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[recollecters]

Maurice was going to do this, but Maurice sucks so I sent him home before he could. Anyway, some of you may have noticed our new poll feature! We just don't have the time and resources to cater to all your "where is x item, what the fuck" complaints, so we had to streamline. The polls were the result of that! Coded them myself. I mean, Maurice did some of it, but I did most of it. So basically we're democratically crowd-sourcing what we're going to bother to fix for you! You can send thank you notes to the building, HR doesn't mind. So far it seems like you all care about the color blue most, so we fixed it! A little, anyway. I suggest a bracing walk through the woods if you particularly missed the color and don't feel like gazing deeply into a hobo's eyes. You've all been reading up on QR codes, right? You might also want to learn to start a fire. Just a tip. Jim Halloway Research & Development Retrspec Incorporated As per the World Regains tracker, fruits and flowers that were once blue are once again blue. This includes the echo flowers in the Recollé woods! NPCs seem to be incapable of seeing this color still, however, and will not note any differences. The color does not seem capable of being transferred to anything else, either, and any attempts to do so will simply fade the color of the thing you were trying to use to do that. Furthermore, one thread of at least 10 comments from you from this post may be supplied for one untriggered memory by linking the thread and in explanation putting "June Freebie". This may only be claimed through the rest of June, and may not be claimed after the month ends. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently.

Comments

[true_noir]

It's like they're saying 'You're sick now, and only we have your medicine to make you better,' but they're the ones who made us sick in the first place, and the cure is what caused the sickness.

[notyourutopian]

Essentially.
Albeit slightly less blatantly cruel as that would be.
I don't think people are foolish enough to fall for it

[true_noir]

he's doing it very poorly if he thinks that we will fall for it, but the tactic has worked before with others, Eleanor. It is alarmingly close to how drug dealers work.

[She really didn't like that she knew that.]

[notyourutopian]

Mm.
See, if it were me.
I would've never made any announcements at first.
Just done the changes and let people wonder right?
Then turn up now, and say, something akin to...

'Hello! We're trying to fix whatever is happening do you see blue anywhere?'

Play up the 'trapped in here together' thing.

[true_noir]

You would make a much better Jim than Jim does, Eleanor. Please don't take that as an insult, though. I just mean that by saying that, you're already leaps and bounds smarter than he is.

Someone might have actually believed that.

[notyourutopian]

I'm not sure that's a terribly hard bar to step over.

Maybe.
It would be more successful than what they are doing, anyway.

[true_noir]

I'll admit. "Not being a complete moron" is sort of faint praise, isn't it? As it is, what they're doing will never work, if any part of it is to try and win us over.

[notyourutopian]

I hesitate to say never
I mean, I'd like very much for it to be true
But we really don't know what the limits of their abilities actually are.

[true_noir]

[There was a noticeable pause before she replied. Her fingers shook for a second and she scowled. Another vision had flooded her experience, almost as if on cue with this conversation.]

No, I suppose I shouldn't say never either. After all, Jim saw fit to give me a 'memory' of a time when that girl proved it could work just fine.

[notyourutopian]

...What do you mean?

[true_noir]

I just had another hallucination. I watched this Altena try to calm down Kirika by telling her that they were all sinners, and that the only way she'd ever know peace was with them.

Admittedly, she was a lot more eloquent than Jim.

[notyourutopian]

That seems pretty intense.
I guess if it works depends on the situation.
Doesn't mean it'll work here.

[true_noir]

Kirika was pointing the gun that Altena had just given back to her at her head, so yes. Very intense. I think everyone was a few seconds from snapping except Altena. She seemed eerily calm.

I think I know a few reasons it can't work on you or I, not the way that they want it. No matter what, these "Memories" aren't replacing. They're adding on to the things in our head. Altena feels like she was 'her' mother, but not mine. Make sense?

[notyourutopian]

Hm.
I hadn't really thought about that before.
But you're right.
They are just...adding on.
They aren't replacing.
So they aren't trying to turn is into something else.

Hm

[true_noir]

They still feel as real as a memory, and to an extent it takes me forcing myself to remember 'that didn't actually happen' sometimes to push the effects away. It gets harder the more there are, the younger they are, but it's more additive, yes.

I'm not sure that they aren't trying to turn us still, but if they are, it's not a very good job of it yet.

[notyourutopian]

Even if they feel like memories, we still remember everything about who we really are.
I don't know.
I do have to remind myself sometimes too but.
Not once I adjust to the idea that a specific memory isn't real.

[true_noir]

One or two have been harder. Most have not. The ones that are memories from her youth are harder to ignore, I think because they are formative, if that makes sense.

[notyourutopian]

I suppose.
I've only had two of those and I felt...
Like me, I guess?

But lonelier maybe.
Wasn't really a big difference.

[true_noir]

If I'm being really honest, Eleanor, one of the things that disturbs me most is that, outside of a couple very obvious things like stabbing people or this weird obedience to a cult? She doesn't feel that different either.

She has the same sense of humor, smiles the same way, has most of the same tastes. Right up until she starts spouting something semi-religious or starts stabbing people in the throat, it would feel almost like me. It's always been like that, and that worries me. The dream of Corsica? It could have been me, no question, but I'm almost sure there's something really creepy about why she was there now, even if I can't put a finger on what yet.

I'm not her, but she does sound like me a lot when she isn't being a horrible person.

[notyourutopian]

I feel like 'Is a religious nutjob who stabs people' is a pretty important distinction.
Like, I'm sure there are lots of people out there who you're quite similar too.
Moreso for the fact that they aren't, you know, stabbing people.
Than you are to her just because you laugh at the same jokes

[true_noir]

You're right, of course. In fact, you're very right. The distinction is huge, even if so many things on the surface are the same. Even if something core is the same, we went different directions in our lives.