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The Dull Contrivance is a gate first discovered in the Void. It resembles a black hole, with a white center and swirls of violet and black surrounding it. Currently, there is prohibitive incoherence preventing the Interloper from accessing it, which requires repair by Funfriend.
The Dull
The Dull is considered by obesk as a plane outside of Velzie's creation.[1] It is the source of many foundational obesk technologies, such as interstellar space travel, tools and weapons, and communication. The Dull is named after Dullzkovik, who has done extensive studies on the Dull and its effects. He discovered that the Dull cannot support any known life, which may have sparked the corrucystic revolution and the development of mindcores.
When dull is inputted into the Memory Hole, it reveals a memory stream of Akizet traveling through the Dull for the third time. This memory reveals that the obesk have Dull stations to control and assist space travel. While traveling through the Dull, communications may be unavailable and that the Dull Heart and any tethers to the Dull must be released. Additionally, traveling obesk may bring a tithe to discard during travel, which is a sentimental item that is left behind for good luck. During the conclusion of this memory, Akizet releases all sensation in her deathly form, but she is unable to escape the dreadful feeling of passing through the Dull.[2]
Dull Ceremony
A Dull Ceremony is a large corrucrystic construct that exists mostly in the Dull. A ceremony requires a director and extensive resources in order to open a contrivance. Idril describes that "[ceremonies] grow in pulses ... allowing its tendrils to establish it further."
During the Collapse, Vekoa attempted to open a contrivance through a ceremony, which drained resources from the Embassy, leading to critical damage of its various components. Akizet and her group stopped Vekoa and the ceremony from completing, but was ultimately unable to save the structure from collapsing.
Obesk Collective
The Collective is a network that is used by obesk, primarily through communicators. It utilizes the Dull in methods not currently known. Obesk use signatures, which may be self-designed, designed by another Obesk, or self-intuitively generated, as a method to represent themselves on the network.[3] This has been the primary method of representing the memories of obesk held within Akizet's personal corrucyst.
The Collective's closest equivalent is the internet. When Kazki is using a new communicator that can connect to the internet in Recollection: Suspicion, she describes it as "very flat" but "not so different" compared to the collective.[4]
Mindspike log
- ↑ Transcripts:Uncosm/MemoryHole#Dull Line 52
- ↑ Transcripts:Uncosm/MemoryHole#Dull Lines 57 to 60
- ↑ Transcripts:Embassy#Weird_looking_obesk?
- ↑ Transcripts:Embassy#Your_creature Lines 42 and 43