“Departure. The twelve testers leaving Nakshatra Technologies' Noida Sector 62 office. The leaving being: the transition from the controlled environment that had housed them for thirty days to the uncontrolled reality of: Indian traffic, Indian weather, Indian noise. The noise being: overwhelming. Not because it was louder than Bharatvarsha's soundscapes but because it was: undesigned. Bharatvarsha's sounds were crafted — every bird, every wind, every NPC voice was placed with intention. Real-world sound was: chaos, the chaos that the game-habituated brain found: jarring.”