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the heart ([personal profile] uprisenheart) wrote in [community profile] dualisooc2019-07-24 08:28 pm
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AUGUST RUNDOWN.

Well, well, y'all survived another month in this charming little town - great job! A little more mystery than violence this month, which is a trend we will see continuing on into August. Read on for details!



it's dangerous to go alone!! take this with you.


Once again, apps will be open August 1-7, with activity check reporting due no later than August 5. You can report in any time, however - you're not required to wait until the 1st!

NAPs, our regular monthly intro event for getting to know your neighbors, will be held August 10-14, of course. As always, participation is optional, but you can't make new friends and enemies if you don't get out and meet people!

Speaking of enemies - remember how everyone has that microchip that nobody ICly knows about? It's going to come into play with this month's main event. Not only does the chip function as a universal translator, it's also a way for the Head to keep tabs on all Dualizens - in other words, the Head is lowkey linked into your heads. Neat, huh? The Head mostly uses this for tracking and information-gathering purposes - because, as you know, this is a cyberpunk dystopia - but this month, there will be a slight complication. Due to mysterious and unforeseen technical difficulties, there will be a citywide glitch, and through the Head's mindlink, all opted-in characters will share memories with each other.

This includes the Head, too! Bits and pieces of its memory banks will become available throughout the glitching time. Haven't you wondered what really happened to the city's original inhabitants? Well, I'm glad you asked, because here is your opportunity to find out a little more. Take notes and poke around afterward, and you might just uncover something useful and horrifying!

Participation in the mindlinking is optional, of course. But don't you want to take advantage of this fun technical error and subject your fellow citizens to your best and/or worst memories? The memory sharing will be experienced as a rolling effect from August 15-24.

Posts can be made in either logs or network format, but please remember to use warnings for any potentially triggering and traumatic content. You can share as many memories as you'd like (within reason) but please contain them to a single post.

Please also remember that even though the microchip is responsible for this memory sharing, no character is aware that they have a chip embedded in their body. No lucky guessing, no sudden revelations, nada. All characters should be completely mystified as to how the hell they're getting other people's memories shoved in their heads. The chip's existence will become known ICly a little farther down the line, so please have patience and wait until then to give us your expressions of outrage.

And while there's no word from the Heart this month, they certainly haven't disappeared. Maybe once you've had your dose of after-mindlink brainbleach, you'd be interested in poking around for more information about the party or parties responsible for last month's weird broadcast and the Dualis Days bombing? This is a huge city and there are plenty of places to comb for clues, after all. If you're interested in doing some investigating, please comment below and the mods will be in touch with more information about what information will be available and how to find it.

Please feel free to ask questions below and use this post as a place to plot things out amongst yourselves!
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[personal profile] aguidingkey 2019-07-25 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
AQUA VOLUNTEERS AS TRIBUTE
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

Re: INVESTIGATION INTEREST.

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2019-07-25 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Are we surprise that David is in on this?
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (You Can't Help Ninjas (Stressed))

Who wants to see David embarassed? Memory share plotting?

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2019-07-25 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
So David will have multiple memories, mostly along a theme. A theme of 'fucking hell why do I keep ending up in one-sided kisses?'

So I know I want David kissing one thing and it turns into Tommy because awkwardness. But I've got other options. What do we think of this list, what might amuse you to see?

-David forced to kiss a teammate via her pheromone powers because she wanted to make another guy jealous and David had said no?
-David kissing another teammate because he wanted to know what kissing a guy was like and he was certain he was about to die he didn't want to die with regrets again
-David, in the aftermath of loving his mutation, being forced to watch his girlfriend he was VERY serious about kiss ANOTHER guy he doesn't get along with, as an attempt to make him leave Xavier's and the X-Men. his is the most heart breaky.
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[personal profile] sociallychallenged 2019-07-25 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Will this be happening between NPCs too? (And even if edited out of the news, discussion discretely overheard)?
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[personal profile] sociallychallenged 2019-07-25 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Hank is always looking for things.
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[personal profile] sociallychallenged 2019-07-25 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Options for good wholesome content:

-Hank with Cole at the playground. Cole's just running around and playing and Hank's being a big goofy dad with him. Stuff like spinning the the child centrifuge aka merry-go-round or helping him across monkey-bars or playing ball.

-Happy memories of playing with his dog when he was a puppy. Or further back when Hank was younger, playing with his rescue dog.

-Fun with friends before the depression hit. Watching games in one of those "We brought a million snacks like a dudebro church luncheon" sports nights. Or failing miserably at skating in front of witnesses and throwing snow in their faces. That sort of shit.


Bad memories.

-Crime scenes, because he's been on homicide for a while.

-Suicidal content warning: Hank playing Russian Roulette.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-25 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, but paying with a kid would be lovely, because oh boy. My fucking HEART.

As for bad, Nida would definitely take Hank out for drinks if you the the content warning one. Because, well... He knows how it feels.
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Re: QUESTIONS.

[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-25 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Is it cool for in person mind links to be provoked by physical touch? Just to further throw people off the scent? Not all of them, just some people experience it like that.
Edited 2019-07-25 03:32 (UTC)
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Re: INVESTIGATION INTEREST.

[personal profile] therevanchist 2019-07-25 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Revan is on this like a Hutt on illegal gambling.

Mira too, but less enthusiastically.
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[personal profile] yondu 2019-07-25 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
I figure it would be nice to offer a lot of fantastical memories from Yondu. Less trauma and more beautiful reaches of space.

-Knowhere either from a distance or in the city.

-What Ego the living planet used to look like.

-Krugarr performing some Doctor Strange style magic, for those that want looks at other magic. I think it's okay to assume he's seen an Asgardian pull something, too.
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[personal profile] sociallychallenged 2019-07-25 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Either one of those would be great. Considering Nidas history I kind of want to dump a happy memory of Cole on him especially.

I call it wholesome content but in actuality it's pain.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-25 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
SPAAAACE
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[personal profile] bravers 2019-07-25 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
I'm up for this! After what I'm planning for Cloud happens, he'll be motivated to take an interest.
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[personal profile] bravers 2019-07-25 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
I'd like Cloud to see these! Your call which!
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Memories - interest check

[personal profile] bravers 2019-07-25 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
Need a partner for the memory exchange? Hi, I like exchanging memories. This is just an interest check for things to write out, and if you'd like to trade memories with this loser, I'm all for it.

I've got three scenarios, the Bad, the Really Bad, and the Really, Really Bad, as follows.

THE BAD: Light embarrassment, and I imagine your character will be weirded out after this one. (And if they're not, they're weird.) Long story short, Crossdressing, and interrogating a pimp.


THE REALLY BAD: Okay, so Cloud is associated with a terrorist faction- and personally bombed Midgar's Reactor 1* It killed a lot of civilians, and it was pretty bad. The memory to be viewed from this is the following which includes mech abuse, and probably a headache from Barret yelling.

* NOTE: Your character is more than welcome to think this bombing is the same event as Dualis' bombing, and that Cloud had something to do with it. In fact, please do! It's the reason this memory is up.

THE REALLY, REALLY BAD: This. (19:55 - 21:39.) Cloud will deny these memories are his until the stars and back (because he can't recall these conciously) so be prepared for an argument.
Edited 2019-07-25 13:05 (UTC)
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Re: INVESTIGATION INTEREST.

[personal profile] salvagedlight 2019-07-25 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
CLINT'S IN YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT this is his job and he wants to go the fuck home
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Re: QUESTIONS.

[personal profile] salvagedlight 2019-07-25 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
TWO QUESTIONS.

A) Will amnesia have any effect on memories being shared? Does the person have to actually *remember* the memories themselves for them to be shared, or is this more like "accessing programming on a hard drive" and it just has to be written in the brain even if Ven the person doesn't know it's there?

B) How do you mods feel about headcanon memories being shared around instead of just things demonstrably shown in the canons?
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-25 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)

Nida is very short on happy memories of family. I should share his memory share of the last game with you 

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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-07-25 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)

... because he already has two TERRIBLE memories to share? And one soft. I just haven’t picked the soft out yet. 

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