Weekly Lore Post #4 (Patreon)

So continuing from the last lore post, https://www.patreon.com/posts/weekly-animation-4173605, there's a reason that anyone in the WORM has a hard time getting away with anything (like for example, how all of the enemies that fuck Talia in the Fire Level are executed afterwards), and a reason how the WORM knows that one of their own has broken a law.

In the WORM, all entities working directly with them (so the Celodst are exempt from this, for obvious reasons) has implanted devices that can scan the memories and current senses of all said entities as well.

So at any time, the higher-ups of the WORM can access the eyes of any grunt, the smells that a half-demon might be smelling, the skin sensations that a berserker's feeling, and any of their current thoughts or memories as well.

Now, because the number of troops they have easily numbers in the billions, this obviously isn't a situation where they can keep constant track of everyone's thoughts and senses, and they only really do it in specific cases, because they'd honestly rather divert their man-power and resources elsewhere.

However, in the context of the game, in the first level specifically, this is used for the end-level bonus; if the player accesses all the databanks in the first level,  then it triggers a security alert within the WORM, as you'll have tripped enough security failsafes that finally, they have to get DIRECTLY involved in catching you. (This will change the storyline slightly too, if you pull this off.)

So, to "raise the alarm" so to speak, they'll invoke the brain implants in all these people and raid their thoughts to see your last known location. Then, they'll broadcast the last known thoughts of Talia to all the security monitors in the area, of which a large one happens to be in the next area Talia walks into between the Fire and Ice levels.

The problem is... the "last known thoughts" of the soldiers were of doing lewd things to Talia, and so their imagination gets broadcast up on the security monitors, much to Talia's embarrassment/annoyance.

This brain implant thing is also why almost all of the databank entries seem to end so formally, in regards to giving the person's name/rank/date of the entry in the exact same format each time; the person isn't entering these themselves, they're having them entered for them by the computer system logging their entries by simply scanning the brainwaves of the person doing the entry.

In fact, this is even why some logs seem to be somewhat "train of thought"-based; people in the WORM have the option to do thought-based entries, so they're allowed to keep working while they create a log entry for their own records (or for the WORM's records to make dispersal of such information easier, like for example, a scientific paper... and also so the non-higher-ups don't ever get/need access to the WORM's brain-scanning technology.)

Finally, this technology is useful in that the WORM is able to keep track of the exact number of people under their command on a daily basis, and the minute one of them drops off the radar without an explanation... well, stuff goes down. Unless of course, the person dropping off the radar knows how to mess with the WORM's sensors and such.

Like say, leaving a bunch of objects around that'd have their biological signature on them...