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[hopefanatic]

There's something I've been thinking about for a while so I hope all of you will be patient enough to indulge me.

A good deal of fantastic and seemingly-impossible things happen in this place, ranging from all of us raising dragons to encountering killer plants like ones out of an old horror movie. I know that I don't just speak for myself when I say that a lot of the things we encounter here simply don't happen where I'm from... In fact one could even call all of it downright impossible and against the laws of nature and physics! I mean, the moons changing us into animals? Some mysterious space society that we've "mysteriously" encountered right when they need our help? It almost sounds like a video game!

Which brings me to the question I'd like to pose to all of you...

How do you know that any of this is reality?

Comments

[takingchances]

I'm a senior memory traversal agent for the Sigmund Corporation. I mostly go through simulations of client's memories.

[hopefanatic]

Can your system alter the memories in any way? Or just replay them?

[takingchances]

It can alter memories and create completely news ones as well. It can't *erase* memories however or destroy the original memories.

[hopefanatic]

So why do you alter peoples' memories? That must be pretty controversial work.

[takingchances]

Oh definitely. The Sigmund Corporation though is in the business of granting wishes though. Our clients come in and take out contracts to have a particular wish granted just before their deaths.

[hopefanatic]

But I'm guessing that you don't actually grant their wishes, you manipulate their memories to make it seem like they fulfilled whatever it is they wanted. Am I right?

[takingchances]

More or less. We ourselves change as little as possible in order to send through the desire for the client's wish. How the memories are rewrote and how the new memories are made as solely up to our client's mind and the information the machine has available for reference.

[hopefanatic]

So you give them hope just as they're dying. That's a pretty noble profession, even if it isn't real in the end.

[takingchances]

I like to think it is. Everyone has their own opinions though.

[hopefanatic]

Well I'm behind anything that spreads hope!