Event: Consolidation Theory, Part Four and Five

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Characters: red-marked characters and their new friends
Location: ???
Date: Morning 354, Morning and Day 355
Summary: A quiet morning and a confusing morning, or maybe they're both, or maybe they're neither.
Warnings: gore, psychological horror, warn for specifics in the subject lines

Part Four OOC Post
Part Five OOC Post

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[tadashiwashere]

[When it lands close to him, Tadashi slowly reaches down to scoop up the cup. He examines it in his hands for a moment before looking back to Rhys, eyes narrowed.]

What do you see now?

[sleight_of_fate]

You picked it up, off the floor.

[His brow is furrowed with confusion, but he's following things pretty well...except for insisting the barrier is there and that it stops the cup.]

...I don't know, though. I mean. Hell. I'm tired and wasn't that long ago I was screaming at a dead woman? So maybe take it with a grain of salt, but I know I can't get out, and I definitely see the barrier. Wouldn't be in here if I couldn't.

[He'd be out and helping other people. Or just huddled for comfort.]

[tadashiwashere]

Okay, hang with me another minute — I think we’re seeing different things. But I’m not absolutely sure.

[Tadashi waits to make sure Rhys is on board, then tosses the cup through where the barrier supposedly exists. It passes through just fine, landing and rolling.]

We both see that nothing stops it, right? If the barrier is coded to individuals, it’s not going to affect inanimate objects.

[sleight_of_fate]

[Rhys just blinks again, still frowning. This whole thing is kind of messing with him.]

No, it just bounced off the barrier again.

...I don't know how that works, but that's what I'm seeing.

[tadashiwashere]

I'm going to go get it in a sec. I know this is starting to seem like the definition of insanity....

[Doing something over and over again and expecting different results is sort of what science is all about sometimes, though.]

Right, so do you see it inside with you, or outside with me?

[sleight_of_fate]

It's...

[Tadashi is starting to make the puzzle harder, and Rhys's frown deepens. The more of this he tries to figure out, the worse his headache gets.]

It's out there with you.

[In spite of his frustration, he's still being agreeable, even friendly toward Tadashi. It's the damn barrier that's getting to him.]

[tadashiwashere]

[Tadashi tosses it back to Rhys, through where the barrier supposedly is. He's fairly sure of how this is working now.]

And now it's back in there with you. No barrier from what I can see. I'm starting to wonder if my first theory was completely off the mark. I think it's less some sort of genetically coded force generator and more to do with individual perspective.

cw: mention of Noisy Black

[sleight_of_fate]

It wouldn't be the first time, honestly. This place has messed with perception before, mostly time perception. But it's also done crazy stuff like made us a hundred years old, remember things that never happened...stuff like that.

[Rhys had been a very tired, bitter sixty-year-old. It had sucked.]

The nanites in our blood do all kinds of weird stuff...I don't really know much about the tech but I know they can influence us in some pretty extreme ways. Keep us awake and alive through massive amounts of trauma, for example.

[tadashiwashere]

Which means it's absolutely not a stretch to say that any number of things we perceive might not actually be the way we think they are.

[That being said...]

Why only some of us, if that's what's going on? The other things you mentioned... did only some people experience it or was it the same for everyone?