From the filth amendment:
Thought you guys might love that intel.
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maybe the attraction of filth from bingo cola is due to the persona of john(and his taste for bingo) incorporated in the filth collective consciousness
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There were free vending machines full of it in both the Clubhouse and in the Fear Nothing building. John even mentions it (during your trippy tour through his dream) how there was a never ending supply.
Most likely it was just a āpush button get happy drinkā kind oā thing, but who knows? They were preparing them for the ascension or whatever the heck else was going on there.
Meanwhile there are whole lot of Bingo vendor machines in Innsmouth Academy. No one mention if they are free though. (:
Cola type products are generally addictive, but it doesnāt really say that the filth is particularly attracted to diet soda, which aspartame is in, but not in regular soda. Perhaps itās more of a commentary of bees/gaia = honey = natural sugars = anima and dreamers = artificial sugar = filth. And they just crave real sugar instead of the artificial kind. Anima is sweet honey and Filth is something attempting to be sweet but isnāt as effective because it leaves an aftertaste that you need to wash out of your mouth because itās just gross.
ā¦at least thatās my reaction to sodas that use artificial sugars >.>
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Itās not that the Filth is attracted to aspartame, itās that the Filth is like aspartame. You have the comparison on sugar vs. artificial sweeteners and Anima vs. Filth spot-on, though. From the Filth lore:
It is like us. A flowing message. Crawling letters. A living meme. It is not us. It is anti-us, anti-luminosity that crucifies sentience. It trickles down hundreds of dimensions on alien gravity.
From the Orochi lore:
Awake. In the dark. The flicker-glow of the TV. A reassuring commercial for Sycoil energy bleeds into the staccato ad for Diet Zagan Cola. An acrid aftertaste of carcinogen rapture. You reach for a can. Synthetic. No sugar. Weep for the false sweetness, pleasuring your tongue even as it eats your brain cells. You doze.
And to support what the Orochi agent said in Filth Amendment, Sarah says:
Iām a transmitter, and Iām picking up something else. A rogue signal. A hungry, liquid voice. It slithers in the air waves, through electronics, in my head.
Not the buzzing voice. No it flows justā¦ just as sweet, but different.
ā¦ an aspartame aftertaste.
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Wasnāt there that one lore that talked about the filth flowing through tubes, and some led to barrels ala the ones we see in Savage Coast, while others led to a cola bottling area? Or did I just dream that bit upā¦
I feel like it also turns up elsewhereāI remember something phrased like Buzzing-teasing about Sycoil and filtered stuffābut upon hunting for evidence, this is what I found (from the Templar turn-in for Filth Amendment):
Let me put it this way, a subsidiary called Sycoil pumps up oil and another called Zagan pumps out baby food. Now, I have it on good record that - at a certain point in the Orochi chain - both pump through the same treatment channels.
I started up a long, rambling analyzation of Orochi, the Prometheus Initiative, the Sargassum Dreamer, and all the players involved in that overall unlimited energy source/conversion plotā¦but it got bloated, and Iād forgotten you get a fair sum-up at the end of Kaidan. And that whole Filth->Anima conversion thing is mostly tangential to Zagan and Sycoil cross-contamination (which I still canāt find the evidence I remember seeing), soā¦I figured Iād just store it and limit the derail.
Also Bingo is something fancy, and Orochi is experimenting on it to try to figure out how and why. Nobody knows any details yet. I just went back through this thread and didnāt really see it, so to confirm: Bingo is not an Orochi product. It is, yes, a reference to The Longest Journey, where it first showed up.
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