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[evidentiary]

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[evidentiary]

[ continued from here ]

I don't know, it may have been a different one. Which are you speaking of?

[commandertoolbelt]

we found a bunker in the woods back in august
it was pretty big, but the main room empty except for this terminal in the center and the statues of the four founders
there were a lot of rooms around it, but we could only get to like, eight of them
i haven’t been able to find it again since the monsters disappeared

[evidentiary]

Was this one of those alcohol named teams? ...Absinthe?

[commandertoolbelt]

yep, that was us
we were out there working out of the bunker for the whole month
it just vanished after august though

[evidentiary]

I attended that info-exchange meetup, so I heard the summaries...but is there anything in particular you remember from your own personal impressions of that place?

[commandertoolbelt]

well it was kind of like a dungeon from a video game?
tiles that made monsters appear
riddles to unlock the next rooms
animal spirits leading us through a bunch of puzzles in creepy places
hyperspace rooms with side quests
it pretty much had the works
the whole thing was pretty trippy

[evidentiary]

So "unreality"...and what did you find at the end of your quest?

[commandertoolbelt]

the spirit of one of the founders
myrtle cavendish
she called herself a memory, though, whatever that means
and she gave us this book that the retrospec people we were working with used to give us weapons to fight the monsters

[evidentiary]

A "memory", so not a ghost...?

[commandertoolbelt]

i mean she might as well have been a ghost but yeah memory
she didn't specify whose though
she just told us it was supposed to help fight unreality and gave us the book, for all the good it's done us since

[evidentiary]

I do wonder how we can defeat this "unreality" permanently.

[commandertoolbelt]

well if their weapons didn’t do it back then idk how they’ll help now
it’s like they just patched it up with duct tape instead of actually fixing the problem
and we’re not going to find the answer ourselves if we can’t get information from retrospec either

[evidentiary]

Perhaps they don't have the answer.

[commandertoolbelt]

[ well if that's not unsettling as before then leo doesn't know what is ]

they sure seem to think they do
otherwise what's the point of "saving" us if unreality or whatever is just going to kill us anyway

[evidentiary]

The point is it spares us from a death until something is figured out, isn't it? There's little point to simply giving up and saying "well, it was a nice run, but we may as well not even try". It could be they know the answer, of course, but...I don't think there's no point to continuing to try.

[commandertoolbelt]

i don't know
i'm not a huge fan of this remembering things in bits and pieces stuff
it probably would've been better if they'd just left us alone instead of trying to force us to be those people again

[evidentiary]

It's possible they don't control the rate of memories. If they do, I have similar complaints.

[commandertoolbelt]

if that's true then they have way less control over everything than they want us to believe
and that doesn't make it better

[evidentiary]

Better or worse matter less than the truth, I think.