sanity chicken would be a good band name

[parodeity]

all right fuck it
i was trying to avoid being That Crazy Person
but clearly everyone else is doing really well at sanity chicken
all edging around the topic or not bringing it up
or possibly it not being an issue for the majority though i am PRETTY fucking sure i can confirm it happening for at least like
nearly ten people maybe i dont know
so im just going to commit to my role as the crazy conspiracy theory guy
get me a whiteboard and some string you all
im ready to mark it up
wave goodbye sadly to my good name and all that
watch it circle the drain as i dump it in the toilet and watch it flush away
so anyway here we go

raise your fucking hand if youve had a very vivid hallucination of some sort
that felt super real
since you got this app
about a thing you definitely never remember yourself doing
also if youre going to go dave you sound like youve lost it
at least link me something entertaining off the internet to add some spice to what is sure to be a pretty common response
it isnt like yo remember when horses were a thing makes any of us sound any less ridiculous
so
admittedly i guess i could sound crazier
theres like a scale here
shit i should make a scale ill do that later
anyway

raise your hands or dont
go

[ ooc: i literally never care about theadjacking so feel free if you want ]

Comments

[daemonized]

I'll risk the notion of sounding mentally dubious, and be the first to raise my figurative hand. Since you were bold enough to announce this to everyone first.

[parodeity]

it was the draw of being in my dazzling company right
knew it
so anyway can i be invasive and ask when it happened to you and how many times
and like
if youve noticed some kind of pattern with it being a thing
you know to try to legitimize our mentally dubious thing here

[daemonized]

That must have been it, that and your shining aura. What's a bit of insanity in the name of good company?

It's only happened once, and I wasn't doing something so much as remembering certain creatures exist. Monsters, large and small. I could recite to you their names and everything.

[parodeity]

clearly nada
insanity is definitely a small price to pay to spend time in the same group as me
im just that thrilling to be around
and now youre in my group and everyones gonna be like damn
sure wish i could chuck my sanity into the ocean too
gotta get me in on that action
etc

i mean yes you absolutely could
however
have you happened to tell anyone else about those creatures
because something that i personally have experienced is that sometimes
going into detail about the hallucination
or memory that sounds less crazy lets go with your terminology
but anyway sometimes that will cause them to do the thing
and then its just a chain reaction of stupidity
by which i mean sure hit me up tell me about your monsters

[daemonized]

Is it like a club? Are you going to mail me a membership card in 3-5 business days? If not, I'll be sorely disappointed.

To answer your question somewhere in there, yes, I have. More than one; and yet only one experienced the result you described. She remembered the same creature I told her about (I drew it, actually), though the circumstances surrounding her "memory" were different. As were the feelings directed towards it.

And about the monsters, which would you like to start with? Large, medium, or small?

[parodeity]

glow in the dark lettering and everything
i obviously will not skimp out on the club membership cards
what kind of crazy person do you take me for

weird
in general anyone ive gone into detail for about my shit has gotten a thing
kind of
well more often than not
im not sure how the fuck this works
freakonomics is not my specialty
cool though that would be

also lets start with large because thats how you start opening presents
always pick the biggest box first
unless the thing you were hoping for is small then go with a smaller box
is there an order of coolness here go with the coolest one first

[notyourutopian]

I'm not...sure?
I thought it was a dream at first, but it hasn't gone away the way they usually do.

I suppose if other people are having the same thing happen, that answers my worries though, doesn't it.

[parodeity]

see id love to think that and the first time it happened i was like
whoa
thats enough caffeine for one day
but im up to like five stupid incidents
so clearly im not having daydream issues or nightmare issues or what have you
or i mean i could be
but if so it would be contagious issues
which possibly is a thing?
that sounds like some kinda setup for a movie
mass hysteria or illusions or whatever
but cool though that premise is
im putting it aside to seriously attempt to figure out wtf this is
mostly so it can chill
because its stupid and im not a fan

whend your thing happen

[notyourutopian]

Five?
Damn.
I've just had the one.
If this is a contest to get to the top of your future crazy-scale, I think you might be winning.

It was during the parade, when I was looking at the floats.
Trying to figure out how one of the animatronics worked and then...

Well. What I thought was a daydream.

What about you?
I mean, you can simply pick one of them, I suppose.

[parodeity]

man i dont wanna win that contest
i was trying very hard not to but its hit the point it takes some kind of cake
all the kinds of cake really
enough cake it needs to not
everyone else should feel free to take some slices here

my first whatever was on the day of the parade too
but it was fucking weird enough i figured i was just having a minor sugar breakdown

the others mostly happened while talking to my siblings
unfortunately i cant stop doing that to avoid having it happen more
because
i love them
so whatever

[notyourutopian]

I'm sure everyone will do their best to be just as mad as you, Dave.

Hm.
Loving your family, such a burden.
If it helps, I have the same affliction, but...
Talking to mine hasn't triggered anything else.

Is it happening to them too...?
Rose and all I mean.

[parodeity]

not good enough all you all need to be working to be madder than me
take my crown
dethrone me
im more than willing to give way here i dont want this distinction to be mine alone

does your family have the app though

to a degree weird things are happening for the people ive shared things with

[notyourutopian]

That's a race nobody wants to win.
You shouldn't have sprinted out of the gate.

No, just me.
They're acting like I'm being weird.
I don't know what that could begin to mean.

But at least you aren't dealing with it on your own, right?
Siblings have your back.

[parodeity]

i wasnt planning on it
my hand was forced
by shit being weird and no one else passing the start line first
so i had to surrender to fate and do the thing

figure it means the same thing it means re chocobos or horses or what the fuck ever
no one without it seems to remember horses
people with it universally seem to agree those were a thing
so
thats
a weird connection that exists but whatever

yeah
they got my back
though i think as a nebulous group of people who remember horses
we should maybe consider ourselves a team
or something

[notyourutopian]

You should just stop hallucinating things immediately then.
Actually that's probably good advice for all occasions.

No, I get what the difference is.
But I don't get what it means.
Why me, and not...my sisters?
Why do I remember horses, when my sister who has wanted a pony since she old enough to want things suddenly wants a chocobo?

Heh
Team...Horse-Memories? The Legion of Horse? I don't know.
Probably won't attract a lot of joiners.

[Eleanor will never not be terrible at naming things.]

[daemonized]

Glow in the dark? A crazy person with remarkable tastes, obviously.

And is their "thing" somehow related to yours, like the example I gave you? If that's happening more often than not to you, then it suggests a whole slew of new complications and/or puzzling questions. Assuming any of these memories are actually real to begin with.

Large, then. How about a giant that only comes out in the darkest of night, pulling itself out of a strange portal in the ground? It wields a sword as big as it is, and has obsidian skin as thick as steel. It’s called, fittingly, an /iron/ giant.

It has a very small head, though.

[true_noir]

[... more people?]

Dave, right?

We can speak after my shift, if you wish a little privacy. I think I might appreciate that. But, yes, I have experienced something of this sort. Have you met anyone who did not have this app yet, who experienced it? This seems as important a question to answer as any.

[Because, again, it was the only connection she knew.]

[onceandfuturemascot]

I had an incredibly vivid dream about standing over some bleeding guy in a shed
I didn't really care to analyze that
It seemed less important than an entire species getting replaced out of reality
But if there's a pattern it probably ties back into this thing

[samuraisoul]

I have. I thought it a dream at first but hearing others having similiar experiences has made me doubt that considerably...

I was a samurai stood on a beach, greeting a huge navy. A friend I know here was there, a samurai himself, and I thanked him for bringing that navy... I think he was the commander. We talked, and I walked into the water where he was stood. It's strange just how well I can 'recall' the sensation of wetness around my ankles.

[me_matey]

okay so

i've never been on a plane in my life. not once. never flown anywhere or even so much as been on the top floor of a really tall building

but i had a dream of legit actual flying. not like superman flying but like on a vessel of some kind. it was surreal af but comforting in some way?????

idk if that counts for what yer goin for m8y but there you go

-She resisted the urge to shitpost. Praise her.-

[onceandfuturemascot]

The Cavalry

[sharplydressed]

[rip in rest, Dave. This sacrifice won't be forgotten...]

not saying anything about being crazy one way or another, but do you need me to bring you some coffee or something?

[It sounds like Dave might need some coffee. Honestly the guy probably deserves a free pastry too for being the first to break the sanity chicken silence.]

[parodeity]

advice id love to take and yet

idk
i figure it means shits up with this app
though here i am still using it so
not sure i can really say much about it?
but like
jesus its weird that even like
oldschool horse movies are now chocobos
why even

^cavalry aint bad but it makes us sound like wannabe heroes or smth
personally i dont know if a team name is super requisite
or something everyone could even agree on
since mostly were shitposters
the shitposters is more accurate than the cavalry

[parodeity]

sure
it isnt like i wont be around at some point due to the whole
working there thing so
and nah i dont know anyone w/o the app being involved in weirdness and knowing its weird

[parodeity]

i classified it as less important at first too
but it keeps happening so
im officially classing this as a thing that might be important

[ he remembered dying ok he's a little shook up ]

whend the shed dream happen?