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[deservesadaisy]

Returning to the subject of the... bleedover events some of us have experienced. The impressions, whathaveyou. Are we meant to be doing anything about that? Or are we all just politely pretending not to have involuntarily glanced into one another's memories?

I really am game for ignoring them unless talking about it leads it to stop somehow, but I am uncertain about the etiquette that's being established here.

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[brainsqueeze]

I'd rather ignore them but it hasn't stopped it happening.
Someone said working on it might.
I'm not sure there's a best scenario.

[deservesadaisy]

That rather works as a concise summary of my time on the ship as a whole, actually.

How often has it happened to you, then?

[brainsqueeze]

Too many times.

( Although once is also too many )

Apparently something similar happened once before but it didn't go as far as this.

[deservesadaisy]

Brilliant. I suppose this means that even after it stops, we can look forward to a potential repeat down the line.

[brainsqueeze]

If it stops. We don't know where this will go.

[rhyfelgri]

Speaking - and so articulately! gosh - of etiquette. You having any issues in the maintaining yours department?

[deservesadaisy]

I have to imagine you'd ask someone else that question if you truly wanted it answered, but I've been exceedingly polite, yes.

[rhyfelgri]

I'm thrilled beyond words. You feel free to forward me references, tall, dark and stupid.

[deservesadaisy]

You self-evidently know where Xengoen is. And I suspect you'd notice, if I had a serious lapse.

[rhyfelgri]

What, no one wants to speak on your behalf? Well, me, I am shocked.

[fullmoon]

Maybe someone could start a discreet matching service.

[deservesadaisy]

Perhaps. I don't know if it would actually be useful at all, but I was trying to determine whether anyone else thought so.

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[axeyou]

Do something like what. You just want to talk about it?

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[deservesadaisy]

Not especially, no. But given that there seem to be people who have been studying or observing similar phenomena, I would rather help speed up the process of stopping it, if stopping it is possible.

[axeyou]

[It'd better be possible, she does not write. But the subtext is there even by text.]

So you think there's someone responsible?

[deservesadaisy]

I don't know, but I'm hoping there's someone responsible for figuring out the cause, whether it's a what or a who. I don't fancy continuing to share out-of-context memories indefinitely, and it doesn't seem like many people are.

[axeyou]

I hope it's a who. And I hope they get identified real soon.

[ailand]

im just going to start telling every fool here whatever i see until they learn to stop sending me their inane dreams

[deservesadaisy]

Everyone knows other people's dreams are terrible, we just usually only hear them secondhand.

[ailand]

is there a way to tell you people to dream of more interesting things just becasu im asleep doesnt mean i want to be bored to death

[deservesadaisy]

I suppose you could encourage people to reflect on their more intriguing memories, but I'm doubtful it would help.

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[servator]

There'll be a purpose. Always is.
Just a matter of who started the ball rolling.

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[deservesadaisy]

I can't say I relish the thought of someone deliberately ripping the barriers between people's memories apart, but I suppose a motivation might lead to a cause, which might lead to a solution.

[Though he fears this might be overly optimistic.]

[servator]

Not anytime soon, I'd bet.
Not how it usually goes.

Seen something you'd rather not have?

[deservesadaisy]

Nothing particular so much as uncomfortable with being thrust into someone else's memories. I've enough of my own to sift through.