[OPEN MINGLE]

[justscribing]

WHO: Everyone! It's a mingle!
WHAT: Discussing recent reveals about the simulation
WHERE: Pairidaeza Architectural Studio
WHEN: Feb 3rd morning to evening
WARNINGS: Potential existential crises, discussions of death, memory manipulation, basically everything to do with their actual situation in a simulated environment.




[The actual setup within the garage-turned-studio is away from all the actual workbenches.

On one folding table are copies of multiple documents available around the X: The main document is a summary of a resident from a prior iteration that's clearly been redacted via scanning copies with stuff blocked out. Additionally are copies of the most recent newsletter with the memo on the back and photos of the hotel journal printed in black and white.

Lined up on another folding table away from the one with the documents is an array of finger foods: hummus, chutneys, and yoghurt dips with a variety of sliced vegetables, cheeses, cold cuts, and fresh pita bread. cardamom cookies, panipuri, and both vegetable and chicken samosas take up the other side. Mint water and fresh juice are in pitchers to the center. It's actually a little crowded.

Chairs are set up in small grounds and around the document table. And finally, a whiteboard has been rolled in for people to make use of in group discussions.]



((This is a mingle, so everyone is encouraged to threadjack, make toplevels, etc prior plot mingles have been done. Alhaitham and Kaveh will be around and participating but not taking the lead beyond making sure people stay orderly in the studio and have enough papers.

If you character has discussed the simulation with either Kaveh or Alhaitham, you can also handwave they texted them directly about it.))

Comments

[fauned]

( ...? )

But if they had to gently persuade us with mind magic, then wouldn't they need to do it to theirs anyway?

( nevermind, yeah, even she's seeing how ridiculous this is. )

Are they gonna scare the lights out of them too? Give them free food then slowly start taking it away? Like, what?

[justscribing]

I suppose they could attempt to build some cooperative society based on the effectiveness of those, but that's all things they could have learned in a century simply observing their own communities. The resources of this experiment would have been much better served averting whatever crisis is tearing their world apart to begin with.

[fauned]

Some of these also feel like they've been going on for so long?

( this piece of paper says the person was here for like? four years? and this was several iterations ago. that feels crazy. )

Also do you really think they can figure that out with.. y'know.......

( vague gesture to the city at large. )

... y'know?

( and this is coming from her. one of the assholes sent off to save her world from a crisis? people who are also ridiculously in way over their heads? like recognizes like. )

[justscribing]

No. [Straight up.] It's a waste of time and resources that could have been better spent managing or averting their crisis at hand. The kind of data this file suggests they're looking at hardly needed this excessive setup.

[fauned]

( lmao. that's cold. cold enough to fix their global warming issue, even. but true. )

If you don't think they can make people shake hands and get along you really think they can figure out how to stop whatever crisis they're having?

( maybe they're being realistic. )

And I did kinda hear someone ask why they didn't just grab someone from like.. I dunno, a world or a timeline that had someone that could just help them figure that out.

( ... )

Do you think it'd be easier to get to where they are, somehow? I mean, we keep getting bits of theirs. Maybe there's a way to sneak that way?

[justscribing]

If you mean move to the computers that they're using to monitor us, I don't think it's impossible. But I don't know enough about this kind of technology to know what that would look like. Someone else like Yesod would have a better idea.