Surgen had us play a game, on computers. Where we led avatars through a place like this one, and tried to figure out what happened to them. Only they weren't avatars at all. It was Orion.
. . . in two days, they lived through two months inside that simulation. At the end, where we started the game . . . all of them were a little crazy, and missing memories. They were trapped in there, with something . . . that sounded like the pillar. Only it moved and changed and came after them, and ate at their minds even when they weren't part of it.