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Zero Divide - Episode #1 - "Looking Glass"
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Vanifae
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"What's the idea?" Dee asks.Shayuri said:
Michael and Alan
There are several reference books and science fiction novels, many of them older first editions, from many "classic" authors. Vanessa says to the two, "You are all welcome to read the books if you like, maybe they will spark some memories or at least subject you to some new experiences... possibly."
Shalimar
First Post
"Whatever, I'm out of here." Haven says and points at the wall, and suddenly the earth around it and underneath it is flowing upward until there is a 100 ton ball of earth floating above the wall blotting out the sun. Moving it with his will the blue haired teen dropped gently over th wall creating a ramp up the inside of the wall and down the other side of it.
Once the earth had settled he walked up to the top of the wall (and if there isn't an automated reset the instant he hits the top, he will slide down the other side and replace the dirt. Once that is done he will sit down with his back up against the stone to brood about the memory flash.
If he had served two tours as a marine and had a son that would mean that his memories were from a self that was quite a bit older then he was now, and he wasn't sure what that meant.
(OOC: Haven will concentrate on his move object to give himself the temp bonus. He goes from 50 ton heavy load to a 100 ton heavy load. Yes, he is being childesh to show off.)
Once the earth had settled he walked up to the top of the wall (and if there isn't an automated reset the instant he hits the top, he will slide down the other side and replace the dirt. Once that is done he will sit down with his back up against the stone to brood about the memory flash.
If he had served two tours as a marine and had a son that would mean that his memories were from a self that was quite a bit older then he was now, and he wasn't sure what that meant.
(OOC: Haven will concentrate on his move object to give himself the temp bonus. He goes from 50 ton heavy load to a 100 ton heavy load. Yes, he is being childesh to show off.)
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"It's kind of...weird. But just hear me out."
Facade looks around.
"If we accept that this is somehow not real...that either by means of some power being used on us, or some kind of chemical or electronic means these images are being displayed to us, then it suggests a course of action."
She looks back at the others.
"We overload it. We try to bring it down."
Facade looks around.
"If we accept that this is somehow not real...that either by means of some power being used on us, or some kind of chemical or electronic means these images are being displayed to us, then it suggests a course of action."
She looks back at the others.
"We overload it. We try to bring it down."
James Heard
Explorer
Alan shakes his head in the negative.Vanifae said:
"I don't think I have time to get into a book today. I need to look up where the police station and someplace where reporters might hang out are, and then figure out how I'm going to get there since you don't want your name involved.
Velmont
First Post
"Mira? That name is not familiar to me. Should it be?" asks Ian. Am I a fool or sane? He is a bit confused and feels a bit ridiculous to speak to a car radio, but with so many blank in his head, and maybe feed by the paranoiac ideas of the others, he thinks it might worth something to see what that Mira has to tell.
Hammerhead
Explorer
Outside
"What the-," Michael explains as his duplicate goes flying into the air; once the duplicate reaches the top of his 'flight', he's going to dismiss him. "I thought you were going to throw me to the top of the wall, not into the damn stratosphere." He sighs, composing himself. "Lots of trees, with a single road heading north."
"Sorry Facade, but the fact that you woke up with different clothes isn't really much evidence. Drugs to knock you out, drugs to take away the memories, someone to change your clothes. It wouldn't be too hard. But assuming you and Dee are right, how would I go about overloading it? Should I stick a paper clip into every electrical outlet?"
"What the-," Michael explains as his duplicate goes flying into the air; once the duplicate reaches the top of his 'flight', he's going to dismiss him. "I thought you were going to throw me to the top of the wall, not into the damn stratosphere." He sighs, composing himself. "Lots of trees, with a single road heading north."
"Sorry Facade, but the fact that you woke up with different clothes isn't really much evidence. Drugs to knock you out, drugs to take away the memories, someone to change your clothes. It wouldn't be too hard. But assuming you and Dee are right, how would I go about overloading it? Should I stick a paper clip into every electrical outlet?"
Hammerhead
Explorer
Upstairs
"Thanks. Your parents are quite the collectors," he says, eying the titles. He starts putting them on the shelves alphabetically. "But I don't think sitting here reading books was what me, or most of the others, had in mind. Seriously, Vanessa. You have to know how long we've been here," looking up at her with imploring eyes.
"Thanks. Your parents are quite the collectors," he says, eying the titles. He starts putting them on the shelves alphabetically. "But I don't think sitting here reading books was what me, or most of the others, had in mind. Seriously, Vanessa. You have to know how long we've been here," looking up at her with imploring eyes.
Facade wrenches her eyes off the spectacle of Haven floating off on a mountain of dirt.
"Huh? Oh. Right."
She shakes her head. "Probably not much of an issue now...if that doesn't provoke a reaction, hard to imagine what will. Anyway, my idea was that if this isn't real...if this is being created for us and somehow implanted in our brains, either with some kind of magic power like we have, or some other process...it's very likely that we can overload it by changing how we perceive things."
She looks back up at Haven's retreating form.
"We're truly aware of so little of our environment. We naturally reduce information that's normally useless into sort of...mental icons. When we look at a tree, we don't really SEE the tree. We see a placeholder that represents 'tree.' Saves us time that we need to pay attention to important things, like each other and so on."
"But any technique used to fool our brains into believing in a false reality would probably depend on that kind of perceptual filter to reduce its need for resources. Regardless of whether a person or machine is providing this information to us, there have to be limits to the amount it can provide at once. If we force the system to this limit, or even close to it, it may no longer have enough resources to operate correctly. We could expose flaws...gaps. We might even be able to cause enough problems to force it to stop, thus letting us return to real consciousness."
"Huh? Oh. Right."
She shakes her head. "Probably not much of an issue now...if that doesn't provoke a reaction, hard to imagine what will. Anyway, my idea was that if this isn't real...if this is being created for us and somehow implanted in our brains, either with some kind of magic power like we have, or some other process...it's very likely that we can overload it by changing how we perceive things."
She looks back up at Haven's retreating form.
"We're truly aware of so little of our environment. We naturally reduce information that's normally useless into sort of...mental icons. When we look at a tree, we don't really SEE the tree. We see a placeholder that represents 'tree.' Saves us time that we need to pay attention to important things, like each other and so on."
"But any technique used to fool our brains into believing in a false reality would probably depend on that kind of perceptual filter to reduce its need for resources. Regardless of whether a person or machine is providing this information to us, there have to be limits to the amount it can provide at once. If we force the system to this limit, or even close to it, it may no longer have enough resources to operate correctly. We could expose flaws...gaps. We might even be able to cause enough problems to force it to stop, thus letting us return to real consciousness."
Victim
First Post
Ashley grabs at a tree temporarily displaced by Haven's earthbending and props it against the wall to make her own ramp. "If I had wanted to get to the top of the wall, I'd have done it myself. Like this." She climbs on up. "Anyway, any response back at the house? We have to assume that this will provoke a response, so I think we should leave and split up - numbers don't seem to provide an advantage."
"Unskilled observers see the world that way; that's why people are often so easy to fool. How would we go about reaching the limits? Especially in a way that could still be effective and moral if what we perceive is real." For instance, setting a big forest fire might be effective at overloading the ability/system, but could place other people at unncessary risk. It doesn't even really sound like she has an actionable plan.
She holds the tree steady at the top of the wall. "Whatever you're doing, hurry up."
"Unskilled observers see the world that way; that's why people are often so easy to fool. How would we go about reaching the limits? Especially in a way that could still be effective and moral if what we perceive is real." For instance, setting a big forest fire might be effective at overloading the ability/system, but could place other people at unncessary risk. It doesn't even really sound like she has an actionable plan.
She holds the tree steady at the top of the wall. "Whatever you're doing, hurry up."
