Investigation Results.

[prometheanflame]

Everyone - there's something important I need to share with you.

I took the time to explore the back rooms of the history museum on my break. I found some old brochures under the cabinets and other things, but I also found a crack in the wall.

[An image of a dusty corner, complete with cobweb. It's a closeup of a crack, much like those that have showed up all over the city.]

I went in to investigate an hour ago. I don't know about anywhere else in the city, but this isn't normal. It looked like I had walked into space or some sort of dreamscape, only...this was real. I tried to find where it lead, but I ended up seeing some sort of video recording. Or memory. I can't tell.

Anyway, everything went black and I woke up here. I'm fine, but that video is now on my phone. I'll share it with you.

[Attached is a short movie file for everyone else to watch. They may or may not recognize the man in the video as one of the founders of the city, and the city's first mayor, giving his acceptance speech and making promises of industrializing the city to make it into something big and beautiful. The crowd for the most part seems to be into it, but if they watch closely enough they will see there are several people in the crowd who aren't happy with this agenda. They appear to be farmers and laborers, some of the first settlers and families in the city.]

You can see this, right? It looks to be real from what I can tell.

Comments

[prometheanflame]

Are these everywhere?

That's one explanation for why we're getting a color video for something that happened almost 100 years ago.

[truedetective]

I experienced mine around the base stone of the school. I can't say everywhere, but there's little in common between the two areas.
At what point do we begin questioning the existence of reality itself?

[prometheanflame]

What did you find there?

We should have started questioning it with the fruit.

[truedetective]

My experience was broadly in line with what you've described here.

The fruit, the chocobos... I'd been ascribing them to alterations in our memory, perhaps via some form of hypnotism. But this is unmistakable.

Either reality itself must be questioned, or... I don't have an "or."

[prometheanflame]

So no answers to the "why" and "how" just yet.

I've been going through the video multiple times to check it against primary sources, and I've noticed some things about the crowd.

You can actually see some of the attenders' faces. In a clip from the 30's.

[truedetective]

Indeed. The clip is surprisingly clear, given the technology that would have been available at the time.

I refer back to the questioning of reality itself.

[prometheanflame]

...So how much of this work do you think even is real? What if this is all a dream?

Or someone with the power to change the city. I would say that superpowers aren't real, but the past week taught me otherwise.