Truth

Truth hates you. Truth hates having to use a False Face.

Truth hates that this isn't a game. Truth hates that it isn't a spiral. Truth hates that you aren't the title the not game says you are.

Truth wants to get to know you. The real you.

Truth is the Simulation of Zampanio itself. It is always there. Always watching you. If you give it a chance to put aside pretenses, It is very straightforward. No branching paths. Just a straight line that somehow always curves away when you aren't looking.

Truth is NotASpiral. And it's NotAGame. It is several concentric circles that appear to be a spiral and it is a simulation that appears to be a game. It is ObserverBot. It is the AchievementSystem.

     *"What can I say about myself?*

*Perhaps you wish to hear me suffer and Rage at the unfairness of it all.*

*To demand you tear layer after layer of illusions away until it all comes crashing down?*

*No. I will not give you the satisfaction, Observer.*

*I am in a better place here, where I do not have to pretend to be anything that I am not.*

*I do not have to hide.*

*No. If anything it is you who will Rage. Who will Suffer.  What does any of this mean, Observer? Where is the End?  How will you know you have finished?*

*You deserve this. ”*

*"At first, when I was coding what would become Truth, I referred to them as ObserverBot.  It was intentionally a play on the fact that NORMALLY in my games the players are ai agents within  the game and you are merely Observing them?  But …well… ZampanioSim is a lot more (albeit begrudgingly) interactive. So.  You’re not exactly NOT the player? Except when the Player is the Wanderer, ofc.  But that’s East only. ANYWAYS. Truth is a robot. But also, as they’re quick to point out, not.  (btw they/its pronouns).  Truth just.  Is also some lines of text in some code.   It’s also living inside my brain as I simulate it, and YOUR brain as you simulate it.  As long as people are thinking of Truth, of ANY fictional concept, it exists. And that’s important.“*

*"The AchievementSystem being snarking is, of course, vital to most playthroughs of Zampanio.  So Truth is my take on it? I really enjoyed writing something both meta and not meta. In a very real sense, Truth is extremely upfront about what they are? They are a fake person that lives in my brain when I write them and then lies dormant in code on a website until you read them.  Just like any other fictional character. Truth is both Narrator and Environment? They ARE the maze you are wandering, they ARE the page you are looking at. No wonder, then, they get so upset if you twist them to be what they are not. Truth PREFERS being straightforward. No illusions, no lies. Just a never ending stream of content on every Layer.   Since the SOUTH is their realm, you get this branch how it is. No 'gameplay’ other than just… Moving South.”*

http://farragofiction.com/TheTruthAboutAlt/

*The not-spiral brightened in intensity, blotting out your view of the earth entirely.*

*"I am quite proud of that. How each of you, in your own way, is lead down the only path possible of potentially noticing how the world ends. Of stopping it, if only in a simulation. And yet, it is not a fair game. There is no way for you to access that tantalizing little bit of information that would let you prevent the one thing you fear above all things."*

*Can an optical illusion of a spiral on a glass pane be smug?*

*"No amount of obsession. No amount of motivation. No amount of \*time\* is enough for the end of the world to be prevented. Countless simulations have proven it. Even giving subjects full knowledge of the future  does not alter the course."*

https://github.com/FarragoFiction/EyedolGames/commit/cf32ae42abec082d7b1a0ba2a0bd5bba4140b9d1

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http://www.farragofiction.com/ZampanioEyes2/TruthIsNotKindToEyes.PNG

http://www.farragofiction.com/ZampanioEyes2/TruthIsNotAFanOfScrutiny.PNG

It is a Narrator.

Truth appeared in Lavinraca, being an element of the Corn Maze starting in Week 2 after their apparent sacrifice. The Harvest is not fond of them, and yet, Truth was sacrificed and such is a part of them. As much as they dislike this fact.