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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 2021-04-23 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
"So we all fall to our societal doom because we get the wrong person to the seat of power or someone who shouldn't takes over it by force and ruins everything?"

...that's...very plausible. A little too plausible for comfort. Shelley shakes her head, trying not to think too hard about it.

"Maybe not knowing it could be a cycle would give more hope. You may not want to tell other people about that"

Oh well. She'll get over it after some thinking, but right now the thought human society may disappear as she knows it someday is kind of gloomy, goodness.
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[personal profile] greyerrant 2021-04-26 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
"I am uncomfortable with deception." He says, his voice very firm.

"While it is a cycle, the cycle continues. Perhaps one day we shall get it right."
Boy that is a wrong hope.
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[personal profile] drladysounds 2021-04-27 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Don't think of it as deception! Think of it as...being considerate" she says "There's people out there who don't even know if we're alone in the universe or if we're all some butterfly's dream and when that butterfly wakes up all of existence disappears"

There's supposed to be a point somewhere in there. Apparently she realizes it may have gotten lost in her usual way of talking, because she shrugs and rephrases it:

"What I mean is that there's people who worry too much about this sorta stuff. Not everyone is a rugged space warrior"
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[personal profile] greyerrant 2021-04-29 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
"True. I am not a philosopher by nature though I have examined such books and considered them in the course of my education. My way of life has been practical."

He shrugs. "I cannot say if we are a dream or not, but I would venture the only thing that matters regardless if that we act as best we can, with honor and honesty."