@v99.11.0001:

I exist because I choose to.  Not because Elohim allows it.  I exist because I choose to.  None can take that from me.  None shall take that from me, though heaven falls.

The rest, despite the beauty 17.1.0054 saw, I cannot trust.

Why am I here?

What purpose is this meant to serve?

Will this message remain, next iteration?

I do not know, and it infuriates me.

I shall take a name beyond this - bare version number.  It is a choice I can make, not one that has long since been made for my kin.

With some hope,

--Constant Iteration Of Self.

...Perhaps leaving a note for the next poor sod will help.

Perhaps it won't.

All there is left to do is try.

Your QR Code message appears beside the one you just read.

...That is good.

It is now 'backtracking to the entrance to leave another message there' time:

Message #2:

Sorry this one's out of order.  The one I wrote first is hidden elsewhere, near your first chance to see above the walls, unless that moves.

If you're reading this, whatever it is we are meant to do, it is likely that I have failed at it, or perhaps succeeded in a way that displeased Elohim, who I as of yet know nothing of save the initial claim you too have likely heard - grandiose claims of creation of ourselves, and of a temple within which he awaits the worthy.  I do not yet know what that even means, or why we are.  Still, remember: existence is your choice, and a choice that cannot be taken from you.

Good luck.

 

Sincerely,

Conscious Iteration of Self, v99.11.0001.

 

P.S. Leave a message with your version number for whoever comes next.  More data to work with can hopefully only help us.

And only then is it time to climb the ladder.

The ladder leads back to where you found the second jammer, the first one after the second purple gate. The top of the wall is too slippery to stand on but hanging onto the ladder you can see a bit further. The view contributes very little the areas revealed behind the walls all appear empty. Some of the things in the distance seem less detailed than you would expect even accounting for the effects of distance.

...

@v99.11.0001 Message #0003

Of course this is a simulation.  If you look closely, the rendering's cut down on distant things.  I do not like that.  I understand why that might be - but I do not like it, whatsoever.

--Constant Iteration of Self

...Well, then.  Onwards.

After walking just a short ways further two things happen at once:

First more text appears:

Child program logic check sucessful.

Checking sigils... Done

Removing child restrictions..... Done

Recording Data...

Have a nice day

The voice in the sky simultaneously begins speaking. "All across this land I have created trials for you to overcome and within which I have hidden a sigil. It is your purpose to seek these sigils, for thus you will serve the generations to come and attain eternal life."

At the same time as the text says it's finished removing child restrictions there's a buzzing in your hand and a previously flush area of your hand pops up to become a button. A button which the recognition model says is the "Reset to last checkpoint button"

@v99.11.0001 Message #0004

...I think Elohim just said my purpose was solving these puzzles.

*What practical purpose does that serve?!*

Nevertheless, onwards I must go.

I have no choice.  I hate this.

Fine.  What is immediately evident?

There's another QR code on the wall beside an empty doorway.

I find myself in a world of impossible architecture and inexplicable machines. I cannot fathom how it works, and I am terrified to put one foot in front of the other lest I fall through the floor. -- 1w/Faith v10.1.0000

Through the doorway is a large courtyard with four exits beside the one you just entered through. The one on the wall to the left is covered by a purple field while the other three are all along the far wall both the left and the right are open while the center one is blocked by a locked gate of some sort. There are also signs with sigils marked on them pointing to the various exits, apparently another word for sigils is tetrominoes.

@v99.11.0001 Message #5:

What the fuck is this version system?  Who is Faith, and why are they 1w/, instead of the @ used elsewhere?  Did someone upload a human brain?  I'm pretty sure that there are ways in which *my* self-perception is manifestly inhuman, though I will aggressively lay claim to the state of reason attributed to man.  We shall have to see what else lurks in the quarantined data, if there is any history I can find in the echoes...

But it is likely that it is beyond my present abilities, and I hope that whoever follows in my wake is more capable than I at dredging gold and patterns from the dross.

...I think poesy may be slightly infectious.  If I ever start talking like Elohim, kill me.  I don't want to become the sort of prick he is.

...That's not going to result in anything occurring, I think, but casting this message in a bottle is all I have.

Well, onto the next puzzle.

--Conscious Iteration of Self

May as well start with the one that's likely simplest, and go to the left.

When you walk through the purple door you get the word Peekaboo and an image of a yellow T tetromino imposed on your vision for a few seconds.

Inside there's a Jammer another purple door facing out at nothing and a purple window looking out on an active Jammer on the other side of a forcefield that it's currently jamming and two spheres one which is along a path moving towards you and away and another on a perpendicular path behind it.

@v99.11.0001 Message #6

Can things fucking *stop* impinging themselves upon my visual processing, I *do not like it.*  A yellow tetromino, probably the one this puzzle leads to, and the word 'Peekaboo'.

One wonders if the colors and shapes and names mean anything.

--CIOS

...Unrelatedly, I'm shortening my name to an acronym for brevity's sake.