Event: No Such Thing; End

[snowblindmods]

No Such Thing

During the night, every single comatose character begins screaming at the top of their lungs. They scream, and they keep screaming for hours, going on and on as their voices crack and their throats bleed from the strain. Then, just after midnight, they stop. In the morning, they wake up. Their memories of the past two days are fuzzy--they may not remember everything they did or said, and if they review a conversation on the network they don't remember having, it will feel like they're learning about the conversation for the first time. They do remember Miller's voice, which spoke to them while they slept: "There's no such thing as ghosts, you know. Or maybe there are only ghosts, if that suits you better. There's neurons and the signals they make. And they either fire or they don't, all on, all off. It works just like binary. If you made a copy, a computer wouldn't have a problem reading it. Of course, it's just a copy. The original would keep going on, but the copy would stay frozen however it was. It can't change. Something to think about." Other than that odd monologue, and the screaming you don't remember, it doesn't seem like Miller actually did anything to you. Please make sure your squicks are updated.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[snowblindmods]

Re: QUESTIONS

[warriorscribe]

Obligatory eye app question, does the transparency thing change while they’re screaming?

[snowblindmods]

They have completely disappeared from the viewpoint of the eye app at this point. That remains in effect after the event as well.

Re: QUESTIONS

[jumpthegun]

Are throats that were torn in the screaming repaired before characters become aware, then?

[snowblindmods]

Nope!

[jumpthegun]

Lovely! Obligatory is ShadowNet working again, or is it gone for the foreseeable future for characters who were infected?

As well as are the infected tablets just in perpetual low power mode with little/no access to apps outside the network?

[snowblindmods]

Shadownet remains gone for those infected. Low power mode has abated, however.

[jumpthegun]

And one more: Do the shadow people return to roaming Norfinbury, or are they properly gone?

[snowblindmods]

They're gone.