@all | before the event

[industries]

> ts@abraxas-proxy:~$ wall "People's memories of this place"

[ Anyone unfamiliar with computer terminals might be taken aback at the mechanical font that scrolls across their vision, though the jumps and starts in typing speed leave no doubt that a very human brain is behind the text. ]

> Broadcast message from ts@abraxas-proxy (tty/1) :
> People's memories of this place
>
> Don't normally crowdsource, but
> has anyone out there ever heard of someone who got home and actually
> remembered their days here at the renfaire?
>
> Not looking for peer-reviewed analysis.
> I'll take crumbs
> or
> whatever else we've got here on Mind-Reddit.

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[very nice very medieval handwriting]

[northerndragon]

I am sorry to say that I have been here in the past, and have kept no memory of it.

What is a renfaire?

— Jon Snow

[aquilus]

If anyone has managed to leave this world at all I would like to know who and how.

[Also.]

What is a renfaire?

[harmonian]

[In almost excessively elegant cursive.]

What a strange way to ask a question.

private ∞

[gynvael]

[ Because he prefers strangers not mind-eavesdropping. ]

Two.
Upon their return.

[catholica]

Haven't gone home to get you the answer.

What answer are you hoping for?

[princessvegas]

Don't write like that. This isn't fucking Codecadamy. You just look like a dick.

Anyway, do you mean "got home" like left the world entirely, or do you mean "got home" like they went on one of those overnight mind field trips and woke up here, but with new memories?

[provenforce]

[ Rey's handwriting is a little scribbly but neat in the way someone who has written to entertain themselves is ]

There's a person here who is from roughly 50 or so years before my time, and the things that we've told him would significantly impact history, so I think it's safe to say our memories don't remain of this place when we go home. I didn't think it was even possible to return home.

[thearchangel]

People have gone back to their worlds?

[itookashot]

I think the obvious answer is no, you can't send a message back, because we don't control how we get here or how we get back. The only people who might have answers about that would be the people who took us in the first place, since they know where we came from. Since we don't know what makes people leave (Singularity? The kidnappers?), that's not likely a way to do it.

private

[carmesi]

[she debates replying to this for a very, very long time. her first thought is that this is tony, and he's probably going on about something mechanical or sarcastic or whatever. then some of the messages stream by her thoughts—and it sounds like tony has experienced what wanda has, in going home and coming back here, changed, older.

broken?

wanda sends him a message days later.]

I do not know what is more appropriate to say: welcome back or I'm sorry that you are here after what happened.

[photophobic]

[In beautifully even, calligraphic hand:] They summoned my grandfather from a time when he was younger than I am, before my mother was born. I don't believe we go back.

[subhuman]

I've got to say that the machines taking over wasn't the end I was picturing for this world.

private! (me crawling from the dark void)

[piqure]

Mister Stark...
It hasn't happened to me, so I don't know if that's possible, personally. I mean, I left this place, and had absolutely no memory of anything ever happening. I only re-remembered everything when I came back.
( did tony know he was a repeat summoned? well, he does now! regardless...it's sometimes easier to talk through mind-reddit than face to face about things like this, isn't it? the stream of consciousness doesn't stop him from saying: )

If I remembered this place, if I came back to our universe knowing the stuff I did from this one, about everything that was still going to happen...I would've tried to change it.

private.

[sorser]

[It's likely that Stephen's message is one of the most belated that Tony will receive in regards to his missive sent across the mental network. He's spent too long, you see, trying to decide how to reply to it.

In the end, nothing sounds satisfactory. Everything sounds too impersonal or too trite. And so, he finally just gives up and pulls the proverbial trigger, resigning himself to whichever direction the conversation will flow.]

Am I back to being the last person you want to hear from?

I'll answer your question, anyway: No. I never remembered anything from this world after I had "returned", if you can even call it that. Years of being back home only equates to a very long nap here.

There was even another Stephen Strange here before me. Because the multiverse can't keep anything simple.






How are you holding up?

very deliberately anonymous. private

[ushiri]

[ Feeling some kind of empathy toward this person, whether this is helpful or not: ]

I haven't returned home from here, but I've passed between other worlds before coming to this one.
Protections were needed so that I wouldn't be torn to pieces or end up losing too much time in between the crossing.
When I lacked them and attempted to cross, most of my memory was in shatters and ten years had passed.

It could be something similar happens to those who unwillingly travel back and forth from this place.