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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.]]
gempathizing: (idk about all this)

[personal profile] gempathizing 2020-08-14 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, he can admit.

It's not a good look. A worse look than he maybe remembered, seeing it from the outside. Watching himself have to climb.

But he can't help a jolt of knee-jerk defensiveness. The need to explain. ]


Hey, I was fine. Still am. I mean, this looks-- way worse than it really is.

[ The fact that she didn't pull him up was part of what made it so clear that she wasn't herself. And at that point, he was pretty committed. Otherwise he put in all the risk for nothing. ]

I couldn't just leave her there.
bringinghopewithme: (u wanna go m8?)

[personal profile] bringinghopewithme 2020-08-15 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It can look exactly as bad as it is. Why did it have to be you who went?

[Bunny keeps an eye on the conversation as Pearl gets into her speech about Steven's mother, the "sometimes you look just like her" sticking out. He's always suspected this. Steven is a very human kid, and these are distinctly nonhuman creatures, who are allowing him to put himself in mortal danger over their emotional breakdowns about . . . about Steven's dead mother? And their wondering if Steven is, what, channeling her spirit somehow, for them to sort their pain over her out with?]

Because your mother hurt them, so you have to - to sort through the feelings they have about her, because you remind them of her? Who told you that was your job?
gempathizing: (pearl pls)

[personal profile] gempathizing 2020-08-15 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
No one ever told me that. No one ever said it was a job for anyone to do. I love them. I didn't need a reason to try to help when they were hurting.

[ There was a long time where it felt like the least he could do. All things considered. But he doesn't think it changes the core of it.

Steven tracks the motion of the hologram forming. Unlike Memory Steven, his expression only flattens. He thinks he'll go ahead and check out of paying attention to the replay. Maybe it'll change, one day, but after everything he's still tired just seeing her. ]


Mom probably didn't bother telling them what having me would do to her in the first place. Going by her track record. [ Why deal with her own consequences when she could put them off? Keep another secret. Tell another lie. ] There was always gonna be a mess left over.