@john.jaqobis

[stabilis]

Hey, good news: I've got a quiz.

[ everyone loves online quizzes, right!! ]

Bad news: it's incredibly invasive and you probably won't want to answer it, but do me a favor and keep reading anyway.

We need to talk about our dreams. So far, we've got:

The dreams on October 5th. Already weird, but significantly weirder after our subconscious deep-dive. As far as I know there are 2 that have been shared between a few people, possibly a 3rd. If any of this sounds familiar, feel free to share with the class:

a) a group looking for a bridge and crossing it
b) being held in a facility full of sick people and getting stabby with a lab coat
c) being herded like cattle while strangers check your vitals

And then we've got the dreams pre-New Tokyo, which is where the insensitive quiz comes in. I want to correlate as much data as we can, but we can't do that without any data. I know most of us don't want to talk about what went down while we were under, and there isn't much I can do to change that. I'd offer to collect the information privately, or entrust it to someone people like more, but I don't think that'll work, either. We have no idea what we're looking for, so only putting a few eyes or perspectives on it is just going to put us at a disadvantage.

The best I can do is keep it anonymous. You can use THIS SURVEY to share whatever you're willing to share. Omit what you have to, but the more details we can get, the better our odds of finding patterns or keys. The survey won't collect your IDs and tracking's completely off. The catch is that the rest of the Displaced and a few friends at Morningstar will be able to see your answers — even without names attached, I know that's asking a lot. Give yourself a second to think before you hit submit.

For now, all I really want to figure out is whether the environments we encountered belonged to us and whether you'd class them as completely abstract dreams or slightly screwy memories. If we can place dibs on most of them, that's a start. If you want to share anything else, you'll get extra credit.

Last but not least: intellectual discussion and mystery solving is strongly encouraged, but dream shaming is strongly discouraged. Don't be a dick.

( OOC NOTES: This post is 100% for open discussion and threadjacking! Here's a link to the OCTOBER DREAMS descriptions and sign-ups for reference. Regarding SURVEYS, the top-level functions as an external "google form". Just C&P the form and reply to the top-level IC. All survey replies are completely anonymous, and all characters can view these answers.

All discussion must take place on the network post itself with character IDs attached. You cannot reply to the survey responses with free-for-all anonymous discussion. The mechanic is being used to make info sharing easier with sensitive details/private characters, not completely skirt around the network's "no anonymous" rule. Please use it in the spirit intended! )

Comments

[revlon]

I have a few guesses — an oriole or meadowlark if it's American, possibly a yellow-breasted bunting if it isn't.

[ Her home was just by Hampstead Heath. Walking through nature, bird watching, heading off into the country to do the same or go riding... It was all part of her upbringing even before she trained for the war. Some things you don't forget. ]

But I'd like to look into it further and see what information is available in this day and age. And it would help to get more eyes on the symbol and these results before making a positive match to run with.

[blyat]

american? thats the north american continent, right
gonna be no birds living over there

[He's since done some reading on this world's geography, but it's still a foreign concept to him. Countries, entire continents, all of it with its own unique flora and fauna.]

sounds like a good idea
i can help with the research
probably. or just asking around, whatever makes sense

[revlon]

Precisely. Which makes using an extinct species as a logo a curiosity, wouldn't you say?

The more eyes on this the better.

[blyat]

do we even know what animals arent extinct? none here in the city
unless youre rich enough, i guess
maybe somebody keeps birds as pets

[stabilis]

You know, if I spend too much time searching the network for bird facts it's going to seriously hurt my street cred

[ which means he'll help with the research, obviously. ]

[blyat]

you had street cred?

[more the merrier, also Cain casually roasting some stranger. TAKE IT.]

[stabilis]

A little

and consider yourself unthanked on account of rudeness

[ no jk he loves a good light roast ]

[blyat]

wow, touchy
this is just who i am

[revlon]

I admit I haven't looked too closely into the matter. I've had enough on my plate trying to understand this world's history, politics, and bloody automated everything to consider the local fauna — beyond the fact that mankind has dealt it a serious blow.

Are any of your new friends [ Young Maeda and his peers, she means. ] worth asking?

[stabilis]

so assuming your bird watching skills are on point—

"Project Oriole" or "Project Meadowlark" if it's American, "Project Yellow-Breasted Bunting" if it isn't.

[ again, not in marketing, but he knows which ones he'd prefer. ]

[revlon]

[ Well, when you phrase it like that... ]

Frankly, my skills are more suited to shooting birds than watching them. So your guess is as good as mine until we have more to go on than month-old dreams, two drawings, and a cursory search on the internet.

[stabilis]

I'll run some searches to confirm and let you know if anything else or anything weird comes up.

[revlon]

Thank you, John.

[strove]

If we go for the ones that are catchier, it's definitely the first two.

I doubt anyone would name their project yellow-breasted bunting.

Unless you have experience to the contrary.

[stabilis]

In my experience? 'Cool sounding names' is a requirement for mysterious science projects.

[ so yes, what she said. ]

[strove]

I thought so, too.

Though perhaps I'm missing the catchiness of the yellow-breasted bunting.

[stabilis]

the other ones don't have the word "breast" in them?

[ surely that's worth a few points ]

[strove]

Hmmm, that's quite the trajectory to take if you want to talk about breasts. I think most would prefer fewer detours along the way.

[Bisexual humor with Clarke Griffin.]