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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.]]
onequartershark: (13)

[personal profile] onequartershark 2021-04-28 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ They're barely acquaintances and certainly not friends, so Carolina supposes there are worse moments Dan could've seen. She failed here, but it's one of those times where she didn't need the benefit of a couple years to reach clarity to understand how.]

We don't seem to have a choice about it.

[ It's not exactly an "it's fine," but she gets it. Carolina is leaning against a server rack with arms folded. She's a little guarded, but at least not outright defensive. ]

All of them are dead. The only one it affects is me.

[ The most morbid of assurances that the privacy invasion is minimal. ]
hallelujahjunction: (Surprised - Cornered)

[personal profile] hallelujahjunction 2021-05-14 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Then you get to be the one calling the shots in terms of whether we ever talk about this again. [Generally, every time this has happened Dan's had a gentleman's agreement with the other party to just never, ever talk about it again, and he's more than willing to extend that same courtesy for Carolina.

And this isn't the first time all of them are dead has come up in the context of walking into someone else's memory, or someone else walking into his, which is why he doesn't start off with an I'm sorry for your loss. This situation is too forced, the disclosure too far outside the information she'd have volunteered him if they were just chatting while waiting in the cafeteria line. To address it at all means making presumptions he isn't comfortable with, in the context of having just watched Texas respond to Carolina like that or in tracking down a traitor.
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