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What Is Lobotomy Corporation?

Lobotomy Corporation is a mysterious energy company in the world of Lobotomy Corporation, created primarily to carry out a much larger and more secretive plan known as the Seed of Light Project. To the outside world, the corporation appears to be an enormous energy producing organization that provides power to society. However, producing energy is only the surface level purpose of the corporation. Its true objective is to gather enough energy to complete the Seed of Light Project, a plan originally conceived by Ayin and Carmen with the intention of helping humanity overcome its emotional suffering and become capable of genuine change.

To accomplish this, Lobotomy Corporation captures supernatural beings known as Abnormalities and places them inside specially designed containment facilities throughout its massive underground complexes. Employees, known as Agents, are assigned to interact with these Abnormalities by performing different types of specialized work. Depending on the Abnormality, employees may need to provide Instinct, Insight, Attachment, or Repression work. Each Abnormality has its own preferences, rules, and dangers, meaning employees have to learn how each one behaves if they want to keep the facility operating safely.

Successful work produces a mysterious substance known as Enkephalin, which serves as the corporation’s primary energy resource. The employees repeat this process throughout each workday, sending Agents into containment rooms to perform work and collecting the resulting energy. The more energy the corporation produces, the closer it comes to fulfilling its larger objective.

However, Lobotomy Corporation is not a normal workplace. The Abnormalities are often extremely dangerous, and mistakes can have serious consequences. Some Abnormalities can injure or kill employees, influence their minds, escape their containment units, or cause disasters throughout the facility. Others have complicated conditions that must be fulfilled or avoided. Because of this, managing the corporation requires employees to understand the strange rules surrounding each Abnormality and make careful decisions about how they interact with them.

The corporation is divided into multiple departments, each responsible for different aspects of its operation. Employees are trained, equipped, and gradually strengthened as the corporation expands. As more departments become operational and more Abnormalities are contained, the facility becomes increasingly complicated to manage. The corporation’s employees are therefore not simply workers producing electricity; they are effectively part of a massive system designed to extract energy from supernatural phenomena while surviving the dangers those phenomena present.

The enormous amount of Enkephalin gathered by Lobotomy Corporation is ultimately intended to power the Seed of Light Project. The project is far more ambitious than simply providing humanity with electricity. Its purpose is connected to the fundamental problems of human existence: people’s fear, pain, trauma, emotional limitations, and inability to change. Ayin and Carmen believed humanity needed something that could help people confront these problems and develop the ability to change themselves.

Therefore, Lobotomy Corporation can be understood as a gigantic energy producing facility built around a hidden purpose. The Abnormalities provide the means of producing Enkephalin, the employees perform the work necessary to extract it, and the corporation collects an enormous quantity of energy over the course of its operation. All of this ultimately serves the Seed of Light Project.

In other words, the energy business is not the real goal it is the method. The corporation’s true purpose is to gather enough energy to bring the Seed of Light Project to completion.

What Is Enkephalin?

Enkephalin is the primary form of energy produced by Lobotomy Corporation through its interactions with Abnormalities. It is an extremely valuable resource that allows the corporation to operate and provides the energy needed for its larger objectives.

Employees generate Enkephalin by performing work on Abnormalities. When an Agent enters an Abnormality’s containment room and performs an appropriate work type, the Abnormality may produce energy. The amount and quality of the energy generated depends on several factors, including the Abnormality itself, the type of work performed, and the employee carrying out the work.

Because every Abnormality behaves differently, there is no single method that works equally well on all of them. One Abnormality may respond positively to Instinct, while another may prefer Insight, Attachment, or Repression. Some may have unusual conditions that make particular types of work dangerous. Employees therefore need to experiment, observe the results, and learn the correct methods for producing energy efficiently without putting themselves in unnecessary danger.

Enkephalin is important because it functions as a powerful energy source that can be used by society. Lobotomy Corporation’s public reputation is built around supplying this energy, making the corporation extremely valuable within the City.

However, the energy’s importance goes much further than ordinary electricity production. The corporation requires an enormous quantity of energy because it is being accumulated for the Seed of Light Project. The entire process of capturing Abnormalities, assigning employees to them, performing work, and harvesting Enkephalin ultimately contributes toward generating the massive amount of energy necessary for the project.

This makes Enkephalin one of the most important resources in Lobotomy Corporation. Without it, the corporation could not fulfill its public function as an energy company, and more importantly, it could not accomplish the larger purpose for which the facility was created.

What Are Abnormalities?

Abnormalities are mysterious supernatural entities that Lobotomy Corporation captures and keeps inside specialized containment units. They are one of the most important elements of the entire corporation because their existence makes the production of Enkephalin possible.

Abnormalities do not have a single appearance or species. They can take almost any form imaginable. Some resemble monsters or animals, while others appear as humanoid beings, objects, plants, machines, or strange creatures inspired by fairy tales, mythology, legends, and human imagination.

For example, an Abnormality might resemble something that came from a children’s story, while another might look like a bizarre creature that represents a much darker psychological concept. Their appearances and abilities can therefore vary enormously.

Despite their differences, Abnormalities share the fact that they possess supernatural properties that do not follow ordinary physical laws. Each one has its own unique behavior, rules, and requirements that employees must understand.

An Abnormality’s containment unit is designed to keep it isolated from the rest of the facility. Agents are sent inside these rooms to perform work, allowing the corporation to extract energy from the interaction. If the work goes well, the corporation gains Enkephalin and the Abnormality remains contained.

However, if an Abnormality’s conditions are violated, it may become dangerous. Some Abnormalities can escape their containment rooms and begin attacking employees or interfering with other parts of the facility. Others may have special effects that influence employees, alter their behavior, or create dangerous situations.

This means that Abnormality management is essentially a constant balance between risk and energy production. The corporation needs employees to interact with Abnormalities because doing so produces Enkephalin, but interacting with the Abnormalities also creates the possibility of something going wrong.

Abnormalities are also strongly connected to human thought and emotion. Many are associated with fears, desires, suffering, trauma, ideas, stories, myths, or other aspects of the human psyche. Rather than simply being ordinary monsters, they can represent concepts and emotions in unusual and sometimes symbolic ways.

This is one of the reasons the Abnormalities are so diverse. Something as simple as a fairy tale can become the basis for an Abnormality, while another can embody an abstract or disturbing idea about humanity.

Their connection to human concepts is also important because it ties directly into the themes of the Seed of Light Project. The corporation is not merely harvesting energy from random supernatural creatures. The Abnormalities are deeply connected to the human condition, which makes them relevant to the corporation’s ultimate goal of helping humanity confront its own suffering and limitations.

How the Three Things Connect

The relationship between Lobotomy Corporation, Enkephalin, and Abnormalities can be summarized as a chain:

Abnormalities → Work → Enkephalin → Energy → Seed of Light Project

The corporation captures Abnormalities and places them into containment.

Employees perform specialized work on those Abnormalities.

Successful work produces Enkephalin.

The corporation collects enormous amounts of Enkephalin and uses it as energy.

That energy is ultimately needed to carry out the Seed of Light Project.

Therefore, the Abnormalities are not simply prisoners being kept inside the corporation for no reason. They are a fundamental part of the corporation’s entire operation. Their supernatural properties allow Lobotomy Corporation to generate the energy required for its ultimate objective.

At the same time, the employees are an essential part of the process. Without Agents performing work on the Abnormalities, the corporation would not be able to efficiently harvest Enkephalin. This creates the central contradiction of the corporation: human beings must repeatedly interact with dangerous supernatural entities in order to produce the energy that is supposed to help humanity.

The True Purpose of Lobotomy Corporation

At first glance, Lobotomy Corporation seems like an enormous energy company that exists to provide power to the City. In reality, the energy business is only one part of a much larger plan.

The corporation was created as a means of accomplishing the Seed of Light Project, which was intended to address humanity’s emotional and psychological suffering. Ayin and Carmen’s vision was based on the belief that humanity needed the ability to confront its own problems rather than simply continue living under the same limitations.

The corporation therefore spends its entire operation gathering an enormous amount of energy. Every Abnormality contained, every work procedure performed, and every unit of Enkephalin produced contributes toward the eventual completion of the project.

This also explains why the corporation is so enormous and why it takes such extreme measures to maintain its operations. It needs to produce an extraordinary amount of energy, and doing so requires a facility capable of containing countless supernatural entities and managing a large workforce.

Ultimately, Lobotomy Corporation is not really about electricity. It is about humanity.

The energy production, Abnormalities, employees, departments, containment facilities, and daily work procedures all exist as parts of a much larger plan intended to bring about a fundamental change in humanity.

The corporation’s public identity as an energy company is therefore only the surface of what it truly is. Beneath that public image is a massive experiment and a desperate attempt to gather the resources necessary to complete the Seed of Light Project.

In the simplest terms: Lobotomy Corporation captures Abnormalities, has employees work with them to produce Enkephalin, collects that energy on a massive scale, and uses it as the foundation for the Seed of Light Project a plan intended to help humanity overcome its emotional suffering and become capable of meaningful change.

Departments:

Control department: The Control Department is the first Department unlocked within the facility, located in the upper layer, Asiyah. It consists of a Main Room, 4 minor rooms, 2 elevators and 6 hallways. The maximum amount of containment units that this department can have is 4. This department is located above and connected to the YesodArmband Information Department. Malkuth is the Sephirah of this department.

Malkuth is a woman who does not allow weakness in her department, as she does not care on whether employees want to leave or not since she does not want for “weak” people to drag the others down.

Information department: The Information Department is the second Department of the Facility, unlocked at Day 6, located in the upper layer, Asiyah. It consists of a Main Room, 1 lower large room, 4 elevators, 4 hallways and 4 elevator hubs. The maximum amount of containment units that this department can have is 4. Above this department lies the Control Department, to the left is the Safety Department, to the right is the Training Department, and below is the Central Command Department. Yesod is the Sephirah of this department.

Yesod is a strict and serious man who is very professional about everything, not scared to criticize you even if you are his manager.

Safety department: The Safety Team Department is one of the two Departments that can be unlocked from day 11, located in the upper layer, Asiyah. It contains a Main Room, 3 elevator hubs, 2 elevators and 2 hallways. The maximum amount of containment units that this department can have is 4. This department is connected to the left side of the Information Team Department. Netzach is the Sephirah of this department.

Netzach is a man who does not care that much about this job. As he is always drunk on the liquid known as “Enkephalin”, a highly addictive drink like alcohol.

Training department: The Training Team Department is one of the two Departments that can be unlocked from Day 11, located in the upper layer, Asiyah. It contains a Main Room, 3 elevator hubs, 2 elevators and 2 hallways. The maximum amount of containment units that this department can have is 4. This department is connected to the right side of the Information Team Department. Hod is the Sephirah of this department.

Hod is a woman who forces herself to believe that she is “helping” the employees at lobotomy corporation, while she’s just making everything worse. She means no harm, as she just wants to help