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.( is a huge, sentient(?) verse that almost always expresses depression and sadness through using its

sentience, by shedding "tears" and making very human-like crying noises. The verse has only been reached a few times.

How to enter
You have to enter by going to a specific location across the entire cosmos. The location resets every 10 OYC, and usually the opening/portal to .( is quite small and easy to miss. However, that has not stopped a few creatures who actually got inside .(.

For all the creatures who made it inside, they got transported to a small, brightly lit room, where they were given 100 years to think about where they were are and why. Many of the creatures went insane before they got out though. The ones that did remain sane (usually the gods) were taken to a huge chamber-like structure, where .( will let the creature think about what to give it, through a small opening on the ground. .( always seems to know what language the creature is speaking, no matter where it's from.

Possible Outcomes
Once the object is dropped inside the hole, .( will examine it for a short while.

If .( does not like the gift given (which is 99.7% of the time), it will violently rip the gift apart using some sort of energy and proceed to kill the creature in the chamber. During this, .( will shed a huge number of "tears" (which are actually composed of Toxicium) and make crying noises.

However, if .( does like the gift (which is 0.02% of the time), it will show a smiley face, and give the creature the object back and let the creature go. It is still unknown why .( gives the object back if it liked it so much.

If .( is not interested in the gift (which is 0.01% of the time), it will throw it away into some huge dump and give the creature a random object from the dump. Most of the time, the object is either some random metal parts or small rocks. However, on one rare occasion, the creature got a small cube of Sentient Substance. The substance is now in the Ontological Museum, and is being studied.