event: don't you forget about me

[mayfield_mods]

[For those of you venturing into Mayfield's library today, you can find the head librarian hard at work at the front desk or shelving books. Most people who try to approach her will simply get a stern look and a reminder to keep their voices down.

If you happen to have something of hers though, you may get quite a different reaction...]

[OOC: This post is locked to characters who have a memento. Please do not reply if you don't have one. For those who do, you can go ahead and respond in any order; however, day 7's memento will be chronologically the last one she'll see.]

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[electrowhipit]

This won't take a minute. We just had something we wanted to give to you.

[ He slides the photo across the counter to her, face up. ]

[stabbywheelfeet]

[Meanwhile, he just leans on the counter, watching. Waiting.]

[mayfield_mods]

Oh.

[Her reaction is immediate - she brings a hand to her mouth, her eyes welling up.]

Where...where did you get this?

[electrowhipit]

A friend of yours left it for us. He wanted you to have it.

[stabbywheelfeet]

Left it in the bottom of a crater, in fact. You should thank us for all our hard work.

[mayfield_mods]

[Her head snaps up.]

Mr. Grey? Or Mr. Olney? They're alive?

[electrowhipit]

[ Jolt shoots Sideswipe a Look- don't be an ass- before turning his attention back to her. ]

A man named Grey sent us a letter, telling us where to find it.

[stabbywheelfeet]

[He rolls his eyes a little in response.]

As for Olney? I'm not sure.

[mayfield_mods]

[She swallows.]

That's impossible. Mr. Grey's dead, I know it, Zemekis murdered him--

[She snatches the photo and points at the smiling black man.]

This man? Here? You've seen him?

[electrowhipit]

[ Jolt shakes his head ] The letters just showed up in our mailboxes, pleading for us to help you.

... Is Mr. Grey's first name Richard?

[stabbywheelfeet]

And so here we are. With a photo, and... zero answers.

[Because he should have been paying more attention than he was.]

[mayfield_mods]

[A disappointed look crosses her face.] So...so he didn't deliver them? You never saw him?

Right, that's him! Richard Grey. The other man in the photo's Evan Olney - you haven't seem him lately either?

[electrowhipit]

[ Another shake of his head. ] Mr. Grey was on the radio a couple of months ago, too. He was trying to warn us about the carnival, and even then he said you needed our help.

He's trying to save us. He's trying to save you, Annie.

[stabbywheelfeet]

So, here we are. With this. I'm not sure how it's supposed to do any good, but...

It's yours.

[mayfield_mods]

The carnival? That old glitchy place? But that was ages ago!

[Her eyes soften.] Thank you. [She traces a finger down the face of the last figure left: the young Asian girl.] I'd forgotten...I'd forgotten what I even looked like. Before this awful body. Can you believe that?

[electrowhipit]

That's you? In the picture?

[stabbywheelfeet]

[He looks down at the photo, then over at the woman.]

[He squints.]

How could that possibly be you?

[mayfield_mods]

They can change your mind, your memories, your personality - do you really think changing your body's beyond them? It's one of the easiest tricks to pull off if you know what you're doing.

[electrowhipit]

[ Somewhere outside the library, the Volt swings its door into the Corvette- the car equivalent of an elbow to the ribs. You're not helping, Sideswipe. ]

We know, actually. They put us in different bodies when we got here. It was... frightening.

But why would they do that to you?

[mayfield_mods]

Because he's afraid of me. Of what I can do. He knew I wouldn't just sit back quietly when he k-killed Mr. Grey and droned Samantha.

[stabbywheelfeet]

[Both the Corvette and the human holoform jump at that. The car's engine grumbling while the holoform just folds his arms.]

What can you do that's so dangerous to them?

[mayfield_mods]

[She sniffs and tosses her head proudly.]

What, you think Mayfield got this good on its own? Dr. Zemekis might have created this place, but it was way glitchy when we first got here. I helped fix it up.

[electrowhipit]

You put it together, and you can take it apart. That's what they're scared of, isn't it?

So they locked you in a new body, and made you forget.

[stabbywheelfeet]

But... now you remember? So you can take it apart and... send us home?

Maybe?

[mayfield_mods]

I don't know if I can take the whole thing down, but I can definitely cause some major damage.

Or I could. [She wrings her hands anxiously, hunching her shoulders.] But...everything I knew about how this place worked, he buried even deeper than my memories. I don't - I don't think he erased them, he can't do that, but it's like trying to see through fog, and...and I can feel him watching me, every second I'm here, making sure I can never come back....