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[hot_mess_express]

Who: anyone
When: day 38, after noon
Where: in and around the train

[A gentle breeze keeps the afternoon cool. It seems peaceful around now, with the malice pushed back so far, unless you're heading to the island of concentrated malice of course.

It's a good day to relax and daydream.

Distantly you might sometimes hear the tick ticking of clockwork? Or it might be your imagination.

Speaking of imagination, if you think about things too hard you may find your thoughts and feelings shared with those nearby. Or even if you don't think hard at all.

At the mildest this might simply be like your thoughts and emotions being understood by others next to you, either in a vague or explicitly detailed way, but at the most extreme you might project shared delusions. Something like others getting to watch your own memories. Or fantasy sequences. Or inner monologues. Or maybe even blending you delusions with another's.

Whether it goes that far or remains a more telepathic/empathic thing is very random.]

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[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow laughs. ]

Now that's a hell of a name! I'm impressed. Mine's Crow Armbrust, but you can just stick with Crow.

[survivaltricks]

Huh. That actually sounds like a real name.

[flopping onto the sand next to him, leaning back on his hands]

[bad_crowmance]

That's because it is a real name.

[survivaltricks]

. . . I heard that some people here don't have amnesia. Are you one of those people?

[bad_crowmance]

Unfortunately not. But there's like three other people from the same place I am who all know me to varying degrees, so the name thing was a nonissue pretty quickly.

[survivaltricks]

[oh wow, don't like the idea of people knowing him when he doesn't know them in return!!]

You didn't think that kind of unnerving?

[bad_crowmance]

It's extremely unnerving!

[ He says is far more cheerfully and breezily than the words would imply. He can't help but tell the truth right now, but he can at least control how. ]

But the only thing for it's really just to keep getting 'em back as quick as I can.

[survivaltricks]

[laughs a little bit, a light and airy huff, and flops onto his back with his hands linked behind his head]

Hm? And how do you do that?

[bad_crowmance]

You know...

[ He gestures around broadly. ]

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Get enough sparks and you get a token for a memory. You just gotta work the system a little.

[survivaltricks]

[aaaah]

I've gotten three back without even trying.

[Twilight]

[bad_crowmance]

See, so just imagine how it'd be if you were trying.

[survivaltricks]

I'd be drowning in memories. Eight straight weeks of nothing but Tw-- Spark on the lounge televisions.

[bad_crowmance]

And think of all the money you'd have too! Sparks as far as the eye can see, memories for days...!

[survivaltricks]

[an amused huff]

You're the guy who wanted the casino, right?

[bad_crowmance]

That's me! I'm gonna keep trying until I get it, too.

[survivaltricks]

So you'll have some place to blow all your hard-earned sparks?

[thumbs up]