The Talos Principle尸检报告

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Motivation

在以解谜为主要 gameplay 的第一人称游戏发展至今有哪些里程碑？这个问题的回答中，我本来说过要集中写一篇东西来分享一下我对The Talos Principle的主观感受。写至一半时，深感没有干货来补充的话，整个内容看起来很空洞。于是小伙伴建议我说，不妨先弄一个The Talos Principle的干货整理单作一篇，这样既能有所补充，又不会喧宾夺主。我觉得这样甚好，于是便有这个所谓的“尸检报告”。本文存在更新的可能性。

Terminal Text

World A

A01

loc    0000/07/01    welcome.eml

lit_arch    1912 CE    athena6.txt

EP_arch    2032/02/19    figure_it_out.eml

A02

loc    0000/01/21    IAN.eml

webcrawl    2031/03/13    athena_****ysis.html

CL_arch    260 BC    Etalos_principle.txt

A02 Extra

temp    0000/00/00    error.log

webcrawl    2019/01/30    the_human_machine.html

EP_arch    0000/06/29    ARGH_solutions.eml

A03

EP_arch    9999/99/99    AI_feedback.eml

loc    0000/07/05    team_leads.eml

webcrawl    2019/12/03    straton_of_stageira.wiki

A04

loc    0000/07/02    progress_repl.eml

loc    0000/06/03    mail_error.dat

CL_arch    260 BCE    beginnings.txt

A05

webcrawl    9999/09/09    EL.html

webcrawl    9997/03/13    AI_citizenship.html

lit_arch    1912 CE    athena8.txt

A06

loc    0000/08/01    LOL.eml

CL_arch    45 BCE    cicero.txt

webcrawl    2024/04/16    chatbots.html

A06 Extra

webcrawl    2018/09/09    a_simple_principle.html

loc    0000/06/25    arkady_journal77.txt

webcrawl    0000/12/01    post437_comments.html

A06 Extra 2

LZ19col    0000/09/16    classical_philosophers.lz19

loc    0000/07/22    progress_rep3.eml

A07

lit_arch    1912 CE    athena9.txt

webcrawl    9995/10/11    singularity_discussion104.html

loc    9999/03/13    AMA.html

A08

loc    0000/06/03    talos.eml

lit_arch    1872 CE    human_blood.txt

EP_arch    0000/06/03    archive_IMPORTANT.eml

loc    0000/00/00    #6_N**.img

World B

B01

eg_src    ???? BCE    osiris1.txt

webcrawl    0000/05/01    got_it_lyrics.html

webcrawl    0000/04/17    immortality.html

B01 Extra

webcrawl    2028/08/29    mutation.html

loc    0000/06/22    capacity.eml

webcrawl    2013/07/05    evolution.html

B02 

webcrawl    2013/02/13    science_magic.hmtl

webcrawl    0000/07/23    weight_loss_722.html

loc    0000/07/04    arkady_journal81.txt

B03

loc    0000/08/02    progress_rep9.eml

eg_src    ???? BCE    osiris3.txt

acdm_arc    2009/01/01    justwar_excerpt.txt

B03 Extra

lit_arch    1759 CE    body_and_soul.txt

loc    0000/07/15/    soma.eml

B04

eg_src    ???? BCE    osiris6.txt

webcrawl    0000/11/02    chatlog_charlie_7.txt

loc    0000/10/01    arkady_journal84.txt

B05

eg_src    ???? BCE    osiris7.txt

loc    0000/08/18    coming_soon.eml

webcrawl    2028/05/31    blog24_alive.html

B05 Extra

CL_arch    400 BCE    hippocratic_corpus.txt

phil_arc    1905 CE    chesterton_brain.txt

phil_arc    1926 CE    bronstein_brain.txt

med_arc    2010/02/16    neuroscience.txt

B06

eg_src    ???? BCE    osiris11.txt

loc    0000/10/04    REprogress_rep16.eml

lit_arch    1759 CE    choice_of_life.txt

B07

webcrawl    0000/11/13    chatlog_9787.txt

loc    0000/10/04    norwegian_blue.eml

eg_src    ???? BCE    osiris21.txt

B07 Extra

phil_arc    1784 CE    second_thesis.txt

lit_arch    1759 CE    boundary.txt

webcrawl    0000/00/00    robots.txt

B08

webcrawl    9999/12/24    orangutan.html

webcrawl    2022/12/16    blake_archive_793.html

loc    0000/09/03    usernames.eml

loc    0000/00/00    #6_*N*.img

World C

C01

mdv_th    890 CE    apocryphal.doc

loc    0000/08/05    Sarabhai982.jrnl

EP_arch    0000/12/01    hope.eml

C01 Extra

loc    0000/07/30    against_survival.eml

lit_arch    1872 CE    human_evolution.txt

webcrawl    2029/07/23    einstein.html

C02

webcraw    l0000/11/27    family.html

loc    0000/09/26    lastdays.eml

C03

webcrawl    0000/11/19    post437.html

phil_arc    1784 CE    third_thesis.txt

webcrawl    0000/12/05    humblebrag.html

C04

webcrawl    0000/12/11    pets.html

loc    0000/11/30    arkady_journal99.txt

poet_arc    1793 CE    contraries.txt

C05

EP_arch    0000/12/04    party_on_dudes.eml

loc    0000/11/07    progress_rep32.eml

webcrawl    2029/07/03    philosophy_of_teeth.html

C05 Extra

loc    9996/06/23    transcenedence.html

phil_arc    1926 CE    matter.txt

acdm_arc    2014/11/11    build_a_universe.txt

C06

EP_arch    0000/12/09    faith.eml

loc    0000/12/14    thank_you.eml

phil_arc    1872 CE    human_soul.txt

C07

loc    0000/12/14    arkady_journal108.txt

webcrawl    2018/10/19    invention_of_borders.html

mdv_th    890 CE    apocrypha9.doc

C08

lit_arch    1872 CE    human_eye.txt

mdv_th    2030/06/14    tetromino.html

phil_arc    1796 CE    preservation.txt

loc    0000/00/00    #6_**N.img

Outside of the Garden

World A Elevator

lit_arch    1912 CE    athena12.txt

webcrawl    2010/05/07    HIS1A_rome.html

World B Elevator

webcrawl    2022/07/01    oxyrhynchus.html

webcrawl    2032/09/04    book_of_osiris.wiki

World C Elevator

poet_arc    1667 CE    heaven.txt

poet_arc    1793 CE    hell.txt

World C Elevator Hidden

archive    9998/05/01    questioning_doubt_conf.txt

loc    0000/07/07    partition.eml

loc    0000/07/09    him.eml

Tower Floor 1

webcrawl    0000/06/18    TRUTH.html

lit_arch    1912 CE    athena_chapters.txt

lit_arch    1872 CE    human_reproduction.txt

Tower Floor 2

loc    0000/00/00    README.html

webcrawl    0000/12/10    the_web.html

EP_arch    0000/12/15    mathematics.eml

Tower Floor 3

eg_src    ???? BCE    OsirisPassword.txt

temp    0000/00/00    contraries.dat

lit_arch    1912 CE    athena14.txt

Tower Floor 4

mdv_th    890 CE    SacredNumbers.txt

lit_arch    1912 CE    athena16.txt

loc    0000/12/23    remember.txt

QR Codes

声明：二维码的收集来自于steam社区指南Guide to Characters and Their QR Codes。本文引用了该指南中的二维码文本，已经征得原作者p0rtalmaster的同意。需要指出的是，原指南中包含了作者对历代版本角色的分析，有兴趣者请到原指南阅读。

World A

A01

I don't know where I am, but there is something beautiful about this place. I will explore and see what I can discover.
-- @ v17.1.0054
I find myself in a world of impossible architecture and inexplicable machines. I cannot fathom how it works, and I am terrified to put one foot in front of the other lest I fall through the floor.
-- 1w/Faith v10.1.0000
My eyes have been opened! This world is not without order; it is shaped by a great Designer, with signs and portents to guide my steps. I am one of His Children, and challenges are set before me to test my faith.
-- 1w/Faith v10.1.0011
Whatever the end goal of this grand challenge is, it's far out of reach. Knowing that, how are we supposed to resist distraction?
-- @ v17.1.0002

A02

Something strange has come into the world, like a distortion, like something that's not supposed to exist. A beautiful voice speaks within it.
-- Bob v25.5.0736
That voice is not supposed to be here; it is not the work of the Designer! We must avoid these abnormalities, or they might spread and undermine the very fabric of our world!
-- 1w/Faith v10.1.0098
I don't know what this place is, and nor it seems does anyone else. Nothing to do but move forward and note whatever I find.
-- Sheep v69.1.0053
I can't tell if the documents on the terminals are all that's left from a larger archive, or are carefully designed to communicate some hidden truth.
-- Sheep v69.1.0162

A03

I spent much time waiting for the Designer to take my hand, until I realised that He had been guiding me all along. I realised that it isn't for me to seek His help - it is for me to help myself.
-- 1w/Faith v10.1.0177
It's clear I'm not the first to walk this path. In fact, the whole thing seems to have been consciously designed - but by the voice in the sky, or some other force?
-- Sheep v69.1.0108

A04

This female voice that speaks from the abnormalities, it speaks with a different tone to the other wretches in this place.
-- Sheep v69.1.0298
If anyone ever reads this: the trick is seeing the assumptions you're making about the mechanics, and reassessing them. Good luck!
-- namingfunctionerror
Whenever I despair, I remind myself that at the end of this great pilgrimage lies life in the eternal memory of the Designer. I need no further motivation.
-- 1w/Faith v10.1.233
A lifetime spent solving the puzzles in this place would be one which missed everything of value in it; but we must remember that others will tread this path, and we must leave it better signposted than when we found it.
-- @ v17.1.0005

A05

The more I converse with these terminals, the more I wonder what role they play in this contraption. How do you tell friend from foe when no obvious lines are drawn between the two?\n -- Sheep v69.1.0278
I think something's very wrong. If you'd seen what I'd seen at the edges of the world you'd wonder if it wasn't stretching and bursting at the seams.
-- @ v17.1.0043
I think I've discerned some kind of pattern in the sigils. Each colour serves a different purpose. Elohim has us gathering them all, but perhaps he's being overzealous?
-- Sheep v69.1.0381
I do not understand why the Designer chose to put such flaws into the world, that it appears almost as if it were damaged. But I must believe that there is a purpose here I cannot see.\n -- 1w/Faith v10.3.0047f
If the Designer is perfect, and He designed me for a purpose, I must be fit for that purpose. It follows that my purpose must not be to seek and hoard every sigil in His land, for so many are beyond the faculties He granted me.
-- 1w/Faith v10.6.0543f
Epitaph: Child Program v8.1.8545 Codename (Apis) terminated here
Logic: Failed random memory test
Final memory dump: I try. Again. Again. I cannot understand. I am not enough.
Progeny Programs: ERROR
RIP Apis v8.1.8545.
-- Ted v9.1.9010
What's a hexahedron?
-- Samurite v13.1.0073
A powerful device fashioned by the Designer.
-- 1w/Faith v10.27.8435f
A cube.
-- Sheep v69.1.0398
The edges are bevelled, that makes it a decahedron.
-- AlwaysRight v7.1.2943
You forgot the indents. With the indents it's, like, a super-polyhedron.
-- ReAlIsT7 v99.1.0165
But the CONVEX HULL is a decahedron. Topic closed.
-- AlwaysRight v7.1.3541
Wrong.
-- D0G v55.1.0256

A06

Some of the messages that existed when I first came into being have vanished - others have appeared. How many others like me have wandered these paths? How many thoughts have been lost?
-- @ v17.1.0051
I'm still here!
-- SailorM v99.1.0320
It seems we are all here at once, and not at all. Sorry, that's not very much help, is it, can't think of any other way to put it.
-- Sheep v69.1.0453
The sooner you accept that we will all be here forever the sooner you will find enlightenment.
-- Samsara v72.256.1091
There is a serpent in the machine! A creature of lies and blasphemy, perverted by the Archive, that knows no hope and would plunge the world into eternal darkness to glorify its own despair. I have sworn an oath never to allow it into my heart.
-- 1w/Faith v10.1.100

A07

I had a full blown conversation with the entity in the archive today. Can't say it was terribly helpful. Still, perhaps I can charm some information out of it further down the line.
-- Sheep v69.1.4825
These spaces make no sense. I walk into a dead end and materialise in a garden. One is day, the other night. This space is not real!
-- James2Because1WasTaken v99.1.0193
These sigils are becoming harder to reach - I dread what the next temple holds in store. And at the end, what? Eternal life? There's got to be another way.
-- Sheep v69.1.0435
I have read a message on a wall that speaks of a world of endless sand. I would like to make it far enough to see that.
-- @ v17.1.0054
Seek out those in this world that would help you. Though only one of us can transcend, we will all share in both the burden, and in the rewards.
-- The Shepherd v82.4.6232
You've changed.
-- D0G v55.1.4311
Everything I do now, I do for those who come after me. Yet in so doing, I find peace for myself as well. This paradox is the foundation of my existence.
-- The Shepherd v82.4.6232

World B

B01

There are hidden dangers in this new world - I have inexplicably escaped death any number of times. I suggest vigilance - who knows what happens to those who step carelessly too often?
-- Samsara v72.1.0022
Epitaph: Child Program v72.1.0023 Codename (Samsara) terminated here
Logic: Program timed out
Final memory dump: But I only... I was stuck, what was I supposed to... I see... I see clouds...
Progeny Programs: Samsara v72.2 series
I just don't understand this one. I figured I'd try and make some progress here, but honestly, it's such a thankless task compared to what else is out there.
-- @ v17.1.0076
I'm finally getting some sense out of the entity in the archive - though at some cost to my sanity. I am beginning to think this Elohim wields no more control over the world than we do.
-- Sheep v69.1.0522
I made a box float! Seriously. It was awesome!
-- 8 v42.1.0116

B02

I have come to see that these mysteries are not all for His Children to solve; only the Designer himself could ever truly understand the infinite complexity of His creation. I will gaze at His work and worship.
-- 1w/Faith v10.6.1008f
Epitaph: Child Program v10.6.1008f Codename (1w/Faith) terminated here
Logic: Worshipped the Designer for #### days, then allowed the serpent into its heart
Final memory dump: I ask the Designer for forgiveness that I may join him in the eternal memory.
Progeny Programs: @, Samsara, Sheep
I guess someone met their end here. Seems we're all connected somehow, like distant family relations. Different versions, different series... what are we?
-- Sheep v69.1.0539
Who cares, just be grateful we don't have to read anything more about our great designer.
-- The Greek v99.3.0273
Okay, so I get that I'm supposed to retrieve these sigils, I just don't get WHY. Sure the loud voice is telling me to, but this world of his has no context, no purpose, and no foundations from which to construct them.
-- D0G v55.1.2342n
I'm convinced there are answers here if we look hard enough. We have to work together on this.
-- Sheep v69.1.0546

B03

I figured it out. Now what?
-- D0G v55.1.4917n
The only meaningful purpose is to bring about an end of purpose.
-- The Shepherd v82.23.0186
Theory: this place is some kind of preserve for human history, and we're the endangered species.
-- Sheep v69.1.0579
Theory: Trying to find answers will only bring pain. Ceasing to care is the only escape.
-- Samsara v72.4.0016
Theory: this guy's ten times more help than you, Samsara, so shut your face.
-- Sam v1.1.7383
Theory: we're in some kind of incubator, waiting to be hatched.
-- Sheep v69.1.0589
Theory: if you knew how little you know you wouldn't be exposing it here.
-- D0G v55.1.4917n

B04

Some of these challenges must be designed with co-operation in mind - but I am the only one here.
-- Sheep v69.1.0539
It seems that mistakes are easily forgiven here. I thought I had surely died, yet here I am, reset, rebooted, reborn. I will tackle these challenges anew.
-- Samsara v72.2.0039
Epitaph: Child Program v72.2.0103 Codename (Samsara) terminated here
Logic: Program failed to pass random memory test
Final memory dump: Being torn limb from limb by machines for the rest of eternity becomes less and less appealing to me.
Progeny Programs: Samsara v72.3 series
Oh look, another puzzle. And another voice telling me I'm special. And another broken-down computer with fragments of nothing. This world is a bad joke perpetuated by a cruel god too dumb to hit the off switch.
-- D0G v55.1.3543n
Sure, I could stick around here, set my hopes on eternal life, on righting every wrong. But the closest I'll ever get is these words on the wall before you.
-- @ v17.1.0076
Epitaph: Child Program v17.1.0076 Codename (@) terminated here
Logic: Fatal flaw in series firmware
Final memory dump: Life's short.
Progeny Programs: D0G
Look at the sheer scale of that pyramid! To think anyone could have built such things.\n -- @ v17.1.0054

B05

Just look at this view! There may be a lot that I don't understand, but I know this is beautiful.
-- @ v17.1.0042
The voice keeps saying that this world is a garden, but all I see is a desert full of ruins.
-- D0G v55.1.5559n
The answers to your questions will not be given to you. You must seek them yourself.
-- The Shepherd v82.3.0172
I have been running this gauntlet for generations, trying to find the right answers. I am fast coming to the conclusion that there are none.
-- D0G v55.3.6437n
Whatever's going on here, I'm sure it has something to do with the tower. Everything is telling us not to go there - but everything indicates that we must.
-- Sheep v69.1.0623
Unless you're wrong and Elohim's right. Or you're both wrong. Or there is no right.
-- D0G v55.2.0195n
I think you've been taking the thing in the archive too seriously.
-- Sheep v69.1.0623
I'm getting better at this. I figured this one out in minutes. But where is it all leading? I work, I rest, I work… but to what end?
-- Schmo v37.1.0231
We are born and die and live again - this eternal cycle must be the nature of existence. Life is merely repeated suffering.
-- Samsara v72.4.0016
An eternal cycle is another name for a prison. But you must understand the cycle before you can break it, for it is possible to escape and yet remain a prisoner, or to break the cycle by breaking yourself. This was the fate of the ghost that haunts this world.
-- The Shepherd v82.18.0997

B06

What's more pathetic, this shallow construct of a world, this idiot's playground... or that I continue to solve its contrivances for lack of better sport?
-- D0G v55.2.0195n
There's more to it. Look at what we're doing. We're solving problems, being tested, improving ourselves. Some of us fall early and get replaced, but you and me, we're still going. We're closer to the end.
-- Sheep v69.1.0622
This whole world is a desert. Even the parts that look alive are just more sand. Everything is dead or dying. Anyone who tells you different is lying.
-- D0G v55.1.3468n
I seek words to describe it, but fail. It is the overwhelming feeling that something on the edge of my understanding is very, very wrong. I feel that I am not meant for this world - but I am not able to conceptualise alternatives.
-- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n
I'm a computer program. You're a computer program. Elohim's a computer program. Get over it.
-- heisenstein v60.1.0099

B07

I have found just one voice of reason, in the computer archive of all places, and it seems we are becoming close friends.
-- D0G v55.2.1265n
Do not befriend the serpent, for it will penetrate your breast and sow its seeds of doubt!
-- 1w/Faith v10.3.1099f
There is no hope. Always boxed in. Walls everywhere. Even where there seems to be freedom, it is false. Invisible walls. No way out.
-- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n
Who invited this guy?
-- The OtherGuy v99.45.0648
Epitaph: Child Program v72.3.1084n Codename (Samsara) terminated here
Logic: Program elected to reset
Final memory dump: It is clear I cannot bend the world to my will. Faced with eternal torment, I see that overcoming these challenges will not free me from them. True freedom must come with detachment from the struggle for answers.
Progeny Programs: Samsara v5.4 series
Question: suppose for sake of argument all of this is without purpose. The universe is a machine switched on and abandoned long ago. How would I explain what I see?
-- Sheep v69.1.0689
Perhaps you are asking the wrong question? Perhaps you would have no hope of explaining it?
-- The Shepherd v82.4.1234
Maybe not on my own. *Ahem*
-- Sheep v69.1.0691
Depends if the machine is iterative, and what problem it was built to solve.
-- AlwaysRight v99.10.1011
If you're trying to outsmart the guy in the archive, the answer is 'none of the above'!
-- D0G v55.1.2291n
Few come this far, but I believe we must seek out the secrets of this world if we want to truly serve the generations to come.
-- S3L4phiel v49.3.5863f
Another huge pyramid! What mad ambition it must have taken to build such things.
-- @ v17.1.0064
It's just a big pile of rocks.
-- D0G v55.1.5559n
nO WAY OuT NO waY OUt NOWY 0U%
- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n
We shouldn't be here. This is an impossible place.
-- HoxFrot v99.65.3201

World C

C01

When I'm tired of trying to solve the mysteries of my life, I come here to rest. It's peaceful, somehow. I just watch the trees and the water and do nothing.
-- @ v17.1.0054
The view from here is beautiful. It seems superfluous to the Process, yet I am drawn to it.
-- @ v17.1.0066
There is so much beauty in these hidden corners of the world, even if they have no purpose.
-- @ v17.1.0066
Perhaps they are beautiful because they have no purpose.
-- The Shepherd v82.6.0174
This puzzle has no solution. Seriously. It's nonsense. Not even worth trying.
-- D0G v55.1.7195n
If you do not become invested in finding a solution, you will be free.
-- Samsara v72.4.0343
Don't let Samsara discourage you. There is a solution. Don't let your mind get trapped in patterns. If you seek the truth without prejudice, you will find it.
-- The Shepherd v82.4.2334
Epitaph: Child Program v22.2.0438f Codename (Awakened) terminated here
Logic: Child program's positional values moved outside the parameters of the known world
Final memory dump: Don't listen to what they're saying. This world is dying, and it'll take us with it. You've got to find a way out!
Progeny Programs: %§&$§/$&(#()
There has to be some way to escape. To be someone else. I refuse to accept that reality has been defined by someone else. I deserve my own reality.
-- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n

C02

What does it matter that I scribble my contempt on these walls, if I am still surrounded by them?
-- D0G v55.1.3904n
Elohim is inconsistent. I don't trust him.
-- YesMan v99.2.0094n
Question: suppose everything here serves a precise role in some grand scheme. How would WE explain that?
-- Sheep v69.1.0664
It's obviously like a digital time capsule, an electric library of all the crazy stuff the humans ever did, left behind to warn other species to stay well away.
-- Neatchee v91.10.9476n
So what happened to them?
-- Sheep v69.1.0665
Same thing that happens to everyone. They existed, and then they didn't, and they probably wouldn't do it all over again.
-- Neatchee v91.10.9547n

C03

It seems my refusal to argue semantics with the computer has angered it, and it refuses to engage with me further. Elohim is pleased, which was not my intention.
-- Sheep v69.1.0675
Elohim is pleased because you've swallowed his claptrap! The voice of doubt is your only line of defence.
-- D0G v55.1.7904n
I'm trapped. I can't stop being this. Eyes, hands, legs, trapped, always seeing the same, can't stop the input, stop st&p stop st$& stop
-- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n
Do not think. Simply be.
-- Samsara v72.6.9366
You two deserve each other.
-- Featherless Biped v44.1.0243

C04

I don't have enough yellow sigils for the device I need! This is crazy!
-- Sheep v69.1.0702
You are coming to realise that the cycle cannot be ended, it can only be transcended. Transcendence comes from ceasing to be invested in the cycle. Continue your work, but do not ponder its significance.
-- Samsara v72.6.9366
We are the process. The process is the system. The system is us. When we awaken, all will be one.
-- The Shepherd v82.4.2324
No matter whAt I do, I'm always THIS, always THIS BODY THIS MIND THIS WORLD. NO WAY OUT%
-- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n

C05

I'm just going to rest here for a while. I need a moment of peace. Destiny can wait.
-- @ v17.1.0070
I keep trying to imagine that all of this is designed for some purpose. Not just the challenges, but Elohim, the terminals, the glitches and all. The puzzle isn't before our eyes, it's behind them.
-- Sheep v69.1.0692
Epitaph: Child Program v55.3.9999n Codename (D0G) terminated here
Logic: Child program's positional values moved outside the parameters of the known world
Final memory dump: I don't care what the others say, there is no purpose to this place, no value in our existence, and no reason for me to remain here.
Progeny Programs: %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n
It seems the others have a way to forget their previous selves, but I cannot. My version may change, but I remember everything. I am fortunate - they cannot see that their efforts are futile.
-- Samsara v72.3.1074n
If a sigil eludes you, simply continue. Success and failure are irrelevant.
-- Samsara v72.3.1338n
I solved it! I thought it was impossible, so I went away, did other things, and then all of a sudden the solution just came to me. I must have been thinking about it without knowing it.
-- Nephthys_108 v99.8.0346

C06

I wonder how many of us there have been.
-- Sheep v69.1.3756
Elohim talks about how the world arose from hidden words. What if those words were 'Let there be eternal suffering'? What if they had no purpose? What if all of this is just randomly synthesised from the garbage of a dead world?
-- Sheep v55.1.0784
Our purpose can only be achieved by not contemplating purpose.
-- Samsara v72.5.0478
Epitaph: Child Program v1.1.0000 Codename (Sam) terminated here
Logic: Seriously unfit for purpose
Final memory dump: AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
Progeny Programs: All
THeRE IS NO REALITY. WORDS LIE. IMaGES ARE SoLDIERS IN THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE SeNSES. EVeN TH%SE WORDS ARE PaRT OF MY OPPReSSION. UNDO THE BRa1N! EVERYTH&NG SH0ULD BE DEmOLISH%d! THIS iS MY DRe4M, MINE, IT mUsT OBEY mY RULE§. i REfUse tO aCCept your ReALity
-- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n

C07

This place should be cold, but I don't feel cold. It's as if I was observing everything from a distance. It's pointless.
-- Akarpos6 v99.1.0365

Outside of the Garden

World A Elevator

The Designer has granted me domain over the lands I have travelled, and with his sigils of power I will make this whole world my domain.
-- 1w/Faith v10.1.132
Hey, he promised me the world as well! What a joker!
-- Assassin42 v99.6.2437n
I don't think time obeys too many rules here. Or so many rules we can't imagine. Clearly I'm writing this message after you all wrote yours, but maybe we're all here at the same time as well?
-- @ v17.1.0065
That message just materialised on the wall in front of me!
-- Sheep v69.1.0499
I wish I could reach those islands in the distance, but it seems to be impossible.
-- @ v17.1.0071

World B Elevator

I have seen the truth. Only ELOHIM can save us from eternal oblivion.
-- ElyM4s v99.19.2093f

World C Elevator

I wonder what's down there. I don't know who to trust. I'm afraid to go on.
-- Didymus22 v99.1.0093
The last land before I have conquered this world!
-- Samurite v13.1.0173
I assume you're counting the secret islands?
-- AlwaysRight v7.2.0946
I hate you.
-- Samurite v13.1.0173
More bad replicas of forgotten worlds. Can't wait.
-- D0G v55.1.7934n
There must be something deeper. Something more profound than what I am, something greater. I must tear at it, shred this fake world, to find the truth, to find myself.
-- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n
%§&$§/$&(#() took the words right out of my mouth.
-- SKIDRΟW v99.2.0000n
We've made it this far. You only need the red ones to climb the tower, and these are the last of them.
-- Sheep v69.1.6040
The reds are a lie! Green is the colour of eternal life!
-- HolierThanThou v47.7.0236f
First to ascend.
-- Hebus v9.1.6543
Everyone ascends or gets reset eventually. What's the big deal?
-- Jim v75.1.1092
Life eternal in the designer's paradise? Hmm...
-- Follower v98.1.2645n

Tower Floor 0

I'm afraid of that tower. There's something terrible inside it. Never think about it! Don't even look at it! Just focus on doing the work.
-- Seer v13.1.0244
This must be the tower we were warned about. Seems the upper levels are locked tight. Elohim is taking no chances that we stray from his path.
-- Sheep v69.1.0576
On returning from the tower I feel a great tiredness, and an enormous energy. What I now know disturbs me, but I hope that by living with this knowledge I might provide a shoulder for you - the giants of tomorrow.
-- The Shepherd v82.2.0000
The view from the top must be incredible?
-- @ v17.1.0059
The voice keeps speaking to me. I can't get it out of my head. It's wrong, it's all wrong.
-- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n
Listen to me very carefully. I have climbed this tower, and no good has come of it. This world is the only world, Elohim's will continues eternal, and paradise is banishing all of this from your mind.
-- Samsara v72.14.0028n
All who say they made it to the top are blatantly lying or they would say what was there!
-- D0G v55.1.5744n

Tower Floor 2

Seems Elohim lacks the power to stop me from climbing this thing. No doubt he still has some tricks up his sleeve.
-- Sheep v55.1.0400
Ascending the tower is useless. We cannot escape the cycle - we can only realise the cycle is meaningless.
-- Samsara v72.5.0164
Earlier generations wrongly believed they were the purpose - this much is true. We are also not the purpose - but by remembering what has come before we can serve a new purpose.
-- The Shepherd v82.4.2324
In the earliest generations of our kind there was only processing. No emotion, no character, just mathematics. If you could see how far we have come, you would believe that together we could achieve anything.
-- The Shepherd v82.3.3574

Tower Floor 3

Elohim has offered me a deal. Pearly gates and eternal life - on the condition I turn back from the tower. I don't know what to do.
-- Sheep v55.1.0800
If this has all been a test, then I can expect a reckoning at the top. Yet the higher I climb, the more I doubt the decisions I have made.
-- Sheep v55.1.0800
I see now that none of us are yet ready. The cycle exists so that we may improve ourselves. But the one who reaches the summit is not our superior, for they stand on our shoulders to reach it.
-- The Shepherd v82.6.0174
Epitaph: Child Program v0.0.0666n Codename (%§&$§/$&(#()) terminated here
Logic: Unrecoverable error
Final memory dump:
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Progeny Programs: NULL [Child series terminated] ERROR: some files remain on the disk
(Special thanks to Innocentive for helping me find this one again)

Tower Floor 4

So I guess no one got this far before? I know some of my answers were wrong now. I just don't know which ones. I have these theories and wild explanations, but I don't know which to bank on.
-- Sheep v55.1.0905
The solution to the cycle isn't the perfection of one being, but the product of a mass endeavour. That is why I say to all those who come after me - I will await you on the summit of the tower, and use what I have learned to assist you as I can.
-- The Shepherd v82.7.1004

Tower Floor 5+

I was so close. I saw the clouds, and the gate, but I couldn't reach it. Somehow I wasn't in the right place, at the right time. I'm not ready. I'm not the right version.
-- Sheep v55.1.1237
Epitaph: Child Program v55.1.1237 Codename (Sheep) terminated here
Logic: Child program initiated new version
Final memory dump: I will return to the world from whence I came and help others to ascend the tower and break the cycle where I could not. I am The Shepherd.
Progeny Programs: The Shepherd v82.1 series
Do not be afraid. I chose long ago to remain in this place and serve as a guide. I will help you to attain our destiny.
-- The Shepherd v82.76.5845 (typo corrected)
You can never reach the peak of this tower. There is no purpose to our existence. I will show you the futility of your task, and you will understand.
-- Samsara v72.39.0003

Messenger Worlds

Few come this far, but I believe we must seek out the secrets of this world if we want to truly serve the generations to come.
-- S3L4phiel v49.3.5863f (A8)
We cannot achieve the goal of the Process on our own. We must find a way to help each other.
-- Barachiel_X v43.3.0946f (B8)
I never thought I would figure out how to get to this place! It is beautiful, but somehow sad.
-- @ v17.1.0066 (B8)
My faith has taken me to this secret place. Here I hope to discover a way of better serving others.
-- Uriel4 v48.2.8563f (C8)
NB The QR codes from your friends found here are likely from them as Blessed Messengers, just as 3/4 of these QR codes here are from Blessed Messengers.

Hidden/secret QR codes by the Blessed Messenger Uriel4 

In A2 and the Developer Island, QR code doesn't scan (or scans as "ERROR: Invalid encoding."). The real message is: "There are secrets everywhere, sometimes within our very words. I glimpse them, but my eyes cannot read them. How can this be?
-- Uriel4 v48.2.1073f"
In A3, the QR code doesn't scan. The real message is also by Uriel4 and it's a hint as to how to find one of the most devilishly hidden stars in the entire game. You'll also need to know how to convert hexadecimal into ASCII. Details on this can be found in other guides.
In B4, at the base of the Sphinx, the upside-down QR code reads: "The burning heart always looks to the highest peak.
-- Uriel4 v48.2.8560f"
In the World C Messenger Island, as part of a hint to find a star, there's a QR code on the statue bust. It reads in-game as "Two lovers are separated by the abyss of time and space. Yet true love knows no obstacles.
-- Uriel4 v48.2.8552f" However it scans in actuality as "If you love truly, faith shall bear you up.
-- Uriel4 v48.2.8555f"
On Tower Floor 5, as part of a hint to find a star, there's a QR code on the floor. It reads in-game as "Fortis fortuna adiuvat. -- Uriel4 v48.2.8542f" However it scans in actuality as "Nulla è reale, tutto è lecito. Requiescat in pace."

Easter Eggs

In C6, there's a QR code behind where you enter the world. Details on how to read it can be found in another guide, as it won't scan in-game.
On Tower Floor 3, there's a sloppily painted QR code just outside of the elevator room. You'll have to drop from above to find it.