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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] drladysounds 2021-04-16 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Shelley looks very glad to hear that -- that in the present it's not all like this. Because living under all this fear, under the thumb of such a dangerous atmosphere and the Regime...it must be horrifying. The relief and the anger showed just how bad for the heart it is to live in such situations.

"That's great! Did it last long? Or was it a mercifully short-lived time?"

With some luck Jaime knew how things were like before the Regime made all this happen, but...something of this scale doesn't get pushed onto society in a short time, she thinks. Maybe even in the present things aren't all peach and cream.
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[personal profile] beetlebutt 2021-04-17 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
"It lasted about five years, but they'll probably have to keep trying to fix things for a long time. It wasn't just the US, it was over the whole world. And different bad people have done bad things because of the power vacuum. Like even after we had a new government, someone killed everyone at the inauguration - the president-elect, Congress, all the people just there to watch..."

It's not magically better.

Bad things still keep happening.

"But there are people trying to make things better."
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[personal profile] drladysounds 2021-04-17 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
All over the world...no wonder it'd take so long to fix. Perhaps she shouldn't take Tackleford as her baseline for this sort of stuff. Over there a lot of trouble has been fleeting, even if it shakes the town all over. Not every place is like Tackleford, she should remember that.

Still, Shelley is certainly sympathetic to that plight, and that Jaime mentions there's people trying to make things better gets a nod from her.

"Sometimes that's all it takes to make a good first step! But that scale is...not really what I expected at all."

That makes rather worrying such a regime was set all over the world, but...

"But just like something that awful could take over the world, something good can do it as well. It's just matter of time"

...why is she trying to be encouraging? She frowns a little when she realizes she's doing that. If she had to guess, maybe it's because she could see how bad things were. Definitely wasn't the same as experiencing it, but it sure got a more genuine response from her than if she had been simply told about it.