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[identitycrisiscore]

[ When Cloud rolls out of his bed at the inn, he squints at the skyline of Aldrip. Squints at the phone-like device on his table, squints at the incoming light as if somewhat offended at how it's not making dealing with the last month of... whatever that was.

He decides the best course of action is to not get out of bed about it. ]

okay, so, like
let's say i have a friend
and this friend might be a little confused about the city.
and maybe this friend is having a little trouble with like

[ ...He was going to say memory issues, and maybe "hey what the fuck happened for the past three weeks", but you know what — until he's sure he's not the only one experiencing them he's just gonna. Not. Talk about that. ]

let me start over
i'm new here.
did aldrip always look like this?

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[drugsnotclubs]

No.

It stayed mostly the same from when I showed up til now. So a few months.

I'm guessing this is that 'environmental reset' that was in progess a few weeks ago.

[identitycrisiscore]

"environmental reset"?
i guess i missed that in the moment.

good to hear it at least wasn't like... this.
kind of reminds me a bit of home now, though, and not in a good way.

[drugsnotclubs]

Yeah, I don't think a lot of people knew. We only started talking about it when that guy blew up the city hall. And then... whatever the fuck just happened.

[Hooray for being secure in our sense of self and reality vs fantasy!!]

There's definitely more going on than before that's for sure.
Gonna have to figure out where everything is, though.

[identitycrisiscore]

[ Okay, let's not say things we can't take back, vis-a-vis secure in our sense of self, Shinjiro. ]

whatever the fuck happened is right.
did we all just became... different people?
did anyone know whoever runs this place could do that?

it reminds me a bit more of home. and not in a good way.

[drugsnotclubs]

Feels more like we got a new set of memories on top of the old ones and the place tried real hard to keep us from questioning it. Which I guess was easier than making them halfway believable.

The only time I think memories had been messed with before is if you get sentenced. That one's weird. You supposedly go into city hall, but after you got no memories of it, other than the instructions.

So actually maybe it's just a fake memory added just to give us sentencing instructions. Seems like they can't take things away reliably so much as just write over them.

[identitycrisiscore]

[ ...Huh. But— well, maybe Shinjiro just has a different look on it. Oh well. Probably nothing to worry about. ]

guess that's one way to look at it.
so they can't erase us, but they can overwrite us, like... system data, i guess?
i don't like that answer much, either, honestly.