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mayfield_rpg2012-06-05 11:20 pm
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Chapter 11: A Fork in the Road of Time
[One choice can make all the difference of a lifetime.]
[Gat might still be an android, but the change Friday brought to the minds within Mayfield have tampered with him considerably. He doesn't remember a thing about his life in the Gurhal system, or serving aboard Pioneer 2 and exploring the haunted world of Ragol. In fact, he doesn't remember Coral at all, either.]
[Gat's memories come from a life that might have been, had he never chosen to join the Pioneer colonization project. Instead he continued his work as a freelance Ranger for the various warring nations of the dying planet. Decades, maybe centuries passed—Gat will never know for sure, for the Great Blank forced all of Coral's androids offline, sent the Numans seemingly into extinction, and left humanity on the verge of following their child races into oblivion.]
[All Gat remembers is being recovered by an expedition party in the remains of the city of Paru, roughly a hundred years agter the Great Blank, with no memories left to him save for his name and what had survived in his body's sub-memory systems. By then, Coral was a very different place—most of the planet was now inhospitable, with toxins of unknown origin threatening to kill any human who wandered too far from the safer areas on the planet. Most of the wildlife that competed for space in these havens were openly hostile to sentient creatures, making both travel and communication between human settlements difficult—and life was difficult enough, with the once high-tech civilization of Coral reduced to something akin to the American Wild West, imbued with fragments of the previous age.]
[So, since Friday, Gat's been coping with the awkwardness of this CAST body built with technology very different from those from Coral at the time of the Great Blank. Dakki Sigal was never a co-worker or friend—and given her own memory corruption, they only barely manage to get along. Gat's personality has changed some, too—he's a little more blunt and serious than usual, and more of a loner.]
[ACTION - A (In and Around 458 Stone, Morning, HOUSEMATES)]
[Gat's busy taking care of house chores. Much as he'd rather be outside the house doing things other than being here with this woman who sees him as an arch-nemesis, this house was a shared living space. There's Chen to think about, and the drone human kids, too. He's got some responsibility to keep house.]
[ACTION - B (Mayfield Firehouse, Afternoon, OPEN TO ALL)]
[Where the technology of Mayfield's era once left Gat a little awkward due to its relative primitiveness compared to that of Gurhal and Coral's, he's now more confounded by it because much if it is actually more advanced than the technology Coralian civilization is capable of producing after the Great Blank.]
[This isn't exactly a good switch-up when you're trying to check the fire engine's ... engine ... for problems.]
[Are you a fellow firefighter? Or just passing by the firehouse? Feel free to bug the RAcast!]
[ACTION - C (Shooting Range, Evening, OPEN TO ALL)]
[When you're living with a woman who thinks you're her arch-nemesis and is more than ready to kill you to satisfy her deep-seated grudges, it pays to keep your own fighting skills at top notch. Which is why, while Dakki's out spending time training or exercising her skills as a Hunter, Gat's doing the same as a Ranger. Even though he has a strange mechgun that was sent to him for Christmas last year, Gat's preferring to train with whatever weapons are at hand—mostly shotguns and hunting rifles. As might be expected of an android, he's not a bad shot—but it looks like he's working on his timing and speed more than his aim.]
[ACTION - D (Anywhere in Mayfield, Evening/Night, OPEN TO ALL)]
[Rather than go home, Gat's decided to take some time to explore the town. Not necessarily to get a feel for the lay of the land—he'd already done that a few times, especially after he got this strange non-Coralian CAST body. It's mostly exploring for the sake of exploring—and the closest thing he'll get in a town such as this to the lifestyle he led in the post-Great Blank world, drifting from one town to the next.]
[Given the increase in violence in the town recently, though (to say nothing of Dakki's behavior), he's not letting his guard down.]
[Gat might still be an android, but the change Friday brought to the minds within Mayfield have tampered with him considerably. He doesn't remember a thing about his life in the Gurhal system, or serving aboard Pioneer 2 and exploring the haunted world of Ragol. In fact, he doesn't remember Coral at all, either.]
[Gat's memories come from a life that might have been, had he never chosen to join the Pioneer colonization project. Instead he continued his work as a freelance Ranger for the various warring nations of the dying planet. Decades, maybe centuries passed—Gat will never know for sure, for the Great Blank forced all of Coral's androids offline, sent the Numans seemingly into extinction, and left humanity on the verge of following their child races into oblivion.]
[All Gat remembers is being recovered by an expedition party in the remains of the city of Paru, roughly a hundred years agter the Great Blank, with no memories left to him save for his name and what had survived in his body's sub-memory systems. By then, Coral was a very different place—most of the planet was now inhospitable, with toxins of unknown origin threatening to kill any human who wandered too far from the safer areas on the planet. Most of the wildlife that competed for space in these havens were openly hostile to sentient creatures, making both travel and communication between human settlements difficult—and life was difficult enough, with the once high-tech civilization of Coral reduced to something akin to the American Wild West, imbued with fragments of the previous age.]
[So, since Friday, Gat's been coping with the awkwardness of this CAST body built with technology very different from those from Coral at the time of the Great Blank. Dakki Sigal was never a co-worker or friend—and given her own memory corruption, they only barely manage to get along. Gat's personality has changed some, too—he's a little more blunt and serious than usual, and more of a loner.]
[Gat's busy taking care of house chores. Much as he'd rather be outside the house doing things other than being here with this woman who sees him as an arch-nemesis, this house was a shared living space. There's Chen to think about, and the drone human kids, too. He's got some responsibility to keep house.]
[Where the technology of Mayfield's era once left Gat a little awkward due to its relative primitiveness compared to that of Gurhal and Coral's, he's now more confounded by it because much if it is actually more advanced than the technology Coralian civilization is capable of producing after the Great Blank.]
[This isn't exactly a good switch-up when you're trying to check the fire engine's ... engine ... for problems.]
[Are you a fellow firefighter? Or just passing by the firehouse? Feel free to bug the RAcast!]
[When you're living with a woman who thinks you're her arch-nemesis and is more than ready to kill you to satisfy her deep-seated grudges, it pays to keep your own fighting skills at top notch. Which is why, while Dakki's out spending time training or exercising her skills as a Hunter, Gat's doing the same as a Ranger. Even though he has a strange mechgun that was sent to him for Christmas last year, Gat's preferring to train with whatever weapons are at hand—mostly shotguns and hunting rifles. As might be expected of an android, he's not a bad shot—but it looks like he's working on his timing and speed more than his aim.]
[Rather than go home, Gat's decided to take some time to explore the town. Not necessarily to get a feel for the lay of the land—he'd already done that a few times, especially after he got this strange non-Coralian CAST body. It's mostly exploring for the sake of exploring—and the closest thing he'll get in a town such as this to the lifestyle he led in the post-Great Blank world, drifting from one town to the next.]
[Given the increase in violence in the town recently, though (to say nothing of Dakki's behavior), he's not letting his guard down.]
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Well, th' girl I'm speakin' of called herself a "youkai." Since th' town classified her as a pet, she wound up here as a cat at first. She can shift forms between that an' her humanoid form.
I can't think of anyone in town who'd be able to copy th' appearances of other folks, though.
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You're sayin' someone else is takin' their place an' insistin' things're different?
[Shades of the Halloween event with the pod people, there ...]
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[And Gat has no easy answer, yet—]
If'n you an' I're rememberin' things about each other differently, then it wouldn't jus' be a case of a double takin' their place, would it?
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If everyone's rememberin' somethin' different 'bout everyone else they know ... I think that's th' more likely thing.
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[He would feel angry at the town, but he has long since learned that there were things that could not be fought.]
So...how did you remember this other me? The way I acted when we first met?
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I'd say you were a lot more upbeat. You never tol' me about bein' a judge of th' dead at all. In fact—
[It takes another moment for Gat to be certain he's remembering this correctly.]
—You were callin' yourself a legendary hero with superpowers. I recall mistakin' you for a superhero, actually. You corrected me on that.
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You don't recall your own past, either?
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[He shakes his head.]
Sometimes I wonder if I would be happier if I never took a job as a god, but I bear a responsibility toward my subjects.
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Y'didn't seem to recall callin' yourself a legendary hero.
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Maybe so. Though th' way I remember you talkin', you still thought of yourself as one. Never mentioned bein' a judge of th' dead at th' time, either.
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[He looks genuinely surprised.]
Then maybe...
[He shakes his head.]
No, it can't be.
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What're ya thinkin' it might be?
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Oh man, how did I miss this tag @_@
it's okay