Pre-Moebius Sharing [A couple days into the racetrack liminal]

[itsananimalthing]

So a lot of you know I've been tryin' to rebuild memories from before Moebius. For you new people, Moebius was a Jaunt before most of you got here, were we died a lot and lost our memories every morning. A lot of that stuck.

[Look, he's being helpful, filling things in for people who don't know the story. Isn't that nice of him?]

Managed to put together somethin' kinda big out of them.

[Enjoy a brief lifestream of Riddick's strange vision: everything is tinted slightly purple, sources of light are doubly bright, and everything seems much more focused on heat and motion. It's an image of his hands, held apart in front of him, and after a second, an arc of electricity jumps between them, from one hand to the other. He holds it only briefly, then lets it dissipate.]

We can make energy out of liminal stuff. Claudia don't need to shoot me with her electricity gun to power lightcycles no more, we can just make that shit.

Came with somethin' else interesting while I was tryin' to put that trick back together. I was on at least four Jaunts before Moebius happened, might be more-- but there were people back then from the last round of this. The one Fortune won. We called 'em the Unlucky Dead. I don't got much about 'em yet, just a couple names and faces, but I'm workin' on it.

Figured that might be important to know.

[The last bit is said dryly. He knows that's an understatement.]

Comments

[itsananimalthing]

Then you use that projection to make a place inside your head you can kind of go to, design things in a kind of real mental space, view memories and shit like you were standing in the middle of 'em, or just get away from Traveling for a while. That's the best way for me to work out the rebuilding, where I can see it and fill in any details that're obviously missing.

[galvanizer]

A bit like meditation, then, and using it to build up memories to sift through them. That's useful...

[itsananimalthing]

That's just the stage for doin' it. Actually learning to reconstruct the memories is another thing-- gotta train up your memory first, start finding the details in things and learning how to store it, and then you'll be good to go, to take pieces of something you remember and start filling them in.

[galvanizer]

It's always the little things. [PAIN IN THE BUTT-] And the missing information, does it start filling in by itself as you piece things back together as best you can?

[itsananimalthing]

More like the more you see, the more things'll come back to you-- seeing pieces of what you remember reminds you of more things from the same memory. That's part of the memory training process.

[galvanizer]

Does it draw on your physical energy, this memory restoration? The mental energy seems a given, but with Liminal Space... Things are never set in stone.

[itsananimalthing]

Nah. The memory "place" is all a mental construct, no liminal anything required. I could make it in liminal space, but it wouldn't be the same thing.

And the actual memory rebuilding part ain't even network shit. It's all your brain just picking up pieces it misplaced, only with direction from you instead of by accident.

[galvanizer]

... Sounds like a pain in the ass. Must be why so many of us haven't yet been able to recover our memories from before Moebius. [Well, she has to start some time.] I'd better get onto it sooner rather than later, in that case.

[itsananimalthing]

Yeah, it is. It's tough work, you'll get frustrated a lot by what's missing and won't fill itself in easily. But it's worth it.

[galvanizer]

It always is. I don't like having my memories blocked - it causes problems down the line.

So. Sensory Eavesdropping first, hm?

[itsananimalthing]

That's the place to start. It's really a lot like listening on the network, only closer. You wanna give it a shot now, or try to work it out on your own first?

[galvanizer]

No time like the present, right? Don't suppose you mind me trying to tap in on your senses?

[itsananimalthing]

[He spreads his hands, a wordless invitation. He doesn't even have his goggles on, in the dim light of his forge, so she can get the full measure of his weird vision, if she manages it. In the meantime, he'll just keep the pathways of his brain open on the network, keyed to "her" psychic presence, and see if she can find them.

He'll give her pointers if it takes her a little.]

[galvanizer]

[She smiles and tips her head, then closing her eyes to concentrate. It's bizarre, reaching out deliberately instead of waiting for the connections to come, but she manages, after a few beats. Once she's 'settled in', she startles.]

This is what you see all the time?

[itsananimalthing]

Sometimes I see this.

[He reaches over to pluck up his goggles, and pull them over his eyes. It mutes the auras around things, particularly people and light sources, makes them easier on the eyes. It's still pretty weird, though.]

It's made for seeing in the dark.