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Entry tags:
- cobra kai: daniel larusso,
- cobra kai: robby keene,
- critical role: fearne calloway,
- disco elysium: kim kitsuragi,
- fear & hunger: daan,
- ffxiv: hythlodaeus,
- genshin impact: alhaitham,
- genshin impact: kaveh,
- genshin impact: wanderer,
- good omens: muriel (tv),
- library of ruina: chesed,
- library of ruina: netzach,
- library of ruina: yesod,
- limbus company: hong lu,
- limbus company: vergilius,
- limbus company: yi sang,
- magia record: tsuruno yui,
- mcu: loki odinson,
- the sandman: johanna constantine
[OPEN MINGLE]
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.))
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.))
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That depends how deep their neuron wipe goes. Would they really want us to remember every iteration of we were removed from the simulation?
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But we don't know how many iterations they use us individually. Some of these names definitely haven't been around for this one, and the reference indicates that between CE-34 and CE-41 this specific resident wasn't included. There's a difference between an extra year or two's worth of memories and fourty year's worth.
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That doesn't discount the possibility of information overload. If we truly are planning on finding and returning to our real bodies, the safest way is to figure out what might be the ramifications of the largest possible sum of memories being returned. [ a beat. ] There is also the possibility that the oldest residents, the ones who have been used for the most number of iterations, have bodies that are no longer in usable condition, or those with too many memories should not return to their bodies because of overload. We have to be careful. That's all I'm saying.
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[Which are all true limitations of their ability to be cautious.] I'd much prefer to have a full picture of what we're getting into, but realistically someone is going to have to take a larger risk.
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he looks at alhaitham. ] Will you take on that risk?
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Someone needs to be on the other side of this. Are we not more than capable?
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alhaitham is ever with him. this is, he realises, the first time he's known it so. ]
I'd rather it be me. I'd rather it be us.
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Together, and not apart. Not two separate paths that might happen to go the same way, but two that are walked parallel on purpose.]
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it seems inconceivable that kaveh has made it to now, the time of existence wherein that line has become a shared path which two men may walk to the very bitter end. kaveh's fingers twine with alhaitham's. he holds him there; he holds himself there. kaveh laughs. ]
Together. One, benighted end, but also the brightest way forward. I have far more faith in our ability to make them regret putting forth such an inane puzzle before us than their ability to stop us. [ kaveh's fingers squeeze. ] Alhaitham, I am furious.
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I'm thinking it's about time we try to communicate with these fools.
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