Lind: Gate 288

LIND: GATE 288 by DEMO FUSION

"In what nightmare was I trapped? In what hallucination? I forced myself to wake up. But from what, and to what? Which was the dream and which the reality? Everything I was experiencing here and now was a thousand times more powerful, more vivid than what I thought of as my "real" life. And upon waking up, what would I see? Yet another devious simulation of normalcy - whatever "normalcy" meant to me, anyway - that threatened to mold itself into paranoia?"

• Individual answers and the final solution require EXCLUSIVELY Latin lowercase characters (NO capitals) and/or numbers, WITHOUT spaces, punctuation or other symbols.

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