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[truthandcakes]

Who: Anyone!
Where: The fields
When: Day 12, afternoon
What:

*there's some short kid with a metal arm poking slowly through the fields, carefully studying a funky-looking potato. he's got a few other plants collected nearby, as well.*

Wonder what the easiest way to figure out which ones are safe is...

Comments

[telepathetically]

I can show you. Hunting might be out of your league... but you'll be able to cook stuff.

[chaoticrights]

Thanks, mister.

[telepathetically]

Ah... I'm Icicle.

[chaoticrights]

I'm... Cal. I think.

[telepathetically]

That's lucky. A lot of people don't get their names to start.

[chaoticrights]

Mmm. So amnesia happens to everyone?

[telepathetically]

Yeah. Everyone that comes here either loses them on arrival or they lost them where they were before.

[chaoticrights]

So you're saying that people who already had amnesia somewhere else just carry-on as usual? That's no good.

[telepathetically]

We get chances to win memories back.

[chaoticrights]

What do you mean?

[telepathetically]

The Judges run games sometimes where the prizes are your memories. Sometimes they're harmless, sometimes people are killed.

[setting up to make a small fire, gathering bits of dead grass and sticks]

[chaoticrights]

Games...

[telepathetically]

[air quotes:]

"Games." Where the rules are unspecified and where loopholes are punished.

[chaoticrights]

And they're holding our memories hostage somehow?

[telepathetically]

I don't know how it works here. Whether they're hostage or they need the energy to get them back... they haven't said.

[chaoticrights]

Energy? If they're low on energy, they should take vitamins.

[telepathetically]

Different kind of energy.

[chaoticrights]

Does it matter? They still have unfair access to what is ours.

[telepathetically]

It's not the only thing they have. They can strip out feelings too if they want, or change around bodies.

[chaoticrights]

How is that?

[ RELEVANT TO INTERESTS. ]

[telepathetically]

Magic.

[chaoticrights]

--magic?

[telepathetically]

Not the cool fun kind. The making people go rabid kind.

[chaoticrights]

[ DOES NOT SEEM PUT OFF NEITHER THE LESS. ]

Even so, if it exists, why can't we use it ourselves?

[telepathetically]

They're not going to let us have that kind of power. We're kept weaker than they are.