Holidays and Events, but Lore-Friendly
Who do you think puts up the decorations for events?
They're largely based on holidays in the real world, but they're mashups of culture rather than following a specific calendar. I wonder if The Entity herself puts them up.
Holidays are, historically, celebrations or remembrances which bring people together in tradition. In a cynical light, they're methods of cultural indoctrination, and the major reason most cultures have more during winter/monsoon/dangerous seasons is that they give positive feeling - they're days of rest, associated with reverence, and often serve as days representing hope. Fun little treat for The Entity, while drawing people further into willing participation with her world.
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It's been confirmed that The Entity is the one who puts up the decorations. She does this because she is trying to replicate our world, but fails in trying to create an exact representation of it. Which would explain the Christmas as well as the Halloween themes.
She is essentially trying to understand who we are and what we do.
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So she tries to celebrate by having clown/Santa, but fails at letting us actually enjoy the holidays. Why is she wanting to learn about our world though?
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"Because she is trying to replicate our world" isn't really an explanation, nor is "trying to understand us" really. Ascribing human levels of motivation to a fungus/insect hybrid thing outside our normal understanding of spacetime and biology* is a losing game.
Parts of that motivation make sense, though, foremost being hunger. Even as alien as 'feeding on desperation and hope' is, it still rings as something we can understand. There's also no evidence that it feeds in any way other than the trials: that'd be why things change superficially, with cosmetics and decorations, but the basic 'game mode' can't change. It doesn't need to make us actually enjoy the holidays, but holidays charge people positively and negatively. It thus makes sense to evoke those atmospheres periodically, so as not to let us go *stale*.
*Now I wonder if it's just a Mi-Go :P
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"Fungus/insect hybrid thing" I always figured it was an auric cell
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Auric cells make up its matter, just as animal cells make up ours and plant cells make up - well, plants.
Some current theorists are saying it's a fungus with insect traits, and that's been the most convincing breakdown of the evidence to me.
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@ElusivePukka yet it uses the auric cells that make up its "body" to also make all the trials, I've never known of anything (real or mythical) that could break its self apart and form such a massive expanse of trials, that's why I believe it is a highly specialized Auric cell (queen if you would) that has a "hive-mind" control over the other basic auric cells that is why survivors can manipulate them so easily, and what we think is actually its body is just a big image of an auric cell (just minus the cell wall) because that form is most familiar to it and allows it to directly interact with the trial.
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Plants and fungi have been known to create massive hive-like structures. Flatworms have probosci that can exit the body and return with information. Further, 'cells' are building blocks, rather than the entire creature.
Saying "I don't know of a real or fictional creature that does this" is not evidence of any one theory, it's a lack of evidence that allows for myriad alternates. It makes just as much sense to marry our two proposals: the creature of pure auric cells has control over the 'basic cells' which comprise its lair, similar to how some hive creatures create nests out of regurgitated biomass.
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