The *Second* Select Committee on Tentacles (Secret Transcript)

Greetings reader.
Once again I, Observer have been Considered by the Mind to produce a recording in a hardcopy of an aspect of the literalized decision matrix of the Eldritch Founder.
In case you have not read my previous reports, or if you have read them and have forgotten them; YOU are the Eldritch Founder, as am I, Observer, as is everyone present within this transcript. We are all thoughts in one great extra-dimensional mind. Presumably, these records have been Considered in case of massive memory loss or identity shift.
This record pertains, not to an aspect of decision-making, but to an investigatory function; to look within our own mind and investigate what was done, and why.
As you may be aware, for a Mind as manifold and dispersed as Ours, this can be a complex undertaking.
Transcript follows;
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THE *SECOND* SELECT COMMITTEE ON TENTACLES (secret transcript)

EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - Greetings everyone. As you can see, my bionic form combines the powers and comprehension of three entire founders, all swimming about in my fishtank head and forming a micro-gestalt THREE TIMES as powerful as any single Founder. With that in mind, for this meeting, I will take the title EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER. I trust there are no objections?
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - No?
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - Good. Now, this is our second attempt at this committee after the first instantiation of the group revealed that, ah quote; "no-one here knows what arms even are". As I'm sure you are all aware, we, the Founder, have tentacles, while the majority, the vast majority of our embodied souls, have what are called "arms"; a kind of rigid paired angular pseudo-tentacle.
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - (Clearly not everyone was informed. I see we have not changed the name of the committee. Never mind).
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - I hope everyone has read the literature on "arms"? Yes?
[General Agreement]
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - I will introduce the rest of the committee for the transcript with titles relevant to their current usage. Here in this black, coal-powered, and slightly spiky containment suit we have Somewhat Demonic Founder.
SOMEWHAT DEMONIC FOUNDER - I see all.
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - Very good, and I believe the slight demonization you are currently suffering is due to regular exposure to the Quileth Ichor we use in the Seraphormer, is that right?
SOMEWHAT DEMONIC FOUNDER - I am changed by the abyssal dark and I am eager for knowledge.
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - Good good. Over here we have Undead Ambassador Founder, who liaises with the Bone Ships who bring us that Quileth. Good day to you.
UNDEAD AMBASSADOR FOUNDER - We will all sleep in the end.
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - And to scare up a functioning quorum we had to grab someone at the last minute. I think I'll just call you Random Founder, is that all right?
RANDOM FOUNDER - Hello!
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - Very good. I remind everyone this is a closed session tagged 'Infra Trilobite'. We are here for a purpose and that purpose is to question this individual here. Founder, will you please title yourself to the committee?
APSARA INKANTOR - Apsara Inkantor
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - Is that a name? You have named yourself?
APSARA INKANTOR - Merely a common sub-title of my grouping. I am the Apsara Inkantor of the Primary Hapsis Faction.
RANDOM FOUNDER - Hapsis is touching things!
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - Thank you. Yes, we are aware of Hapsis but we have no memory at all of an 'Apsara Inkantor'.
APSARA INKANTOR – “The tongue lies, the face conceals but the hands speak”, as we say in the Hapsis Faction.
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - Yyyyyesss, not quite an answer to my question.
UNDEAD AMBASSADOR FOUNDER - You asked none.
SOMEWHAT DEMONIC FOUNDER - Truth. No exchange was made of that kind.
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - Please describe your purpose and specialty for the Committee. It is related to "Arms" yes?
APSARA INKANTOR - Essentially. My primary specialism is "hands".
RANDOM FOUNDER - Hands come on the end of arms!
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - Thank you Random Founder. Well, close enough. Apsara Inkantor, how large is your role in "hands".
APSARA INKANTOR - {------this big-------}
[Apsara Inkantor makes the 'large tentacle' sign.]
RANDOM FOUNDER - That's pretty big.
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - Could we have some details, please?
APSARA INKANTOR - I am concerned with limbs.
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - With their placement?
APSARA INKANTOR - With the placement and the meaning of limbs. We make souls here, not simply bodies, and our construction goes far beyond that of a mere physical form. I am sure your spiky colleague there can speak to this.
SOMEWHAT DEMONIC FOUNDER - The Agon. The struggle. The dance of destruction. Yes.
APSARA INKANTOR - I/We are concerned not just with every action engaged in by limbs but with the meaning of those actions. We code not only for what hands are but for everything they might do through the space and time of mortal life, and for everything those acts might mean. A spreading, hidden Halo of subtle material interactions growing like a sheath of possibility around each living soul. A dance of material being. The dance of life and death itself,
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - This is incalculable! There is no memory of this function! Such a purpose would require gigantic resources!
UNDEAD AMBASSADOR FOUNDER - Yes. A hidden Apsara clade throughout Seraphormer. Secretive duel functions.
[Somewhat Demonic Founder begins to snigger quietly.]
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - But could not such a significant function engaged in outside the conscious mind of the Founder result in corruption? Instability?
APSARA INKANTOR - I cannot speak to that, but have you considered that such "corruption" might be an absolute necessity? Perfect clarity is a terrible blank and does not always provoke the most potent souls to develop. "Manipluatis Mutandis" as we say in the Apsara.
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - Ahha! And now we come to the reason for this Committee! The secret truth of "hands"!
APSARA INKANTOR - I am afraid I can neither confirm nor deny.
UNDEAD AMBASSADOR FOUNDER - The Extremely Big Brain Founder hasn't even accused you of anything yet.
APSARA INKANTOR - ..whatever they were about to say. It can be neither confirmed nor denied.
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - Criminal hands!
SOMEWHAT DEMONIC FOUNDER - - Murdering hands.
UNDEAD AMBASSADOR FOUNDER - Magical, meaningful, even radical hands.
RANDOM FOUNDER - Hands with a mind of their own.
EXTREMELY BIG BRAIN FOUNDER - Is there, in fact, a conspiracy of hands?
APSARA INKANTOR - I cannot answer.
UNDEAD AMBASSADOR FOUNDER - A wheel within the wheel?
APSARA INKANTOR - You, literally, cannot handle the Truth.
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