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[willyousee]

Forgive me, but I am unfamiliar with what liminal space has become this time. Can anyone tell me what it is? What the cultural significance of it is? Are there usually balls of mice which try to run you down? There must be some reason it is what it is this time.

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[brokers]

Simplistic mazes with minor hazards and other obstacles to overcome, and scent-based indications of reward. Solving the maze earns nothing but release back into this chaos, and the possibility of being sucked into another one if you are unfortunate.

[willyousee]

It seems rather cruel to suggest reward and offer none. What is such a study meant to accomplish?

[brokers]

Typically, there are rewards at the beginning of the study. Later tests remove the rewards, or grant them only intermittently. The object is usually to study the formation of behavior patterns - which sets of circumstances most reliably provide desirable results, which most reliably provoke risky behavior, and so on.

Occasionally, the object is to study the effect of certain substances on the cognitive abilities of the subject, though as far as I know, none of us have had any drugs administered before being caught in one of the balls.

[willyousee]

[....Well there are several nasty implications there he doesn't at all like.]

They do not need drugs to cause such an effect if they wish it. An earlier liminal space contained metals which caused an increase in different reactions: affection, fury, inventiveness, drowsiness, jealousy, courage, depression, reflective, and truthful. I do not doubt that they could do something similar in a different manner.

[brokers]

Our Infiltrator personas themselves could qualify, on a grander scale. The effects are more complex than enhancement or suppression of individual emotions, but premise is similar.