Investigation 2

[after_thesky]

[Phone, filtered from drones etc]

Okay, the dimensional folding has extended a bit, but it's still in place. Some of the names on those signs really don't fit what they've been going for in this town so far. They're definitely not as insistently American as everything else. Of course, the question is... what does that mean?

Comments

[chaoschildofgod]

It could mean any number of things. Perhaps even that our consciousnesses are affecting Mayfield, although I would not count that as very likely.

[after_thesky]

We know the town can put information into people's minds, it doesn't seem entirely unlikely it might be able to get information out.

[chaoschildofgod]

I agree with this, but I'm afraid it is not what I meant. The key words is our consciousnesses and it affecting Mayfield, meaning something they have no control over. Unless the opening to that road is something they had no intention of, there is no reason that the town names should be anything but American.

[after_thesky]

Are you suggesting the town itself has some sort of... psychic field?

[chaoschildofgod]

A psychic field would be too easily detected, so no. I mean that the place we are in may be fabricated by memories, or thoughts. Those thoughts would lead to what you call the 'insistently American' names.

If the road were a part of everything else, the only way the names would change would be if the thoughts of some of those now inhabiting Mayfield influenced them. But that seems unlikely, as it would imply the force containing us here was losing ground.