Topic: Nereids

Twyman theorizes that the current world functions as an "inefficient machine" designed to siphon energy from its inhabitants to benefit entities on the "outside." She compares the human condition to the myth of the Nereids in Tartarus, who are cursed to fill leaking jars. Carlwood adds that debt-based currency and contract law are the "spells" used to maintain this system of economic slavery.