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hey so i have a question
it's kind of a stupid question
but i guess that's sort of the point of this network right
i've got a song stuck in my head and it won't go away
so how do i get rid of it?

also on a related note
i thought we were supposed to be remembering events
not songs
i have no idea if there's a point to it or not
but it's stuck in my head now and i can't get it out

if you don't have an answer at least tell me the weirdest thing you've remembered
it doesn't have to be anything pointless like a song

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The only music-related memory I have involves a man singing opera to a large number of leeches for some reason. He seemed to be having a good time.

It's likely the oddest memory I have, though a close second is that I'm fairly sure my best friend turned into a slug approximately the size of a bus.

okay i take back what i said earlier
those are definitely the weirdest memories i've heard
i don't even know where to start with either of them honestly

1. why leeches of all things?
2. how did your friend turn into a slug is that just something he could do?

1. Because he liked them, presumably. He was a scientist; a good amount of his research seemed to involve leeches.

2. Some people were capable of strange transformations like that where I was from. Most of them were large and alarming, though he was the only one I've remembered that looked exactly like that.

1. i'm disgusted but intrigued
i guess he found his calling?

2. what other kinds of transformations were there?
did they all look like animals?

1. Unfortunately, I couldn't tell you much else about whatever he thought he was doing. My friend probably could have told you, seeing as he inherited that man's projects after he was no longer able to pursue them, but he was evidently a bit busy becoming a giant slug.

2. They didn't always look like animals; a fair few of them seemed to be based on plants, and others seemed strangely reflective of issues the person in question had a fixation on.

you know i didn't think you'd manage a way to connect both these points but well done

also wow that's kind of impressively terrible?
can you give me some examples because i'm trying to imagine what that would even look like based on someone's issues

The most ready example I have is the world's most Soviet individual with masochistic tendencies that lived through the collapse of the USSR. He turned into a giant naked humanoid with massive tentacles binding his arms together, red thorns protruding from his eyes, and a sac full of leeches gagging his mouth. He moved by way of massive jointed structures protruding from his spine.

...It wasn't very subtle.

wow
i don't even have words for that just wow

were they all that disgusting?

Absolutely.

that sounds like such a mess
so did you turn into anything like that or were you just fighting those people?

From what I understand, they were voluntary transformations. I theoretically could have done it, but if I ever did, I don't remember it. I did fight a few of them, though.

that's probably a good thing
who knows what you would have turned into
you're probably better off not knowing

did you fight bondage man?

His name was Sergei Vladimir. Of course I fought him.

with a name like that i can see why you'd call him the most soviet individual
did you win?

He also called me "comrade" and was generally very overfamiliar in speech, with an extremely heavy accent.

I did win, however.

i'm absolutely not surprised to hear that

and good it'd be kind of a shame to lose to something like that
did you fight these kinds of people often?

Often enough. Sometimes others would fight them as well; I observed those sometimes.

did you get to watch anything particularly fun?

A pair of people with handguns and a woman with napalm blood fighting a sixty-foot plantlike abomination, for one.

that sounds really cool honestly
did they win?
i'm not sure how they'd win with handguns but the napalm blood lady probably was useful

The napalm blood lady was definitely useful. They did win eventually, though it took them a while. Understandably.

understandably
so was the giant plant thing also a person at one point?

He was. He was arguably still a person while he was the plant thing; they're still intelligent while they're like that, it isn't as though they lose themselves any.

But he was fully human before, yes.

huh
so did he decide to become a plant thing or did that just sort of happen
also could he go back to being a person afterwards?
or would he just be stuck as a giant plant thing
because that would really suck

I'm actually not certain; he wasn't like me, or like Sergei for that matter. We could choose to do it whenever we wanted, and from what I understand we could go back to how we were before, assuming we didn't take too much damage and die while we were like that.

(Sergei just dissolved into the floor after he died. It was repulsive.)

But that man was like that because he allowed himself to be consumed by a highly modified carnivorous plant of some sort. I won't even claim to understand how any of the rest resulted from that, but because of the way it happened I can't say for sure whether he could have undone that or not.