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Tweak says, "Make a choice you won't regret"

MarinaNova NPCs (marinanova_npc) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2014-11-03 17:27:00

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:mingle, artemis crock, carol peletier, data, deanna troi, ianto jones, kitty pryde (aoa), korra, malcolm reynolds, martha jones, momotarou mikoshiba, pavel chekov (au), piper halliwell, raito sonozaki, rebecca crane, sougo okita, ton phanan, tyki mikk, wally west

Day 296 — Real MarinaNova — Central Core Awakening
[The last thing you remember is walking through a glowing door. Whether that was a good decision or a bad one is going to depend heavily on how claustrophobic you are, because right now you are fully encased in a very streamlined, sophisticated pod. It is regulating your body temperature, monitoring your vital signs, administering nutrition and dozens of other odds and ends to keep your body functional and healthy during its stay.

You're not usually conscious for this part of things. If you were, it would be a pretty boring experience. On the plus side, there aren't any tubes or wires attached to you. Those are a little too outdated for technology like this. The other plus is that you can open your pod hatch with a push. Luckily for you, those muscles in your arms and legs haven't atrophied. That's part of the science, but it's not perfect. There will be some aching and discomfort.

Take a minute to take stock of everything. You're wearing a bodysuit you don't remember putting on. You're in a giant, spiraling room you've never set eyes on before and your powers—if you have any—are blocked. But you're not alone. There are other people pushing their own pods open or lying still and silent in theirs. In fact there is a very large number of pods. You might not recognize everyone, but that doesn't mean they weren't an inmate at one time—they were even if it was brief.

For the moment there are no bots coming for you, no alarms going off that you can hear, and no immediate threats. The space is vast and the doors aren't locked, but you also might not recognize them as doors or understand how to activate them just yet.]

(OOC: This mingle is for those who went through the doors only. There will be two additional mingles for those who went through the doors and one for those who stayed behind. This mingle should be confined to the central core. The next one will be for exploring. EVENT INFORMATION | REAL MARINANOVA INFORMATION. Make sure to read these links. They have additional information you'll need for this setting.)

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2014-12-12 03:04 am UTC (link)

[ eh, close enough. that's what she was getting at. ]

He has an emotion chip. It's part of his programming now and it allows him to experience emotions like anyone else does. But for something like this he'll have turned it off.

[ which means guess who gets to work him through the flood of emotions when he turns it back on again. ]

He will still be Data, just not as emotional as you may be used to.

[ just as a heads up, kitty. he's still data and always will be. he's just slightly different with it off. ]

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	kitty_has_claws 2014-12-12 03:26 am UTC (link)
	He can just turn that on and off? Sounds... [like cheating] useful. [She's done the human—mutant—equivalent a time or ten, but there is no perfect formula for that.] We have more cyborgs at home than androids and they aren't all the same in tech terms. [Glancing from pod to pod as she speaks.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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2014-12-13 10:05 pm UTC (link)

[ it pretty much is cheating and everyone really does envy him when it comes up. ]

He's the only one with this ability. [ lore had it before but then lore was disassembled and the chip passed to data. ] I can imagine they would be different.

[ soft sigh as she glances around. ]

I thought it better to warn you than to have you meet him like that and not understand.

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	kitty_has_claws 2014-12-13 10:39 pm UTC (link)
	Some of the vampires have something like it. Though it seems more like turning their regret off than turning off emotions. But it's good to know. What makes you sure he'd turn it off though? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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2014-12-16 03:01 am UTC (link)

I've known him for a long time. The emotion chip is still very new. He's never had a chance to process emotions like this and I know there's someone here who was very important to him. He'll need time to fully understand what those emotions are and right now we don't have that time.

[ she knows data. he won't compromise such a chance to find out more about this prison by hanging onto overwhelming emotions he doesn't yet understand. ]

He and I will have a chance to work all of that out later.

[ she's the best one to be there for him and be there she will. just trust her on this one, kitty. ]

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	kitty_has_claws 2014-12-16 05:10 pm UTC (link)
	[She nods as she moves along to the next pod. She recognizes the face but can't place the name. It's been awhile. They probably never really spoke.] Hard to imagine having that kind of choice. [She may be wondering if she'd use it.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	counselled 2014-12-18 08:12 am UTC (link)
	I knew him before he received the chip, but sometimes I forget that he hasn't always had it. Having the ability to ignore those emotions does come in handy. I suppose it's not entirely unlike the filtering I can do with my empathic abilities. [ sort of. if you squint. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2014-12-27 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	Blocking out someone else's emotions is a little different than blocking out your own. [She's done both even if it wasn't like controlling an ability or flipping a switch.] Not that trying to do either is really the same as actually being able to do it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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