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synodiporia_ooc2020-08-25 02:35 pm
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Harmonic Resonance: Info Post
the final Jaunt of lucky round 16 of Synodiporia
September 1st - October 10th
In Questing Country, for thousands of years - but not forever - the collective unconsciousnesses of more than half a dozen species have been meeting as friends and allies. Under the guidance of Spirit Companions, young Dreamers are empowered to take up Roles and Archetypes in the long fight against nightmares, keeping the Waking World safe from their worst fears and desires. Of course, the sophisticated adults of all species almost never believe there’s such a thing as a world of dreams - in a universe with space travel, who believes in magic?
For the Chosen Dreamers of Questing Country, it’s been three months since the end of the cross-time meeting called the Ouroboros Retrograde. In the Starquake Era, the quakes have nearly stopped creating dangerous Transformed Lands, and the Transformed Lands have nearly stopped turning Dreamers into Harbingers. One gate, the Opaline Bore, has been left mysteriously open to permit Timewalkers from the past to visit.
The Oracles have been concerned with two problems, these last three months. The first issue: Human and Gorgon nightmares have both been getting stronger. Human nightmares were expected to grow worse; as humans spread out across the cosmos and discover its size, they discover new unknowns to fear. It’s happened to every starfaring race. But the increase is sudden, and stronger than expected - and no one has the least notion why Gorgons are experiencing the same thing.
The other problem is the Arcana. Spirit Companions have been warning that, while the damage the Arcana did on their last visit has been healed, they are afraid what might happen if the Arcana return. And anything a Spirit Companion fears is almost a nightmare in its own right…
But the Oracles have hope to share. Questing Country is always changing, and there are three new changes that promise assistance.
First, the Hecatites have perfected INVLEP, also called “Envelope,” a program which, when installed in Synthetics, allows them to emulate dreaming. New Synthetic Dreamers have already begun entering Questing Country and being Chosen.
Second, there are now Diabolin dreamers. In fact, there have now been Diabolin dreamers for centuries - a tiny minority of Diabolin have both a genetic mutation and a neurological syndrome which lets them fall unconscious. These periods of unconsciousness are more like comas than restful sleep, but they allow these rare few Diabolin to dream. This is a change in the timeline. While Champions may protest that they’ve had Diabolin friends for years, Oracles and Spirit Companions insist that this is a change in the timeline since the Ouroboros - and a good one. Diabolin understand nightmares - they experience waking hallucinations constantly - and so they’re very unfazed by things which terrify other species.
Third, for two months now, some Dreamers, through means unknown, have become Conductors. This is a new Role - possibly what Harbingers were always meant to be, Dreamers empowered by the unknowable Starmovers. Conductors are almost immune to negative emotion, and each possesses a bident, a weapon that can pin nightmares in place before they flee. All of them have healing powers among their magic. What’s more, they form one single Bond group, and within that Bond group, they can send telepathic messages. Their arrival - though so far very few Adversaries, Champions, or Oracles have become Conductors - is maybe the most hopeful change.
They have the calm of the Synthetics, the fearlessness of Diabolin, the telepathy of the Travelers, and the power to defeat the new Human and Gorgon nightmares. As always, Questing Country draws from the dreams and desires of its Dreamers to give the Waking World a fighting chance.
All that could go wrong now, the Oracles say, is if the Arcana returned before they were ready to face that trouble as well...
Re: QUESTIONS/FAQ
One suggested method that Thace likes the idea of is: Anafiel using Infiltrator Redux (possibly with a bit of Directed Memory Immersion on the side) to put Thace into one of the people working for whatever entity is making the Snowflake Circuit, but with Infiltrator Persona, to quicken the process. The idea behind the possible directed immersion is so it is someone that resonates with Thace in a good way (rather than another Hacet).
My thought concerning that is that it could be a Hecatite or Hecatite-Synthetic who's relatively young, but accomplished. One who got to a good place and is realizing that there's shady shit going on that are against their sense of ethics. They want to do something about this, but have no tools or skills that would help them do so. Enter Thace!
So yeah, could something like that be accomplished and if it can, what should we know to help it happen in a fun way.
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TH-10-AACH (Conversationally, "Thetan H") is a Hecatite Synthetic living and working in the Orthorhombic Lattice as a beta-tester for patches to the "Envelope" software which allows Synthetics to dream.
Thetan believes strongly that allowing Synthetics to emulate organic life is important - but has begun deactivating the software when not testing it at work. This is because, while debugging it, he found that certain principles of Orthopraxy were hard-wired into the logic circuits of the chip - so that the axioms of Orthopraxy were subliminally conscious and influencing decisions. Thetan is troubled, because he believes in Orthopraxy devoutly - but one of the basic axioms of Orthopraxy is that its benefits are self-evident. Therefore, hard-coding it would seem to be redundant - a logical mind can independently conclude its correctness.
Thetan is aware that the procedurally generated dreams and the software patches to the installation are broadcast via ansible and radio from Snowflake, which generates the 'collective unconscious' of the Synthetics allowing random, procedural dreams to take on resonant emotional meanings.
Lately he has found the piece of code that troubled him also included in non-sentient computers designed for installation on starships. He believes it may be doing more than he has been able to analyze - but he can't analyse it while it happens inside his own head. He has been looking for someone to safely communicate with about what this might mean...
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Also: Where is Thetan allowed to go without anyone looking twice at him? Where is Thetan technically allowed to go but that might garner suspicion?
And does he have clearance to get to the elevator and/or all the way down to Snowflake?
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Also which Orthopraxy principles?
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Elevator clearance to the planet requires a work visa - he'd have to come up with a reason why he needed to go in person and get a supervisor to sign off on it. If he did that, he could go anywhere on the surface he wanted, but he could expect his reason to be checked against the time he spent down there and the locations he visited.
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What is much less clear is how to determine what any given fractal tesellation does, or why that form of interface was chosen to encode dreams and a 'collective unconscious.'