shitposting rave 3: Dawn of the third rave

"Yes," Ford says. "I'm objectively a terrible Jew, but I am in fact Jewish."

 

the sooner you stop treating me like i act or react anything like them, the happier youll all be.

 

the solution is pretty obvious

why don't you idiots just animate the fucking pillow

 

"Hello, was somebody looking for me?"

 

Simon hands @Janie Doe another note.

Stop fucking picking fights while I'm not there to protect you, goddammit.
-Sam S.

He is vaguely amused by this nonsense.

 

Fascinating! I've only had experience in three: the physical plane of Thedas, the Fade, and here. I imagine there's a great many more, but I wouldn't even begin to know where to start looking for them. Because of how reliant our magic is on the connection with the Fade, I'd even say that I might be a little afraid of breaking holes in my dimension-- it didn't work out terribly well for us the last time.

You must be Getheny. Valiska mentioned you, and I thought it'd be nice to meet you as well. Helios Lavellen, a pleasure to meet you.

 

*brings the pillow to life*

 

That... definitely was a widespread idea, yes. Still is, as far as I know. Try arguing the point with Autobot high command, though.

Would you mind defining overshadowing and possession? Because I'm not actually sure how comparable those are to mnemosurgery-- the practice we colloquially refer to as "shadowplay". Except in a few very specific, possibly-distorted cases, it's not really someone else acting through the victim. Priority trees get rearranged, memories get erased... a skilled mnemosurgeon can try to work in signals or alter processor-based reasoning, but it's a once-and-done procedure unless the patient gets brought back in for readjustment at a later point, not a continual direct control. (For that matter, is anyone's brain ever under their control?) "Personality adjustment" relies more on removing the influences that allow someone to consider other options-- say, blanking a memory of an anti-functionist rally so that their reasoning can't be further spread, or altering emotional processing so that someone who enjoyed the adrenaline rush of acting out can no longer recognize that incentive-- than actually altering core personality traits. A lot of the personality is tied up in the spark, not the processor, and if anyone's figured out how to alter sparks once they're integrated with a frame it's not public knowledge.

I'm not trying to say any of this has any influence on what happened to your husband-- I'm not sure it's even possible to shadowplay an organic-- I'm just... trying to figure out if we're talking about the same thing. Because if we aren't, well, there's problem number one.

...hey, @Lacuna, d'you think it would be rude to get your boss in here? He knows a hell of a lot more about mnemosurgery than I do, I never planned on specializing that way, but given the whole... recovery-in-progress thing...

Er. If I'm included in this, sorry, I can shut up. Topic is kinda heavy for public discussion.

No problem. Slag happens, it's not a real week in here without at least one instance of hideous misinterpretation and culture clash.

 

point me at im and ill kick him for you

hey dont knock dumpster diving

you can find some decent stuff that way

 

(New people! Some of them smell very, very strange. The huskies are inspectsniffing everyone they can get to, except the Cronii)

 

Mi!!! -the mi sniffs back.-

 

(Noisy fluffy tiny creature! Friend? Friend! One of the huskies is wagging her tail excitedly, and bouncing around the Mi.)

 

-One Mi seems a bit frightened by this, but another is cheerfully bouncing around the doggies paws-

 

*The wiggler jumps and drops their parent as it begins to squirm, four pillowy legs sprouting out of its sides and two creepy teal eyes blinking into existence on top.*

*Hesitant patpat.*

 

*Enthusiastic nudge.*

 

*Offended pouty face.*

[*Foul Eldritch cuss word that must not be repeated, even by the most sinful of speakers, plus the words "fucking dogs" added in after that.*]

 

*is too high for this shit*

 

*Cronus's entire body is slapped with a tentacle capable of taking out the entire continental United States in one blow.*
[WATCH YOUR MOUTH.]

 

*Cronus staggers a bit, then pouts at the terrible creature.*

[the barkfiend(s) didnt evwen look at me.]

 

[THE ACTIONS OF THE DISGUSTING FURRY QUADLEGGED MORTALS DOESN'T EXCUSE YOUR FILTHY LANGUAGE.]