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

Comments

[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?