Video (about a week into the event)

[driving_from_the_backseat]

[The first time it happens, they brush it off. A journal in an inn isn’t that strange—someone could easily have left it behind. But when they pick it up to take it to the front desk, they see a flash of a place that looks like a void. Inside, what look like two shadows stand across from each other. One sprints towards the other, passing through it, and all Avalon can think is that they know exactly what that feels like.

The second time it happens, they decide that this isn’t a coincidence, and they have no qualms about asking others about it. Surely someone else has realized that something is off.]

Has anyone else been finding objects that show them something that feels like it should be a memory?

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[can_i_punt_it]

Yes, why do you want to know?

I think I fixed it

[driving_from_the_backseat]

I was wondering if it was a coincidence.

Re: I think I fixed it

[can_i_punt_it]

I very much doubt it, almost nothing here is a coincidence. Bizarre things happen, but always in a pattern.

[driving_from_the_backseat]

I think it could be random, but not unintentional and not without significance.

[can_i_punt_it]

It is extremely unlikely to be random. The memories feel like a part of whoever touched the item. It is a pattern, but of what is uncertain.

[driving_from_the_backseat]

Has anyone else seen or touched your items? [Others could see some of theirs, but never touched them. The memories could appear to others.]

[can_i_punt_it]

No, not as far as I am aware. [Eve was not aware others could touch the items, that was very odd]

[driving_from_the_backseat]

People have seen a few of mine.

The people in my visions seem like they could be me, but look nothing like me.

[can_i_punt_it]

I saw a younger version of myself transform into someone I do not know. It was a very disturbing sight.

[driving_from_the_backseat]

Do you think it was real?

anon text

[solitarysoul]

there are a lot of those lately
something broke

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[driving_from_the_backseat]

It does seem like that. As if reality were glitching.

anon all the way down

[solitarysoul]

its hiding something

[What is "it?" Don't worry, he doesn't know either.]

i'm not sure if we can believe what we see here, what we see in those visions, or none of it.

Re: anon all the way down

[driving_from_the_backseat]

[The perfection of this life is hiding something. Reality is hiding something. It makes sense to them.] It is. I feel connected to the visions. The people in them look nothing like me, and yet part of me is certain that I was there.

[Their instincts are telling them to believe what they see, and yet those same instincts had told them to leave the objects behind.]

If reality is hiding something, I think we should believe the things that are out of place.

Re: anon all the way down

[solitarysoul]

mine all look like me.

i'm not sure we can believe either, but we should question it all.
i don't know any way to really tell which is real. we might just have to go with what feels right.

or believe nothing is.

[driving_from_the_backseat]

Everyone I have talked to says that the people in their visions look like them. I have no idea why I would be different.

Nothing feels right. These strange happenings produce a sense of unease, but if the visions are real then that unease could be our true reality trying to reach us. [Avalon has always been curious. Their nature is to question everything. Even if all of this is real, they would still like to know why it is happening.]

[solitarysoul]

you think the visions are what's real? not here?

[He's not sure, he wavers between all of its real and none of it is.]

[driving_from_the_backseat]

I think they could be. As you said, it may be hiding something. It seems unlikely that these experiences mean nothing, if everyone is having them.

[solitarysoul]

they might be real. i don't have any idea how to tell or not.

[driving_from_the_backseat]

This reality seems to be breaking. If it breaks enough, we might be able to tell.

[solitarysoul]

i guess that's true. that really doesn't seem like a good thing, but i guess we don't have a choice.

[driving_from_the_backseat]

One version of the world must be real, and the other is not. If one breaks, then the other could become real. I think we would be fine, but existing in a different reality.

[solitarysoul]

how would we be okay if our reality changed? that's pretty fucked up.

[driving_from_the_backseat]

We have visions of another reality, with different versions of ourselves. If one version was gone, then we would be left with one life rather than two. [They have no idea. At this point, they would rather force these occurrences into something that makes sense rather than trying to move forward with no idea what is happening.]

[solitarysoul]

not if we remember both. then we have two, but one doesn't exist anymore. or one is fake. i don't know.

i don't get any of this.

[driving_from_the_backseat]

True.

One is fake either way. I guess our memories would have to change in order for us to be functional.

[solitarysoul]

what if we were never meant to be functional. what if all of this is just a simulation or a mistake

[What if there is no point to life because its not really life.]