MISSION 011 Sidelogs

[etrayamods]

WHO: Individual sign ups for mission 011
WHEN: September 19th - October 3rd
WHERE: Etraya
WHAT: Mod-driven threads!
NOTES\WARNINGS: Psychological horror, hallucinations, paranoia, body horror, violence, death imagery, loss of autonomy, existential horror. Mother thread will have parental abuse to a child (physical, emotional, and verbal) as well as neglect. PATHOS thread will have severe dissociation and assisted suicide.

Please indicate in the subject line if you're specifically looking for a mod response to a tag. A simple o7 will do! Otherwise I will use my judgment about where to pop in.

Comments

[scynful]

I'd have to know how to find it, [ he answers in a dubious tone, knowing exactly what they're getting at and why they're asking. ] Sorry. It's actually pretty hard to keep track of specific dimensions -- it's not like there's a directory.

[ Finding the exact specific version of the world Setsu is interested in would be as much of a fool's errand as the one Scylla is currently on, except he has no personal interest in it. He'd have to expand his being so significantly in order to achieve it that he's not sure he'd get it back down to this size again, and he likes being this size. Scylla does not want to literally actually be a god. It sounds horrible. ]

You sound like you know what you're doing with the hivemind, so you have a better shot than me.

I need to go drop off this soul -- can you wait here? It shouldn't take long.

[backtostart]

[ That sounds reasonable to Setsu. It's impossible for them to know what is and isn't possible with things like magic—and that's what Scylla is using—but even magic works on some form of logic. The fact there are simply too many dimensions out there to locate a single one makes logical sense; it brings to mind the ancient phrase "like finding a needle in a haystack."

Although their eyes fall in disappointment, none of that feeling is directed at Scylla, at least.

And quickly enough, Setsu's face display is back to its default state and looking up at him, though there's an awkward pause before they finally answer: ]

... All right. Thank you, for taking care of her. I'll wait here until you're ready.

[ Their voice comes out uncomfortable and stilted. Not Clea's "consciousness," but her "soul"... Can even souls be duplicated? The chip in their hand suddenly feels heavier. They had been trying not to think about whether one's consciousness is their soul. Now that they are, it feels harder to think, "I'll just end this existence if I need to."

They don't actually want to die...

... That's right. They only have one life now. They won't come back or restart if things go wrong. And Scylla is right: They have the basic understanding for how to handle this mission. They'll have a better grasp on what "the Continuum" is and how it operates once they're on location. Their current objective hasn't changed, in the end. They've always only had one shot, so there was never a chance to be reckless.

No response from Setsu's lack of sympathetic nervous system, but they still feel a little better for grounding themself again...and shelving the worries about their two souls.

And instead begin to think: While Scylla is gone, maybe they can restore the network before they go, so Catherine at least has access to it back in the dimension this building is supposed to be in... ]