[Bond] Memory Mingle

[yearofthecat]

Who: EVERYONE
When: Day 53 Afternoon
Where: Aurora Lounge

[ The big screen in the Aurora Lounge flashes to life. Did you spend your tokens? Is it your memory? Is it someone else's memory? Come watch. Come share. Come learn intimate embarrassing details about everyone here. ]

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[schrodingerscockroach]

[The memory starts out about as stupid as to be expected with the Reds and Blues. There's now dopplegangers who are somehow involved in some plot to murder Freelancer agents. The UNSC is apparently playing cover up with murder, and Church might actually be alive???]

[There's an underwater base, UNSC is apparently trying to cover up unspecified-at-the-moment shady shit Freelancer did, Tucker and Temple want to fight, and Carolina would like to for once solve problems legally and with media instead of murder. She's having a time.]

[Temple then says they can talk later and takes Wash and Carolina down to a basement.]

[Full of Freelancer corpses, frozen in their armor and Temple reveals the whole UNSC story is a lie. He's the one killing them all and plans to have his revenge on all who wronged him.]

[And he leaves Carolina and Wash frozen in their armor to slowly die in his murder fridge.]

[Because Dusk's life is Just Like That.]

[And the person watching this.....sure doesn't look like Dusk.]

[A whole lot shorter, a whole lot skinnier, there's a kind of scruffy teen whose staring at the screen in confusion.]

What kind of movie is this? Did I get a coin for a youtube preview?

[He's also holding what looks to be a chair leg. Just. You know. For reasons.]

[malignstar]

[ Felix is looking around for Dusk after seeing that disaster of a memory. (Though Carolina is cool as always.) He's not expecting to run into a teenager he's never seen before. Hadn't they just done the arrival thing? ]

Uh, it's a memory. What's with the club?

[schrodingerscockroach]

[He's looking over quickly, grip tightening on the club. Looking Felix over with a critical look and things seem fine.]

[You know, until he sees the claws and those AREN'T normal at all.]

[Stepping back several paces.] It seems reasonable what with the not remembering how I got here and waking up in what was frankly, a disturbing room.

[Because Clover screams some kind of freak if it's a kidnapping scenario.]

[malignstar]

[ Felix holds both hands up in a placating gesture. ]

Okay, ease down. We're all in the same boat there. Well, except for the Clover thing.

[schrodingerscockroach]

I'll ease down when I want to.

What Clover thing?

[malignstar]

Okay, just... don't swing that thing yet.

That's your team. I'm on Thyme. Ah right, I guess nobody explained this to you. We've been inducted into a mission to save the world. Which sounds totally made up but here we are.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Yeah, it does because it's stupid to recruit teenagers to save the world.

There's an army for that. You know, the UNSC, with like millions of recruits?

[malignstar]

I don't think they're awake.

[schrodingerscockroach]

...I mean, some would be asleep, but not all of them?

[malignstar]

In this case, all of them.

[schrodingerscockroach]

That's not how math works.

[malignstar]

It does when there's some sort of universal disaster.

[schrodingerscockroach]

You do know the UNSC is across planets, right? Galaxies?

[bluediligence]

[ Holy fuck that memory ]

[ hoLY FUCK ]

[ ... But where's Dusk? Wh - ]

[ ... ]

Uhm, excuse me! When you say a coin ... do you mean that started playing when you put it in?

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Your friend was in a murder fridge and it was a grand ol' funtime.]

[He looks over at the sudden voice, his grip tightening on the chair leg as he moves to keep his back to the wall.]

....yeah?

Who are you? [He looks her over, eyes lingering over a few scars in particular.] You in the UNSC or something?

[bluediligence]

[ Whoa! She keeps her distance, and her hands where he can see them. ]

I was a civilian, last I remembered. But uhm, memories are kind of an … issue around here. For a lot of us.

My name's Faito, what's yours?

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Looks over her again.] With those scars.... [He's also wonder if gang except some of those....]

[They certainly don't look like NORMAL weapons. Which says something more like what I went through, just not as lucky.]

....I'm David.

[bluediligence]

Oh, these? [ Glances down at scars visible on her arms and legs, because, guess who's wearing work-out gear! ] I've lived an exciting life, apparently.

[ Smiling, she offers him a hand. ]

Nice to meet you, David. Welcome aboard the Aurora.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Apparently. Because the memory thing? [That he totally doesn't have, what are you talking about?]

[He's just not. Gonna confirm that.]

The Aurora?

[bluediligence]

Kinda? Uhm. Sorta. This [ gestures at herself ] all happened before I lost my memories.

The Aurora. It's train. We all live here, and it's, uh, more than a little crazy. [ Fishes out her Chain. ] You should have one of these somewhere on you. It'll help explain where you are.

[schrodingerscockroach]

You look like you were in an attack.

I'm not sure how up to date a relic of a phone is.

[bluediligence]

[ She ... kinda laughs. A little. It's not a "not okay" laugh, just. Ahaha. Ha. ] I was in something, that's for sure.

It's called a "Chain" by the people here. I know it's probably not what you're used to, but ... [ Shrugs! ] It is what it is.

[schrodingerscockroach]

I....sorry. That wasn't just. [Rubs the back of his neck.] I was too. As a kid. Kind of thought you were in a gang, but gangs don't get scars like that.

It looks like a....smart phone? Yeah, that's what the classic movies called it.

[bluediligence]

... [ A small smile. ] S'okay, you don't have to apologise. And I'm sorry to hear that. [ She is, genuinely, incredibly sympathetic. ]

[ And it's not just because he's Dusk. ]

It must be pretty alarming, surviving something like that and then - [ Gestures! At the train in general! ] This.

The cell phone's up to date, but I'll warn you in advance; the info on there might sound unbelievable.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Shrugs.] I was really young. Don't remember that much. [Which is technically true because that is literally all he remembers of that age.]

You mean kidnapped into some demented child's play place? Yeah, does feel like insult to injury.

You mean the fairy tale?