Event: Consolidation Theory, Part Four

[snowblindmods]

Consolidation Theory

The red-marked characters wake up on the morning of day 354 to themselves covered in bandages, sore and wounded, unable to remember the night before. If they look under the bandages, it looks like they got in some sort of physical fight, with fingernails having torn into the skin on their limbs and faces. There's food waiting for them, if they'd like to eat. It's the same as the food they got the day before. Eventually, they may notice others have joined them. The newcomers to the cells are at least as broken and bandaged as those marked in red, if not more so. They don't seem constrained by the cell, instead perfectly able to walk right through the blue barriers as if they weren't there at all. Well, the ones who can walk right now can, at least. They have food as well that they may eat if they're willing and/or able. Unfortunately, they can't leave the cell block area, and they can't pull anyone stuck in a cell out of the cell--though they can enter the cells of others. Robert Miller's voice comes in over the speaker: "The first attempt failed. You probably don't remember much of it, though, so don't worry about it." For the morning, you're left to your own devices. Maybe you can learn something about what happened from the newcomers. A log for part four has been put up here. Mind your content warnings.

Comments

[snowblindmods]

The unmarked character will be forced off eventually. It will look and feel to the marked character like they're being pressed against the barrier of their cell. Their perception of how the unmarked character moves will be adjusted to accommodate what they are seeing.

[warriorscribe]

So it would be more accurate to say that a character who lunged at another outside their cell appeared to slip past them into their cell and pin them against the barrier from in there?

And which version do the videos in part 5 show?

Oh, and from both perspectives, what forces the unmarked character off? Do the static people come and do that or is it just a compulsion?

[fifty]

1. Yes.

2. The videos show the version the character who "posted" the video saw.

3. Compulsion.

[0thingsonmymind]

if a marked character watches a video from an unmarked character (or vice versa) would it show, to them, the cells as they see it or as the unmarked characters see it?

[snowblindmods]

It would show as whoever posted the video saw it.

[fiftheclipse]

Ohmygod wait jumping in here with the perception stuff.

There was an earlier answer that if a marked character threw water at the force field it would splash back. If they threw their food at it would it be the same?

And how would that look? If an unmarked character saw it go through, would it just stay where they saw it land, because it's inanimate? Or would it eventually.. not be outside the cell anymore?

Or would their perception take away all the fun and show it thrown directly at the spot the marked character sees it land?

If they'd see the marked character walk out of their cell to retrieve it, instead, I'm going to cry.

[fifty]

1. It appears the same to the marked characters, while to the unmarked characters it appears to just land on the floor.

2. The marked character would retrieve it only if they were going to use it for something. Otherwise they just see it as inside the cell without having to retrieve it.