Eleventh Vector * Text (BACKDATED TO APRIL 22)

[onewayroad]

[Sometime in the evening of the 22nd, a simple text message shows up on the network.]

Fatal wounds are effective on the NPCed real people. A bunch of shadows will come out, so anyone trying that better be prepared to eradicate them right away.

There's a possible side effect you ought to know about, though. After fully healing, the person woke up with no memories. It's been a couple days, and still nothing. The verdict's out on how long that lasts.

Attempt at your own risk. That is, assuming you'd be daring enough to try in the first place.

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[observesthings]

no memories? at all? of anything?

[onewayroad]

That's what I said. Nothing. Not his life, not his name, not that he's dead, not that he's been here a while.

[observesthings]

that's awful

[ Now he's about ten times more hesitant to resort to lethal force. ]

is there a way to fix it?

[onewayroad]

What makes you think I have a fucking clue?

[observesthings]

i'm just asking, i don't want to 'kill' people if they'll just lose their memories

[onewayroad]

They're already dead.

Like I said earlier, the verdict's out on how long it lasts. Memory loss isn't a new thing here, either. I can only say it's a waiting game for now.

[observesthings]

do you know how long it lasted when it happened before?

[onewayroad]

Months, for at least one person. It's not something I ever paid much attention to.

[observesthings]

well, thanks i guess... not sure if killing an npc'd person is worth it anymore though

[onewayroad]

Good thing I don't care about convincing people one way or the other. Shit like their "morals" is more likely to influence what they're willing to try.

[observesthings]

i'd hate to lose the memories of my own life

[onewayroad]

And what's the purpose in telling me this? I'm just passing on what little I found out. If that method doesn't sit well with you, try some other fucking method. It's not the only thing people have tried that succeeded.

[observesthings]

i'm going to

there has to be a better way than that

[losthersheep]

Why would you want to inflict fatal wounds on someone? That can't be the best way to get them back..

[onewayroad]

It had to be tested, and the one to test it might as well be someone whose hands are already irrevocably stained.

[losthersheep]

There has to be a better way than killing someone!

[onewayroad]

Quoting lines from the person's life is limiting when not everyone knows that shit. The other method I might have gone with is completely useless to try here.

So, where exactly is this "better way"?

[losthersheep]

I don't know...

[ Mami's student, her close friend, is an NPC right now, and she could never imagine killing her, or letting her be killed, even if she would come back. But then, her problem is not the same as his, she knows enough about Sayaka to maybe help her. But for someone she doesn't know, what would she do? ]

What if they don't ever regain their memories?

[onewayroad]

I don't know. Memory loss isn't uncommon here, though, and he's regained memories before. It could come back in time.

If it doesn't, I'll take full responsibility. In the meantime I have no plans of trying this method again. Not before this guy gets his back. But I sure as hell don't regret it. NPCs sicken him. Being one must have sickened him beyond belief.

[losthersheep]

Memory loss..is common? What about memories being different than what they should be?

[ At the moment, between her and all the girls she knew in life, their memories are out of sync, remembering things that either didn't happen or happened differently. ]

I guess...you still did a good thing then, bringing him back.

[onewayroad]

Haven't heard about anything that can't be explained away as missing memories. I'd tell you to ask Yuri, but she's still NPCed.

[losthersheep]

Nakamura-san is as well?

I don't think I know your name... I'm Mami Tomoe, I'm friends with Kaname-san.

[onewayroad]

Yeah, she is. Since the day she made that announcement about distributing weapons to anyone who needed them. Talk about shitty timing. [Considering that that was right after the shadows first appeared, it was the utmost shittiest.]

I'm Accelerator, the jackass with "super powers" that she name-dropped that day.

[losthersheep]

I wondered where she had gone.. But she said that Hinata-san was important to her, right? He can help her if she's turned... unless he is as well..

You...have your powers back? [ Mami is afraid of ever getting her powers back, but she can only guess others don't have to deal with Soul Gems and witches.. ]

[onewayroad]

He's still himself. But I wouldn't say he's taking this crisis calmly.

I do. What about it?