Occipital Metonymy

After closing the door and settling down for dinner, with great effort you sift through the contents of your bag to check for your belongings after a tumultuous journey. Your fingers encounter a strange, smooth object. What you pull out has no visible seams or identifying marks—except for the paper disks that fell out as you examined this unfamiliar item.

On each notched disk, two lines of text: a unique title in quotes and the word "THETISCOPE" printed in block letters, which repeats on all disks.

You found that each disk, when loaded into the device, somewhat "shifts" your perception, and it's hard to describe in words. Worse, witnesses of its use also couldn't find the words—their descriptions were as dissimilar to your internal experience as they were incomprehensible.

Now, when you think of the Thetiscope, anxiety grips you. However, every attempt to get rid of it meets equal resistance from some unfathomable depth of your consciousness. Instead, you can and do make records about the disks.

Mod Features

Occipital Metonymy was created during ModFest: ToyBox following the theme "Make one toy." This toy is the Thetiscope—an artifact of unknown origin resembling a Viewmaster. The behavior of your Thetiscope varies depending on which disk you load into it. Figuring out exactly what they do is a puzzle; try and experiment!

• "Image Projected in Image" shows me something I've already seen. I feel myself being moved.
• "Physicalize Body Without Organs" takes me to a place where I have no friends. But my friends refuse to be without me.
• "Draw, O Coward!" lets me play Minecraft the way god intended.
• "Never Odd or Even" inverts what is considered "normal."
• "Pseudologic Fantasia" offsets everything by one. Paradoxically, while some things are lost, others are gained.
• "The Betrayal" gives cause to reconsider the nature of "Image."