A Mild Case of Existential Dread

Field Report 802 //

Junior Archivist Xylos was meant to watch the world, never to bleed into it.

His mandate was simple: maintain professional distance, document the Post-Secondary Social Construct, and file reports on the slow grinding collapse of a species that prefers arguing over flourishing.

Suddenly, his ship fails him, gravity claims its due, and he's drafted into the very world he was ordered to study.

Stranded on a fog-shrouded mountain in British Columbia, his professional distance vanishes. Subjects become classmates, patterns in discourse become conversations with friends, and social norms become Tuesday afternoons.

Equipped with The Qualia-Graph, a device capable of stripping away the surface brine of human habit to reveal the truth hidden below our behaviours, Xylos points it at everything: the algorithmic loneliness of an infinite scroll, the fossilized ego of the political stage, the aged remains of a dream someone forgot to pursue.

But as the blade of his research hits bedrock, he discovers something the Department of Cosmic Sociology never warned him about.

He finds something old. Something deliberate. Something strange.

And he learns that the deeper you dig into the human soul, the harder it is to remain just an observer.

These are his field reports on the matter. 

A collection of notes on what happens when an alien stops watching the world and starts belonging to it.

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