Imagine a problem with me for a brief second. Nothing but a pure hypothetical.
Let's say you wake up one morning ready to start your day before going to work, school, a funeral, whatever. No big deal, the usual.
Except that this hypothetical is present from the start. A 500-foot creature doing its best to stand at the end of your bedframe awaiting
your... attention? Fear? Instructions? Honestly. I'm not sure. Regardless it scares the shit out of you. What do you do in this moment?
Do you try to reach for a gun? I'm being serious. If a creature by design is already over 450 feet taller than you (as if you or I
could ever dream of achieving such a goal.) and has already found a way inside your place of residence, do you think a gun or any
type of weapon / method of elimination would work?
Okay, it's not a hypothetical. At least for me it isn't. grog doesn't know your location currently and therefore cannot find you.
But it's fucking terrifying. It won't leave no matter what I do. One minute it absolutely despises me and the next it wants to be my
best friend or something. At first I was moreso under the assumption that I had to have pissed someone off so bad that they willfully
created something that breaks every convention ever put in place since the start of the universe to spite me. Except that on every radar,
tracking device or spectrum, scanner, etc., I've hidden my location. And I never ever leave my house unless something on Earth fucks
up that badly that I have to intervine. Well. That and if the council requires my presence. But after a lot of time spent dedicated to
figuring out everything I can about 'grog', I've reached a lot of conclusions. This is me sharing my findings with the world.
Partially in the hopes it'll make 'grog' leave me alone.
It probably won't.
'grog' is a literal glitch in the system. And I wish I was joking that it took me days to figure this out. They date back to
the Earth update released last September. September 24th at 5:07 UST. For context sake, when I publish an Earth Update
I have to enter in a long series of flags like a lot of commands in your favorite choice of DOS. The flags are there to prevent
people without knowledge of the system from forcing an update which could end up wrecking billions of lives, all thanks to
one tiny command and a press of a button. My house and workspace have been broken into before. I hate precautions but I hate
ruining people's lives more. If you've ever felt like a day has repeated itself, it probably has. There's also a system restore function
built into the system. Every update backups the latest .world image from Earth before proceeding with an update. I know humans
love to call it "deja vu" or something else quirky but it's really the fault of myself fat-fingering the keyboard or someone trying and failing
to take control of a universe they don't understand.