Zero Divide - Episode #1 - "Looking Glass"

[James Heard]

Alan gestures a couple of support beams into place.

"What are you doing?"

 

[Shayuri]

"Interesting...this is the first time that I recall. Not that that means much, it seems."

Facade takes a breath.

"Lets compare notes. That way if any of us forget again, only one of us has to make it through."

 

[Shalimar]

"I may not know what you are talking about but that doesn't make me an idiot, just uninformed. Its like I am missing part of this conversation, you guys are remembering things that I don't but its not like we don't all have memory holes to one degree or another."

 

[Shayuri]

"He's got a point," Facade concedes. "This is a good opportunity too. Lets see if we can get him to remember. If we can, then we'll know...if one of us remembers, we can all get it back. Each time. That should make it a lot harder to do whatever it is they're trying to do...which will hopefully get a new response."

 

[Vanifae]

"He's got a point," Facade concedes. "This is a good opportunity too. Lets see if we can get him to remember. If we can, then we'll know...if one of us remembers, we can all get it back. Each time. That should make it a lot harder to do whatever it is they're trying to do...which will hopefully get a new response."

Dee turns to Facade, "Yeah because you don't think I have not tried that already? Whatever memory exists for us does not exist for him... it is like it never happened, today is probably the first day he can actually remember without some hazy I may have been here for awhile..."

This is true.

"But collecting ideas is a good start if anything this affects him as much as it does us..." Dee adds. Dee draws her knife and runs the blade along her wrist, "Personally I have been considering just killing Vanessa... but I am pretty sure that would just cause another blackout."

 

[Vanifae]

Alan gestures a couple of support beams into place.

"What are you doing?"

"Moving my bookcase," she says sheepishly.

 

[James Heard]

"Moving my bookcase," she says sheepishly.

"That sounds rather sudden? Why?"

On a lark, he sees if he can dismiss the offending bookcase the same way he can objects he knows he's created.

 

[Shayuri]

"Have you considered the idea that this isn't real?" Facade asks Dee. "I was thinking before the last...setback...that it felt kind of dreamlike. Magazine covers with blank pages inside. Cereal boxes changing logos. What if Vanessa has some kind of power like we do? She could make us see things...see, hear, taste, feel...smell...everything. Manufacture a complete reality for us. I'm not sure how that ties into the memory thing...but it just seems to me that if this IS real, then I can't explain what I've seen. If it's not...things get easier."

 

[Velmont]

"Wait a second. Are you telling that Vanessa would be manipulating our mind and we are just... laboratory rats for her?" asks Ian, surprised by that paranoia. "And what do you remember that make you think that?"

 

[Victim]

"I'm not sure where the magazine is now. I wonder where it even came from; Alan - he makes things, right? How's his hold on his power?"

"It may unsafe to assume that we're free from monitoring even in the woods away other people or obvious devices. So discussing future plans may be unadviseable." Ashley comments, thinking of Mira and her advanced technology. If that was real - or at least conveying real information, then they'll be able to do all sorts of things. And if she was more like some odd manifestation, then that's not conclusive either way.

If Vanessa is responsible for our wipeouts, then killing her would help - if it could be done fast enough. With Mira, there were some minutes before we were brought back to our beds somehow. Naturally, violence would almost certainly warrant a faster response. It'd be better to work backwards from her, though. It seems highly unlikely that she's doing this all by herself.