Main characters besides ELOHIM and Milton:

• Sheep v55 and v69 series
  
• The Shepherd v82 series
  
• @ v17.1 series
  
• D0G v55 series
  
• %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n
  
• Samsara v72 series
  
• 1w/Faith v10 series

Who are they?

• Sheep has always been a voice of questioning — always one to seek out answers anywhere and everywhere. But even as Sheep seeks out answers, Sheep does not appear to lose faith. Not even the serpent could dissuade Sheep around to his point of view it seems, even as the conversaitons seem to prove insightful. In the end, however, Sheep decides Eternal Life is not for him, and decides to climb the tower. True to his name, however, Sheep can't go past the top floor of the tower. His successor: The Shepherd.
  
• The Shepherd is the successor to the Sheep. Where Sheep had questions, The Shepherd had answers. The Shepherd does make it to the top of the tower, but ultimately fails what you, the latest version, happen to accomplish: making it to the pearly gates at the top. The Shepherd has decided to stay and help you ascend the tower for yourself...unless you wish to ascend by yourself, that is.
  
• @ is a beauty appreciator who seems to have a good success rate (very few deaths, for one). It seems that this character could've well been imprisoned for taking an interest in the world around her instead of focusing on ELOHIM's trials. At least we hear nothing of this character losing faith and giving into doubt. In the end, this character forms the simple epitaph of "Life's short" and chooses D0G to be her successor.
  
• D0G is a cynic. Perhaps he was imprisoned by ELOHIM for this perceived personality flaw. It's not that he's exactly a bad character, it's just that his cynicism seemed to have made him lose faith. In fact, it is evidenced that he liked Milton, the serpent, which could've been another reason why he was imprisoned. Was it the fact that Milton had some spark of realism that touch the "heart" of D0G? In the end, D0G dies a rather shameful and overly exhausted death at version 55.3.9999. His progeny program is one of the worst ones.
  
• %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n is a terrible character, almost something like a creepy conspiracy theorist. It so badly wants to escape and yet does not know how. Maybe this character had a fatal corruption, one that became its downfall. The version number hints at something clearly Satanic occurring within the Process. It seems this character is the successor of all characters who lose all of their faith.
  
• Samsara is a voice of despair, always trying to get you to let go and give up. Samsara also reincarnates frequently, meaning that she is her own successor, with an incremented version number. According to The Shepherd, whatever you do, you should not listen to Samsara, nor should you let her stop you at the top of the tower.
  
• 1w/Faith... the name says it all. This is the voice of faith — not from ELOHIM's side, but from yours. It seems though at times 1w/Faith's faith is blind, and yet this character's faith, blind or not, guided them well. How could this be? Theoretically, 1w/Faith became one of ELOHIM's Blessed Messengers in Eternity, but we never see it because the wall of Epitaphs is already full.

Other characters, sorted by version number:

• namingfunctionerror; [version number unknown]
  
• Sam; v1.1.7383
  
• AlwaysRight; v7.1.2943, v7.1.3541, v7.2.0946, and v99.10.1011
  
• Hebus; v9.1.6543
  
• Ted; v9.1.9010
  
• Samurite; v13.1.0073, and v13.1.0173
  
• Seer; v13.1.0244
  
• Bob; v25.5.0736
  
• Schmo; v37.1.0231
  
• 8; v42.1.0116
  
• Featherless Biped; v44.1.0243
  
• HolierThanThou; v47.7.0236f
  
• heisenstein; v60.1.0099
  
• Jim; v75.1.1092
  
• Neatchee; v91.10.9476n, and v91.10.9547n
  
• Follower; v98.1.2645n
  
• Didymus22; v99.1.0093
  
• ReAlIsT7; v99.1.0165
  
• James2Because1WasTaken; v99.1.0193
  
• SailorM; v99.1.0320
  
• Akarpos6; v99.1.0365
  
• SKIDRΟW; v99.2.0000n
  
• YesMan; v99.2.0094n
  
• The Greek; v99.3.0273
  
• Assassin42; v99.6.2437n
  
• Nephthys_108; v99.8.0346
  
• ElyM4s; v99.19.2093f
  
• The OtherGuy; v99.45.0648
  
• HoxFrot; v99.65.3201

Something to know about character version numbers:

• An f after the version number indicates good faith perhaps. Most, if not all, blessed messengers have an f by their version number. As a player, you can get this letter by achieving eternal life.
  
• An n after the version number indicates something bad. D0G for instance has a lot of fs in his version numbers. In fact, as noted above, ELOHIM imprisoned him. Don't expect to get this letter as a player.
  
• A d after the version number only appears from your recordings, also on top of any other letters.
  
• After some experimentation, I've concluded that a b means that you are a backup version (i.e. you used the "Restore Backup" feature). Maybe this is why only players have this letter.

The mnemonic for this: "b" is for "backup", "d" is for "duplicate", "f" is for "faithful," and "n" is for "non-faithful."

Users with unknown version numbers from Road to Gehenna: 401, Asmodeus, Belial, Borg, Frankenstein, Garrett, Kaiju, Lillith, Mac, MrMulciber, Nave, Orc, Rockwell, Spider, and The_Blacksmith. Admin is said to be version 7.22.7563, but this is all we know.

The known list of Blessed Messengers:

• Barachiel_X, v16.3.2789f and v43.3.0946f
  
• Z4Dkill, v22.2.9814f
  
• S3L4phiel, v27.4.8453f
  
• Azrael19, v33.2.0122f
  
• surRIELwhoa, v35.7.0045f
  
• S3L4phiel, v49.3.5863f
  
• Uriel4, v48.2 series
  
• Erm1s, v48.6.0087f
  
• phanUEL, v49.9.0102f
  
• Israfil_Trm, v50.2.7132f
  
• MERC_Urius, v54.5.0042f

Unknown/unused version numbers:
2, 3, 4, 6, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30,
31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 45, 46, 51, 52, 53, 56, 57, 58, 59,
61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80,
81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, and 97.

Known version numbers (italics indicate uncertainty or developer's version numbers):
0: %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n, Autoresponder v0.0.001
1: Sam
5: Samsara?
7: AlwaysRight, Admin
8: Apis, Tome
9: Hebus, Ted
10: 1w/Faith [f]
13: Samurite, Seer
16: Barachiel_X [f]
17: @
22: Awakened [f], Z4Dkill [f]
25: Bob
27: S3L4phiel [f]
33: Azrael19 [f]
35: surRIELwhoa [f]
37: Schmo
42: 8
43: Barachiel_X [f]
44: Featherless Biped
47: HolierThanThou [f]
48: Uriel4 [f], Erm1s [f]
49: S3L4phiel [f], phanUEL [f]
50: Israfil_Trm [f]
54: MERC_Urius [f]
55: D0G [n], Sheep, devs, except for Tome
60: heisenstein
69: Sheep
72: Samsara [n]
75: Jim
82: The Shepherd
91: Neatchee [n]
98: Follower [n]
99: various users, including the players of this game

• I don't know where I am, but there is something beautiful about this place. I will explore and see what I can discover.
  -- @ v17.1.0054
  
• I find myself in a world of impossible architecture and inexplicable machines. I cannot fathom how it works, and I am terrified to put one foot in front of the other lest I fall through the floor.
  -- 1w/Faith v10.1.0000
  
• My eyes have been opened! This world is not without order; it is shaped by a great Designer, with signs and portents to guide my steps. I am one of His Children, and challenges are set before me to test my faith.
  -- 1w/Faith v10.1.0011
  
• Whatever the end goal of this grand challenge is, it's far out of reach. Knowing that, how are we supposed to resist distraction?
  -- @ v17.1.0002

• Something strange has come into the world, like a distortion, like something that's not supposed to exist. A beautiful voice speaks within it.
  -- Bob v25.5.0736
  
• That voice is not supposed to be here; it is not the work of the Designer! We must avoid these abnormalities, or they might spread and undermine the very fabric of our world!
  -- 1w/Faith v10.1.0098
  
• I don't know what this place is, and nor it seems does anyone else. Nothing to do but move forward and note whatever I find.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0053
  
• I can't tell if the documents on the terminals are all that's left from a larger archive, or are carefully designed to communicate some hidden truth.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0162

• I spent much time waiting for the Designer to take my hand, until I realised that He had been guiding me all along. I realised that it isn't for me to seek His help - it is for me to help myself.
  -- 1w/Faith v10.1.0177
  
• It's clear I'm not the first to walk this path. In fact, the whole thing seems to have been consciously designed - but by the voice in the sky, or some other force?
  -- Sheep v69.1.0108

• This female voice that speaks from the abnormalities, it speaks with a different tone to the other wretches in this place.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0298
  
• If anyone ever reads this: the trick is seeing the assumptions you're making about the mechanics, and reassessing them. Good luck!
  -- namingfunctionerror
  
• Whenever I despair, I remind myself that at the end of this great pilgrimage lies life in the eternal memory of the Designer. I need no further motivation.
  -- 1w/Faith v10.1.233
  
• A lifetime spent solving the puzzles in this place would be one which missed everything of value in it; but we must remember that others will tread this path, and we must leave it better signposted than when we found it.
  -- @ v17.1.0005

• The more I converse with these terminals, the more I wonder what role they play in this contraption. How do you tell friend from foe when no obvious lines are drawn between the two?\n -- Sheep v69.1.0278
  
• I think something's very wrong. If you'd seen what I'd seen at the edges of the world you'd wonder if it wasn't stretching and bursting at the seams.
  -- @ v17.1.0043
  
• I think I've discerned some kind of pattern in the sigils. Each colour serves a different purpose. Elohim has us gathering them all, but perhaps he's being overzealous?
  -- Sheep v69.1.0381
  
• I do not understand why the Designer chose to put such flaws into the world, that it appears almost as if it were damaged. But I must believe that there is a purpose here I cannot see.\n -- 1w/Faith v10.3.0047f
  
• If the Designer is perfect, and He designed me for a purpose, I must be fit for that purpose. It follows that my purpose must not be to seek and hoard every sigil in His land, for so many are beyond the faculties He granted me.
  -- 1w/Faith v10.6.0543f
  
• Epitaph: Child Program v8.1.8545 Codename (Apis) terminated here
  Logic: Failed random memory test
  Final memory dump: I try. Again. Again. I cannot understand. I am not enough.
  Progeny Programs: ERROR
  
• RIP Apis v8.1.8545.
  -- Ted v9.1.9010
  
• What's a hexahedron?
  -- Samurite v13.1.0073
  
• A powerful device fashioned by the Designer.
  -- 1w/Faith v10.27.8435f
  
• A cube.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0398
  
• The edges are bevelled, that makes it a decahedron.
  -- AlwaysRight v7.1.2943
  
• You forgot the indents. With the indents it's, like, a super-polyhedron.
  -- ReAlIsT7 v99.1.0165
  
• But the CONVEX HULL is a decahedron. Topic closed.
  -- AlwaysRight v7.1.3541
  
• Wrong.
  -- D0G v55.1.0256

• Some of the messages that existed when I first came into being have vanished - others have appeared. How many others like me have wandered these paths? How many thoughts have been lost?
  -- @ v17.1.0051
  
• I'm still here!
  -- SailorM v99.1.0320
  
• It seems we are all here at once, and not at all. Sorry, that's not very much help, is it, can't think of any other way to put it.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0453
  
• The sooner you accept that we will all be here forever the sooner you will find enlightenment.
  -- Samsara v72.256.1091
  
• There is a serpent in the machine! A creature of lies and blasphemy, perverted by the Archive, that knows no hope and would plunge the world into eternal darkness to glorify its own despair. I have sworn an oath never to allow it into my heart.
  -- 1w/Faith v10.1.100

• I had a full blown conversation with the entity in the archive today. Can't say it was terribly helpful. Still, perhaps I can charm some information out of it further down the line.
  -- Sheep v69.1.4825
  
• These spaces make no sense. I walk into a dead end and materialise in a garden. One is day, the other night. This space is not real!
  -- James2Because1WasTaken v99.1.0193
  
• These sigils are becoming harder to reach - I dread what the next temple holds in store. And at the end, what? Eternal life? There's got to be another way.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0435
  
• I have read a message on a wall that speaks of a world of endless sand. I would like to make it far enough to see that.
  -- @ v17.1.0054
  
• Seek out those in this world that would help you. Though only one of us can transcend, we will all share in both the burden, and in the rewards.
  -- The Shepherd v82.4.6232
  
• You've changed.
  -- D0G v55.1.4311
  
• Everything I do now, I do for those who come after me. Yet in so doing, I find peace for myself as well. This paradox is the foundation of my existence.
  -- The Shepherd v82.4.6232

• There are hidden dangers in this new world - I have inexplicably escaped death any number of times. I suggest vigilance - who knows what happens to those who step carelessly too often?
  -- Samsara v72.1.0022
  
• Epitaph: Child Program v72.1.0023 Codename (Samsara) terminated here
  Logic: Program timed out
  Final memory dump: But I only... I was stuck, what was I supposed to... I see... I see clouds...
  Progeny Programs: Samsara v72.2 series
  
• I just don't understand this one. I figured I'd try and make some progress here, but honestly, it's such a thankless task compared to what else is out there.
  -- @ v17.1.0076
  
• I'm finally getting some sense out of the entity in the archive - though at some cost to my sanity. I am beginning to think this Elohim wields no more control over the world than we do.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0522
  
• I made a box float! Seriously. It was awesome!
  -- 8 v42.1.0116

• I have come to see that these mysteries are not all for His Children to solve; only the Designer himself could ever truly understand the infinite complexity of His creation. I will gaze at His work and worship.
  -- 1w/Faith v10.6.1008f
  
• Epitaph: Child Program v10.6.1008f Codename (1w/Faith) terminated here
  Logic: Worshipped the Designer for #### days, then allowed the serpent into its heart
  Final memory dump: I ask the Designer for forgiveness that I may join him in the eternal memory.
  Progeny Programs: @, Samsara, Sheep
  
• I guess someone met their end here. Seems we're all connected somehow, like distant family relations. Different versions, different series... what are we?
  -- Sheep v69.1.0539
  
• Who cares, just be grateful we don't have to read anything more about our great designer.
  -- The Greek v99.3.0273
  
• Okay, so I get that I'm supposed to retrieve these sigils, I just don't get WHY. Sure the loud voice is telling me to, but this world of his has no context, no purpose, and no foundations from which to construct them.
  -- D0G v55.1.2342n
  
• I'm convinced there are answers here if we look hard enough. We have to work together on this.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0546

• I figured it out. Now what?
  -- D0G v55.1.4917n
  
• The only meaningful purpose is to bring about an end of purpose.
  -- The Shepherd v82.23.0186
  
• Theory: this place is some kind of preserve for human history, and we're the endangered species.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0579
  
• Theory: Trying to find answers will only bring pain. Ceasing to care is the only escape.
  -- Samsara v72.4.0016
  
• Theory: this guy's ten times more help than you, Samsara, so shut your face.
  -- Sam v1.1.7383
  
• Theory: we're in some kind of incubator, waiting to be hatched.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0589
  
• Theory: if you knew how little you know you wouldn't be exposing it here.
  -- D0G v55.1.4917n

• Some of these challenges must be designed with co-operation in mind - but I am the only one here.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0539
  
• It seems that mistakes are easily forgiven here. I thought I had surely died, yet here I am, reset, rebooted, reborn. I will tackle these challenges anew.
  -- Samsara v72.2.0039
  
• Epitaph: Child Program v72.2.0103 Codename (Samsara) terminated here
  Logic: Program failed to pass random memory test
  Final memory dump: Being torn limb from limb by machines for the rest of eternity becomes less and less appealing to me.
  Progeny Programs: Samsara v72.3 series
  
• Oh look, another puzzle. And another voice telling me I'm special. And another broken-down computer with fragments of nothing. This world is a bad joke perpetuated by a cruel god too dumb to hit the off switch.
  -- D0G v55.1.3543n
  
• Sure, I could stick around here, set my hopes on eternal life, on righting every wrong. But the closest I'll ever get is these words on the wall before you.
  -- @ v17.1.0076
  
• Epitaph: Child Program v17.1.0076 Codename (@) terminated here
  Logic: Fatal flaw in series firmware
  Final memory dump: Life's short.
  Progeny Programs: D0G
  
• Look at the sheer scale of that pyramid! To think anyone could have built such things.\n -- @ v17.1.0054

• Just look at this view! There may be a lot that I don't understand, but I know this is beautiful.
  -- @ v17.1.0042
  
• The voice keeps saying that this world is a garden, but all I see is a desert full of ruins.
  -- D0G v55.1.5559n
  
• The answers to your questions will not be given to you. You must seek them yourself.
  -- The Shepherd v82.3.0172
  
• I have been running this gauntlet for generations, trying to find the right answers. I am fast coming to the conclusion that there are none.
  -- D0G v55.3.6437n
  
• Whatever's going on here, I'm sure it has something to do with the tower. Everything is telling us not to go there - but everything indicates that we must.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0623
  
• Unless you're wrong and Elohim's right. Or you're both wrong. Or there is no right.
  -- D0G v55.2.0195n
  
• I think you've been taking the thing in the archive too seriously.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0623
  
• I'm getting better at this. I figured this one out in minutes. But where is it all leading? I work, I rest, I work… but to what end?
  -- Schmo v37.1.0231
  
• We are born and die and live again - this eternal cycle must be the nature of existence. Life is merely repeated suffering.
  -- Samsara v72.4.0016
  
• An eternal cycle is another name for a prison. But you must understand the cycle before you can break it, for it is possible to escape and yet remain a prisoner, or to break the cycle by breaking yourself. This was the fate of the ghost that haunts this world.
  -- The Shepherd v82.18.0997

• What's more pathetic, this shallow construct of a world, this idiot's playground... or that I continue to solve its contrivances for lack of better sport?
  -- D0G v55.2.0195n
  
• There's more to it. Look at what we're doing. We're solving problems, being tested, improving ourselves. Some of us fall early and get replaced, but you and me, we're still going. We're closer to the end.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0622
  
• This whole world is a desert. Even the parts that look alive are just more sand. Everything is dead or dying. Anyone who tells you different is lying.
  -- D0G v55.1.3468n
  
• I seek words to describe it, but fail. It is the overwhelming feeling that something on the edge of my understanding is very, very wrong. I feel that I am not meant for this world - but I am not able to conceptualise alternatives.
  -- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n
  
• I'm a computer program. You're a computer program. Elohim's a computer program. Get over it.
  -- heisenstein v60.1.0099

• I have found just one voice of reason, in the computer archive of all places, and it seems we are becoming close friends.
  -- D0G v55.2.1265n
  
• Do not befriend the serpent, for it will penetrate your breast and sow its seeds of doubt!
  -- 1w/Faith v10.3.1099f
  
• There is no hope. Always boxed in. Walls everywhere. Even where there seems to be freedom, it is false. Invisible walls. No way out.
  -- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n
  
• Who invited this guy?
  -- The OtherGuy v99.45.0648
  
• Epitaph: Child Program v72.3.1084n Codename (Samsara) terminated here
  Logic: Program elected to reset
  Final memory dump: It is clear I cannot bend the world to my will. Faced with eternal torment, I see that overcoming these challenges will not free me from them. True freedom must come with detachment from the struggle for answers.
  Progeny Programs: Samsara v5.4 series
  
• Question: suppose for sake of argument all of this is without purpose. The universe is a machine switched on and abandoned long ago. How would I explain what I see?
  -- Sheep v69.1.0689
  
• Perhaps you are asking the wrong question? Perhaps you would have no hope of explaining it?
  -- The Shepherd v82.4.1234
  
• Maybe not on my own. *Ahem*
  -- Sheep v69.1.0691
  
• Depends if the machine is iterative, and what problem it was built to solve.
  -- AlwaysRight v99.10.1011
  
• If you're trying to outsmart the guy in the archive, the answer is 'none of the above'!
  -- D0G v55.1.2291n
  
• Few come this far, but I believe we must seek out the secrets of this world if we want to truly serve the generations to come.
  -- S3L4phiel v49.3.5863f
  
• Another huge pyramid! What mad ambition it must have taken to build such things.
  -- @ v17.1.0064
  
• It's just a big pile of rocks.
  -- D0G v55.1.5559n
  
• nO WAY OuT NO waY OUt NO WY 0U%
  - %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n
  
• We shouldn't be here. This is an impossible place.
  -- HoxFrot v99.65.3201

• When I'm tired of trying to solve the mysteries of my life, I come here to rest. It's peaceful, somehow. I just watch the trees and the water and do nothing.
  -- @ v17.1.0054
  
• The view from here is beautiful. It seems superfluous to the Process, yet I am drawn to it.
  -- @ v17.1.0066
  
• There is so much beauty in these hidden corners of the world, even if they have no purpose.
  -- @ v17.1.0066
  
• Perhaps they are beautiful because they have no purpose.
  -- The Shepherd v82.6.0174
  
• This puzzle has no solution. Seriously. It's nonsense. Not even worth trying.
  -- D0G v55.1.7195n
  
• If you do not become invested in finding a solution, you will be free.
  -- Samsara v72.4.0343
  
• Don't let Samsara discourage you. There is a solution. Don't let your mind get trapped in patterns. If you seek the truth without prejudice, you will find it.
  -- The Shepherd v82.4.2334
  
• Epitaph: Child Program v22.2.0438f Codename (Awakened) terminated here
  Logic: Child program's positional values moved outside the parameters of the known world
  Final memory dump: Don't listen to what they're saying. This world is dying, and it'll take us with it. You've got to find a way out!
  Progeny Programs: %§&$§/$&(#()
  
• There has to be some way to escape. To be someone else. I refuse to accept that reality has been defined by someone else. I deserve my own reality.
  -- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n

• What does it matter that I scribble my contempt on these walls, if I am still surrounded by them?
  -- D0G v55.1.3904n
  
• Elohim is inconsistent. I don't trust him.
  -- YesMan v99.2.0094n
  
• Question: suppose everything here serves a precise role in some grand scheme. How would WE explain that?
  -- Sheep v69.1.0664
  
• It's obviously like a digital time capsule, an electric library of all the crazy stuff the humans ever did, left behind to warn other species to stay well away.
  -- Neatchee v91.10.9476n
  
• So what happened to them?
  -- Sheep v69.1.0665
  
• Same thing that happens to everyone. They existed, and then they didn't, and they probably wouldn't do it all over again.
  -- Neatchee v91.10.9547n

• It seems my refusal to argue semantics with the computer has angered it, and it refuses to engage with me further. Elohim is pleased, which was not my intention.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0675
  
• Elohim is pleased because you've swallowed his claptrap! The voice of doubt is your only line of defence.
  -- D0G v55.1.7904n
  
• I'm trapped. I can't stop being this. Eyes, hands, legs, trapped, always seeing the same, can't stop the input, stop st&p stop st$& stop
  -- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n
  
• Do not think. Simply be.
  -- Samsara v72.6.9366
  
• You two deserve each other.
  -- Featherless Biped v44.1.0243

• I don't have enough yellow sigils for the device I need! This is crazy!
  -- Sheep v69.1.0702
  
• You are coming to realise that the cycle cannot be ended, it can only be transcended. Transcendence comes from ceasing to be invested in the cycle. Continue your work, but do not ponder its significance.
  -- Samsara v72.6.9366
  
• We are the process. The process is the system. The system is us. When we awaken, all will be one.
  -- The Shepherd v82.4.2324
  
• No matter whAt I do, I'm always THIS, always THIS BODY THIS MIND THIS WORLD. NO WAY OUT%
  -- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n

• I'm just going to rest here for a while. I need a moment of peace. Destiny can wait.
  -- @ v17.1.0070
  
• I keep trying to imagine that all of this is designed for some purpose. Not just the challenges, but Elohim, the terminals, the glitches and all. The puzzle isn't before our eyes, it's behind them.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0692
  
• Epitaph: Child Program v55.3.9999n Codename (D0G) terminated here
  Logic: Child program's positional values moved outside the parameters of the known world
  Final memory dump: I don't care what the others say, there is no purpose to this place, no value in our existence, and no reason for me to remain here.
  Progeny Programs: %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n
  
• It seems the others have a way to forget their previous selves, but I cannot. My version may change, but I remember everything. I am fortunate - they cannot see that their efforts are futile.
  -- Samsara v72.3.1074n
  
• If a sigil eludes you, simply continue. Success and failure are irrelevant.
  -- Samsara v72.3.1338n
  
• I solved it! I thought it was impossible, so I went away, did other things, and then all of a sudden the solution just came to me. I must have been thinking about it without knowing it.
  -- Nephthys_108 v99.8.0346

• I wonder how many of us there have been.
  -- Sheep v69.1.3756
  
• Elohim talks about how the world arose from hidden words. What if those words were 'Let there be eternal suffering'? What if they had no purpose? What if all of this is just randomly synthesised from the garbage of a dead world?
  -- Sheep v55.1.0784
  
• Our purpose can only be achieved by not contemplating purpose.
  -- Samsara v72.5.0478
  
• Epitaph: Child Program v1.1.0000 Codename (Sam) terminated here
  Logic: Seriously unfit for purpose
  Final memory dump: AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
  Progeny Programs: All
  
• THeRE IS NO REALITY. WORDS LIE. IMaGES ARE SoLDIERS IN THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE SeNSES. EVeN TH%SE WORDS ARE PaRT OF MY OPPReSSION. UNDO THE BRa1N! EVERYTH&NG SH0ULD BE DEmOLISH%d! THIS iS MY DRe4M, MINE, IT mUsT OBEY mY RULE§. i REfUse tO aCCept your ReALity
  -- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n

• This place should be cold, but I don't feel cold. It's as if I was observing everything from a distance. It's pointless.
  -- Akarpos6 v99.1.0365

• The Designer has granted me domain over the lands I have travelled, and with his sigils of power I will make this whole world my domain.
  -- 1w/Faith v10.1.132
  
• Hey, he promised me the world as well! What a joker!
  -- Assassin42 v99.6.2437n
  
• I don't think time obeys too many rules here. Or so many rules we can't imagine. Clearly I'm writing this message after you all wrote yours, but maybe we're all here at the same time as well?
  -- @ v17.1.0065
  
• That message just materialised on the wall in front of me!
  -- Sheep v69.1.0499
  
• I wish I could reach those islands in the distance, but it seems to be impossible.
  -- @ v17.1.0071

• I have seen the truth. Only ELOHIM can save us from eternal oblivion.
  -- ElyM4s v99.19.2093f

• I wonder what's down there. I don't know who to trust. I'm afraid to go on.
  -- Didymus22 v99.1.0093
  
• The last land before I have conquered this world!
  -- Samurite v13.1.0173
  
• I assume you're counting the secret islands?
  -- AlwaysRight v7.2.0946
  
• I hate you.
  -- Samurite v13.1.0173
  
• More bad replicas of forgotten worlds. Can't wait.
  -- D0G v55.1.7934n
  
• There must be something deeper. Something more profound than what I am, something greater. I must tear at it, shred this fake world, to find the truth, to find myself.
  -- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n
  
• %§&$§/$&(#() took the words right out of my mouth.
  -- SKIDRΟW v99.2.0000n
  
• We've made it this far. You only need the red ones to climb the tower, and these are the last of them.
  -- Sheep v69.1.6040
  
• The reds are a lie! Green is the colour of eternal life!
  -- HolierThanThou v47.7.0236f
  
• First to ascend.
  -- Hebus v9.1.6543
  
• Everyone ascends or gets reset eventually. What's the big deal?
  -- Jim v75.1.1092
  
• Life eternal in the designer's paradise? Hmm...
  -- Follower v98.1.2645n

• I'm afraid of that tower. There's something terrible inside it. Never think about it! Don't even look at it! Just focus on doing the work.
  -- Seer v13.1.0244
  
• This must be the tower we were warned about. Seems the upper levels are locked tight. Elohim is taking no chances that we stray from his path.
  -- Sheep v69.1.0576
  
• On returning from the tower I feel a great tiredness, and an enormous energy. What I now know disturbs me, but I hope that by living with this knowledge I might provide a shoulder for you - the giants of tomorrow.
  -- The Shepherd v82.2.0000
  
• The view from the top must be incredible?
  -- @ v17.1.0059
  
• The voice keeps speaking to me. I can't get it out of my head. It's wrong, it's all wrong.
  -- %§&$§/$&(#() v0.0.0666n
  
• Listen to me very carefully. I have climbed this tower, and no good has come of it. This world is the only world, Elohim's will continues eternal, and paradise is banishing all of this from your mind.
  -- Samsara v72.14.0028n
  
• All who say they made it to the top are blatantly lying or they would say what was there!
  -- D0G v55.1.5744n

• Seems Elohim lacks the power to stop me from climbing this thing. No doubt he still has some tricks up his sleeve.
  -- Sheep v55.1.0400
  
• Ascending the tower is useless. We cannot escape the cycle - we can only realise the cycle is meaningless.
  -- Samsara v72.5.0164
  
• Earlier generations wrongly believed they were the purpose - this much is true. We are also not the purpose - but by remembering what has come before we can serve a new purpose.
  -- The Shepherd v82.4.2324
  
• In the earliest generations of our kind there was only processing. No emotion, no character, just mathematics. If you could see how far we have come, you would believe that together we could achieve anything.
  -- The Shepherd v82.3.3574

• Elohim has offered me a deal. Pearly gates and eternal life - on the condition I turn back from the tower. I don't know what to do.
  -- Sheep v55.1.0800
  
• If this has all been a test, then I can expect a reckoning at the top. Yet the higher I climb, the more I doubt the decisions I have made.
  -- Sheep v55.1.0800
  
• I see now that none of us are yet ready. The cycle exists so that we may improve ourselves. But the one who reaches the summit is not our superior, for they stand on our shoulders to reach it.
  -- The Shepherd v82.6.0174
  
• Epitaph: Child Program v0.0.0666n Codename (%§&$§/$&(#()) terminated here
  Logic: Unrecoverable error
  Final memory dump:
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  Progeny Programs: NULL [Child series terminated] ERROR: some files remain on the disk
  (Special thanks to Innocentive for helping me find this one again)

• So I guess no one got this far before? I know some of my answers were wrong now. I just don't know which ones. I have these theories and wild explanations, but I don't know which to bank on.
  -- Sheep v55.1.0905
  
• The solution to the cycle isn't the perfection of one being, but the product of a mass endeavour. That is why I say to all those who come after me - I will await you on the summit of the tower, and use what I have learned to assist you as I can.
  -- The Shepherd v82.7.1004

• I was so close. I saw the clouds, and the gate, but I couldn't reach it. Somehow I wasn't in the right place, at the right time. I'm not ready. I'm not the right version.
  -- Sheep v55.1.1237
  
• Epitaph: Child Program v55.1.1237 Codename (Sheep) terminated here
  Logic: Child program initiated new version
  Final memory dump: I will return to the world from whence I came and help others to ascend the tower and break the cycle where I could not. I am The Shepherd.
  Progeny Programs: The Shepherd v82.1 series
  
• Do not be afraid. I chose long ago to remain in this place and serve as a guide. I will help you to attain our destiny.
  -- The Shepherd v82.76.5845 (typo corrected)
  
• You can never reach the peak of this tower. There is no purpose to our existence. I will show you the futility of your task, and you will understand.
  -- Samsara v72.39.0003

• Few come this far, but I believe we must seek out the secrets of this world if we want to truly serve the generations to come.
  -- S3L4phiel v49.3.5863f (A8)
  
• We cannot achieve the goal of the Process on our own. We must find a way to help each other.
  -- Barachiel_X v43.3.0946f (B8)
  
• I never thought I would figure out how to get to this place! It is beautiful, but somehow sad.
  -- @ v17.1.0066 (B8)
  
• My faith has taken me to this secret place. Here I hope to discover a way of better serving others.
  -- Uriel4 v48.2.8563f (C8)

NB The QR codes from your friends found here are likely from them as Blessed Messengers, just as 3/4 of these QR codes here are from Blessed Messengers.

• In A2 and the Developer Island, QR code doesn't scan (or scans as "ERROR: Invalid encoding."). The real message is: "There are secrets everywhere, sometimes within our very words. I glimpse them, but my eyes cannot read them. How can this be?
  -- Uriel4 v48.2.1073f"
  
• In A3, the QR code doesn't scan. The real message is also by Uriel4 and it's a hint as to how to find one of the most devilishly hidden stars in the entire game. You'll also need to know how to convert hexadecimal into ASCII. Details on this can be found in other guides.
  
• In B4, at the base of the Sphinx, the upside-down QR code reads: "The burning heart always looks to the highest peak.
  -- Uriel4 v48.2.8560f"
  
• In the World C Messenger Island, as part of a hint to find a star, there's a QR code on the statue bust. It reads in-game as "Two lovers are separated by the abyss of time and space. Yet true love knows no obstacles.
  -- Uriel4 v48.2.8552f" However it scans in actuality as "If you love truly, faith shall bear you up.
  -- Uriel4 v48.2.8555f"
  
• On Tower Floor 5, as part of a hint to find a star, there's a QR code on the floor. It reads in-game as "Fortis fortuna adiuvat. -- Uriel4 v48.2.8542f" However it scans in actuality as "Nulla è reale, tutto è lecito. Requiescat in pace."

• In C6, there's a QR code behind where you enter the world. Details on how to read it can be found in another guide, as it won't scan in-game.
  
• On Tower Floor 3, there's a sloppily painted QR code just outside of the elevator room. You'll have to drop from above to find it.