on pesterchum i remember it being kinda hard to get everyone on line at the same time with the different time zones and clunkiness of everything, so it was super rare that we would be able to have a memo with each other, but it was THE BEST when it happened!! so much fun…

a lot of my memories have to do with the day to day mechanics of reality in general.

sylladex/captchaloguing:

- i don’t know how to explain this properly since it doesn’t really translate, but viewing your sylladex, echeladder, etc takes place in a seperate field of vision than your normal one. the best example i can think of is like, a nintendo DS, where you can view both the top screen (your eyesight) and the bottom screen (your menus). but this screen isn’t necessarily open all the time, so functionally it’s more like closing and opening an eye, although everything you see in your sylladex is completely detached from your normal field of vision.

- using the sylladex is really innate to your being. it’s basically like any other body function, if that makes sense. like moving your arm or blinking. this means that if you want to captchalogue a thing, you generally just touch it and then mentally “flex” that “muscle,” like pressing a button. same deal for uncaptchaloguing (as long as you follow the rules of your fetch modus). you just make that invisible decision/movement and off it goes.

- i guess the more interesting part about this is you don’t actually HAVE to touch the thing. there’s a really small “radius” around you where you can captchalogue things hands-free, though as you can imagine sometimes you fuck up and get the wrong thing so it’s not the best method! it’s much easier to coordinate when you are physically in contact with the thing, but for something super familiar to you, like your glasses that are always on your night stand or what ever, you might not even need to look at it.

- uncaptchaloguing things is kind of the same: if you’ve got a hand open and held out with the intent to put somthing from your sylladex in it, it will work that way nine times out of ten. but if you are not particularly concerned with where it ends up, or other wise not paying attention, it will just pop out somewhere in the radius around you, often on the floor or at eye level (which makes it fall and hit the floor, oops.)

my shirt was spades and dave’s was hearts, like in the comic. jade’s was clubs, and rose’s was diamonds.

pretty sure i found this out before the game. we didn’t show each other pictures of ourselves for a good while; i think someone brought it up off handedly and we realized it was a funny coincidence.

i always found it sort of neat that we were a package deal like that. brought together by fate! and ectobiology, i guess. in retrospect, i think the derse dreamers being the red suits and us prospit dreamers being the black suits was probably another weird skaia sponsored parallel, too.