{"id":26232,"date":"2013-10-02T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=26232"},"modified":"2013-10-02T08:10:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T15:10:26","slug":"drink-soma-fueled-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/10\/02\/drink-soma-fueled-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Drink in the Soma-fueled nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SOMA: Item #2656 - &quot;Vivarium&quot;\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lLVOif6CHgE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Frictional Games&#8217;s latest project is being <a href=\"http:\/\/somasystems.org\/?#2656\">teased<\/a>. The newly launched &#8220;Soma Systems&#8221; site leads to a progress bar (currently at 18%) and some futuristic error messages. According to the &#8220;Vivarium&#8221; case file on the web page, some researchers have found an ominously primitive item during a salvage mission. The accompanying video (seen above) seems like it could&#8217;ve come straight from the depths of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scp-wiki.net\/scp-series\">SCP Foundation<\/a>, which would imply that Frictional is sticking with horror.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soma\">Soma<\/a>, by the way, is a potent drink used in Vedic rituals and appears as a drug in Aldous Huxley&#8217;s Brave New World as well as Phillip K. Dick&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VALIS\">VALIS<\/a>. A quote from VALIS appears on the Soma website in a coded message. &#8220;It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frictional Games&#8217;s latest project is being teased. The newly launched &#8220;Soma Systems&#8221; site leads to a progress bar (currently at 18%) and some futuristic error messages. According to the &#8220;Vivarium&#8221; case file on the web page, some researchers have found an ominously primitive item during a salvage mission. 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