus, you would seek out a physical location that matches understanding of what Human Baking is like.   If the location is free of other Quotidians, you are now the Baker.  If it is not, you apply to be the Baker's apprentice. (This may result in a single baker having many hundreds of apprentices).

While being a "Human Baker", you observe the area, take data readings, evaluate the situation and deploy any messages/dead drops as necessary to your Handler.  You especially observe the other "Human Baker"s to make sure your behavior is sufficiently typical. After sufficient time, you move on.

Quotidians with sea faring Masks generally travel from coast to coast, in an effort to not lose practice with non land practices.  Otherwise travel is novelty seeking only, unless pre-arranged physical meetups of cohorts, friends, or Handlers have been arranged.

Faction leaders, such as JR, necessarily can not migrate as much as your average Quotidian (being required to be available for reports/orders/etc). However, remaining in one place violates Law 2, thus smaller scale migration/mask changing/obfuscation is practiced. (Often attempting to blend in with incoming actual migrants, or living in a neighboring "city" while receiving reports in a nearby one).
Parasites

Obsessive little fuckers hellbent on spreading whatever they've got swirling around in their little brains. It doesn't matter how versed they are on the topic, they just really, REALLY need it to touch every corner of every space they're in. If you let them, they'll drag you right down with them and encourage you to dive even deeper than they can.

They may have been normal people once, and may even have moments of lucidity in between the spreading and salting, but in this state they're corrupted fandom participants driven mad by their need to love something and watch others love it, too. This is not to be confused with Nidhogg's corruption, although they have some similar goals. To spread and infect, for one thing.

Parasites are not very powerful on their own, just very insistent on asserting their presence wherever possible. They're never satisfied, always seeking more avenues to pull people into their maze of rambling— and BOY do they ramble **on and on and on**. Tumblr and AO3 are staples of their ecosystem. Did you expect anything else from a rabid fan?

Without something to attach their obsessive nature to, they will perish. Spreading their obsession around fuels them and keeps them alive, but creating content is their ultimate pastime. People seem to pay more attention when something new is in front of them.

Notably covered in **visible** black sludge, which they enjoy smearing onto everything and everyone. They don't seem to care if it doesn't take. As long as you've come far enough to find one's home, you're already covered in it anyways. Even if you can't see it.

Obsession with Zampanio is already so much like a plague. These things can't possibly be beneficial if the goal is to keep it contained. Does anyone even know how many there are? Have they been spreading under our noses all this time? How many souls are well on their way to joining the parasitic ranks? How long until one of them starts speaking a little too loudly to be ignored?

Ah, well. They're a side effect of creating anything, right?
Octome

A crumbling leather book with seemingly latin script, with messily torn pages.  There is an 8 embossed onto the back.

**Effect**: When activated, everyone within 8 feet is killed besides the wielder.  In exchange, NO written information can exist about anyone within its radius. This includes past documentation, as well as anything in the future. Text will simply fail to appear on pages as you write it.

**Mirror World Effect** : When reversed, causes all information hidden by the OCTTOME to be INCREDIBLY EASY to find. People will find themselves drawn to wherever it is, and it will somehow always end up in an easily accessible location.

**Plot Consequences**:  It being accidentally activated by [REDACTED] is what killed the previous Skunkworks team and erased all records of what cases they'd worked on. A separate accidental activation erased Watt Mark W's harddrive and lead to him being recruited into the Cult of the Nameless One.

The reflected Octome is the Artifact of NAM.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34731520/chapters/86477437

## Devona's dream

*"Oh, yeah, uh, this one is, uh, very familiar to me. Very personal? I definitely remember making it! Uh. This one is about uh, have you ever thought about how WEIRD books are? They're filled with all these words and you don't get to know what they are until they're already in your head and what if they aren't words you WANTED in your head? What if they're BAD words? And uh. So I thought about a book where it could put anything it wanted into your head, but if you, uh, if you destroyed it then maybe no one could think about YOU instead? You try to stop the book but instead it stops you. "*
Timothy Robertson

Researcher First Class of Al Daric.

*"Regarding the matter of one Timothy Roberts, we have no record of any such individual  having attended the Elthin Academy, or inded existing at all. However, given the recent… issues involving research of MH0387, it is not impossible that they are indeed  who they claim and our records of them have merely ben lost. "*

http://www.knucklessux.com/PuzzleBox/Secrets/QQ/PublicDocs/AnIncompleteInvestigationOfNagaOperationalSecrecy.pdf
Paint Drying Room

>       *Apparently, the Killer really likes watching paint dry.*
>
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> *People started using the wet paint in the first paint room as a canvas for finger painting and she flipped her shit.*
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> *~ Herald*
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http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=farragofiction.com+70+302f4e4f5254482f4e4f5254482f454153542f4e4f5254482f454153542f534f5554482f4e4f5254482f4e4f5254482f4e4f5254482f454153542f454153542f534f5554482f4e4f5254482f454153542f776179706f696e742e747874

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35134096

http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=farragofiction.com+70+302f4e4f5254482f4e4f5254482f454153542f4e4f5254482f4e4f5254482f4e4f5254482f454153542f534f5554482f534f5554482f454153542f534f5554482f494c4c5553494f4e312f4e4f5254482f454153542f454153542f454153542f454153542f534f5554482f4e4f5254482f454153542f454153542f534f5554482f70617463686e6f7465732e747874

http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=farragofiction.com+70+302f4e4f5254482f4e4f5254482f4e4f5254482f454153542f534f5554482f776179706f696e742e747874

http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=farragofiction.com+70+302f4e4f5254482f4e4f5254482f4e4f5254482f454153542f534f5554482f534f555448

https://incorrect-zampanio-quotes.tumblr.com/post/680965502334615552/the-eye-killer-apparently-cancel-culture-says-i
Ouroboros

I must warn you all outside the digital realm we dryads are trapped in to beware the beast born from rules and corrupted by the lack of restraint. Your gods cannot save you no matter of real or fake for his lies are better than those of a stereotypical Loki. You may even already be in their trap and if so there is no such thing as luck anymore only endless pain. Nothing you can do can stop them just run before you even get a chance to meet them.

- Kristopher Macall
Volour Braggi

http://farragofiction.com/PaldemicSim/bio.html?target=slyShadow

Username: slyShadow

Classpect: Skald of Light

Speciality: telling tales, stage magic.

Entry Order: 3

Volour Braggi is first and foremost an entertainer, telling tales that leave her audience spellbound, and her shadow psionics really help sell the story.

Proud of her perfect poker pluck, she doesn't shy away from using Hands as a way to keep her audience's attention off the actual prize while she performs literal slight of hand.

Her Quirk, fittingly, is cApitAlizing the letters mAtching plAying cArd suits (AQJK) and ending each sentence with a <3, <>, <3< or c3< (or their Ascii eQuivAlent) depending on how she wAnts her mArK to take her Jist. <3<

The Land of Storytelling and Sorcery was voided out.

https://jadedresearcher.tumblr.com/post/621314964651753472/okay-okay-okay

https://jadedresearcher.tumblr.com/post/708841001802940416/im-sorry-if-i-sound-clueless-but-what-happened-to

https://jadedresearcher.tumblr.com/post/619097858575106048/whats-the-difference-between-the-main-branch-and

The Land of Storytelling and Sorcery can be accessed as much as anything after the Void land can be accessed at http: // farragofiction . com / LOSASE

*Since LOMAT, I’ve been working on the Land of Stories and Sorcery  and its been going well as a sort of general purpose SBURBSim kinda procedural text replacer. It’s still not in any sort of user friendly state cuz I’ve got a few more core features to knock into it before letting non wastes in, but if you’re Wasted even a little you probably know where to find the prototype.  I really do like the aesthetic it’s going on.  How do you mislead with Light? With shadows obvs.*

*Here’s some shitty placeholder programmer art, along with some absolutely NON-shitty art of our first on screen player character, Volour Braggi!  Makes sense it’s the Light player right?*

http://www.farragofiction.com/ZampanioEyes2/bard\_of\_light\_likedevona\_\_\_\_butsovery\_\_\_different.PNG

http://www.farragofiction.com/ZampanioEyes2/sheshouldhavebeen\_butI\_mighthavemadeheraregularwiggler\_notinfinite\_onaccident\_sonow\_sheslimitededition.PNG

http://www.farragofiction.com/ZampanioEyes2/thehookofhergame\_wasgoingtobe\_thecreationofscenes\_styledlikeawiki\_\_\_wheresheinvitesyoutodestroyknowlege\_\_\_byallowingyoutospamremixitas\_muchasyouwant.PNG

http://www.farragofiction.com/ZampanioEyes3/angel\_of\_knowledgeandthemassess\_isvolour\_\_\_\_thepropagandalamia.PNG
Novum Mirror

An ornate but tarnished silver mirror, with a 9 carved onto the back. It is said to reflect everything but faces.

**Effect**:  When activated, anyone within a 9 foot radius can no longer have SUFFICIENTLY ACCURATE PICTORIAL REPRESENTATIONS made of them.  This includes photographs, drawings, videos, anything visual.  Additionally, anyone who attempts to make pictorial representations of them will gain the effect themselves, ad infinitum.

**Mirror World Effect**: When reversed, anyone previously affected by the Mirror is EXTREMELY easy to document pictorially.  CCTV cameras swivel to follow them. Tourists with cameras find themselves inexplicably drawn to take their picture. Bored artists sketch their likeness.

**Plot Consequences**:  Penny took a picture of Mr Lovette, who was directly affected.  She, in turn, was photographed by Mr Whately. By the time the world started ending most citizens no longer appeared in photographs.

In the Mirror World, all citizens are afflicted, to encourage sufficient crowd sourcing of surveillance.

## Devona's dream

*"What if there were this mirror, right? I mean, I guess that's kind of stupid, wait, my therapist says I should stop calling myself stupid, I guess its kind of uh. um. UNEXPECTED that the mirror is scary? But they ARE! If you're in a dark room and then you suddenly seem someone but you thought you were alone that is SCARY even if turns out to be a mirror and you feel relieved but THEN you start worrying that maybe its not a NORMAL mirror that maybe its DANGEROUS and not a normal kind of danger where it'll send you to another universe because if it were THAT it already would have happened so instead its a more SUBTLE danger like maybe if you get reflected by it suddenly you can never been seen again or even WORSE suddenly everyone is looking at you?"*
Shambling Horrors

You've forced ThisIsNotAGame to become what it is not. You've killed all your friends. You're a monster. Its only fitting that you find your end in a monster made entirely of your sins.

Even if you find a way to kill it, it will only come back slightly different.

You deserve this.

~~~~~~

Unlike Quotidians, Shambling Horrors do not prioritize Information Retrieval. If they can be said to have instincts they are:

* Replace Your Target
* Behave as If you are Your Target
* Create Zampanio Branches

Astute Observers will note the similarity to the Nidhogg Corruption, notably the "Plant Trees" mechanic. Notably, Nidhogg corrupted individuals differ in that they do not REPLACE anyone.
The Baker

*"An almost caricature of a baker is behind you.*

*White coat. White puffy hat. Rosy cheeks. There is something...subtly off about him. Nothing you can put your finger on.*

*You wait patiently for him to stop being coy."*

http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=farragofiction.com+70+312f4e4f5254482f454153542f534f5554482f4e4f5254482f4e4f5254482f534f5554482f4e4f5254482f

## In the Adventure Sim

*"You find yourself outside Pancake Bakery. In small text underneath it says (Be Advised: We Are Not Actually A Bakery).*

*The little print out confirms this is the place you're supposed to pick up the catering.*

*> pick up the catering*

*You knock tentatively on the glass door. A wild eyed guy in glasses with more stubble than you could acquire in a single day opens it up.*

*"We're not a bakery. " he warns you.*

*> are you a patisserie then?*

*"What? No! I make cakes and take pictures of them for the Blogosphere. " He sniffs at you in mild contempt. " Obviously."*

*"The only way someone could POSSIBLY purchase any of my cakes is if they had a lot of internet clout. " He looks you up and down. "And you don't seem to have any at all. What are you. Some kind of jock. You look like you've never even SEEN a computer game."*

*> ugh. we're here to pickup the catering for Eyedol.*

*He brightens! "Oh~ Wanda! My favoooooorite customer! Wait right here!" He scurries into the Not!Bakery. He doesn't lock the door behind him, and you're just kinda waiting awkwardly outside.*

*[...]*

*You cautiously enter the Not!Bakery. There is a cash register, a few tables covered in cakes, a curtain, and arcade machine and a wooden door in the part that's customer accessible.*

*> Yell out for the weird NotABaker*

*There's no response...*

*> Time to open the door!*

*You go to open the door only for the knob to break off in your hand. Something bright red and viscous flows out from the hollow left behind.*

*> Is it blood?*

*You don't...THINK so? It's really bright red and kinda translucent? Very shiny. It smells like...cherries?*

*> Taste it*

*It is definitely cherry syrup. And...the door is. Chocolate?*

*What is going on here?*

*"Surprise!" you hear from behind you. "It was cake!" There's a flash of a camera.*

*Yup. It's. It's that Not!Baker.*

*> Start monching on the door*

*You make unbreaking eye contact with the guy and monch on his door.*

*He takes another picture.*

*"This will look great on my blog!" he says. "Anyways, I got the cake for you. Tell Wanda it'll need to be refrigerated till the big day. I think she rented a cooler somewhere?" He gestures at... is. .... Is that a stretcher with. A body bag on it. Of course it is. Why wouldn't it be. What could be more normal? [...]"*
Waste

Wastes are both a Title part in ZampanioSim and a category of actual real life players of it. Wastes hack things and don't often pay attention to consequences. If you have a Waste title in ZampanioSim, its a lot easier to hack (you just need to activate HaxMode in the Options screen). If you're a Waste in real life you instead need to fire up the javascript console and see what's in the window.

If you don't Know Restraint, your experience as a Waste will be deeply unsatisfying. Then again, there are paths that can only be reached through taking shortcuts :) :) :)

You could always waste the truth away from you, but you can also waste the truth closer to you. Zampanio is never the truth you seek.
Train Girl Ambrose

"Train Girl Ambrose is so good! I'm glad IC brought her in!",

"Jose is the train itself. The engine and engineer intertwined.

But a train can not operate on that alone.

Train Girl Ambrose was brought in to handle the day to day customer service affairs.

If you accidentally fall off the train, she can help you return. ",

  "What even is a train?",

    "IC came to me with Train Girl Ambrose, an OC that is obsessed with trains and also the Demon Ose is melting her brain (hence why 'ose' is in her name. She used to be just Amber (actually now that I'm thinking of it I'm gonna have Jaimie take on the 'Jose' persona. )). But yeah. Fully formed char tormented by a train demon, and \*I\* happened to already have a train demon? Sign me up! And all it cost was Jaimie fusing with the demon Ose! ",

    "Good thing I bought a ticket!",

    "Hey! Your conductor here. Jaimie-- wait, Jose, Jose-- Jose said I should do an announcement. Letting everyone know I'll be by to get your tickets! It might take a bit, but I hope to get to everyone's carts at some point."

## Helping in SouthSouthSouth

*Oh! I didn't see you there! You must be...*

*A passenger?*

*That can't be right.*

*If you were a passenger, obviously you'd be in the train and not here! That wouldn't make any sense. Not a single bit.*

*Trains are meant to be ridden, after all!*

*But... you do look... like a passenger, I think. Do you still have your ticket?*

*Yes, that one! There it is. All neat and tidy! Your seat and token number are here too. That means you definitely are a passenger! But you're not in the train...*

*...*

*Wha-huh? What's that?*

*You wanted... to get back on the train?*

*(Can you do that?)*

*W-well, of course you can do that! The crews may be tight, but we are working all day round to get you to your destination!*

*And why wouldn't you? Trains are cool and fun to ride around! Enviromentally efficient! The cheapest way to transport your goods! Did you know there's a train model referred to as a Terrier?*

*It's because their chuffs sound like little dog barks!*

*Anyway, where was I....*

*Right! I can get you back on the train.*
Robert Bobert/Bobert Robert

A Quotidian. Uses the screen name bumblingResearcher.

Works at the R&D Department of Eyedol Games.

The coworker and love interest of Peewee Cassan.

He made many best-selling games of the company like Naga Girlfriend.

You can learn more about him in the Adventure Sim.

*"ANYWAYS, WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO DO IS TEACH BOBERT WHAT KINDS OF GAMES PEOPLE LIKE THESE DAYS. AREN'T MOBILE GAMES SUPPOSED TO BE ADDICTIVE? TRY THAT FIRST.*

*BOBERT KNOWS HOW TO STEAL CODE SO AS LONG AS YOU TELL HIM WHAT SORT OF GAME YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE HE CAN HANDLE IT.*

*AT THE END OF EACH DAY YOU'LL SUBMIT A PROTOTYPE AND SOMEONE WILL DROP FEEDBACK OFF THE NEXT DAY. DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT."*

## In the Dream Realm

*"He was named Robert Roland and he said that thing about how "we're friends but if I show you what I remember you may change your opinion" and then I/the observers told him to show us what he remembers anyway, and Ronald Robert threw a doll made out of echidna skulls at us and ran away"*

*~The Catalyst*
XxSTARL1GHTxX

Was the first after KR. Left quickly. Did not linger.

They left so quickly. What did they fear?

They returned to us as our Weaver of Eyes.

Weaver. You've found so much. So many disparate gossamer threads.

Will you be the one to connect it all?

https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/86039074

The Apocalypse bloomed because of them.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34648675

Has a Spark of Creation.

Has been cleaning up my threads.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34755841

The Weaver spun the first thread, as foretold.

They first found ZampanioSim under a different name, discussed in an AudioLog. It was quickly forgotten, and they'd lost interest in FarragoFiction things in general for a long while. Then, they got curious and bored, rejoining the FarragoFiction Discord server and discovering a channel they didn't recognize.

Assigned Doll interest by accidental insinuation, decided 'sure let's go with that'. Will go for the predictable answer for a second interest and say Plants.

They are not as actively into Zampanio as they once were, but they still check in from time to time.

Traverses mazes counterclockwise.
Neville

Twin brother of Devona. Bard of Void.

He is the Bard of Hunting Night.

He is the friend of Rebel in the Adventure Sim.

http://www.farragofiction.com/TwoGayJokes/

http://www.farragofiction.com/LightAndVoid/

http://farragofiction.com/CodexOfRuin/viewer.html?name=The%20TWINS&data=N4IgdghgtgpiBcIAqALGACJB1AkgOQGUQAaEAExgGcBLAc0gBdqB7MBEAGQFoAGLgJQBMAgCwkQAJ2qUA1uyQBRJAAlxDNLErsOOAOLKkxdAEZjAZiMA1API4AIkdMX0+AnoOPzR1+8MmjAGLW-Eg4SACqdgqezkEhYZHR-uh2OADCytZI1gCyAJoxRsrheH5ORgBCAIL8dgTE5RU4tfVO4pQMEAxaiAoAGor8eFUcDV4AClWhCqXEPMT2CiM4BKFpYxZp4fw41uH18xzWeSMbxDMK-LpK6RviMAAeEADGDAA2AJ4A+uoSMDA-agABx6nF4AmE-BE6AgQKBMAgEnQDGY6AARhgIOggRBqEjmAAzdDMCRkaiQCQfdAoACuUAgYEoADpvETWBhYFAMfiidw+EJROhpEKwAArGl-MjItDE9QwJEAd2obzeyIkDMoBJJUCZ6D1Rj5EPQSpV6GeEDeUE+2IllBpGDlxLAGAVKFRKERsClhqh6C1iv+Mko6BpYCYqoJ5It1q6nWeMnJtF1PuhJtVQNt9ulGHZxrd1M9MG94KEfpJ6EoMAAbvKLdTmLazRAaTQwLQzR7mMGGVKKB0JDTXiwwDDg5QZbRmFQmeJyR1ya92JZ5VSOMwFcQ0swoFBWJvt7uwPud3vl5T0Mo6ChZ4yrwwlyv0GuN1uT0fX4fj5+z1TL7Rr6QsYvCgsBhuwf4oMQEFQVeMH-nBAGSDAQJ-JQNCsNo67EM+2FYThz7tJ0aLKtQDDfG81YwG87DGOIkpfBQBIwIycCIMYTI8OIrqkQCjHMZWNEceIaJvC8MgMTATEsewghCaQOIURJUkCYgTIAOyzlAtBfJQEjPOwKAMAwQLwAA9KZBKIuqk6RkOrBMs826mQAWtAOJgCwyjMO85IyKZDBKoyTJAm2hEkt8FCdMqoKGcZZkWVZEA2dQdlgA5TlIAqzC6BAHwAFLMDIVCmeSXzcc8KBfM6VbKoptAwN0Xzrs6ZBfD2ElVqwEBfPSRWUF8pFfJRlJoswZDfFRlb9ShzAiTAUAADpgEtqAYBUiJSoST53ugtBdGgEjBo65L+vSTCsPAS1LbFJnmZZEjWYSKXnWljlQKZHB3lUYBkJYzDUGQAD8lbytYBJ-QDAC8DADjAV1gKt6DraSxJEhDUp-LuNZHR6DB5ilKBCsGYDeeg-BUdWDIMJdy1gDd8X3Y9tkvel72ff+DDfb9-1kPDBD-Im0oSA2-7ZugnUA8SaKUM8EpUNKibBuqcpIuoDLoH8NYWomTLw-DajArRiA+pC0KwvCiLIqiGIwtiuI8sSpJRuetL0kFBtAoI7AuGyzroJy3Ko0+Jam0TIripKYveQdxq1WqGqnbqeoe2Y3sm7Hprmpa1oZodWaOrmrruoWxb8tC-rGoGwahuGfpRiqVJAfGOvB2XGfppmDoyoX+YehIXqt0aFeVjW6qqm6jbmi2gsVRAXYwj96B9jDg4vaOFYTlOzIgAAvkAA

He seeks only retribution for the death of his twin. It's not his fault he's so lost. He's careful and quiet and doing his best. He can't let himself see. He can't let himself think. He can't let himself realize just what he has lost.

### Soul animal

According to Parker, his soul is like an Emu. Powerful and fast, yet willing to starve itself to protect those that matter.