This is the truly ridiculously funny thing about it.
Mari thinks she is the evil mastermind, Hazou's subconscious has been playing you all for saps since Day Zero !
Coming to think of it- it really shows how a genius alien intelligence may not be so scarily overpowered in a fictional setting.
Look at us- a group of
humans subconsciously controlling another
human. Just in another world, with some added rules.
That's like easy mode, compared to an actual eldricht horror trying to control a human from his sub-realm in the Out.
Even then we fuck up plenty of times, especially when we run into differences between our world.
An actual alien intelligence trying to control Hazou would have to:
-Learn the rules of physics of his world and apply them in sufficiently efficient manner.
"Right. Bigger things don't fall faster, but they do hurt more when they fall."
-Learn about psychological functioning of a human person.
"Huh. So it actually needs to lie down there for hours every earth rotation. Who knew."
-Learn about ninja style of warfare.
"Oh. So you can't phase your flesh using ¢@. Not even with your Œ†€ in ÔÆœœ¢."
-Try to wrap it's neural glands around the concept of relationships.
"How come they haven't devoured each other's @@£ yet? And why is the ninjutsu specialist suggesting making another team member? We have full composition already."
-Get very offended by the concept of (western) beds. Fail to incure a bed genocide.
"HOW
DARE they ELEVATE themselves ABOVE
õͩͨͫ̏%̩̃!̮̟@̞͚̰̣̬̒ͥ̍̽̓! I'LL
¥œùÞ¼®¬ EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF you!"
-Complain to the Querying Master about specific aspects of the simulation.
"This human boy lacks any ß«¦! How have his species not fallen to the Sky Brothers already?!"
-Withdraw complaints after hearing about our own performance.
"Maybe we can convince the Explosives Hermit to blow the way to third-and-a-half subrealm? Lupchanzen there are far more docile."
