“Dandy’s Denial”

Filed by: Raine Solara (sub-channel intercept)

Location: Sidewalk Archive Node 3-B / Former Basement Employee Registry

Status: Redacted (Reinstated by viewer request)

Known Affiliation: Basement Club fixture, guest of the Retreat (though never seen in a room), rumored confidant of Bun G Chord.

Lentil soup is grounding. You can’t drift into an identity spiral with cumin in your veins

Preaches softly but persistently about vegan suppers, especially lentils cooked over candlelight in ceramic pots.

DANDY: “They say no one leaves the Basement Club. That’s a lie. I left. I was the Basement DJ. Janitor. Code wrangler. Cat wrangler. Once fed Anjelikka a playlist so deep, she forgot what century it was.

Do you want to know why the jukebox glitches at 3:33 a.m.? That’s when the club plays back memories instead of songs. And guess who used to calibrate that loop? Yours truly. Right after my lentil soup break. Never trusted a timeline without legumes.

They called me mad. Said I ‘over-stitched the ambiance.’ Devon fired me in six timelines. Anjelikka rehired me in seven. But I remember things. Too well. I remember who the Basement used to be before she started wearing it.”

This could be Dandy after lentil soup
infusion.

Some say Dandy’s lying. Others say he’s remembering in reverse. Either way, the door he left through? It hasn’t reopened since. What do you think? Who is Dandy really? Nobody knows, but a few older guests claim they recognize the voice, though each swears it belonged to someone different.

DANDY: “They say lentil soup doesn’t belong in the Basement. That it’s too... mundane. But that’s exactly why it works. Ground pulses in every bowl. Cumin, turmeric, and memory root. It stabilizes synapse drift. Anchors the avatar. Keeps the mirror loops from folding in on themselves. 

Anjelikka used to call it ‘soupcode.’ Said it kept the ego from overwriting the host.”

Soupcode was a code for being a hippie, but Dandy confused it all.