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T. Junpei ([personal profile] misanthropicprinciple) wrote2017-05-07 08:51 pm
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"The survivors overcame their own misery and loss, and made the best they could of the hand they'd been dealt with. Isn't that worth something? Isn't that the best thing that humans can aspire to? Is there really any point to a world where everything is happy? Are people who struggle for a better life just idiots? Being human is about fighting even when it seems hopeless, and finding happiness even in a world that hates it."



 

 



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THE EXPERIMENT

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2017-05-08 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
What is this "experiment?"

▶ W1: Wed.: Memory Loss
Nari called a meeting. A lot happened, but one of the things I floated past people was the idea that a significant chunk of our memories might be erased or suppressed.

Evidence:
- None of us remember any transition from our normal lives to waking up in the limo.
- Profiles: Almost* all age discrepancies noted by participants mark them as older than they remember themselves to be. If the profiles are assumed to be accurate, then this can be explained by memory loss.
     *The outlier is Church, whose profile claims he is seven years old. Heart, however, noted that it also lists him as an AI, so his physical age might not match his personality or appearance.
- Several participants noted scars they don't remember getting. (Hoshido says he's missing scars. What the fuck?)
- Others noted that it's possible, where they come from.
- Of course, I know it's possible, after what Akane did to Seven.

What does it mean? What reason would our courteous hosts have for erasing various lengths of memory? Is there something that connects us all, something that would interfere with their running the experiment?

 

▶ W1: Wed.: PIPs and Power Suppression
So, magic is real--or at least science so different from what I understand that I can't understand it. However, all who possess "powers" have reported that their abilities are "dampened" here. Maybe they really don't want us killing one another. Or maybe they just want us easier to control.

Unlike the Nonary Game bracelets, these things are wired into us. What else could they have done to our bodies? Have they altered our brains? Are they trying to... activate us, like Akane activated me?

 

▶ W1: Wed.: The Hosts
Nothing much came up about Larimer or Diver. I doubt any of us has seen them since the first day. We're "highly encouraged" to socialize with them. Where are they?

I feel like Larimer's in it for the money--he's concerned about his contract, after all. I don't have much of a handle on Diver. Group opinion is split: Some like her, some find her more worrisome than Larimer.

 

▶ W1: Fri.: Larimer's Delusion
Larimer is a piece of shit. I blew up at him, and that's on me. But only an asshole can spend a whole week like this without realizing that he's the badguy. I honestly don't believe he understands what's going on. He thinks we're actors. I'm going to act on his face.

Also, the ceiling (and maybe walls and floors?) can open up for PAL to intercede physically on Larimer's behalf. I assume he (it?) can do that for other reasons, too. Food supply? Restocking the kitchen?

 

▶ W3: Tues.: Nanites
Larimer's idea of a "motive" apparently was having us compete in a bowling tournament. Which, not to brag--but we totally won.

More importantly, I visited him earlier and he let me into the morgue at the back of the guest house. He explained the "shield token" to me and also let slip that we've been outfitted with nanites--nanites that repair physical damage after we're already dead. This may be common practice where he's from; he didn't seem particularly wowed by the phenomenon and explained it as a show of respect.

 

▶ W4: Wed.: Takumi
Caught Takumi on patrol against the demons Mai's powers gave him. As a theory for how the power transfer was possible, I told him about the nanites--he said that makes sense, given Church's body and his own lack of scars. Worries his body may have been reconstructed entirely anew. That, combined with how they can manipulate our memories--he's worried we may be nothing but puppets, played over and over again until we give them the show they want. Given what I know about human consciousness...

But the other thing Takumi seized on was the fact that, if this is so, our dead might not be irretrievable. Their bodies are already being repaired; could the nanites' purpose truly be restoration? Last season's dead and living were kept in a simulation--could the same be true for us? If not, do they have a way of storing our consciousnesses if these bodies die? Can our "benefactors" access the morphogenetic field?

 

Edited 2017-06-08 11:27 (UTC)
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TIME AND PLACE

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2017-05-08 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Where ARE we...?

▶ W1: Thurs.: Map
[This day's entry is just a hand-drawn map of all available locations on the first floor. Junpei's jotted a couple notes, like who's in which rooms, but it's nothing you wouldn't find on the Locations or Room Assignment pages.]

 

▶ W1: Fri.: Space?
Most of the group seems to think we really are in space. I've heard a couple others have theories about simulations; I don't know how much is possible or not, but I'm not willing to assume we were brought all the way off-planet by aliens. Everyone here is human, or at least human-passing. Whatever that means.

Of course, some of the more advanced people here don't think it's so weird at all that we're being kept in space. So I can't rule it out, either.

How annoying.

 

▶ W1: Fri.: Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey
We're all here from different times or different worlds, even, some of which are magic. Choromatsu's from A FUCKING ANIME. How is this possible? Does it involve the morphogenetic field?

Are we even actually "here?"

 

▶ W3: Wed.: Death and Possibility
Clarith's autobiography claims that Mikaela should have been dead, at least by the time of its writing. Two theories came up at the meeting: Mikaela was brought in from an earlier time than Clarith, OR Mikaela was somehow brought back to life.

Additional theories based on what I know:
- Mikaela and Clarith are here from branching histories
- This experiment is meant to promote access to the morphogenetic field and change history
- Something to do with the nanites?

Finn seems to think he might have died before arriving here as well, from his scars. Church claims to be a ghost inhabiting a 3D-printed body. So...

- Could this be the case for all of us? Are our consciousnesses inhabiting bodies that weren't originally ours?
- Could we all be from histories different to what we think?

I wish you were here to explain this.

 

▶ W4: Wed.: Intergalactic Measurement
An intergalactic month is about as long as two human years. Why?

 

Edited 2017-06-08 11:29 (UTC)
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THE CHAMPIONS

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2017-05-22 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
What connects us?

▶ W2: Sat.: Willingness to Kill
Finn, Church, Rhys, Mary, Arianna, Queenie, and Lee were all initially unwilling to vote. Nari went hard during the trial; I think it was the only way she could make herself do it, putting on that face. Lee wouldn't even leave until she saw the body. Rii-san flinched in the course of the trial, but made herself do it to survive. Ardyn made a speech, because of course he did.

 

▶ W3: Sun.: Memories
Memories in sequence:
- Finn
- Angel
- Rii-san

Memories out of order:
- Me
- Ardyn?

 

▶ W4: Tues.: Ardyn's Powers
- "Warping": Ability to teleport to a thrown weapon. Difficult to master. Feels like an X-Men power.
- Sensitivity to light?
- Sense of taste completely dulled; no need to eat, drink, sleep
- All feelings but anger dulled
- Anger makes him "look very unfortunate" (?)
- Unexplored: Summoning weapons, transferring powers to members of his army, healing, elemental magic (like Nari's?*)

* If Nari's powers are somehow blocked, she could die

 

Edited 2017-06-08 11:30 (UTC)
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MEMORIES

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2017-05-22 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
These aren't dreams.

▶ W3: Sun.
In media res. Some kind of rec room. Akane, Carlos (who?), and I had to roll three 1s at dice or we would be turreted to death. 1/216th odds... but we did it.

Akane explained that perhaps there were 216 timelines in which we rolled, and this is the one where we happened to win. The anthropic principle. The world we exist in is the world in which all circumstance lined up so that we could exist. She said the opposite could be true, though, too: that this isn't the best possible world for us.

'We might be in the history God abandoned.'

Misc.:
- Bracelets. Again. God, what is up with my luck?
- Where the hell even were we? A bunker?
- I said we were going to conk out again in 40 minutes. Why?
- Who the hell is Carlos and why is he so hot??? Like Captain goddamned America, Jesus.

 

▶ W4: Sun.
Just Akane and I this time. Zero contacted us. Let Akane know we were in "that" timeline: the timeline in which Radical-6 was released onto the world. Because of our game. Six billion people will die; he says he did it in order to kill a fanatic who would otherwise have wiped out all eight billion people on earth. Zero is Brother, leader of Free the Soul.

He also said Akane's father was executed for a murder he didn't commit and her mother committed suicide. Seemed like news to Akane. I guess Santa told her their parents died in an accident.

When we checked the boards, D-Team--Diana, Phi, Sigma--were listed under "unauthorized escape." They'd set off an explosion in the decontamination room. But C-Team--me, Akane, and Carlos--were listed as dead, and I don't remember feeling surprised about it. How...?

On Q-Team, only Mira and Eric had been stated dead. Q wasn't on it. Does this mean that Q...

Before we could get to the bottom of that, Carlos (who wasn't dead) rescued us from the outside. He said he'd waited for us for ten months? But because of that, because he didn't stop Zero, Radical-6 got out.

[The paper here is warped in spots, as if something fell on it and then dried.]

Akane jabbed me with the bracelet that had fallen off when we exited in order to knock me out and erase my memories. All of them... finding her, escaping, the game.

Everything I did... had no meaning at all.




"Vive hodie." What does that mean?

 

Edited 2017-07-02 11:25 (UTC)
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JUNE

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2017-05-22 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
June,

▶ W2: Mon.
June,

That seems like the right way to address you under these circumstances. Or should I call you Zero? Did you have any idea I'd be doing this again when you locked that bracelet on me the first time? God. I wish I knew what you were thinking. What the hell I looked like to you. What you'd think of me now.

Fuck. I can't call you Zero. I've been here a week and I don't sense you at all. Not in the setup, not in the people... None of this is yours.

I think I should hate you, but... all I want is to see you again. I know I don't know you but I can't stop feeling like all I know, all I've ever known, is you.

Where are you? Can't you hear me yet? I... hate to admit it, but I might need you to save me this time, June. I don't know what to do.




I don't even know why I'm writing this.

天明寺 淳平

 

▶ W3: Sun.
It hurt. It healed. I don't know. Seeing you again like that, like you never left--like, in some universe, I caught up to you and we were together--it was all I wanted. All I want. But I could still feel how angry I was am with you. How betrayed.

How could you just sit there and explain things so calmly, as if you had no idea what you did to me at all? How many times are you going to do this to me?

If this is you, too--if it's my destiny to play this game, to be played until you get the world and the Junpei you want--then it's true. I never knew you at all. Not even in that moment when you and I... when all I knew was you.

God damn it, Akane. Why... do I know it isn't you?

淳平

 

▶ [undated]
[There isn't actually anything written here. It looks like Junpei started a couple times, but all he managed was the beginning of a character before the pen slipped down the paper, which is slightly torn and water-stained.]

 

Edited 2017-07-02 11:24 (UTC)
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