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crusthatecean) wrote2012-10-04 10:41 pm
crusthatecean) wrote2012-10-04 10:41 pm
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MEMORY 07
MEMORY Make a bunch of wigglers (Trivial Neutral)
GAINED Day 178, Nimue's Story Game
FORM Ribbons, 2/3 uses left
So one of the functions of SGRUB (SBURB, whatever!) is that all of the players are actually ectobiologically created by one of the players (usually the team leader) and then sent via asteroid back in time to be born! This is one of the ways the game makes itself into timeline loops, i.e. John created John out of DNA and sent him back in time to be born as John, so that John could grow up and create John. It is crazy, and ensures that all players of the game were ultimately destined to have to play the game in order to exist at all.
Anyway, Karkat was the ectobiologist for his session. That means he used the ectobiology equipment to take DNA of the twelve trolls (or their ancestors) in the past, and created twenty-four wigglers (most likely two wigglers for every set of DNA). Troll 'wigglers' don't look like human babies; they are little caterpillar grubs with bodies the color of their blood.
Ignore Sollux in the corner, this is the ectobiology equipment, but a different memory.
Then, Karkat sent the twenty four wigglers back in the past to eventually grow up into his friends! And twelve extra ones for reasons he isn't sure about.
IMPACT: This is a pretty disturbing/trippy experience. First of all, trolls don't have any kind of protective instinct for their young, and Karkat is a douche anyway, so he finds all his baby grub friends to be gross rather than cute. But he's also just creating his friends to exist, it's bizarre. He tells John it freaked him out.
At the same time, he mentions later that creating his friends gave him a feeling of purpose, like everything made sense. So even if this is a really strange and unpleasant experience, it's also kind of cool to him. This takes place before everything in their session goes to shit, so he still feels good about himself as a leader and this only confirms it.
GAINED Day 178, Nimue's Story Game
FORM Ribbons, 2/3 uses left
So one of the functions of SGRUB (SBURB, whatever!) is that all of the players are actually ectobiologically created by one of the players (usually the team leader) and then sent via asteroid back in time to be born! This is one of the ways the game makes itself into timeline loops, i.e. John created John out of DNA and sent him back in time to be born as John, so that John could grow up and create John. It is crazy, and ensures that all players of the game were ultimately destined to have to play the game in order to exist at all.
Anyway, Karkat was the ectobiologist for his session. That means he used the ectobiology equipment to take DNA of the twelve trolls (or their ancestors) in the past, and created twenty-four wigglers (most likely two wigglers for every set of DNA). Troll 'wigglers' don't look like human babies; they are little caterpillar grubs with bodies the color of their blood.
Ignore Sollux in the corner, this is the ectobiology equipment, but a different memory.
Then, Karkat sent the twenty four wigglers back in the past to eventually grow up into his friends! And twelve extra ones for reasons he isn't sure about.
IMPACT: This is a pretty disturbing/trippy experience. First of all, trolls don't have any kind of protective instinct for their young, and Karkat is a douche anyway, so he finds all his baby grub friends to be gross rather than cute. But he's also just creating his friends to exist, it's bizarre. He tells John it freaked him out.
At the same time, he mentions later that creating his friends gave him a feeling of purpose, like everything made sense. So even if this is a really strange and unpleasant experience, it's also kind of cool to him. This takes place before everything in their session goes to shit, so he still feels good about himself as a leader and this only confirms it.