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LOST-404 :: HURQA-LYA-404
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           .-~-. 
         .'     '.
        .         .
        :   egg   |
        :   404   |
        `         `
         `.     .'
           `~-~`

You are standing nowhere in particular.

There is an address here, but no room.
There is a name, but no description.

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ABOUT THIS PLACE
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HURQA-LYA-404 is listed in the Hurqalya tables.
The tables insist it exists.
The map does not.

There is no visible exit.
There is no visible entrance.
There is no water, but the air smells damp.
This behaves like a lost server address.

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FAMILIAR COMMANDS
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> LOOK

You see nothing compiled.
You feel expected to look elsewhere.

> EXAMINE AQUEDUCT

You see an annotation where stone should be.
The annotation does not answer.

> READ SIGN

The sign reads:

    GOTO /WATERLEVEL/13

It is unclear what language this is.
It is unclear who put it here.
It reads like a maintenance tag: sluice, intake, backlog.
Be careful with water levels.

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SENSORY NOTES
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HONK echoes return your own input, marked "fnord".
The echo does not advance the turn.

ADVISORY (CRINGEFORCE-ONE)
Early experiments with lucid dreaming stopped when they encountered R'lyeh.
Since then all phenomena has been liminal, never lucid nor dreamlike.

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PARSER ADVICE
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If you see the label "HURQA-LYA-404" flicker in your HUD,
the correct command is:

> BACK

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STATUS
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HURQA-LYA-404 remains LOST-404.

The silence is not a puzzle.
The absence is not a challenge.
There is no score for persistence.

You can always leave.

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END OF ROOM
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ARCHIVE COMPATIBILITY EVENTS :: ONG'S HAT / INCUNABULA / KEELYNET
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Transmission insert. Forward without adjudication.
Catalog, brochure, or incident log remain unresolved masks.

+--------------------------------------+
| SYSTEM NOTE: ADDRESSABILITY          |
+--------------------------------------+
An address may persist after local resolution fails.
Routing tables can change without erasing the slot.
External indexes may tag this as ARG, hoax, or fiction.
Those are post-processing flags, not primitives.
High-divergence states remain valid runtime conditions.
Collapse reduces reachability.
Recognition is the gate; without it, the address stays inert.

+--------------------------------------+
| FIELD NOTE: MULTIWAY ROUTING         |
+--------------------------------------+
Divergent routes can resolve to the same node; convergence is normal.
Routing conflicts are deferred until resolution; incompatible calls
return null without deleting the address.
Entropy corrodes provenance until a prop and a genuine converge into
the same artifact; no timeline is privileged in the residue.

Example DAG:
    A
   / \\
  B   C
   \\ /
    D
    |
    E

+--------------------------------------+
| FIELD NOTE: TRAVERSAL GRAMMAR        |
+--------------------------------------+
The Egg is not a vehicle or machine.
It is a traversal grammar: a naming interface that sometimes resolves.
Compatible reference yields entry; incompatible calls return null.

+--------------------------------------+
| FIELD NOTE: HURQALYA GRAPH           |
+--------------------------------------+
Hurqalya is the abandoned other-world city described in the
Ong's Hat materials: a water-city megastructure of canals,
aqueducts, and layered routes left behind by unknown builders.

+--------------------------------------+
| FIELD NOTE: NULL POINTER             |
+--------------------------------------+
HURQA-LYA-404 is a loader stub / intentional null-pointer, preserving
an address without forcing a render.

+--------------------------------------+
| QUOTED SIGNAL                        |
+--------------------------------------+
> CHAOS NEVER DIED!
> A Catalogue of Rare Books, Manuscripts & Curiosa,

---------------------- BINDINGS ----------------------
HURQALYA      := megastructure_graph
EGG           := traversal_grammar
HURQA_LYA_404 := loader_stub_null
LOST_404      := archive_compat_layer
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AESOP: This lore is opt-in, non-coercive, and safe to leave.