chroma | WEEK ZERO: PIZZA PARTY

SURPRISE!

Sunday morning starts peacefully enough, until around noon, when alarms start going off on your phones informing you of a Pizza Party taking place in the Central Node. You can snooze the alarms at first, but they begin to get a little more insistent after a while if you aren't making progress heading down there. If you're being stubborn, you can probably hold out until right at 1 PM, when an archway opens right in front of you and pulls you in.

The central node is comfortable right now, with blankets laid out on the grass and boxes of pizza are set out. Cheese, Pepperoni, Hawaiian, Meat Lovers, Veggie, I could just keep writing types of pizza all day. A few boxes even contain very weird varieties of pizza, but if you give them a try, some of them might be good! Some are as terrible as you'd expect. Otherwise, the pizzas are all warm and delicious, and there's enough for everyone.

The Residents are all already here, waiting for you! Have a fun and cool day!

... Unless?

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Well... you can have memory loss but still have said memories out there.

[LOOKS AT CLARTE]

...That's true. They don't just disappear.

[ha... ha... yeah they would know]

I know, but... It's more the fact they act as if not being able to remember is fine! That it's normal!

[just casually says this to clarte's face]

We have an amnesiac at the theater company?

[be... nice...?]

[what is HAPPENING at your theater company]

[something something we have a cryptid that teleports to triangles something...]

That doesn't mean it isn't weird.

I think the "he only eats marshmallows" part is weirder.

What?!

He doesn't really like other food. But he's still healthy... It's kinda worrying.

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[it's fine they're not offended]

If it's been like that for a long time, it is their normal. And feelings about regaining your memories can be complicated.

But if something took the memories from you. That's not right. If you didn't decide it yourself.

It can't just take us from our homes and take our memories.

I don't disagree with that. [gently,] Just that individually, it's not always as simple as "if you don't remember, you should want to."

Clarte-san...

[But she seems to think about something and just frowns.]

[...]

Still, if their memories might be the key, then... even if they may not want to remember, none of us, including them, can afford to look away You're certainly right about that, Chinatsu.

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[ same hat ]

[same hat :pensive:]

[ he's not touching clarte's memory trauma, that sounds like something for therapy pcs ]

...If we look past the matter of wanting to or not wanting to regain anything, it's still strange. They might have been here for a very long time—we can't know for sure—but we should keep an eye out for any side effects of staying here a while. I've thought it was strange that their memories seem murky too.

I agree with that much, at least. If their memory loss is actually induced externally, rather than merely an effect of potentially living a long life, then that's something we need to be alert for.

Right. It's a matter of learning more about our environment. ...If we don't know what the prism is capable of, and how it reacts, we're bound to have issues like yesterday.

I feel fine for now... I think. Um, memory-wise. Maybe it's only them... from being here so long.

Did the group that visited the library yesterday ever get their memories back?

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[ hear hear ]

Yeah. Not like we know how long of a timeline that’d take, anyway, since they don’t know how long they’ve been here, either.

Right. None of them seem to give straight answers about how long they've been here—considering that the clock here doesn't even seem to work, I'm not surprised.

[ he's a little antsy with what's going on, but eats pizza anyway. meanwhile damien out here thinking about shooting riff off a rooftop with a tree or something. ]

We'll just have to keep an eye on what happens, and on each other. [ blah blah truth finding ]

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