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[batmanschmatman]

[Friend Filter. If you think you're on it, you're on it.]

Everyone doing okay? I don't know if this is a flood or a gasleak or just something driving people a little crazy, but I figured I should check in anyway.

Anyone notice any turbulence? Got any theories? Figure we should get right down to it before people start really panicking.

[Private to Tim]

Still worrying about Bruce? [Which is basically his way of asking if you're doing okay specifically.]

[Private to Costigan]

Checking in, buddy. Everything still in one piece, or are you missing some stuff?

[Private to Mal]

So, got any theories on why Arthur's quoting poetry and acting kind of... spacey and super paranoid? [You'd know, right awesome nice lady who knows Arthur?]

Comments

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[batmanschmatman]

Believe me, I get how stressful taking responsibility for everything is, but I've never lost huge chunks of my memory before or created new ones to compensate for it before.

I mean, I'm still thinking this is a flood or some freak accident because of how random all the damage seems to be, but...

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

I'm more thinking that... we might have written down things that didn't happen. Like, kept notes of our dreams, or something. Or forgotten things, or skipped over things.

I haven't lost any chunks of memory, I just... there's two wildly differing accounts, and this place messes with you so much I'm not actually sure which is real.

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[batmanschmatman]

... I think I'm beginning to see what you're talking about.

[GUESS WHO JUST FOUND SOME WEIRD TRANSCRIPTS.]

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

What did you find?

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[batmanschmatman]

[He sounds tired and more then a little stressed out, and there's a pause while he rubs his forehead.] Some... transcripts of a conversation. Two conversations. And I remember the first one happening but it did not go like that. The rest of the entry doesn't make any sense either, and there's a second one I don't remember having at all.

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

But... which do you assume is real? The transcript, or what you remember?

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[batmanschmatman]

I don't... I don't know.

Did I break my hand a few weeks ago? [Not in invasionverse you didn't~]

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

Not to my recollection.

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[batmanschmatman]

Howie, I haven't cared this much about what Bruce thinks of me since I was a kid, but these entries are from earlier this month. Why would someone alter the records of a conversation I had? How would they have? The filters are pretty unhackable, and I haven't handed over my journal to anyone.

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

It's about as possible as someone screwing with our memories.

In fact, twice as possible. For every filter, there's someone who can break into it, I'm sure. Far more realistic than someone trying to destroy your memories, isn't it?

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[batmanschmatman]

So, who would have created a fake diary for you? Does anyone actually know you have one? And what would they have to benefit from telling you you'd been killed?

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

It makes us doubt ourselves, doesn't it? Means we might accept whatever we're told is the truth.

You've got a point about the diary, though.

Some people around here are very creepy, though.

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[batmanschmatman]

Creepy doesn't make a motive. And someone who pulled a stunt like that would need one, especially if it's this widespread.

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

To... undermine our sense of reality? Make us question everything, so we can't do anything? Or so we can accept whatever version of reality they give us.

Sounds like a motive to me. For some of the people around here, at least.