They Stole CAlli's Brain (CAlli/Dora/Rachel)

[Cameo]

[21:46:27] Broos: Dora: *gets a call on her dorm room phone*
[21:46:35] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Picks up the phone*
[21:47:27] Broos: CAlli: Hey. You Dora Lovelark?
[21:47:31] toothsomeCameo: Dora: That's me.
[21:48:01] Broos: CAlli: Cool. My sister told me about you, you're like some kinda telepath who can into people's minds and shit?
[21:48:21] toothsomeCameo: Dora: ...Yeah, that's basically it.
[21:50:59] Broos: CAlli: Alright, so, like, you got a going rate for this?
[21:51:33] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I charge $PRICE per trip.
[21:51:46] Broos: (Is that a lot?)
[21:53:31] toothsomeCameo: (It's an affordable price. It seems like Dora -could- charge big bucks for journeys to the centre of the mind, being a pretty unique service, but that would make it difficult to get much use out of.)
[21:54:25] Broos: CAlli: Alright, that's cool. Here's the deal. I'm a clone. You know 'bout the Space Needle clones, right?
[21:54:58] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Clones of notable metahumans artificially aged with copied memories, yeah.
[21:55:28] Broos: CAlli: Yeah, yeah. Copied memories is the thing. 'Cause I can't remember any of 'em. And I'd kinda like to know why.
[21:55:49] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I can do that.
[21:56:28] Broos: CAlli: Alright, awesome. So... we need to meet somewhere special?
[21:56:59] toothsomeCameo: Dora: We could meet in the quad.
[21:58:12] Broos: CAlli: Alright, that'll work. *Meanwhile!* Jason/OAlli: *driving down to have dinner with Rachel and Ryu*
[23:15:10] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *To the quad*
[23:10:38] Broos: Rachel: *walking back from class, notices CAlli in the quad* What are you doing here?
[23:11:28] Broos: CAlli: I'm getting the help of that telepsychic girl. Dora.
[23:11:38] Broos: Rachel: I wasn't- I should just stop telling you things.
[23:11:59] Broos: CAlli: Hey. I'm serious. I wanna know what the hell's wrong with me.
[23:12:24] Broos: Rachel: Yeah, guess you deserve to know that much, but... you might not want to do it here. My parents are coming down, and-
[23:13:14] Broos: CAlli: Wait, really? Sweet! I wanna meet me! I totally need to meet me!
[23:13:25] Broos: Rachel: ... Dammit, brain, what did I just say.
[23:14:20] Broos: CAlli: I wonder what she's like? Is she a lot like me? Does she think you're dull like a rounded-off gray brick too?
[23:14:26] Broos: Rachel: I resent that.
[23:15:11] Broos: CAlli: C'mon... you want party, you drink like a snob, you're always in your room reading something or writing something-
[23:15:23] Broos: Rachel: I'm an English student?
[23:17:25] Broos: CAlli: You just need to lighten up and let go. You probably got lots o' angsty poetry or something locked up in there that wants to be let free!
[23:18:06] Broos: Rachel: My mind is not full of angst. And I have no poetry. At least none that I personally write.
[23:21:57] Broos: Rachel: I'm studying to be a publisher, weeding out the true novelists from those who should stick to their quote-unquote "brilliant" slashfics.
[23:22:11] Broos: CAlli: Their what?
[23:22:18] Broos: Rachel: If you don't know you don't want to.
[23:22:26] Broos: (You can come in at any time.)
[23:22:32] toothsomeCameo: (This is entertaining.)
[23:24:17] Broos: CAlli: No, seriously. What's a slashfic.
[23:25:51] Broos: Rachel: Um... well... let's say I decided to write a ficticious story where you and Kiya had sexy times.
[23:26:14] Broos: CAlli: Hey! You weren't even there; that night was greatly exag- wait, fictitious- okay continue.
[23:27:05] Broos: Rachel: ...I'm going to ignore that. If you guys were fictional characters in some setting, and I wrote that, that's slashfic.
[23:27:20] Broos: CAlli: I dunno, that actually sounds kinda fun...
[23:27:30] Broos: Rachel: *facepalm* Lord Christ.
[23:27:42] Broos: (Okay, that's kind of all I got right now.)
[23:28:03] Broos: (You can come in when you're ready.)
[23:29:22] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Arrives in the quad.* You're Alli, right?
[23:29:37] Broos: CAlli: Yeah, that's me.
[23:30:14] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Hi, Rachel.
[23:30:46] Broos: Rachel: Hey. *I have no idea what their rapport is; I just assumed Rachel if nothing else knew of Dora*
[23:31:08] toothsomeCameo: (Well, Dora did conduct her first session at Spam Coffee Etcetera.)
[23:31:35] Broos: (True. And she's seen her around campus.)
[23:32:09] toothsomeCameo: (Indeed.)
[23:32:27] Broos: CAlli: So... how's this work? Is it supposed to hurt, 'cause I don't get hurt, so like that might be a problem.
[23:33:07] toothsomeCameo: Dora: No, it doesn't hurt.
[23:33:36] Broos: CAlli: Alright then... what am I supposed to do?
[23:34:39] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Hands her a form.* We both need to sign this. It says that whatever information I obtain from you in the session is confidential, but with more legalese.
[23:35:20] Broos: CAlli: Whaddaya mean, "obtain?" *is already signing it anyway. Way to go*
[23:35:43] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I'm going to be digging through your mind, which is where all your secrets are.
[23:36:19] Broos: CAlli: So you're gonna know all the shit no one knows about me but me, is what you're saying.
[23:36:25] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Exactly.
[23:36:50] Broos: CAlli: Well I don't know the shit I know about me, so good luck.
[23:37:37] toothsomeCameo: Dora: What's going to happen is that we'll visit your mind as an environment. Like virtual reality, or a dream. What it looks like will reveal a fair amount of information by itself.
[23:38:17] Broos: CAlli: I ain't bashful about my personality, so whatever.
[23:38:25] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Alright.
[23:40:38] Broos: CAlli: Do we need to be somewhere private? Rachel: Not that I've seen.
[23:41:00] toothsomeCameo: Dora: No, it's all internal.
[23:42:22] toothsomeCameo: Dora: We can start any time.
[23:43:08] Broos: CAlli: Ready when you are.
[23:43:48] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Holds out her hand and stares at her palm. The familiar-to-the-authors purple lava lamp glow appears.*
[23:44:25] Broos: Rachel: *watches because why the hell not*
[23:45:08] Broos: (Are they in?)
[23:46:23] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Her eyes are closed. She has an amorphous purple glow with black edges, which slowly moves, shifts, and bubbles like a lava lamp, around her hands and CAlli's head.*
[23:46:51] toothsomeCameo: Dora & CAlli: *Appear in CAlli's brainscape.*
[23:48:39] Broos: Brainscape: *looks like an empty concert hall... except it's not finished. What should be the back wall turns into inky black nothingness with jagged edges*
[23:49:21] Broos: CAlli: Okay, where the hell is this?
[23:49:34] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Furrows her weird sparse eyebrows.* I'd say I've never seen that before, but this is only my second brain so I wouldn't have seen that before anyway.
[23:49:49] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It looks like it didn't finish compiling.
[23:49:58] toothsomeCameo: Dora: This is your mind, if it was a place.
[23:50:02] Broos: CAlli: How does a brain not compile?
[23:51:05] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I meant that maybe the process of turning it into a place didn't finish.
[23:51:33] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Either that or your brain isn't finished. Which isn't out of the question.
[23:51:40] Broos: CAlli: *starts walking toward the back. The aisles are littered with refuse from a concert's worth of fans*
[23:52:34] Broos: CAlli: It ain't all black though, there's something here.
[23:52:57] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Yeah. That's something.
[23:53:37] Broos: CAlli: No, I mean, something in the black... *there is a thin bridge which appears to connect to another fragment in the distance*
[23:54:35] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Looks closer.* Oh, hey, you're right!
[23:56:01] Broos: CAlli: I don't even know what's over there. Or what's over here. I've never even been to this place.
[00:25:26] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Let's see if we can go over there.
[00:26:21] Broos: CAlli: *starts to walk over the bridge. It holds their weight, and upon close inspection, is looks to be made of broken glass bottles*
[00:27:48] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Picks up a crumpled soda cup and chucks it into the void to see what happens.*
[00:28:20] Broos: Cup: *falls. Into apparent nothingness.*
[00:28:58] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *That's what she figured would happen. Now she knows that if there's a boundary, it's pretty far away and very far down.*
[00:30:29] Broos: CAlli: *already going over the bridge, not even paying attention* This looks safe... whatever it is...
[00:30:45] toothsomeCameo: Dora: You should be more careful. I don't know what happens if you die.
[00:30:59] Broos: CAlli: You said this wouldn't hurt.
[00:31:26] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Well, the process doesn't hurt.
[00:31:34] toothsomeCameo: Dora: The results could.
[00:36:20] Broos_: CAlli: Well... still. This place... over... wait a minute... this place looks like a high school!
[00:36:47] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Wait up! *Quickly crosses the bridge*
[00:37:09] Broos_: CAlli: I wouldn't remember a high school... but she would! This has gotta be something!
[00:37:47] Broos_: Mindscape: *way in the horizon there seems to be other bridges connecting other fragments, like a network of them*
[00:38:17] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Arrives in the high school zone.* Do you remember high school normally?
[00:38:39] Broos_: CAlli: No. Well, I did... I think... It's complicated.
[00:38:55] toothsomeCameo: Dora: You did but you forgot it?
[00:39:38] Broos_: CAlli: Yeah, I guess.
[00:40:09] Broos_: School: *looks pretty rundown. Not abandoned, but clearly not well-maintained.*
[00:40:30] toothsomeCameo: Dora: ...Was your high school this grody wait why am I asking you if you don't remember.
[00:40:42] toothsomeCameo: Dora: This could just be a metaphor.
[00:40:59] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Under her breath* Possibly a metaphor for high school...
[00:43:41] Broos_: CAlli: Maybe, but... no. No, I recognize this place! And I know *I've* never been here!
[00:45:03] Broos_: CAlli: It's really hazy, but... yeah, I know. This is where Alli went to high school in Toledo.
[00:45:22] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Progress! ^_^
[00:46:58] Broos_: CAlli: *walking down a hallway* Doesn't mean I really know anything about it, just... I know of this place.
[00:51:12] Broos_: CAlli: *walks up to a locker. Somehow she instinctively knows it's hers. She opens it and a bunch of disorganized stuff falls out; much more than could have possibly fit in the locker*
[00:51:36] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Examine STUFF*
[00:53:30] Broos_: Stuff: *textbooks, notebooks, school stuff, but also punk accessories, bottles of hair dye and a couple of what appear to be baggies of marijuana*
[01:01:17] Broos_: CAlli: Alright... um... I don't remember any of this stuff...
[01:02:12] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I'm assuming it's either stuff that the first you would have carried around, or a representation of what you'd have in your locker if you, personally, had been to high school.
[01:03:09] Broos_: CAlli: I dunno about that... *picks up a notebook. It seems to be full of angsty lyrics*
[01:03:42] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Peers at the notebook.* That is some truly dire teenage angst.
[01:04:31] Broos_: CAlli: So? Everyone has teen angst probably.
[01:04:46] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I wasn't mocking you! ^_^;;;
[01:05:10] Broos_: CAlli: And then this... *picks up a bottle* Ugh, why would I dye my hair purple?
[01:05:30] toothsomeCameo: Dora: People change a lot between high school and college.
[01:06:27] Broos_: CAlli: And then there... *picks up a baggie* Oh come on I would be more discreet than this.
[01:07:16] toothsomeCameo: Dora: When did the first you go to high school?
[01:07:46] Broos_: CAlli: 20...3... I dunno; you'd have to ask Rachel.
[01:08:05] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Ah.
[01:08:37] Broos_: (This memory is circa 2027, FYI)
[01:09:50] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I wasn't sure if that happened before or after marijuana was legalized.
[01:10:11] Broos_: CAlli: Either way she wouldn't be 18...
[01:10:18] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Yeah, true.
[01:10:44] Broos_: *suddenly, bell rings from somewhere!*
[01:10:55] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Time for class, apparently.
[01:11:20] Broos_: *crowds of random people come out and walk around in chaotic pandemonium!*
[01:12:29] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Tries to keep CAlli in her line of sight through the crowd.*
[01:15:06] Broos_: Hallway: *after a little while, the crowd dissipates as they go back into rooms. Arriving late is... what appears to be an ~15 year old O.Alli*
[01:15:29] toothsomeCameo: (Is her hair purple?)
[01:15:39] Broos_: (Yes.)
[01:16:31] Broos_: CAlli: Whoa. Hey, it's... what the hell that can't be me! *not only due to the purple hair, but quite conspicuously, her arm is in a sling*
[01:16:48] toothsomeCameo: Dora: She looks like you.
[01:17:03] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Do you have a sister?
[01:17:44] Broos_: CAlli: Maybe she did? I dunno. But she's hurt. She can't be me.
[01:19:22] Broos_: CAlli: I'm indestructible. I don't get hurt.
[01:19:46] toothsomeCameo: Dora: The original you might not have been born that way.
[01:20:06] Broos_: CAlli: I'm genetically identical, aren't I?
[01:21:22] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Sure, but when powers appear isn't entirely controlled by genetics.
[01:21:35] Broos_: Figment Alli: *keeps walking around, not caring that she's missing class, fumbling trying to carry all her stuff with one arm*
[01:21:47] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Also all the clones were born, or created, with their powers turned on anyway. *I'm assuming this is right, Fawe can correct me if not*
[01:26:19] Broos_: CAlli: Whatever. Hold on. *walks over* Hey you. Why do you look like me?
FAlli: Who the hell are you?
CAlli: Who the hell are *you?*
FAlli: Why should I tell you? Piss off.
CAlli: Why're you wearing that sling? You're supposed to be indestructible!
FAlli: I ain't supposed to be anything, certainly not a meta. Now I can still knock you out with a left hook, so piss off.
[01:27:17] Broos_: CAlli: *groan* Fine. *walks back over to Dora* Some help she was.
[01:28:19] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Yeah, that didn't go very well.
[01:28:36] Broos_: CAlli: ...Am I that abrasive?
[01:28:57] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Not that I've seen?
[01:29:17] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Keep in mind that I've only known you for one day.
[01:29:26] Broos_: CAlli: Well teenage me seems to be a real ball of joy.
[01:29:55] toothsomeCameo: Dora: She's a teenager. That happens a lot.
[01:30:55] Broos_: (Alright to bed for reals now. Hopefully I get to continue this soon. Actual Broosplot!)
[01:31:00] toothsomeCameo: (Hooray!)

[Cameo]

[21:42:49] Broos_: CAlli: Well then teenagers suck. But I still don't see what the point of this is. I mean, I remember this... a bit... but it doesn't explain anything.
[21:44:57] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It's probably here for a reason.
[21:48:04] toothsomeCameo: Dora: We could look at the next piece?
[21:48:22] Broos_: CAlli: Yeah, but why? I'm trying to think, but I'm not... *the area starts to fade in and out, like a flashback warbly type of thing*
[21:48:37] toothsomeCameo: Dora:
[21:48:47] Broos_: *They're safe though*
[21:50:19] Broos_: *another Alli figment is running around now. This one looks a few years older, and with blue hair with bright yellow streaks.*
[21:51:34] Broos_: CAlli: Oh great. It's me again. And I still have ridiculous hair.
[21:51:57] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It looks fine.
[21:53:19] Broos_: CAlli: I guess... *the figment pulls a large knife out of her pocket, looking at it fiendishly* Um... Dora...
[21:53:25] toothsomeCameo: Dora:
[21:54:04] Broos_: FAlli: *holds up the knife, then stabs herself in the leg a few times, or would if the knife didn't harmlessly bounce off*
[21:54:20] toothsomeCameo: Dora: ...Well, there you go.
[21:54:39] Broos_: FAlli: *has a maniacal smile as she runs off*
[21:54:53] Broos_: CAlli: Okay what the hell I wouldn't do that. I'm not crazy.
[21:54:54] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Disconcertedly* Well, she looked happy...
[21:55:29] Broos_: CAlli: Hold on. If I can interact with these memories, I wanna know what her deal is. *runs off toward her*
[21:56:19] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Jogs after her* I know you said you're invulnerable but this really doesn't seem like a good idea with the stabbings...
[21:56:51] Broos_: CAlli: I know, that's why I wanna... whoa! *skids to a stop as the jagged nothingness is back*
[21:57:49] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Okay maybe not.
[22:00:47] Broos_: *there's still another bridge though*
[22:01:13] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Over the bridge?
[22:01:17] Broos_: *but you can't tell where FAlli went. If she didn't just disappear is a figment might*
[22:01:22] Broos_: CAlli: Might as well.
[22:01:36] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It's that or wait around and see if that repeats.
[22:03:07] Broos_: CAlli: Not worth waiting. Let's go. *walks across*
[22:03:14] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Follows CAlli*
[22:04:23] Broos_: Next random island thing: *looks like a cross between an office building and a hospital, and a fairly pristine one at that*
[22:05:12] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Hmmm.
[22:05:24] Broos_: CAlli: Okay, I definitely don't remember this place.
[22:06:00] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It could be an amalgamation of two or more places. That's the sort of thing that's likely to happen.
[22:06:10] Broos_: CAlli: This place looks like, fulla science. I don't think I'm smart enough to work here.
[22:07:15] toothsomeCameo: Dora: You could have been the receptionist or on security or something...
[22:07:21] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Or just visiting.
[22:07:40] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Reevaluates that first sentence* Probably not the receptionist.
[22:08:59] Broos_: CAlli: Or something... *tries to go in but the door is locked*
[22:09:44] Broos_: CAlli: What? What the hell? *pulls and tugs on the door but it remains sealed*
[22:09:51] toothsomeCameo: Dora: **
[22:09:58] Broos_: CAlli: What?
[22:10:12] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Whips out her omnitool sonic screwdriver whatsit that she got at the mall of the future.*
[22:10:19] toothsomeCameo: Dora: This is basically a universal lockpick.
[22:10:48] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I don't know how likely it is to work on a metaphysical lock, but it's worth a shot.
[22:10:52] Broos_: CAlli: Alright...
[22:11:36] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Gives the keyhole a shot of futuristic lockpicking zappery.*
[22:11:55] Broos_: CAlli, IRL: *winces. Hard*
[22:12:20] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Doesn't notice because she has her eyes closed IRL.*
[22:12:29] Broos_: (No, but Rachel would have.)
[22:12:34] toothsomeCameo: (*nod nod*)
[22:12:57] Broos_: CAlli: Okay, um... did it work because I just got dizzy all of a sudden.
[22:13:14] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It must have done something.
[22:13:21] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Tries the door experimentally.*
[22:14:32] Broos_: Door: *still doesn't open, but seems... weaker. Like it somehow damaged the hinges*
[22:14:52] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I think I broke something.
[22:15:24] toothsomeCameo: Dora: You can try kicking it open, maybe, but I don't know if that'll work and it might make you feel worse.
[22:16:20] Broos_: CAlli: Screw it, I wanna know what's the deal with this, *pulls on the door hard, and it rips off the wall like it was a cardboard flap*
[22:16:59] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Eyebrow Raise x2 Combo*
[22:19:31] Broos_: Building: *inside is... more nothingness. But with audio!* Audio: *a man saying sternly "The project has been compromised. Our work will have been meaningless if it's made public into a political bargaining chip."
[22:22:59] Broos_: Area: *the ground starts the shake and split, like a violent earthquake*
[22:23:12] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Uh-oh.
[22:24:24] Broos_: Audio: "Her power developed as a teen. One of many. There won't be a problem."
[22:24:58] Broos_: Area: *the earth begins to crumble away underneath their feet*
[22:25:07] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Backs away from the crumbling*
[22:25:32] Broos_: CAlli: What the hell what the hell get us out of here!
[22:25:49] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Back to the bridge!
[22:26:58] Broos_: CAlli: *runs back to the bridge but is cut off by the crumbling ground* *thinks for a second* *jumps!*
[22:28:36] Broos_: CAlli: *makes it! Sort of. She's hanging by the edge in a manner that would normally cause severe lacerations*
[22:28:59] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Made it to the bridge.* That looks painful.
[22:29:22] Broos_: CAlli: I told you I don't get hurt.
[22:29:54] Broos_: CAlli: But still, get us the hell out of here.
[22:29:55] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Yeah, but it LOOKS painful.
[22:30:15] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Alright, I'll bring us back to the real world.
[22:33:04] Broos_: CAlli: You do that. I'll, um... *can't really get enough leverage to pull herself up* ...stay here.
[22:33:13] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Dissolves the connection*
[22:33:41] Broos_: CAlli: Gah! Jesus Christ, that was terrifying! ...And why do I feel hung over?
[22:34:13] toothsomeCameo: Dora: That's not typical.
[22:34:27] Broos_: CAlli: Was anything about that typical?
[22:34:34] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Well... no.
[22:35:04] Broos_: CAlli: Then... I don't even I feel ill.
[22:35:07] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It could be from breaking the door.
[22:35:24] Broos_: CAlli: Why would I get sick from breaking a door?
[22:35:42] toothsomeCameo: Dora: You said you felt dizzy.
[22:36:04] Broos_: CAlli: Yeah, but... that was in there, none of that's real. This is.
[22:36:35] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Well... I don't know.
[22:37:04] Broos_: CAlli: Meh, I'll be alright. I know how to get through hungoverness.
[22:37:21] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I don't have a very good sample here, maybe that's just how your body reacts to the mind-meld...
[22:37:40] Broos_: Rachel: What happened in there?
[22:38:30] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Looks at Alli.* I can't tell her unless you give me permission.
[22:38:52] Broos_: CAlli: Meh, whatever. I ain't leaving here in the dark.
[22:38:56] Broos_: *her
[22:39:29] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Her mindscape was a bunch of tenuously connected chunks of stuff.
[22:39:41] Broos_: Rachel: As opposed to...
[22:40:21] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It's been a cohesive place for the other people I've visited.
[22:40:26] Broos_: CAlli: Hey wait if you've only done this like a couple of times how d'ya know I'm so abnormal?
[22:40:43] toothsomeCameo: Dora: ...I don't. But it rubs me the wrong way.
[22:40:56] toothsomeCameo: Dora: And, for a more sensible answer, it -is- the biggest outlier.
[22:41:53] Broos_: CAlli: Sounds like... we need someone dull and normal to establish a baseline. Do Rachel! Rachel: ... What.
[22:42:35] toothsomeCameo: Dora: That's not very nice
[22:44:16] Broos_: CAlli: Eh, it's the truth. But seriously, you want someone who won't have anything crazy goin' on, it's probably her.
[22:44:19] Broos_: Rachel: ... Thanks?
[22:45:36] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Well, I don't know her very well.
[22:45:59] Broos_: CAlli: Well, I do. I'm her sister. Rachel: *grumbling* No you're not.
[22:48:07] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Looks from Rachel to Alli, scrutinizing their facial features.*
[22:49:11] Broos_: Faces: *being that Rachel is genetically her daughter, yeah they could totally pass as sisters*
[22:50:54] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Tests the waters* Because she's a clone?
[22:51:15] Broos_: Rachel: Exactly. She's not related to me at all.
[22:51:56] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *She's thinking that the original Alli must be either Rachel's substantially older sister or her mother.*
[22:52:57] Broos_: CAlli: Yes I am... I'm sure the other me wouldn't like you saying that...
[22:54:26] Broos_: Rachel: You're not my sister, but between that and my mom yeah I guess I'll go with the former.
[22:56:24] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Um. Anyway.
[22:58:09] Broos_: CAlli: Anyway! C'mon Rache, let her in. I wanna know more about what's in your head anyway.
Rachel: No offense Dora, but is there any good reason why I should be a part of this?
[22:58:29] toothsomeCameo: Dora: The pursuit of science?
[22:58:37] Broos_: CAlli: I told you! Baseline!
[22:58:48] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Also I won't tell her about the trip if you don't want me to.
[23:00:09] Broos_: Rachel: No, you might as well 'cause she pester me about it until the sun stops. Not like I really got much to hide... fine. Do your worst. Though if I get hung over I'm blaming you.
CAlli: Wouldn't be the first time!
[23:01:56] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Alright.
[23:03:02] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Produces the glowy lava lamp hands again.*
[23:03:20] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *This time CAlli gets a light show.*
[23:03:44] Broos_: Rachel: *hum dee dum whatev*
[23:03:59] toothsomeCameo: Dora & Rachel: *Appear in Rachel's mindscape!*
[23:04:39] Broos_: Mindscape: *completed! Looks like a stereotypical suburban housing development*
[23:05:07] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Well, this looks cozy.
[23:05:17] Broos_: Rachel: This is what the inside of my head looks like?
[23:05:28] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Apparently so.
[23:05:38] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Let's check out the houses.
[23:06:35] Broos_: Houses: *all look like cookie-cutter copies of each other, including a very large, conspicious sunken basement entrance*
[23:07:08] Broos_: Rachel: ...I hate to say it, but this does look kind of boring.
[23:07:17] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Sorry.
[23:07:42] Broos_: Rachel: I'm not dull just 'cause I'm not crazy...
[23:08:34] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Of course not! I bet it gets more interesting inside the houses.
[23:10:03] Broos_: Rachel: Maybe? *picks a house at seemingly random and pulls open the basement door. It opens! No problems!*
[23:10:14] toothsomeCameo: Dora: ^_^
[23:10:35] Broos_: Rachel: Um... you might wanna take a look at this.
[23:10:53] toothsomeCameo: Dora: What is it? *Approaches*
[23:11:25] Broos_: What It Is: *a dense rainforest!*
[23:11:49] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Blink blink* Huh.
[23:11:58] Broos_: Rachel: Is that normal?
[23:13:31] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Having a rainforest in your basement?
[23:14:00] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Defying the laws of physics seems normal to me.
[23:14:02] Broos_: Rachel: Well obviously that's not normal, but I mean, like... mentally? I have no idea what I mean.
[23:15:19] toothsomeCameo: Dora: The construction doesn't have to make sense physically so long as it makes sense metaphorically.
[23:16:13] Broos_: Rachel: Why would I have a metaphorical rainforest? I keep my plants under control.
[23:16:37] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Which is probably why they're in the basement.
[23:17:03] Broos_: Rachel: That insinuates I'm hiding them. I don't hide them. I just don't bring them out.
[23:17:16] toothsomeCameo: Dora: The door wasn't locked.
[23:18:44] Broos_: Rachel: Why would I lock it from myself?
[23:19:13] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It might be locked if you were hiding them.
[23:19:28] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Alli and I ran into a locked door.
[23:19:57] Broos_: Rachel: How? She keeps nothing locked up. I wish she would.
[23:20:06] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Raises an eyebrow*
[23:20:39] Broos_: Rachel: Seriously, what you see if what you get with her, for better or worse.
[23:22:48] toothsomeCameo: Dora: So what would make a locked door? *Tilts her head and scrunches up her face in thought.*
[23:24:25] Broos_: Rachel: I don't know... you wanna worry about this or try the actual house?
[23:24:45] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I can multitask. Let's try the house.
[23:25:21] Broos_: Rachel: Alright... *enters the house, which is furnished by... bookshelves. And nothing but bookshelves*
[23:25:46] Broos_: *full bookshelves, mind you*
[23:26:14] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Examines a random book.*
[23:28:04] Broos_: Book: *seems to be some sort of novel. No immediate reference to anything well-known, however*
[23:28:20] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *What's the title?*
[23:28:22] Yun: (Random Question: Did you have Rachel's mind planned out just in case, or are you making this up as you go along?)
[23:28:39] Broos_: (I had Rachel's mind planned out first.)
[23:29:53] Broos_: Book: *It doesn't have one. In fact, all the book covers are blank*
[23:31:16] Broos_: Rachel: Okay see this I at least can sort of understand.
[23:32:01] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Flips through the book.* You like books, huh?
[23:33:35] Broos_: Rachel: Yes, but it's not just that. I'm in my first semester toward a career, editing, publishing books... this would be on my mind.
[23:34:00] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Does this stuff look familiar to you? *Hands her the book.*
[23:34:27] Broos_: Rachel: *riffs through it* Not really. I think it's just a random book.
[23:35:15] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Alright. I thought it might be either a memory or a project of yours.
[23:35:37] Broos_: Rachel: No, this isn't anywhere recognizable.
[23:37:35] Broos_: Figment Rachel: *walks in from a hallway, yawning and stretching. She looks the same age as Rachel, but has deep bags under her eyes and is also Sigma-level skinny. She grabs a book off the shelf and pulls out a red pen from seemingly nowhere*
[23:38:22] Broos_: Rachel: ... Dora, who is that?
[23:38:34] toothsomeCameo: Dora: She looks like you.
[23:38:49] Broos_: Rachel: But she's not me. I'm me.
[23:39:06] toothsomeCameo: Dora: She's not the main you, she's like... a reflection of you.
[23:39:40] Broos_: FRachel: *reads the book, grumbling and scrawling notes in it in with the red pen*
[23:39:49] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Alli had a couple versions of herself in her head.
[23:39:59] Broos_: Rachel: I bet she did.
[23:40:34] Broos_: Rachel: So what does this mean? Is this good? Normal?
[23:40:53] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I'm supposed to be here so I can figure out what normal is.
[23:41:04] Broos_: Rachel: ...Right.
[23:42:02] Broos_: FRachel: *after scrawling more notes, she gives up in a huff and tosses the book into a fireplace, with briefly lights ablaze, incinerating the book*
[23:42:31] Broos_: Rachel: What. Why would I do that?
[23:42:53] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Because it sucked?
[23:43:35] Broos_: Rachel: I still wouldn't burn it. FRachel: *walks back to the bookshelf and takes another book, grumbling and marking notes again*
[23:44:29] Broos_: Rachel: I don't think this is an... accurate me anyway. She looks kinda sickly.
[23:44:40] toothsomeCameo: Dora: She does.
[23:45:29] Broos_: Rachel: Why would she be so skinny? Does she never get any sun?
[23:45:31] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I've never seen someone that skinny who wasn't airbrushed or anorexic.
[23:46:16] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Has not met Zeta or Sigma.*
[23:46:48] Broos_: Rachel: I know a girl that skinny. Eats a fair amount too. She probably has a tapeworm or something...
[23:46:52] kingFawe: (Jareth: They really are quite skinny.)
[23:47:12] toothsomeCameo: (Zeta: We're built that way. I don't know why.)
[23:47:21] Broos_: (Because you're Barbie dolls?)
[23:47:31] kingFawe: (Jareth: Not enough meat on them bones.)
[23:47:34] toothsomeCameo: (Zeta: My boobs aren't that big.)
[23:48:17] Broos_: FRachel: *once again, burns the book and goes to get another one*
[23:48:39] Broos_: Rachel: Okay Dora, you're the expert. Is this some stupid metaphor?
[23:48:45] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Probably.
[23:48:50] Broos_: Rachel: For what?
[23:48:59] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Could be... hm.
[23:49:19] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Could be what you don't want to turn into.
[23:50:14] Broos_: Rachel: But I want to be a publisher. Discovering novels, critiquing manuscripts... that's a big part of the job.
[23:51:17] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It could be a side of yourself that you keep in check on the outside.
[23:51:35] Broos_: Rachel: No... that would be the stuff in the basement.
[23:51:57] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Yeah, that's true. She'd probably be chained up or stuck in the attic or something then...
[23:56:04] Broos_: Rachel: But... if she's that skinny then she's not getting any sun which means she's not going outside. She's a shut-in. *this logic train likely makes no sense to Dora, so yeah*
[23:57:06] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Actually it makes sense when she thinks about it. But the conclusion is the most important part anyway.* You don't let her out of the house?
[23:58:55] Broos_: Rachel: What? I... I... I should probably be honest with you, huh?
[23:59:04] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It'd help.
[23:59:42] Broos_: Rachel: I take a lot of perverse joy in telling someone their writing sucks. No matter how good it really is.
[00:00:14] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Thinking face again.*
[00:01:08] Broos_: Rachel: But... she doesn't look happy at all... if these were really terrible, shouldn't she be laughing at them?
[00:01:21] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I don't know.
[00:01:33] toothsomeCameo: Dora: She looked like someone who wouldn't let herself have fun.
[00:03:07] Broos_: Rachel: I don't know. I don't want to know. *walks back toward the entrance* Let's go somewhere else. *looks back toward FRachel, then down at herself* And when we get out of here, remind me to eat something. Sheesh.
[00:03:13] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Can do.
[00:03:26] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Let's try the next house.
[00:07:07] Broos_: Rachel: Yeah, let's... nah, you know. Long as I'm here, might as well go for the basement. ... You will keep a secret, right? 'Cause I don't know what we'll find down there.
[00:07:17] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Of course.
[00:07:32] Broos_: Rachel: *sigh* Alright, then. Let's go.
[00:10:05] Broos_: Basement: *a dense rainforest. It seems to stretch on as far as you can see and you can't see a sky over the canopy*
[00:10:28] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Takes off her sweater.*
[00:11:35] Broos_: Basement: *it's crawling with all sorts of plant life. Some looks like things found around Seattle, some something Rachel probably saw on the Discovery Channel once, and some completely supernatural*
[00:12:20] Broos_: Rachel: Okay... I'm a plant girl. Everyone knows that. Why is this a big secret?
[00:12:40] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I didn't know that.
[00:13:02] Broos_: Rachel: ... I don't dye my hair.
[00:13:08] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Huh.
[00:13:28] Broos_: Rachel: What did you think I meant be "She's skinny, she's not getting any sun?"
[00:14:01] toothsomeCameo: Dora: No, I figured it out, but I didn't know about that from your reputation alone.
[00:14:17] toothsomeCameo: Dora: The green hair is the only outward indication, and it's pretty ambiguous.
[00:14:40] Broos_: Rachel: Oh. Well yeah, I turn the flowers and crap off.
[00:15:22] Broos_: *suddenly, a Ryu figment appears!*
[00:16:07] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Who's he?
[00:16:46] Broos_: Rachel: My boyfriend.
[00:17:12] Broos_: Rachel: What's he doing down here?
[00:17:26] Broos_: Ryu: *suddenly attacked by wild dogs!*
[00:17:40] Broos_: Rachel: Aaaah!
[00:19:34] Broos_: Ryu: *trying to defend himself, but he's surrounded and ambushed. A faint sound is heard in the distance, slowly growing louder. It sounds sort of like some sort of cable lashing out*
[00:23:40] toothsomeCameo: Dora: They're only going after him.
[00:24:10] Broos_: Rachel: Why? *the noise is getting louder*
[00:25:05] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I'm not sure. Maybe they won't notice us unless we go up and personally bother them.
[00:25:44] Broos_: Rachel: I'm not getting near those dogs! But... Ryu... that's just an illusion, or mental... thing, right?
[00:26:08] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Unless your boyfriend lives in your head, yes.
[00:28:48] Broos_: Rachel: Okay then... I guess it's okay to stand back and- *landing with a thud on the ground is another figment of Rachel, this one sporting green and white superhero tights a cape, and a small green mask. She also seems to be a healthy weight. If anything, she's gone up a few cup sizes*
[00:29:30] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Super-You.
[00:29:50] kingFawe: (Most common superpower.)
[00:30:07] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Kinda envying the super-boobs.*
[00:30:16] Broos_: FRachel: *grows a bunch of mossy rock around her fists, then charges the dogs, punching them and causing them to blast off Team Rocket-style.*
[00:31:34] kingFawe: (Jareth: This is why I love superheroes.)
[00:32:08] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I'd complain about how physically implausible that was, but it's a lost cause if I ever saw one.
[00:32:46] Broos_: Rachel: Okay, that's totally not... anything I'm like.
[00:33:16] toothsomeCameo: Dora: The rock hands were cool, though.
[00:33:37] Broos_: Rachel: I can actually do that... takes a lot out of me, though.
[00:34:08] Broos_: Rachel: Also, how did the rock coalesce over the gloves?
[00:34:35] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Because it looked cool.
[00:34:56] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It seemed like it should work that way so it did.
[00:35:47] Broos_: FRachel: *smiles, pulls FRyu up off the ground, waves goodbye and shoots a pair of vines from her wrists, making that cable noise*
[00:36:28] Broos_: *the vines latch onto something that isn't immediately obvious and she's gone*
[00:36:56] Broos_: Rachel: Okay that was just dumb.
[00:37:06] toothsomeCameo: Dora: That outfit looked ridiculous.
[00:37:57] Broos_: Rachel: I know! What dumb metaphor is this now? Yeah, I love Ryu. I don't want to see him hurt. How is that a deep dark secret?
[00:38:27] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It's kind of hard to say when I don't really know you on the outside...
[00:40:06] Broos_: Rachel: Yeah, I guess. *shrug* Well, you seem alright and I could use someone to hang with that doesn't like getting plastered.
[00:40:24] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Yeah, I'm not even old enough for that and I don't want to drink myself stupid anyway.

[22:40:09] Broos: Rachel: *when we last left our brainsplorers, Omega Green was beating up dogs in a rainforest. And now...* Seriously are mindscapes just not supposed to make any sense.
[22:40:16] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Probably.
[22:40:40] Broos: Rachel: Well... I guess I'm sorry I'm not as boring as I'm supposed to be.
[22:40:57] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It's okay. That's a good thing!
[22:45:35] Broos: Rachel: Well yeah, but wasn't this supposed to be a baseline for science?
[22:45:59] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It wasn't really realistic of me to think I could establish a baseline from one person.
[22:47:23] Broos: Rachel: Nor was it a good idea to follow advice from Alli.
[22:47:48] toothsomeCameo: Dora: But it's still useful to have more data.
[22:48:19] Broos: Rachel: I mean, this is a woman who once tried to order a bagel with Irish cream cheese.
[22:48:45] toothsomeCameo: Dora:
[22:49:17] Broos: (Actually, that doesn't sound that bad now that I think about it... >_>)
[22:49:32] toothsomeCameo: (It could be tasty.)
[22:49:36] Broos: Rachel: You heard me.
[22:50:09] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Yeah, I did.
[22:51:08] Broos: Rachel: So... I dunno, you wanna explore anywhere else? 'Cause I'm just getting weirded out that my brain has all this stuff I'm not even aware of.
[22:52:28] toothsomeCameo: Dora: If you want to stop, I don't mind. I've had a pretty good tour of the place.
[22:53:14] Broos: Rachel: Good. No offense but if I don't want to know this stuff why would I want anyone else to.
[22:53:27] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Heh. I don't want to be nosy, either.
[23:00:09] Broos: Rachel: Alright then. Um. Where's the exit.
[23:00:40] toothsomeCameo: Dora: There isn't one, really. I just bring us back by breaking the connection.
[23:00:44] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Does so.*
[23:01:09] Broos: CAlli: So... you feel hung over?
[23:01:13] Broos: Rachel: No?
[23:16:12] Broos: CAlli: Well that sucks. So what the hell is wrong with me?
[23:16:27] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I don't know.
[23:16:48] Broos: CAlli: Well that's just wonderful.
[23:16:49] toothsomeCameo: Dora: I'm still going to assume it was because of the breaking and entering.
[23:17:03] toothsomeCameo: Dora: We didn't have to bust open any doors in Rachel's head.
[23:17:21] Broos: CAlli: You shouldn't have to bust open a door in my head! It's my head!
[23:17:35] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Maybe it's something you really wanted to forget?
[23:17:59] Broos: CAlli: But shouldn't I remember that I wanted to forget it?
[23:19:30] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Or that someone else wanted you to forget. It'd be naïve not to consider the possibility that your memories were tampered with.
[23:20:25] Yun: (Is Irish Cream Cheese a real thing?)
[23:26:21] Broos: (I doubt it.)
[23:26:31] Yun: (Darn)
[23:27:04] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Thinking of all the mad scientists and conspiracies that follow wherever metas go. Also: Alli's a Space Needle clone.*
[23:27:35] Broos: CAlli: And they wouldn't want me to know why?
[23:28:05] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It could be anything, but probably some variation on the theme of 'she knows too much'.
[23:29:33] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It could even be a secret about you.
[23:30:50] toothsomeCameo: Dora: The history of metahumans is riddled with secret societies and paranoid mad scientists. Sometimes in conjunction.
[23:31:39] Yun: (Kiya: You're not paranoid, are you, Joss?)
[23:31:52] toothsomeCameo: (Joss: Nope! )
[23:33:30] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Although I'm not sure if it's plausible to blame it on the mad scientist who made the Space Needle clones; if they were artificially installing your memories then you'd think that one could have been simply left out instead of locked away.
[23:34:29] Broos: CAlli: So then leave out that shit. Whatever. Why'd they gotta take away everything else? That's what bothers me.
[23:34:58] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Actually, if your creator -was- trying to censor your memories, that might explain the memory problems.
[23:37:12] Broos: CAlli: But no one else has these problems. Joss doesn't, Kiya doesn't... those are all the clones I really hang out with...
[23:37:47] toothsomeCameo: Dora: You could try to contact more clones and see if memory problems are common?
[23:38:06] Broos: CAlli: I don't really know any...
[23:38:28] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Post about it on the internet.
[23:38:51] Broos: CAlli: Oh yeah. Yeah, I guess I could.
[23:38:56] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Take out an ad, maybe, for the ones living in the city.
[23:39:28] Broos: Rachel: If there really is a conspiracy against her wouldn't publicizing it be a bad idea?
[23:39:46] toothsomeCameo: Dora: *Facepalm* Good point.
[23:40:15] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It's still probably worth trying.
[23:41:29] toothsomeCameo: Dora: Just... focus on the memory problems, not the conspiracy theories.
[23:42:49] toothsomeCameo: Dora: It's a perfectly natural thing to do.