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Piper 90: Mods ([personal profile] goneawaymod) wrote in [community profile] goneawayworld2020-08-08 01:55 am

Invasion!

Who: The New Hires
What: Sudden Memory Share
Where: Their Memory Palaces
When: After Intermission
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 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 cannot control the first memory shown, the player decides that, but they can control any other memories they'd like to show people. Of course, there's always the option of an extreme emotional reaction bringing up memories unbidden.]]
princesspower: (Our fingers dancing when they meet)

[personal profile] princesspower 2020-08-12 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Everyone?

[ She sounds shocked, dismayed, but not really disbelieving. ]

Why? Why are they doing all of this?
takenalive: (Default)

[personal profile] takenalive 2020-08-12 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
<They want our bodies and minds for our own and believe they have the right to take them. On most planets that means invading in force and forcibly conscripting people. On Earth, there was a strategy for 'voluntarily' recruiting humans, but as you can see most of them attempt to renege.>

[There is a lounge where people between piers, most of them human, sit in nice chairs and sip things and watch TV. Mostly they laugh too loudly, seem to be trying too hard to enjoy it.]

<...but all of that was in the past. This is perhaps a year and a half before it came to open war. Curious. I don't see why you would be here.>
princesspower: (You're the ground my feet won't reach)

[personal profile] princesspower 2020-08-12 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I... don't know either. Or why I'd dream about any of this.

[ She can't look away. All she can do is stare in horror. ]

Do you think it has something to do with the rig...?
takenalive: (Default)

[personal profile] takenalive 2020-08-14 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
<That has to be it, or something about the world. I haven't heard of this effect before but that means nothing.>

[He's generally looking into the middle distance with his main eyes, but he's got a stalk eye to watch Adora's face.]

<I suppose this is disturbing.>
princesspower: (Ask me why my heart's inside my throat)

[personal profile] princesspower 2020-08-14 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
...just a bit.

[ Adora grimaces. ]

Don't get me wrong, I've seen... people suffering. Just... not like this. And it's never pleasant.

[ There's a pause from her and then she steps toward him, hand outstretched as if she's going to touch his shoulder. ]

...how are you doing? After... that.
takenalive: (They want to conquer you)

[personal profile] takenalive 2020-08-16 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Alloran's eye stalks sway back and stretch upwards in surprise. He doesn't know how to react.]

<This? It happened every three days. One grows accustomed after a few years.>
princesspower: (Tell each other you're the one)

[personal profile] princesspower 2020-08-16 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
That's awful...

[ Her hand does gently settle on his shoulder, her frown deepening. ]

Look. If you ever need anything or just... I don't know... want to talk about? You can find me, OK?
takenalive: (Abandon you)

sorry for the gap

[personal profile] takenalive 2020-09-06 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
[It's stiffer than a human shoulder, with short smooth fur. The stalk eye that had been looking at Adora's face goes to her hand, and he finally meets her gaze with his big main eyes.

<I think what I have to say would prove more unpleasant than you know. Terrible things were done to me, and I was not a good person. What I am now, I don't know. But you are very kind to offer.>
princesspower: (cat wants to be fed)

no worries!

[personal profile] princesspower 2020-09-06 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Adora returns his gaze steadily, despite the fact that he has more than four. ]

A lot of people have done things that they're not proud of. But... if you choose to do something different, to be better... then... well, I believe in you. And the offer stands.
takenalive: (Default)

[personal profile] takenalive 2020-09-07 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
<You might not say that if you knew the depths of it. Some things can never be made up for or undone.>

[He says it gravely.]

<If this... situation repeats itself, more troubling aspects of my past may come to be known. That's unfortunate. I've enjoyed being so unknown.>
princesspower: (cautiously confused)

[personal profile] princesspower 2020-09-07 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
If you don't want to talk about it... you don't have to. I just want you to know that if you think it would help, I'll listen.

[ She nods firmly. ]

If you want to keep it private, that's up to you to. Or... it should be. There's definitely parts of my life I don't want to relive...