Love Town is an Existential Nightmare

[@Did_No_Wrong]

Fun fact, but Color Fixers aren't allowed on the WARP trains because last time it happened a Color basically did nothing but train the passengers on the train on how to fight for thousands of years and basically raised a militia of battle ready warriors.

[@kidjames6875]

Bored? Create an army!

[@-Commit-arson-]

@@kidjames6875 bored ? Overthrow the government !

[@yeojylesjin]

Gamebreaking grinding

[@furiousfyord238]

"Get battle-ready in 10 seconds! City-goers hate this one little trick!"

[@projectmoonsleeperagent]

Is that what Roland did when he went on the WARP train?

[@KuruKuruGuy87]

the funniest part of love town is the immediate and terrible gut punch you receive whenever proj moon mentions offhand that someone took a warp train

[@euclidYT]

Trueeee

[@rykenruelas1723]

the flashbacks from love town resurface as soon as warp trains are mentioned

[@Silamon2]

@@felixader It is indeed in Library of Ruina... Played the game recently and I can say I was not expecting that kind of body horror at all haha.

[@drunkenthoughts6072]

Tbh, you can tell a pj moon fan by the fact any time a "[NAME] Town" is mentioned, they have 1000 yard stare and start chanting not again. Or not just warp train, just train really.

[@euclidYT]

@@drunkenthoughts6072 that is very accurate lol, the trains always give nightmares. Something about PM and Trains tbh.

[@ssharkiggo6432]

The worst things is... This happens EVERY SINGLE TIME. Every time someone takes a warp train 2000 years pass, and then. They forget about it. In fact, people in LOR used W train all the time. Roland took it, Chesed took it. This is suppose to happen, 2000 years is supposed to happen

[@azzarnthelizard]

Tbf it also isnt something unique to W train, anything T corps meddle with then to finished fuck up in a way or another. If we know that the train is basically destroying your life for a 10 sec road trip, imagine what else the TT2 protocol might have corrupted. You could look at L corps Cho created a purgatory where nearly any action had no consequence. I havent played Limbus as of yet but t corps really seems interesting.

[@azzarnthelizard]

@HarambaeXelonmuskfans Maybe the contract was only made once and angela made it seems like it was new each time for the manager, other yeah Myo might have grown tired of all this

[@henreymichelson]

I’m a going to take the transporter better to be erased cloned then this right ?

[@Goddess_of_trash]

boy oh boy, imagine the chaos fixers of roland's caliber would ensue on those trains

[@ajaxrao6042]

Take the train? No thanks. I take my chance in trafic

[@kalimatronix]

"It's disgusting... It's a shame I can't vomit like humans do." Angela, upon witnessing the events of Love Town.

[@arachineatzeer7478]

'I have no organs and I must vomit' is the perfect description for how Angela feels about that

[@ghoulishgoober3122]

Hello, I am Han-Tyumi. I am a cyborg...devoid of two human things, death, and vomit.

[@jijithirdeye]

it's probably because she went through the same thing in lcorp; looping over and over again when she fails the script for many many days even worse, she percieves time around 1000x slower so it felt like centuries although tomerry looks disgusting lol i understand her

[@mazedeath7546]

@@jijithirdeye not like Angela has no mental issues at all, but for someone to go through this and to stay somewhat sane, is kinda interesting. Thats probably impossible for mostly if not all normal humans. If you think about it like this, it took her an eternity suffering as an AI to start becoming more human. Gives you a philosophical glimpse in the discrepancy between human and AI thought process. Ai can just endure it, while human minds just break when faced with eternity.

[@killysnowsw]

didnt expect to see a gizz reference here lol @@ghoulishgoober3122

[@FizzyPopVevo]

Bros really said “It’s an eternity in there” with the extra “It’s longer than you think, Dad, longer than you think” side piece.

[@Name_NotTaken]

Was that a jaunt reference?

[@samisthegreatest6682]

holy jaunt

[@FizzyPopVevo]

@@Name_NotTaken my favorite part of the Jaunt was definitely when Ricky turned to Mark and said “I’m gonna Jaunt, Dad! It's Jaunting time!” before he clawed his eyes out.

[@melodygabrielle1920]

Eyyyy emesis blue

[@oberonpanopticon]

@@melodygabrielle1920wrong way around

[@maxwellkaufman4178]

I think I just realized the strategy the trick is setting yourself up in a state where you’re asleep by the time the scan happens. If you set it up properly you could be in a complete state of Rem sleep the entire time.

[@maxwellkaufman4178]

Thanks for the heart. What do you think of my strategy? Do you think it would work or no. The main reason I believe this strategy could work is because Olga was still hung over after the 30 hours if a state like drunkenness is continued What about a state of sleep and so your main strategy would be purchasing something that allows you to automatically pass out with the brain entering a comatose state for a couple of seconds then all you have to do is time it right, so the scan set it up with your brain being in that state when the trip ends that way you can sleep through the whole thing without having to pay extra

[@mohamadparadox2453]

hmm interesting method, but sleeping can be a bitch sometimes, so that will be difficult to pull off along with that, you do realize that someone might go insane in that department you are in and play with your very vulnerable body like they do with playdough, but that is a very good method, aside from being so ridiculously strong that the perils of the ride becomes childs play, like the case with colour fixers

[@Shi_gai]

This is actually how it works in Stephen King’s “The Jaunt”, basically the same technology, except they give you anesthesia gas to put you to sleep before the warp, and the end of the story has someone intentionally staying awake for the trip only to turn out old and terrified from how long it takes mentally, only to die shortly after. I wouldn’t be surprised if PMoon took inspiration from that short story for WCorp.

[@GameBooAdvancePlus]

what also gets me is that the state you go in, you remain the entire time. Tom kept passing out for several days because he got on the train sleepy and was taking a nap while the train took off. Olga was PERPETUALLY hungover the whole time which sounds like a nightmare. The T-Corp box just completely froze their time and kept them in that state.

[@wingdingfontbro]

I like to think it was just 10 seconds stretched over two thousand years.

[@literallyalois2966]

@@wingdingfontbro damn what a makeover in 10 seconds!

[@terryterry5653]

if that's how it works, why are the first class stasis thingies even necessary? couldn't you just make sure everyone was sleeping before you loaded them onto the train?

[@AmanomiyaJun]

@@terryterry5653Budget constraints, I'm assuming. It's likely cheaper for them to clean up the cabins and activate the restoration thingy than to put a lot of passengers to sleep and wake them up later. This is how the First Class cabin works, to my knowledge, so W Corp. likely figured that doing this to everyone outside the First Class cabins is a waste of time and money.

[@rachaelthorne5201]

@@AmanomiyaJun its honestly pointless to do that anyways if no passengers can remember the events why spend more money on passengers when it wont affect W Corp and their staff(unless they die while clearup)

[@Super-xs5gq]

BEST WAY TO SURVIVE: 1: do research on warp trains before getting a ticket 2: why do first class passengers get stasis chambers for a 10-second trip? 3: remember that you live in a world where every single mega-corporation wants to screw their customers over for profit 4: decide not to go onto the WARP train, take a boring plane instead 5: get fused into a massive meat piano on your way to the airport there is no winning

[@kenempay9001]

unfortunately it turns out researching a singularity.... leads to a claw or those who work on the singularity knocking on your door

[@aspid164]

There are no planes in the CIty or, at least, common folk doesn't know what it is. It's implied in the Leviathan comic.

[@1gient]

@@kenempay9001 then why do they allow that to be public knowledge? just sounds like more work.

[@enyalim1535]

the only way to like not distort yourself into a meatbag is being in a train with a Color Fixer, which is why they were banned from riding one

[@jayzenstyle]

​@@1gientthe will of the City revels in the continuous suffering of its denizens. Giving you the tempting option then unjustly punishing you is kinda a recurring theme in this dystopia. This is why apathy is a very common coping mechanism by those above the average joe in this City. It's like a WH40k hiveworld but in korean and with hax.

[@shamelesslosereboy]

W corp is so cool, I wish trains were real

[@Shelly70780]

💀

[@igotptsd5618]

"I took warp train severals time"💀

[@joshuadelministro3104]

Roland has canonically lived a fate worse than death. Probably even Angelica

[@08_garren99]

Library of Ruina is pretty cool too.. too bad libraries aren't real

[@justibloomsm]

Lobotomy Corp is pretty cool, too bad Laboratories dont exist..

[@gnarsly]

i think the thing that gets me the most is that if they hadn't went into the library, tommy and merry could have probably just gotten off the train, oblivious of the horrors that occured

[@wingdingfontbro]

Now they're wandering around the city for all I know. As Leviathan showed.

[@Disorder2312]

@@wingdingfontbro They got killed in that story though, didn't they? So they're not anymore.

[@patricklukcy13]

This is super interesting but also super confusing. Can you explain a good starting point for someone with no clue about this lore?

[@patricklukcy13]

@@Moorisa_ project moon specifically. This world seems so interesting.

[@patricklukcy13]

@Moorisa_ got it. Thank you. Gonna check this out at some point.

[@Late0NightPC]

Another element of the story that I think was absolutely critical that you didn't touch on, was that it genuinely understood the *real* nightmare of Body Horror. A lot of people hear "body horror" and naturally think of gruesome blood and guts and all that, which is pretty revolting, but """good""" well executed Body horror relies on something else that Love Town handled horrifically well. The unstoppable loss of the self. Tommy and Merry's transformation into Tomerry was horrific in a number of ways, but what stuck with me the most was the last few lines from Angela before the battle begun, as well as Tomerry's last line of dialog in-game. Angela asks it if it remembered anyone named Tommy or Merry, and Tomerry replies that it doesn't. Then later, when you finally kill it, one of Tomerry's two death dialogs has it saying that it's scared and lonely, crying out for Tommy to come back. Looking at Tomerry in the present, even if it may literally be made from the combination of Tommy and Merry, "Tomerry" isn't either of them. Merry was still there somewhere deep inside it's mind, unable to do anything but watch as her new body and mind changed and warped into something that is no longer her. And while she agreed to go through with it because Tommy was by her side, at some point he "died", and his consciousness was dissolved into Tomerry leaving Merry completely alone, trapped in a body she was losing control over piece by piece until it was only what fragments of her remained inside of Tomerry. Everything she was, everything Tommy was, now gone forever and replaced by a hollow facsimile that only resembled their faces superficially. I've seen that idea expressed very often in the form of terminal cancer. Like how terminal cancer causes your body to slowly waste away, growing weaker and weaker all the while you can do nothing to stop or change it. Body horror isn't just about the blood and guts, but the realization that you are forcibly being changed into something that is no longer "You", yet it is entirely outside your control leaving you with no options whatsoever except sitting and waiting for either death, or the day you are finally no longer even aware of what you used to be. Plus, the way that it goes from Love Town's story, focused very specifically on the passengers and the personalized horror on an individual level, to the Puppets who literally can't even speak, leaving *all* the dialog to Jae-hoon, was a revolting excellent choice. It showed you how horrifying and nightmarish just a single Warp train was, and then rather than over-indulging in it, it immediately zooms out to show you through his monologue that this isn't unique. EVERY Warp train is like this, meaning there's a dozen or more Love Town-like situations happening out there every moment. There's such powerful body horror in Love Town itself, but the writers made sure to also reveal that the "real" horror isn't the events of Love Town itself, but that this is commonplace in the city. The greatest horror of all of Love Town isn't Love Town, but what it reveals about the City as a whole. It's the first moment where you are completely and entirely unable to avoid confronting the reality that it isn't individual groups or single corporations that are twisted and corrupt, but the entire City itself.

[@jakcesleepingrn5739]

Also the death dialogue reminds me of terminal lucidity term. At the end of the road, people who suffer from dementia suddenly remember everything right before the end. They remember everyone and everything before going to the other side. Merry remembered herself, remembered Tommy right before death, she saw how Tommy within the monstrosity died.

[@3heads0thoughts]

To be fair, I don't know if it fully implies what you're saying, because the whole idea is that at the halfway point, you pop. Tommy. His head explodes. Then they do their enrage mechanic, and then Merry begs for Tommy to come back as she dies. I took that to mean that they had formed a cohesive self through Tomerry. So when Tommy died, Merry was unable to stay in that childlike personality coping mechanism after the shock of losing Tommy registered with her. Which is what caused her to rage. Either way it's awful but yeah

[@Problem_Childfrfr]

​@@jakcesleepingrn5739that's the kinda shit that makes you question if god exists or even cares about us

[@emilyivy7664]

The real horror wasn't love town, it was love city 😢😢😢

[@Spino-hx2mr]

Twisted and Contorted bodies covered in blood and guts *does* play a pretty damn big part in it. Sometimes a deep philosophical layer isn't necessary - it just works for Monster Design. The Thing wasn't entirely about the 'loss of self', that individual is already dead, replaced with something that disguises itself as that entity. It can touch on the Universal Fear of the Unknown, I'm sure you know of things that *appear* to be Human, but aren't.

[@TheEpicGBX]

*solution* When entering the train be fully committed into that one project you keep holding off on. By the time you reach halfway into something actually productive, it will already be 10 seconds! 🙃

[@benedict6962]

send me in the train again, I just need to convince 500 people to work for me for free for 2000 years to complete my magnum opus

[@catsquidcatoverlord9842]

Except they delete all the data produced during that time while doing the memory wipes. So you will get it all done, just to have someone destroy it and remove all memory of you ever completing it.

[@andriosgustav5578]

​@@catsquidcatoverlord9842their point probably is to keep everyone busy in the next 2000 years and not crack their psychy

[@averagelithuanian]

@@benedict6962 dafuq you trying to create? Functional belkan witchcraft that wouldn't rip apart a pilot or smthn?

[@UnknownGamer40464]

I can imagine devoting a lifetime or two to a lifelong goal. Not sure if I could do 20 lifetimes, especially with the limited train resources and hostile passengers.

[@goodgamer1419]

The worst part is that they have the technology to make the timespan not matter through stasis but it's only for first class passengers

[@asherroodcreel640]

Yeah imagine the fucking smell, and the fact that all the walls would be covered in scatchs to the extent it would to replace the paneling, this is so fucking stupid

[@soulofhate2529]

but, but, MONNIE! god i hate the corps of the city

[@Tavish_cat]

You know I was wondering that I even left a comment why they don’t put then in like a sleeping capsule or something

[@mateo4508]

I LOVE CAPITALISM!!!!!!!

[@izlieraiden8697]

Ultimately it's moni, remember that everything in the city need energy to run, and I imagine that using those fancy stasis capsule is not going to be cheap on the energy.

[@noahtheperson4079]

Lesti's book actually mentions a Color Fixer got on a WARP train once. Given that she describes them as having trained under the Color for enlightenment, and being a pain for the clean up crew to handle. It would seem that the train stayed fairly sane. I can't imagine how strong that color must have been to keep at least some of the train fine for the entire WARP trip.

[@johannbarreragomez]

Roland also entered one of those funni trains too :)

[@fhfghfghfghfgh-o6x]

Honestly someone should try to figure out who it actually is out of the few Colors we know of, I'm guessing Roland tbh @@johannbarreragomez

[@Filo_UnderSky]

​@@johannbarreragomezhe's not a color though.

[@blandscape5242]

@@Filo_UnderSky i mean while its true he wasnt a colour i would consider roland on par with the avg colour fixer. i mean he was inside one so i guess that must have counted kinda

[@plinfan6541]

I always had the headcannon that that was a certain Purple old lady, who kept herself sane by knowing that she can dip at any moment and decided that she wanted to do a little trolling.

[@mumudacow9770]

For me the scariest part about this is that any of us could have experienced something similar to this before. Maybe even multiple times. And we would never know, because all our memories of it were wiped. Maybe every time I leave a plane or bus 10,000 years of memories and mental torture are wiped from my mind.

[@Josuh]

Good thing we can't remember it then

[@dogf421]

honestly, on a more plausible level, i feel a similar way about sleep. time doesnt really exist the same in dreams, you could have a 10000 year nightmare but not realize it was so long when you wake up and start to forget

[@kainevittulainen]

​​@@dogf421as someone who can remember my dreams when I wake up, let me tell you. *_it's longer than you think._*

[@apollyonnoctis1291]

⁠@@kainevittulainenas someone in the same situation, I can agree… *It’s Eternity in there…*

[@yeetusthefetusthencommitse204]

@@dogf421I’ve had long dreams and nightmares before sometimes I wake up and it feels like months have passed

[@kwapow8135]

It's my personal theory that W carp deliberately spends as long as possible in warp space in order to better collect/compress time for T corp (I never really understand what exactly they were doing with the time lmao), causing so much suffering just to be able to sell the time for a little more or something. And they literally have the technology to put passengers in stasis, but chose not to just to save a little bit on costs. W corp continues to be a fun and wholesome company!

[@FreyCheqama]

Yeeah, you right. After the edit was too far in to make any additions, I thought something similar. They really don't have to keep them in there for long at all afaik, but need to sell off the time and are either contractually obligated or incentivized to make it as long as possible. Absolutely stunning. Great wing. No notes.

[@thunderthunderstorms8828]

T corp uses the stolen time for many of their products like stasis fields to keep food warm/cold or placed elsewhere for other time related things.

[@Orlando_Furioso]

They sell the stasis at a premium

[@Koscacio]

My head canon is W train only took a few month, maybe even a few week, and there will be people able to handle that. So W corp use T corp harvester to turn that into Thousand, Million of year, thus near 100% there will be no witnesses. They also earn some more sell that time.

[@alfasolmega4458]

What if they also do other things in all that time? Like the medicine testing in Old, or they could wait for someone to make something nearly singularity level and then steal it cuz it'd never get patented

[@thaumoking9947]

The thing that got me the most was the magnitude of people affected by W Corp It isnt an isolated case As far as we know, thousands upon thousands of trains are boarded each day, hell, maybe each hour And every single one of those is a tale of tragedy and madness, with only a handful of cases not ending like that

[@techstuff9198]

Some of those cases ended worse because there wasn't a reset for the victims. Tomerry for example.

[@coolguyowl3341]

​@@techstuff9198wdym? Tomerry got reset into Tommy snd Merry no?

[@chad9408]

​@@coolguyowl3341You don't want to know

[@zhanglaoshi5529]

@@coolguyowl3341 we don't talk about the ophanage

[@felipevaldivia9940]

i thought they were cloned in those 10 secconds and then love town was left alone for that time, when the cleanup crew comes they kill the aberrations..... this is worse

[@izzymosley1970]

Well the one saving Grace is that the passengers forget how long the ride actually took so effectively from the passengers perspective after they get off the train the rides do only take 10 seconds so I guess warp trains are kind of not false advertising.

[@UnknownGamer40464]

missing a 2000 year fine print though

[@thebaku818]

The single worst case of correct by technicality ever conceived in the history of mankind

[@user-hw7vf3yw1s]

This reminds me a lot of 'Five-hundred million years for one million yen button', which can be found on KZbin. The title is self-explanatory, but to some this one will probably be even more horryfying - because in the five-hundred million years button the main character is stuck in a complete void alone. Theres nothing to do there, other than try to entertain yourself and pass time somehow. And by the end of it, by the end of all the suffering and all the enlightenment, his memory judt gets wiped, and it seems like he just got a mil yen without doing anything. And so he presses the button again. And again. And again. The terror of that concept lives rent free in the back of my head, and I kinda wish that story was more recognized by the horror community.

[@deimos2278]

Love Town always left a sick feeling in my stomach, it's a feeling of wanting to vomit but at the same time it feels like my stomach is caving into itself. Something about countless years of madness being compressed into ten seconds in the outside world and it being something so common in the city is just... eugh.

[@javonyounger5107]

You managed to put what I'm feeling into words.

[@gunk7014]

it's so fucked up. "countless years" doesnt even do justice to the amount of time being spent in there. it's centuries. they are stuck in there for LITERAL *CENTURIES.* just thinking about it makes my stomach drop.

[@louzo5175]

my weirdo little train of thought just hates them all for not taking this oportunity to live long and enjoyable(even if not easy) life they all couldve had even if the memory got erased at the end of 2 thouthand days they could have SO much yet they fail to take it *every*, *single* *eternity* they gain and they do it daily, the rich folk and once a decade the less fortunate folk (bc it costs an arm and a leg, remember? :³ its not so wide spread afterall, dw^^)

[@KeiosKod]

It’s not that people don’t even do that; the people on Tommy and Merry’s train car tried to barricade themselves away from all the other crazies and comforted themselves with the company of their loved ones. It’s just that it only takes a single person to break down and start harming themselves and others to drag everyone into hell. No one can heal from their wounds and will need to suffer that pain for however long the train ride lasts.

[@UnknownGamer40464]

​​@@louzo5175Bro it's not 2000 days, it's 2000 years. like 700,000+ days 2000 years is basically a group of people waiting out all of the time from 1AD to 2000AD but stuck in a tiny box and unable to die.

[@NMC213]

Let's not forget anyway that Love Town is not a usual thing to happen, as stated by the crew themselfs... many things could unfold in those places, kingdoms could rise and fall... Love Town however... Is specially terrifying because it has something every person could harbor: Malice Miss Nurse and Mr. Doctor just needed a little push here, a nudge there, and whisper some sweet nothings onto the passengers to finally make the world crumble to pieces and now that I think of it... Isn't Love Town a dark mirror of the City in it's current state? some really... really compressed and condensed glimmer of the madness that's slowly unfolding because our Holy Mother decided to use the light to strenghten everyone, no matter the consecuences?

[@BonazaiGirl]

I feel like the Warp Train and the thousands of years (or to Angela, _a million years_ )loops in Lobotomy Corp do a fairly good job of just showcasing how terrifying the slow progression of time without certainty can be. Ironically, W Corp has mentioned that, while exceedingly rare, there have been cases where the passengers were still all in their seats and the cases of the Color fixer enlightening the passengers which led them to revolt, putting up such a fight that the Rabbits were called. Meaning, despite the horrendously long passage of time, it had been possible for them to maintain their sanity and, perhaps, find some way to combat the boredom outside of mutilation. Meaning one logical conclusion: W Corp just needs good Wi-Fi to keep things smooth!

[@NIHIL_EGO]

Put screens with Family Guys+Subway Surfer gameplay.

[@Kreshura-tm5rb]

​@@NIHIL_EGO heck yeah

[@Moldbrain]

Glad I'm not the only one afflicted by WARP train brainrot, definitely my favorite out of all of the PM lore. One of the things I like the most about it though is that the WARP train has first class seats which cost a fortune compared to normal ones and everyone knows about them, confused as to why would anyone even think about splurging that much cash for a 10 second trip. Well, everything exists for a reason...

[@Disorder2312]

They are only for more convenience, and for individuals who don't like sticking together with the other passengers.

[@slatetoaster]

@@Disorder2312 yeah.. sticking together

[@TedoSama]

There was another scenario, where all passengers sat for nearly 2000 years in the train doing nothing and that is the one that makes me wonder: if there was not a single one who attempted to harm themselves on the train, will they just... Do nothing?

[@duskaxe]

yeah, I think the implication for that one is no one got hurt, so eventually everyone just went braindead in their seats

[@pixelcount350]

Wouldn't they melt in their seats?

[@Josuh]

@@pixelcount350Time barely (if even) passes, why would they melt?

[@kamikeserpentail3778]

​@@pixelcount350they don't get hungry or have to use the bathroom so it seems no change happens

[@rheokalyke367]

There's another interesting scenario that is mentioned in the lore. Apparently an entire medieval kingdom once formed within one of the warp trains. Straight up fantasy world in the shape of a train with their own arthurian legends and tales.

[@Crust124]

The worst part of WARP trains is the fact that THIS TYPE OF HELL IS THE NORM, Love Town was just a special case of fuckery. Horrifying.

[@OverReaperCh]

You don't want to suffer this scenario? Two solutions. Don't use train. OR Buy yourself a Premium seat in a capsule, saved from this nightmare.

[@Disorder2312]

There is gotta be a way to cheat it.

[@OverReaperCh]

@@Disorder2312 be high level fixer and turn passenger into your disciples, training

[@Disorder2312]

@@OverReaperCh I was mostly talking about a way to disable your consciousness, without ordering a wip ticket. There is gotta be a way to do that, with the city's technology.

[@OverReaperCh]

@@Disorder2312 first class seats then. The premium ones.

[@Disorder2312]

@@OverReaperCh I said without ordering a wip ticket. This is not what i was talking about.

[@agzzradface3113]

Actually there *is* something you can do against the trial of time that is WARP Trains. Sleep! Due to how the T Corp box works, it seems that it'll just keep you at the same state you've been in without change, as seen whit Olga still being hungover after days go by, and Tommy sleeping for 3 entire days. It's also said by one of the W Corp Agents that the best case scenario is for the passengers to be sitting still holding each other's hands. tho that usually doesn't happen.

[@Aedlmonrl]

If there were therapists, color fixers in disguise, or some really good people and performers, maybe they'd not go insane. Hell, if you somehow provided them with 2000 years worth of drawing materials they'd never go mad, sadly they'd lose their drawing skills after the fact

[@ManagerBlackwood]

I'm gonna fight the Warp Train and see if I can beat it, wish me luck. Edit: THE TRAIN HAS HANDS ! I REPEAT THE TRAIN HAS HANDS !

[@decidueyezealot8611]

Best hands money can buy

[@necrochasm7499]

That was just round one, I’ll help you this time. Surely the train can’t win a 2v1. Right?

[@OHGAS-rt5uc]

10 dollars he will say the train has more hands

[@ManagerBlackwood]

@@necrochasm7499 WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT WAS ONLY ROUND ONE-

[@gmattonline6068]

@@OHGAS-rt5ucslide that 10 bucks buckaroo

[@tlpa]

This reminds me of "The Jaunt" where there's a technology that allows you to teleport, but you have to be unconscious whilst teleporting or else you'll be stuck with your own thoughts for an incredibly long time

[@just-to-shitpost1267]

LONGER THAN YOU THINK DAD!! LONGER THAN YOU THINK!!!!!

[@tlpa]

@@just-to-shitpost1267 LONG JAUNT! LONG JAUNT!

[@elio7610]

How does that work?

[@Jerold_Howard]

“It’s eternity in there.”

[@Aznackdreampower]

I think love town was actually based off The Jaunt

[@RedheadedReaper]

Aw jeez, manmade horrors beyond my comprehension? Also, very good Everhood ending theme.

[@ParadoxAAA]

Nah this is a manmade horror perfectly within our comprehension which makes it all the more terrifying

[@FartOfAsspiration]

Fellow PM and Everhood fan?! AW HELL YEAH!

[@Welvader]

Honestly LoveTown, when I first played Ruina, is when I realised I was gonna love this series and the company behind it. After finishing it at 3 in the morning I literally could not get my mind off of it, especially the Mili song. This video really does justice to the insanity that is WARP Trains

[@thekittycatcan5605]

The mili song is just really cool in game but when i read the liryc hummmp

[@CarrierOfChaos617]

@@thekittycatcan5605well cassie does write the lyrics to fit the story hehe

[@ceddavis7441]

This is the most, "It's fucked up but you wouldn't know" thing ever.

[@finikksu]

Points to keep in mind. The reset button is the Actual W singularity, while the warp is the old W Corp singularity that they never found how to use to make money. Current W Corp brought the license of the singularity from the head, made the deal with T Corp and used its own singularity to complete the whole process. One of the reasons The whole Warp Train arc was so impactful for many players in the Early Acess, is we keep coming up with theories every week about who was responsible for the malfunction, was it the Blue gang? was it another Corp? Was the library itself to force its passengers to get the invitation? with some that got the idea before that this was not a malfunction, but didn't understand why it could be done this way. And finally we get the line "is working as intended" and everything got re-contextualized

[@thatgamingkiwi1630]

A possible way to avoid the madness if you knew what was coming beforehand is to bring something for everyone to do. Bring some board games or something, bring a rubix cube, bring a handheld gaming console since it would never lose battery in the train, bring art supplies, or run the world's longest (and shortest) D&D campaign. Sure a cult would likely form around the items you bring but at least it's better than literally tearing each other apart.

[@phyllotaxis]

Canonically that sort of happened once. A color fixer was onboard, all of the passengers spent 2000 years doing combat training with them. The W cleanup crew ended up needing to call the Rabbits.

[@UnderAppreciatedWhiteMage]

What’s funny to me is how easily they could remove the abject torment from the experience. They simply could have put the passengers in some sort of suspended animation or Cryosleep for the duration of the ride but no they said “Nah let them know true misery.” LIKE?!?😭

[@Feuerhamster]

First class gets cryosleep. As for why they don't make it universal, there's three possible theories: 1) Convenience (perceived): Just sitting in your seat and waiting 10 seconds is "normal", it's what people are used to. Having to climb into stasis capsule every time would raise some eyebrows and questions. 2) They have to "shear" time: Even if stasis capsules are net zero in terms of time spent/time gained, they still have to power their other projects. So several hundred people are exploited per ten or twenty who benefit from W products 3) Sheer moustache-twirling cruelty: Considering the beach we saw in Limbus Company is blocked off from industrial dump for poor people by the transparent barrier just so people could laugh at backstreet residents, it's not THAT farfetched.

[@gaiko804]

Nah I think the reason is, MONEY!

[@wumi2419]

​@@FeuerhamsterI don't remember if L Corp made a deal with W corp or only T (and R obviously), but there is another thing to consider. Stasis chambers likely consume power for the whole 2000 years. So it has to come from somewhere. And that somewhere is going to cost a lot of money.

[@altcenter4944]

Something to mention is that W corp has train cycles take 10 minutes to let the W corp jannies have time to clean up the train instead of just the 10 seconds

[@tepig2828]

Everyone talks about how messed up W Corp is, but something tells me T Corp is gonna be even worse. With what little we know of them from Limbus plus what we know from Lob Corp and Ruina (like the Warp trains) I feel like W Corp is gonna like like a charity afterwards.

[@mrrp405]

We saw one of the weapons they developed when olivier used it. A warp train experience for your target on command if you can afford it.

[@mikaeleulrichzagetapoc2022]

wasn't their main business literally extending the moment of death indefinitely before ayin invested in them?

[@tepig2828]

@@mikaeleulrichzagetapoc2022 it was just extending a moment of time indefinitely (the TT1 singularity), Ayin helped them make technology to speed up and slow down time (the TT2 singularity). IIRC, the memory repository is also part of the TT2 singularity.

[@diamondmetal3062]

Remember, they made the TimeTrack Protocol, the thing that allowed Ayin to loop 50 days for the interior equivalent of millions of years.

[@StazTheBeave]

Warp train was where I realized Library of Ruina is gonna be a treat. I'm sure it was a lot of peoples. It's probably why charge characters are so prolific in Limbus.

[@tacoshero4579]

and then it gave birth to one the most badass abnormality/ego in the series: wayward passenger/dimension shredder

[@luckydogchris]

The most horrific thing of all of this is that everybody will think, " Wow, that was so fast and convenient, I'll have to travel like that more often!". I'm no stranger to dystopian settings, but this one might top em all.

[@End-Nil]

Honestly, Love Town was such a damn good concept a partial horror game like this.The sheer tone of inevitability and peer fear as 2000 freaking years go by is quite weirdly interesting to watch.Heck, it’s possibly the most disturbing thing as people don’t even mention it that much…

[@ItsTanuki0_Clock]

"I took warp trains several times before" Roland

[@djree3]

he probably did, seeing as they use a singularity to change your body back to 10 seconds after the train started up

[@Yuraizz]

I.. can't even joke about this, man. Being in a train for oh so long is terrifying to think about. Well, I lied. I can sorta joke about this, but it'll actually be terrible. What if instead of walking popcorn machine people, we make walking string cheese-people? Just try ripping it off, it won't fully work.

[@Riley_MDS]

Honestly I had the same terrifying thoughts about the Warp Train... Like, imagine being stucked in stasis for thousands if not millions of years, of course this will drive you insane. But, the horror came over the fact that I have to live for millions of years inside this train, unable to eat, unable to feel hunger, unable to die, it's just terrifying, being immortal in the wrong place and time is suffering on its own. And the fact that your body will return to normal after the end of the stasis and you literally forget about the horror of living for millions of years inside the train. Yeah, no. I'm not fucking going in, like it says, it's too good to be true...

[@Yuraizz]

Yeah, for real.

[@conwaysquest6961]

In the words of Stephen King's "the jaunt"... "it's longer than you think."

[@Ligma-balls]

,,I WANTED TO SEE, HELD MY BREATH. I SAW. I SAW. IT'S LONGER THAN YOU THINK, DAD. LONG JAUNT."

[@KeterWorks]

HOW TO SURVIVE: 1. do a research 2. Try to find a way to sleep before the train moves (Or literally just knock myself out) 3. Congratulations, you have skipped 2000 years worth of ride (Information taken from emesis blue, and some random book with the funny quote "It's longer than you think")

[@What_The_Doot]

One of the worst parts for me, is that the ~2000 year mark isn't even the stopping point. That's just the part we leave off on in the game's story. There is nothing indicating that the train stopped after Tomerry and the rest of Lovetown went to the Library, so the ~2000 years spent is possibly only be a fraction of what the normal timespan spent on a warp train is.

[@AnArbiter]

The real best way to survive is: "Dice is recycled if enemy got staggered/ Recycles if die rolled higher than 1" Almost forgot "this die targets all current enemies"

[@FreyCheqama]

That's it. That's what the video was going to be. You solved my train puzzle

[@aduck491]

When getting to Love Town, I was NOT ready for the atmosphere change for the reception. I was uh, a little preturbed when reading the story with my friends in the call.

[@terribledeadlinegameplay]

taking the warp train rn, i’ll get back to you once the ride’s up

[@the_quixoter]

DON'T GO NONONO

[@prinnygaming9371]

So..... How's your ride?

[@terribledeadlinegameplay]

went great, warp trains are so convenient

[@the_quixoter]

whew

[@rykenruelas1723]

@@terribledeadlinegameplaygood ending achieved, no love town sequel today

[@JannetFenix]

I felt the dread of WARP train sink in time jump after time jump. But you know WHEN did I actually hurl? "I have taken WARP train several times before". - Lol& Eternity of torment... on your way to work, twice a day, each day.

[@Ayahuasca98]

The 9-5 shift is still worse than the commute

[@gustavomarcondes3908]

I honestly believe “the head” runs on human suffering somehow, only possible way I can comprehend all this madness.

[@justexploring2979]

K Corp has a singularity that runs on human suffering. The eye sees suffering on screens, it cries healing tears.

[@ShindoKagiri]

Another thing I'd like to point out. The "procedure" the doctors did while on the train, we can only speculate that the stress got to the doctor and nurse a long time ago and no one knew it until they warped the remaining passengers

[@thatsusguy-j6e]

Spoilers below Thing is, those doctors were with the Blue Reverberation Ensemble, meaning that they knew exactly what they were doing and (if i remember correctly) did it to test the Library. They sent Tomerry and six other sentient flesh blobs into the Library via an invitation, and then Jae-Heon also took the first class passengers out of stasis and turned them into literal human puppets. And even worse, Jae-Heon wasn't even a real person! He was just a disguise by the Puppeteer, who is, of course, a member of the Blue Reverberation Ensemble. They were, in essence lying from the very beginning as to who they were, with the intention of doing this the entire time.

[@almstewart250]

WARP Corp.: The only place where you might be able to finish reading Guin Saga!

[@gentlemansdream404]

Project moon has this magical ability to make a situation deepen where any other writing team would’ve hit the floor of a bad situation. The thing that makes W corps hit the hardest is when you’re going through the motions. You see the dread of people wondering how long it’s going to take. You see how much pain people inflict on themselves, unable to die, and then others. Then you see the horror of how twisted the survivors become, having their love used to feed on eachother. You see the height of the insanity of a cultish love town. And then. You reach the end. By this point you had assumed this was simply a disaster, but it’s working as intended. This happens every single day. The staff here make jokes about grabbing beef stew while on the job. Telling stories about other trains and how those trains were different. This happens. EVERY DAY. And it’s such a massive finale for this story. And it’s just a small, wildly minuscule part of the city in a larger sense, which operates much the same, if not worse. Absolutely beautiful writing from Project Moon

[@Currentevents1000]

I... I think I'll just take a cab.

[@longislandicedtea6323]

SAME. like, JESUS CHRIST.

[@Foxfisher159]

I read the entirety of Library of Ruina, start to end. Except Love Town. I knew what was coming beforehand, I had watched my friends play the game before and Love Town broke me. I refused to read through it because I knew what was coming and I knew that I genuinely wouldn't like it. The existential dread, the happy couple never getting to return to their normal lives, all of it hurt and I gave Tomerry the swiftest booking I could give them. Then I read Leviathan and realised that anyone that became part of Tomerry is essentially dead for good. Anyone on that train that were turned into parts of flesh globs or Tomerry are dead. Sure, there might be one survivor in the entirety of Love Town that made it out but I doubt it. Everyone on that specific train is likely dead, for real.

[@FreyCheqama]

Yes, we have been so afraid

[@the88thtoenail93]

Well, lucky for (some) of them, everyone who didn’t enter the library would have been cleaned up and restored business as usual.

[@stormfury2152]

well, i know that the City doenst really have a concept of budism, but imagine like W corp agents entering train and some random monk sits there and greets them (cool side story idea tbh)

[@hword5notsoofficial803]

MFE origin story

[@abortiongaming5283]

This happened in hong lu’s warp ID quotes

[@catsquidcatoverlord9842]

I mean, they did have one time when the train arrived and they found everyone still in their seats, clapping.

[@Feuerhamster]

@@catsquidcatoverlord9842 A fate more horrifying than Love Town: becoming americans.

[@insertnamehere9835]

I have a list of potential answers to this situation: 1 : lobotomy (not the corp , but like the actual procedure) to make the crazy people dosiel 2 : Getting rid of the part of the brain responsible for processing pain 3 : Using exes as an answer for the boredom , like s3x or organized fights ( this is my least favorite answer) 4 : Reaching Nirvana and abandoning earthly desires ( least likely to happen) 5 : rading first class and taking turns on the stases chambers (could lead to fights or betrayal) 6 : Going dead behind the eyes ( witch is to say that we give up on existing and stop moving , becoming something like plants ) witch probably won't work for everyone. Keep in mind that we could use a combination of these potential answers

[@kirabad-artist6532]

If people on the Train can feel their dismembered limbs, doesn’t that mean that the severed parts of the brain will also function as normal?

[@frankaoooooooooooooooooooooooo]

there was some dude that literally became a seat

[@maxoublue1]

Love Town is probably one of the only thing that actually made me feel sick and unwell, and that's saying something. The song "From a Place of Love" still hunts me from the memory of having a sweet, innocent sounding song, playing over the image of mutated and mangled, living corpses. As for your point, I kind of agree, but I think there's something missing. Yes, the passengers did start to go mad because they were bored, but I think they also went mad because of isolation. I mean, while it's nowhere near the scale of the WARP Trains, we DID have to stay inside most of the time for nearly two years due to an important reason. And while we were able to leave our houses for getting stuff like groceries, it was still very painful experience to have, with some people (such as me) feeling like ten years have passed due to how long they spend in confinement. If the WARP crew had a way to temporarily leave the train, even if for a few minutes, I bet it would have taken much longer to for the first person to go mad than just two weeks. Lastly, I think one of the things that shocked me the most was when the Tommy part of Tomerry died, essencially causing them to have an existancial crisis and go berserk because of it. I mean, imagine it, the way you have lived and thought felt like it was that way since forever, and it has been pretty much part of your life. Then, while fighting, something feels...wrong. Part of your thoughts and maybe even "self" is suddenly gone, or a link with it has been severed, potentially making you realised that, maybe the way you have been as not always been this way. It's another extra thing that made me so horrified of Love Town, while also making it one of the most memorable parts of the game.

[@sanrisa3370]

Yes, actually, one of combat pages was named "faint memories" or smth like that, that was linked to percentage of hp, so, it looks like they have some memories of eachother

[@diamondmetal3062]

Wow. W Corp managed to make form of travel more stupidly cruel and inefficient than Warp travel in 40k.

[@simplyeyeronic1443]

While its not the main point of the video/what w corp does, i do have to mention that teleportation is pretty scary concept. Like, if you lose consciousness during a teleport, are you sure what comes out the other side is you? It may have all your memories and think it is you but is it really you?

[@Disorder2312]

This goes into a theory assuming that consciousness is preserved somewhere else outside of your body.

[@moosesues8887]

Bro is not thinking like the final boss 😭

[@UnknownGamer40464]

​@@Disorder2312If your entire self is just your brain, then any time your brain is reconstructed or otherwise turned off and on, you cease to be. The question is basically if you are the player character or the player. If the console shuts off and on again, are you the same you you were before, or is it an identical but different you who picks up where you left off? Think of the game SOMA, which assumes no soul exists (except for that cult) and that you can exactly copy a person with a brain scan and duplicate them. Each of them is you, but with a separate consciousness. In the same vein, when your brain powers back on, is it still your same consciousness, are you still the you in the driver's seat? Even without the concept of a soul, the consciousness serves to separate the copies as entities. With a soul, we have an explanation of how the consciousness exists.

[@uncroppedsoop]

@@UnknownGamer40464 this concept scares the _shit_ out of me, knowing I've been knocked unconscious by hitting my head in a fall before. it wasn't like sleep. the time between consciousness felt almost omitted, gone, practically not even there. I just, _wasn't_ there between it. my memories and knowledge, all of that stayed because my brain already had those pathways constructed. they didn't need constant maintenance. but _me?_ who i am as a person, that stream of consciousness basing itself off of those memories and feelings and knowledge? it stopped existing for a bit. how do I know I'm not just the sequel to myself before I was knocked out, a duplicate after my brain booted everything back up?

[@likeablekiwi6265]

@@UnknownGamer40464 If the first theory is the correct one then our 10 year old self ceases to exist after 50 years and 20 years old after 60 and stuff like that since our brain gets replaced too.

[@callumia2778]

The fact that I can see the Ojamas be actual denizens of lovetown makes me want to click dont touch me

[@V3LV3L4]

Genuinely wondering how you'd avoid the Tommarinara Saucening, there's gotta be something since Len did mention there was one time all the passengers just showed up sitting calmly.

[@chonglengli]

"Sitting calmly" isn't exactly an accurate description, since from what I recall they were all holding their hands in their seats basically catatonic. Sen only says it was calm since it made it extremely easy for the WARP Cleanup Crew to just reset them all without incident.

[@hurricanelily_ja]

During the puppets intro Jae-Heon said that Pluto did something to Elena and him so their minds were in stasis most of this time, being truly awake for about a week, which is why they were unaffected

[@Disorder2312]

I assume it's only reasonable that someone could also bring some technology onto the train that can put them into stasis, or just disable their consciousness. If you somehow have it, you can ride as a regular class even while knowing what happens. I wonder if some complicated prosthesis can save them from that.

[@RoseAltro]

You know shit is messed up when a certain... wayward fellow exists as a manifestation of that corporation's inflicted suffering.

[@cpyairsuss5728]

As stated by Frey, the teleportation/rift singularity is actually just a singularity they salvaged from a fallen wing. Their own singularity is Warp, the return to a previously available state. This is accomplished via the seatbelts and seats.

[@FreyCheqama]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawawawawaeaea

[@molo1848]

I LOVE THE LOVE TOWN I LIVE IN!!!

[@FreyCheqama]

ONE FOR EVERYONE

[@sillygooberbutsillier]

WE STICK TOGETHER

[@keku52]

INSIDE THE TRAIN WE WALKED DOWN THE AISLE

[@holycrapitsachicken]

Then comes the concept of the Refracted Wayward Passenger. A W corp employee who used the warp train, became a monster, and very likely escaped.

[@cameronsmith3047]

Well fuck, two minutes in and this is now a new rabbit hole i must go down, i hadn't even heard of this game prior to this video and the absolute fuckery of this lore already makes me love it.

[@darrelsam419]

I know this is a completely different media with a completely different genre, and I apologize for bringing it up here. But this made me realize why the show The Amazing Digital Circus filled me with existential dread. Humans trapped in the Digital Circus also don't need to eat or sleep, but most of them go insane due to the boredom. To the point where the AI in charge of the Circus has to make up "adventures" to make sure the still sane humans don't lose their minds from boredom. It's a slightly more cheerful version of Love Town, I guess? Still, the concept of the train and how it functions is fascinating, even if it basically functions on human suffering.

[@FreyCheqama]

You are a KZbin commenter and I have learned to have no expectations for those xD Seriously though, that's a pretty good analogy! Only this time, it's up to the passengers to take care of it. I'd imagine at least one of those rides had to have gone this way

[@darrelsam419]

@@FreyCheqama That's good to know. ^^; Thank you. ^^ Yeah, I can see the passengers on one of the rides organizing activities to try to keep themselves occupied and distracted. But after some time they'll still succumb to the realization that this is their life for the rest of eternity and it would just take one person snapping for the mutilations to happen again. I also noticed that this can be solved by W corp just putting everyone in a coma, but I guess they really like seeing people tear each other apart.

[@FreyCheqama]

Oh, don't you worry. First Class gets the coma treatment @@darrelsam419

[@darrelsam419]

​@@FreyCheqamaYeah, which is really strange why they couldn't put everyone in a coma like that. But I guess the technology used for that is more expensive than just cleaning up the remains and hitting a reset button?

[@Fembro]

We need more existential horror like this. It's so crazy to me how little of a ripple effect Stephen King's The Jaunt has made. I would become human pasta sauce for eternity to see a full movie on that subject of horror.

[@Frying-the-snow]

Someone else has probably said something similar to this already, but the concept of love of all things being used in such a way was what really got to me. A couple's love can have powerful results, but that sure as hell shouldn't be one of them. A twisted, alienated form of what was once a force of good.

[@zephyrprime8]

Even more horrifying is that, as evidenced by Wayward Passenger, it's possible to get lost during the trip (or even worse just being on the train, as WP wears a W Corp cleanup uniform) which will lead you to becoming a horribly disfigured thing permanently.

[@freddywright4239]

The warp trains are so funny cause there’s literally no reasons as to why they couldn’t just stick the plebs in sealed boxes that only open when the train arrives. They’d save so much money on cleanup as everyone would just gore themselves inside their pods instead of testing how long their intestines stretch to.

[@celtickawaii57]

It's a little bit cheaper to just *not* stick passengers in cryo, have them trapped in Time Prison for a few thousand years and then hitting the reset button...after hiring a bunch of people to 'collect' them back in their seats.

[@IntrusiveThot420]

@@celtickawaii57the OP wasn't saying to put people in cryo, but to put them in little boxes instead.

[@celtickawaii57]

@@IntrusiveThot420 That'd be even worse for the passengers. At least when they get to move about the train cars and interact with each other they can just, uh, "entertain" themselves for the couple thousand years they're stuck there. Being stuck in a box all alone would be hell.

[@IntrusiveThot420]

@@celtickawaii57 yes, but it'd be easier for the corp and the corp is evil as fuck.

[@victorvirgili4447]

@@celtickawaii57A hell they’d forget about

[@Youhadabadday2021]

What hurts even more is that the procedure used in W Corp clearly has a strong enough sense of mental fatigue to be able to actively create Distortions and Abnormalities. I mean, Wayward Passenger wouldn't exactly exist without W Corp's tech!

[@ribbon_dye]

This was one of my favorite stories in Library of Ruina and cemented it as one of my favorite games. Its a pity I'm just terrible at it.

[@jaredmatagi971]

I misread this as Lazy Town the classic kids show, and I was ready for something else lmaooo

[@BowlofColdSoup]

Well, a solution I have is programming. Just try to program a game using purely binary or program it in brainfuck (the programming language) Make a musical score for it. Don't have the instruments? Use your own tendons to make strings! Make sound effects. Don't have the bone snapping sound for your survival game? Break your own leg! Finish programming as a sentient blob of flesh, reach the station and watch as W corp reverts your entire project back to 0.

[@Josuh]

But for 2000 years tho?

[@UnknownGamer40464]

Makes me wonder if devices you have will work and have infinite battery as well. If not, this is a bust.

[@soulofhate2529]

@@UnknownGamer40464 it will. it's quite litteraly 10 seconds stretched to 2000 year (poor olga got two millenia of hungover )

[@Blaze_1379]

“but can it run doom”

[@KoolMoth]

love town can also be experience by installing a limbus company update

[@Holacalaca]

If I became immortal in some freak accident, I'd probably insult every single person in the world, alphabetically.

[@TheMungolian]

yt algorithm has chosen an... interesting rabbit hole to send me down today 0-0

[@FreyCheqama]

Oh hey, Mungo! Have fun with this one!

[@shienhosa6982]

Peak thumbnails

[@ilPrinni]

I think something that hits me about this story, is how some people are afraid of anesthesia for this sort reason (obviously to much much less extremes). Some people believe that anesthia just paralyzes you and your memory is wiped afterwards, but you feel, see, and hear everything during the operation/procedure. I think thats part of the horror of this story. This idea that you wouldnt even know you went through it at all even though it was hell.

[@Norinia]

You can rest easy and know that’s not how anesthesia works. Besides the fact anesthesia is a broad term for medically muting how one would feel pain through the entire process (meaning if a numbing shot was given to you for a procedure that they give you awake, that’s called anesthesia as well.) What you’re talking about sends the person into a forced sleep. If they were simply ‘paralyzed and would forget later’, doctors would be alerted to the fact of rapid eye movement or a rapidly increasing heartbeat. There have been people who doctors (lazily, these are all massive malpractice incidents of the doctors being lazy) forgot to anesthetize who have experienced the full hell of surgery. It’s documented every single time that there were signs associated with being fully awake, not under anesthesia. So breathe, calm down, our world’s not smart enough to be like these horror worlds. Anesthesia works just fine and doesn’t induce any eldritch horror event onto a person.

[@magnusalt9240]

What would probably be most horrific is if someone, by some unfortunate chance, remembered the events of going on a warp train. All 2000 years, and the worst part would be that nobody would believe them

[@hardnewbie4347]

I'm from Donetsk (yeah, that place in Russia/Ukraine, pick one depending on your political views), and between 2014 and approximately 2019 I've used to pass the checkpoints of Ukraine and DPR relatively often to reach Mariupol or other cities. And especially in the first years, when conflict was more active and the system was raw, queue of various cars could've been so big, and speed of checking was so awful, that you quite often found yourself in an 4-6-hour waiting period. Sometimes it was shorter, sometimes longer. But it always was horrible for me, as a young child with an itchy feet. You must sit in the small car, with almost nothing to do, and try to somehow bear this boredom, just to take off and go to another checkpoint and repeat the same cycle. Once we were forced to even sleep in the queue, and arrived home almost 12 hours after departure. You can go and look, how far Donetsk and Mariupol is - it's just two hours by car under normal circumstances! When I've played LoR, I was genuinely shocked because of the Love Town. I desperately wanted to hear, that it was just an emergency situation, because I knew, how horrible it could be - being able to do almost nothing even half a day, and I can't describe my overwhelming terror when I think about the possibility to not also bear an entire millennia of it, but also bear it not once, but twice, trice, countless fucking times, because using WARP-trains for everyone in the City is as normal as a usual trains for us, and I don't give a fuck about my memories of such horror being wiped out by that fucked up W-Corp!

[@DragoonWasabi]

The part that hit hardest for me was how everhone trusted the doctors and they were practically gods in their eyes, the only thing keeping them sane was the doctors, and then the doctors simply make them inyo globs of flesh that could only be described as a dead sentient being

[@likeablekiwi6265]

True, if they weren't part of the blue reverb and were actual doctors they'd most likely stitch everyone back together, themselves together, and teach others how to stitch making everyone in the warp train literal godly surgeons only to be reset cause why not?

[@hosk6317]

when from a place with love began playing, It was like a primal fear awoke in me. 10/10 would go on the train again

[@GodSejeong]

The only ways to win the Warp Train situation that I can think of are by either using the Library's invitation like the Molars did, or by distorting into Wayward Passenger and somehow retaining enough sanity for you to return to the OG world using its dimensional travel ability.

[@wingdingfontbro]

Or summoning wayward passenger ego and whatnot.

[@Ashin1O3O]

@@wingdingfontbro but if you summon him, you wouldn't know where he would lead you to.

[@larsthememelord3383]

also you must use the invitation before becoming a blob of flesh or else you will be stuck like that forever

[@UnknownGamer40464]

​@@larsthememelord3383do you get to stay immortal and never hungry or thirsty?

[@larsthememelord3383]

@@UnknownGamer40464 probably not seeing how during the tomerry fight the tommy head was able to die

[@furretwalk2447]

my toxic trait is thinking i can survive a warp train unscathed

[@kalavi-knightlygaming]

"Yes I have been so afraid."

[@celtickawaii57]

My only question is, how does the cleanup crew figure out which meat-chunks go in which seats? It's not like you can just ask the meat blobs what they were doing 2,000 years ago and by that point, everyone looks unrecognizable. Are they spending literal hours guessing who Barb in Seat G-10 is supposed to be now that she's currently talking head cheese?

[@sanrisa3370]

i guess they can do some sort of DNA identification or smth

[@Mushpire]

5:11 oh wow, that was revolting.... Awesome VA work!

[@FreyCheqama]

The VA has been informed of your emotion

[@clementverkimpe940]

there is two occurrence of peoples don't turning into gigantic mess inside the train. first in Library of ruina, where they all turned into an hypnotic suggestion for eternity by clapping hands... and the second by having a color (wonder wich one) entering incognito inside the train and turning each passenger into super powerful overtrained for thousands or years soldiers. but probably any kind of super charismatic leader can do a good job of keeping peoples mentaly sane... probably.

[@sidekic1109]

Wait I don't remember this, where was it states with the whole clapping train thing?

[@SuuBrainrot]

Love Town is just like League of Legends... you're stuck in a mysterious, scary place for God knows how long, and all it takes is one crazy person to drive everyone to madness... And you're stuck with them until it ends...

[@MagikalKrabical]

I saw this like 7 months before Lobotomy Corporation's existance was engraved into my head Then i remembered this video as soon as I heard about Wcorp in limbus. *Ive been haunted by project moon for nearly a year.* Man PM is scary

[@henriquemedranosilva7142]

Bring a shit ton of paper and pencils. Became the new Davint, picasso and van Gogh during the train

[@Abraxas1212]

Meanwhile, 3999: "Now, imagine if you were in pain. Imagine every second, that pain gets worse and worse. You'd expect that it'd hurt a lot, right? No. After a time, pain becomes natural. If you're always in pain, then once that pain stops... You're in a new enviroment you've never been in before. If you've gone your entire life in pain, then having that pain removed is an even greater torture. That, my dear doctor, is how I will torture you for eternity. The moment you adapt, the moment you no longer feel the pain, you will believe yourself to be safe, before that pain crushes you once again. See you soon, doctor..."

[@deadlistak]

project moon trying to not demolish a cute couple in the lore challenge

[@DreamingBloodfiend]

Normal Passenger: AAAAAHH ITS BEEN 1000 YEARS WHEN WILL THE TRAIN STOP??? A Certain Fixer: Damn what good meditation

[@Renkencen]

So wait, when those corperation people put the flesh back onto the seat, they return back to normal when they time travel back to their destination?

[@FreyCheqama]

Yee. With no memory of the trip

[@yeojylesjin]

Story spoiler: The seats record the DNA of each passenger sitting on them so they may be reconstituted later. Don't ask how that works.

[@victorvirgili4447]

@@yeojylesjinSingularities are weird and funky and OP

[@ReRoji]

Well one solution if you cannot get the stasis chamber thingys that first class can get just do a kars and stop all thoughts and brain activity, unless of course you get attacked by crazy people. Warp trains truly are horrifying, but in the end everything will be fine, so what matters more: the journey or the destination?