Tool - Vicarious(video) Walkthrough

"Vicarious" video

Opens on tangled and complex nerve & muscle fibers & details of the first brain worm as its eyes come on. It swims out of the man's pupil.  One such bran worm projects from each pupil, shown in detail.

Open on human, shown mechanical detail.  Seen on horizon is approaching destruction, inevitable.  Human tries to fake a smile while trembling.

Opens on human seeing approaching glass pane, represent perspective.  See man run fingers along perspective, feeling it out; Feeling leaves mark on perspective.  See several other perspectives floating about, each showing world slightly different.  Two perspectives' corners collide and light rushes forth, represents flash of truth or insight.  Constricts human's pupils & engages attention of brain worms(represents opposite poles of human being, perhaps?).  Enters flying tick thing, represents trial or difficulty.  Tick lands on human's hand, crawls over to palm, then flies away when an eye opens in the palm.  Represents trial as inspiring ingenuity or tool use and technological advancement.

 Human looks up at flaming hole in the sky, then forward again to see two perspectives intersecting along a full edge this time.  The area of their overlap is initially just the one seen through through the other, the obvious part.  Then the flash of insight comes through full area, begins cracking it & knocking splinters off.  Represents cognitive dissonance, loss of sanity.  Tick flies down and feeds on fallen shards, difficulties growing stronger from this process.  Brain worms both watching tick.  Human's eyes roll back in head, losing consciousness, and brain worms detach from eyes to fly free.  Both fly up at first, then red one turns and flies down(to tick?  not sure), while blue one continues up.  Approaches hole in sky and looks closely, with eye hand raising and looking up; mind inquiring into the vast unknown with aid of technology.

Blue brain worm then flies back down(was up flight same as down flight?  could be either way), and looks closely at eye hand, mind examines technological abilities and concepts and impacts.  Worm swims into eye hand pupil, wriggling in like a sperm cell into an egg(last bit probably coincidental).  Swims through and finds itself looking out of a huge inner eye; human becoming aware of itself as god, using imagination.

Perspective floats in front of human, then cut to two brain worms approaching each other, blue from above & red from below.  Human looking into perspective sees a reflection of itself, perspective on self as human, self-awareness.  Human looks to left & sees another human doing the same; other human looks back.  Human then looks back to perspective in front of it, now seeing many of itself; realizing connection and similarity to other humans, realizes community.

Tick crawls up on perspective, then flies over to human's head and crawls up the face to the middle of the forehead.  Gives birth to eye with three tentacles, which flies out and away from the tick, itself flying away.  Tentacle eye flies up and away, human feels for it at forehead and then see's destruction, with same three tentacles as tentacle eye, coming up close.  Destruction looms over and knocks human down, presumably to death.  Represents trial producing in human an idea, which creates some small destruction, and is then destroyed itself in turn.

Human falls & dies, empty skull revealing a fetus in womb where the brain had been.  Represents human death as conception of something else.  Fetus grows to something like the human, but with no arms, a swimmer's tail in place of legs, and eyes bugging out permanently; what is born is our greater selves.

Newborn Other-Human flies forth from a universe surrounded by screens of individual spiral galaxies.  See forest of full heads containing the eye the brain worm looked out through.  Other-Human swims up to the eye of one head and wriggles into the pupil.  Passing its new, more experienced self through the head to convey its change; analogous to a neuron firing, action potential and reaction.  Other-Human now swims out of another(?) head's eye and down toward another(?) universe, after looking closely at a particular spiral galaxy.  Circles around looking in, aiming(?), then dives in.  This completes the human's creation story.

Return to the brain worm that looked into the eye palm's pupil.  Its tail, traced to the Other-Human's, lights afire and shoots backward into the forehead of the Human.  Realizing its origin and nature, perspectives shatter, trials(the tick) consume themselves and disappear (burn up), and destruction falls as a bogeyman in the sky.  Ground falls away and Human is floating in empty space, lights and geometric figures dancing over its form.  Zoom in to eye reveals...

...reveals a giant flaming hole on a world's surface, sitting in what appears to be a continent.  Shift back to see entirety of the eye in the planet.  Hurricanes swirl over its mostly blue surface.  Its perspective on its troubles and evolutions?