What all of this is in the End

You have come here on a promise of a system that seems to be nowhere on this page at first glance. What is all of this? What is this Ohto County? What is all of this silliness? Its a story. And the human mind remembers stories. Our brain anchors to certain kinds of information better than others. Our brain likes places and people and stories. Our brain likes mysteries and melodrama. Our brain likes journeys and symbols. And studies have shown that we remember information better when it is encoded into these things. Why do you think churches are filled with allegorical art? Why do you think holy books use parables to impart information? Why do you kids remember all the Pokemon but not the periodic table of elements? 

Stories are why. 

And the enemy has ten thousand years of stories built into a toxic culture designed to keep us trapped. So if we are to be free, we need a story of our own. We need a story that empowers. We need a story that educates. We need a story that liberates. But that story must also be fun to tell. That story must also be fun to take part in. That story must also be worth working on, worth fighting for, worth the struggle. 

So that is what all of this is in the end. 

That is the why of Ohto County. 

Oh, and one last thing. I wanted the story I created to lay bare the tools and mechanisms of how stories do what they do. I wanted people who learned this story to be able to tinker with it. I wanted the people who learned this story, to be educated and inoculated against toxic stories through the learning of this story. So this story does not pretend to be anything other than a story. But given what a story is, that still makes it extremely powerful, and makes those who enact the story extremely dangerous.

Still with me? Good. let’s go.