third soul reaped; voice/action

[skirtindanger]

[filtered away from the SE crew:]I have a question, for anyone out there who is willing to answer... I know some of us have people we know from our homes with us, so we're not all by ourselves, and if you do-- is it strange to find that not everyone remembers the same things from before we were brought here? Or... at least claim some things never

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[voice]

[bypassed]

I wouldn't say it's the city exactly. At least-- not what I've been able to figure out.

It's most likely more so the music box that caters to your memories, given that it plays something different for each person.

I could be entirely wrong though, but that's what I've learned so far.

[skirtindanger]

Ah-- So you think the music boxes do more than just bring us here?

[bypassed]

I believe so. Most likely there's some sort of ability emanating from these. Since it's so personal, the music seems to have a bigger impact than I once believed. I doubt it's the city entirely on it's own though.

[skirtindanger]

Hm... I don't doubt that the music boxes we found probably have some sort of powerful magical property to them or something similar, but I didn't imagine they would do anything more than that. Would you say you could make some guesswork as to most of the things it's capable of causing?

[outwalks]

That isn't strange at all. It seems as if people can come in from different times.

[skirtindanger]

Different times... So you mean-- nobody's forgotten anything, it's all about when we found the music box?

[outwalks]

Yes, exactly. Some people find it later, so they may know more than others from the same world.

[skirtindanger]

Putting it that way, it does make a little more sense now. But it still causes for more confusion than I care for...

voice;

[ginger_turmoil]

I think it is more--sort of, different times, what I can gather. Some are brought in before others, so they don't remember as much. I dunno, nobody else from home is here for me, at least.

[skirtindanger]

Hm... 'Different times'? But what if someone who doesn't remember certain things is brought in a while after a person who does? That's the part that's confusing me.

[ginger_turmoil]

....Can't say I've heard of that? [Well. That's new. At least, that Kyo has heard.] Probably something to do with those damned music boxes.

[skirtindanger]

[...that's followed by a sigh] Those things, I swear... At the rate this is going, you'd think they're the cause of everything that goes wrong around here. I bring that up because that's precisely what's going on here.

[pushesupglasses]

Splendor seems to be pulling people from different points in time.

[skirtindanger]

-- Huh? Kind of like-- different dates, or something along those lines?

[pushesupglasses]

Precisely that. I have already encountered someone I know should be dead.

[skirtindanger]

Dead? And I thought I had it bad...

[voice]

[border_phantasm]

There is another possibility beyond time travel:

Similar but not quite exact worlds.

[skirtindanger]

Like parallel worlds? It makes this all sound like some science fiction story.

[border_phantasm]

It's not exclusively that.

After all, we are from different worlds already; why can't some of them be alike?

[skirtindanger]

There's strange, and then there's too strange. I'd like to think even a place like this has its limits.