Travis Masonheimer asked Michael McCloskey:

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Michael McCloskey Crowdsourcing it is an interesting idea. I'm both skeptical and intrigued so I guess I need to mull it over for a while. I'm not quite ready to give up on it myself. The story arc need not be much more than "here is how everything was manipulated from the moment the AI went online to the end that you thought just occurred by happenstance". Like how Aldriena turned left at that certain corridor because it made the left a bit darker and warmer than the right because the AI knew her personality was such that she feels safer in the dark. In similar ways it guided all the events in the trilogy.

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