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Piper 90: Mods ([personal profile] goneawaymod) wrote in [community profile] goneawayworld2021-04-10 09:37 pm

3..2...1...CONTACT!

Who: The New Hires
What: Sudden Memory Share
Where: Their Memory Palaces
When: After "Don't Touch That Dial"
Warnings/Notes: Possible in every memory, warn in subject lines.

Contact.

It's during a pause in their day. A nap. An idle moment looking across the Top Deck. Taking a slow breath between reps in the training room.

The New Hires are connected. Mental pathways locking together, they're forced into one another's innermost beings. Thrust into one another's memory palaces where the mind collects and stores everything that makes them who they are. The core of their beings are only a few steps away and no one can help the violation.

To make matters worse, it comes with no explanation or no ability to pull out and stop. Once they're through the first memory, perhaps they can find a way out, but they're already witnessing some event from their host's past. And, if they left, who knows whether or not they'd end up accidentally invading another memory palace?

And if they were there, who was in theirs?

[[So, how this works: the memories can either be viewed in spectator mode or the guest can be experiencing everything themselves. The person whose memories are being shown, the host, can watch as their current self or take the form they had of their past self. They can talk about the memory with the "guest" that's visiting.

They cannot control the first memory shown, the player decides that, but they can control any other memories they'd like to show people after. Of course, there's also always the option of an extreme emotional reaction bringing up other memories unbidden.]]
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[personal profile] googledox 2021-04-14 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Present Brainy is now there, hands clasps behind his back as he watches with curiosity.

He looks back at the door the social worker left through.

"I pity him almost. It was an untenable situation. It's doubtful anyone in the entire UP would've taken me in, my employer RJ Brande notwithstanding. He actually did offer to be my legal guardian once, but I turned him down because it would've appeared to be favoritism if he gave my labs preferential treatment for funding within the company."

He shakes his head.

"He was the only one, I think. I think any other potential foster parents would've balked if told I was to be their charge."
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[personal profile] fuckingaqua 2021-04-15 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Tucker knows basically nothing at all about the context for any of this, outside of the impressions the memory gave him. And those, they're sort of couched in the mundane familiarity side of things. Impatience, frustration, resignation. All the good stuff.

"Well, what for? You were a kid!"

Which is more or less to say, he finds this calm and logical explanation neither mollifying nor reassuring. His job is aggressively giving a shit about everything around him, failing to disguise it at all, and later acting like he's been successfully disguising it anyway. Right now, he's at steps one and two.

"If someone's gotta be responsible for a kid, you take care of the fucking kid! It's not rocket science! That's- I dunno, super tenable to me. How's your boss the only person around with any chill?"

He'll never say he did the best job actually parenting with Junior. But he did a job and Junior's awesome, so that counts for something.
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[personal profile] googledox 2021-04-15 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"How to explain this..."

People not knowing the context of who Brainiac was has actually never happened to him, whether in his time period or in the past during the height of his tyranny.

In his brief time in the Second Galaxy, perhaps. That was it.

"When I say the words 'genocidal dictator' who is the first Earth historical figure you think of?"
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[personal profile] fuckingaqua 2021-04-17 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, he accidentally saw complicated stuff. Tucker doesn't see his "that's a kid though" stance changing, but he'll roll with the question in short order.

"Jeff Bezos. Why?"