Mapmaker
The boys are monitoring the situation
Previously: The Great Opening sweeps the world.
○ Months after the Great Opening, the Internet
Mapmakers Discord: https://discord.gg/ZHSTBCUP
MoYeetO: OK boys, you know what time it is
MoYeetO: *and girls
EmptyGlass: Is it time to “monitor the situation?”
MoYeetO: YOU KNOW IT
EmptyGlass: looks like it’s just us in here tonight
MoYeetO: just two chads, burning the midnight oil
MoYeetO: so wdyt?
Mapmaker: It fits the pattern
MoYeetO: MAPS!
MoYeetO: welcome
MoYeetO: was worried that Emp and I were gonna have to analyze this one on our own
EmptyGlass: What are you seeing, Mapmaker?
Mapmaker: So most large-scale psi contagions are of one of three types:
Mapmaker: Type A, Synchronous Arisings: these can happen when a lot of similar types of people are in one place. Whatever they have in common is ridiculously boosted by feedback between nervous systems.
MoYeetO: like that “Dharmawave” or w/e that Pina documented last month?
Mapmaker: Yes it was kicked off by the Dalai Lama’s visit to NYC. It started spontaneously inside the Hunter College auditorium but without any leader. According to PinaCollider’s report in Psi-tings, the Dalai Lama himself seemed confused about why everyone had started meditating before he could finish his talk.
EmptyGlass: I was there actually. It was beautiful.
MoYeetO: is that u speaking, Emp, or the spirituality brainworms?
EmptyGlass: ʕ•̀_•́ʔ
EmptyGlass: Mapmaker, what is the the next type of psi contagion?
Mapmaker: Type B, Collisional Arisings: these happen when two big memeplexes crash into one another. This can be positive, like when the giant Improv Everywhere flash mob accidentally knocked into the West Indian Carnival. But more often they’re negative like that night MAGA people and leftists tore up Times Sq.
MoYeetO: my friend got caught up in that one 🤦🏽♂️
Mapmaker: Finally there’s Type C, Directed Arisings: these happen when some person or group of people deliberately set off a contagion. This what probably what PinaCollider witnessed at Caffe Reggio, when that blue-haired woman did some kind of shaktipat to that guy.
EmptyGlass: That was Jonah Levin.
Mapmaker: I don’t know who that is. Anyway, I think the latest cases we’re monitoring are Type C. But unlike most directed arisings, whoever is setting them off is staying hidden. Which makes me think it might be the Instigator.
MoYeetO: oooooooo the instigatorrrrrrr
EmptyGlass: The Instigator is purely hypothetical at this point. You guys are stringing together a few disparate cases without hard evidence.
MoYeetO: ur no fun
MoYeetO: b more schizo with us
MoYeetO: it’s ALL CONNECTED
MoYeetO: can’t u see these cases all have something in common?
MoYeetO: or a “family resemblance” as the great philosopher Ludwig Yeetgenstein might say?
EmptyGlass: Let’s review the cases in question. Most recently: this hippy festival – the Woodstock Revival. Earlier this year: A nonsense speech epidemic. A crazy synchronized dream. An inter-neighborhood pillowfight. The mini “Butlerian Jihad.” And that city-wide camp-out last week. What is the family resemblance?
MoYeetO: u don’t see it? something something liberated vibes something something orchestrated disorder
MoYeetO: and all in NY
EmptyGlass: There are similar things happening all over the world. Pina writes about them in Psi-tings.
Mapmaker: The main thing I notice is that each one started with some kind of setup, and that whoever put the setup together doesn’t reveal themselves
Mapmaker: Like one of those trapdoor spiders setting up snares while hiding in its burrow
MoYeetO: lol nice one
Mapmaker: The Woodstock Revival: Who set up the stage and invited the bands? The Pillowfight: Who laid out all those pillows in parks with signs saying “Free Pillowfight: Take One”? The Synchronized Dream: Who was generating the carnival setting? It would have taken a large group of skilled oneironauts all dreaming the same dream to get a carnival like that to be so stable across sleeping people. The city-wide camp-out: Who put up the flyers and who put the tents in the streets?
MoYeetO: and who has the cash to get that many tents?
Mapmaker: Actually, I looked into that. The day just before the camp-out, swarms of people barged into sporting goods stores all over NYC and stole them. There was an article in the New York Post about it.
EmptyGlass: Were they from any particular memetic tribe?
Mapmaker: Well that’s why I’m so interested in all this. I saw videos of two separate shoplifting swarms on Tiktok, and yeah, the people in both were similar. But a weird mix: Neopagans with flower crowns and eyeshadow and robes and stuff like that. And also punks with spiked hair and whatnot, and I also saw some hippies, skaters, and ravers. They’re from some kind of new tribe that cross-cuts the other tribes.
EmptyGlass: Interesting.
Mapmaker: Very very interesting
MoYeetO: bet Maps has a hard-on right now. who uses italics on discord?
EmptyGlass: Did the police catch anyone?
Mapmaker: I’m not sure. I haven’t read anything about it. But I saw some weird footage on X of a cop chasing one of the shoplifters down.
MoYeetO: don’t call it x, Maps, it’s still twitter to us
Mapmaker: In the TikTok I watched, the shoplifter turned around and did some kind of voodoo that made the cop fall asleep right on the sidewalk
MoYeetO: wut
MoYeetO: ok spooky
MoYeetO: btw guys u been seeing things about this upcoming Bacchanal?
EmptyGlass: Of course. There are posters and graffiti about it everywhere.
MoYeetO: has The Instigator written all over it
Mapmaker: What’s the Bacchanal?
MoYeetO: fr maps?
Mapmaker: I don’t get out much
MoYeetO: they’re like in every subway station
Mapmaker: It’s too crazy for me out there. I just keep inside of my egg, like a bird who doesn’t wanna be born.
MoYeetO: lol wut
EmptyGlass: ❤️
MoYeetO: lol Maps where do u whip out all ur similes from?
Mapmaker: My mom says it’s a habit I picked up from my gran
MoYeetO: cute
MoYeetO: ok but fr fr u don’t go outside? How do u pick up on all these connections for your maps then?
Mapmaker: Mostly just internet research. But I still pick up stuff from the street by just sitting here in my parents’ apartment.
Mapmaker: I covered my walls in foil, but it doesn’t do a good enough job so I’m trying to save up allowance money for that new EMF shielding paint.
Mapmaker: It’s been hard to sleep with all the mental noise that still gets in but I guess it’s been useful for making connections, because I pick up on things and tell you guys about them.
Mapmaker: bbl, I’m going to play some guitar to see if I can find a connection between these potential Instigator events.
MoYeetO: uh ?
Mapmaker: Guitar helps for some reason
MoYeetO: oh cool cool
EmptyGlass: Good luck, Mapmaker.
MoYeetO: god bless u Maps
● Post-Opening Era, many years later, the Dreamworld
—Mapmaker… The Mapmaker? Is that the same Mapmaker who—?
—The same one.
—He’s very important to all of this, isn’t he?
—Well, I doubt we’d be here without him. If it wasn’t for Deshawn, your former self might have murdered us all. No offense.
—Tell me more about him.
—You got it, cariña:
Psi Tale companion piece – learn more about the Instigator’s activities:
duuude this is sick the premise is so freaking fun and i love your use of the limited information, discord-chat style. mystery is ripe & reading experience is genuinely unlike any ive had before ❤️🔥