Zoostuck 2

Red tape.

Ah, it's so obvious now. By putting layer after layer of bureaucracy in the way, the signatures will have to sacrifice large numbers of their troops to get past. It might not stop them, but it's sure to slow them down. You begin funneling your vast wealth into the project of making all transactions more pointlessly complex. This will be inconvenient for everyone, including you, but it's still an improvement over a signature-dominated world.

You are now a hat beyond time and space conducting a mental adventure. Due to cosmic forces you do not understand, your adventure has changed its nature. It cannot be updated by you at all. Rather, you can only provide suggestions. and other inanimate objects throughout time and space will construct the updates. They will then conceal these updates somewhere in your mind and leave you with only cryptic clues pointing to where the updates are hidden.

At first this seemed strange, but the update you've just uncovered makes it clearer. This is part of a ritual for you to find a compatible inanimate object and breed with it to produce a stronger item. You don't know how the actual process works, but it's probably going to help you be worn somehow, so you're going with it.

Apparently your most compatible item-mate is a piece of candy that's been stolen from one too many babies and wants revenge on everyone who's ever stolen it. You don't really get it yourself, but since the breeding process seems to only involve shuffling your thoughts around, you aren't really complaining.

Regardless, the candy has just posted an update-clue to your mind. The clue is an image of four insects with musical instruments playing a game that will remake the universe. Wow, you sure see that game in a lot of clues. It's almost like it's important somehow.

Anyway, it's obvious what the clue means, at least on the surface. The more interesting question is, how does this clue further the candy's plans for revenge?