tfw the best metaphor we have for the ritual that went awry is "one of the participants tried, effectively, to allocate memory at interrupt time, against our advice, and, from our perspective, we got a stack trace somewhere in her graphics drivers" and she (the crashed node in the hive) hears that explanation and says "that shouldn't make any sense whatsoever but i can't refute anything about what you just said given the available data"
the somewhat worrying thing, also, is that this shouldn't make any sense whatsoever, but nobody involved in the experience (and many physical bodies were involved in this singular experience) can refute the explanation
