@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

[industries]

> A place where people pretend-joust and eat turkey legs
> Light wizard LARPing
> So,
> this place, basically.
>
> Anyway, same boat here. With going home and coming back.
> Figure it's worth a shot to ask, though.

[northerndragon]

A mummer's show of a tourney?

I wish I had remembered more. It would have made some things easier, though there is never anything easy in being taken from your home.

1/2

[industries]

> No, there
>
> there definitely isn't.

2/2

[industries]

>
>> mummer's show of a tourney
> Are you
>
> oh
> you're, like, a total Middle-Earther, huh.

[northerndragon]

["Middle"? That's like accusing him of being from the Riverlands! It's quite clear to him that he would never belong in Tully lands.]

I am a Northman. My father was Lord Eddard Stark.

[industries]

>
> Huh.
>
> My father was Capitalist Howard Stark, so that's.
> Uncanny.
>
> Tony, by the way.
> Stark.

[northerndragon]

Well met, Stark.

Is Capitalist something like a Lord Paramount?

I don't know what you were asking earlier, but I do come from a place a little like Thorne. Or there are places like Thorne in it — southron men like those of Thorne think the North wild. I've tried to put a small piece of the North in the Horizon. We have Free Cities, but not quite like the ones here, and we have nothing like Nocwich. Only woods and trees, and the Free Folk, and the White Walkers, and the old stories.

[aquilus]

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

[Also.]

What is a renfaire?

[industries]

> Maybe. Probably, if you ask an economist.
>
>
> JUST the wood and trees and free folk and white walkers, right,
> you
> remind me of a guy I know, he's great at parties.
> Ever heard of Asgard in ye olde lexicon of yours?

[northerndragon]

No. Sounds like some kind of castle. There's a Seagard — that is the seat of the Mallisters.

The Starks were kings in the North in the old days before the Conquest — before the dragons. Wardens of the North ever since. It is the duty of my father's house to defend the North and the Wall — from the Free Folk and the White Walkers. Though the Free Folk are our allies, now.

Might be that you are some sort of descendent.

[But for that to be so, it would mean that Sansa -- the last trueborn Stark -- will marry again, and have sons to take her name. He cannot think that Starks long years down the line might be descended from him, because there is no one to legitimize him but himself, and he has little stomach for pretending to be other than he is. They must be the children of his sister's children.]

[industries]

> Me. I have.
> Couldn't tell you how, but
> that's what I'm here to find out.
>
> Renfaire. I'm told it's somewhere you find woods and trees, and free folk, and white walkers, and the old stories, but
> I'm still thinking it's mostly turkey legs.

[aquilus]

[Well, this just got interesting.]

And it was though you had never left? What about when you returned here?

[What's a turkey? Not important right now is what it is.]

[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?

[industries]

> Mallisters, right, pretty sure they showed up in Downton Abbey.

[ He kind of hates Happy for the fact he knows that's a lie. Ugh. ]

> Can't say royalty and dragon-killers showed up in a cursory Ancestry.com search, or
> various Dateline investigations
> but
> hell of an ego boost – thanks, Lancelot.

[ As if that particular trait needed to be any bigger. ]

[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?

[industries]

> It's
> complicated.
>
> Far as I can tell, I was here five years ago for a few months.
> Woke up back home one day like nothing happened – didn't remember anything from this place.
> Though to be fair I had some
> bigger problems to worry about.
> Fast-forward five years. Some
> things happen.
> And now I'm back. And I remember again, but it's
> weird – it was five years ago, but it feels. Fresh?
>
> Should probably add I have physical marks from what happened to me back home.
> But also, less grey hairs.
>
> Super weird. Uh–
>
> who are you, again?

[industries]

> What an unhelpful way to write a comment.

[industries]

ts@abraxas-proxy:~$ open reply -private gerald.msg
ERROR ENXIO - No such device or address
ts@abraxas-proxy:~$ open reply -private geralt.msg
> Long time no see.
> Two?
> But you're saying they still didn't remember until they got back here.

[industries]

> One that would let me send a message back home.
>
> Ideally.

[gynvael]

[ Tony cannot see, but Geralt is fully frowning at all the extraneous letters and symbols of no value. ]

I assumed. Neither said otherwise.
Didn't ask outright.
Perhaps you ought to. One's still here.

[industries]

> This also isn't an invitation to a Georgia garden party, but you don't see me making a stink about it.
> Either. Salient point would be whether, at any point when home, they were able to communicate about things that happened here in Medieval Times.

[industries]

[ It's okay, better to be McLargehuge than McNerdshit. ]

> Who?