Support Group - March 2021

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Who: OPEN (Including to all the new characters who app throughout the month)
What: Bureau Run, Non-Mandatory Support Group
When: There are meetings at various times during the week, whatever works for your character between 8 am and 10 pm
Where: There are meetings at various locations around NYC, whatever works for your character
Rating/Warnings: We ask that players put appropriate warning labels in the subject lines of their threads as they become necessary


There’s a generic spread of food on a table off to one side of the room: donuts, muffins, bagels, and cookies; coffee, lemonade, water, and because one of the Different asked for it, hot chocolate. Maybe you’re hungry enough to try it—it’s free after all.

Or maybe you can’t stomach anything, given the event you’re attending.

The space is a local rec center. The beige-painted cinder block walls and the fluorescent lighting are a terrible combination. Maybe they are reminiscent of the public school you attended in your youth?

Why are you here? Curiosity? Maybe the Bureau official will say something that will help you make sense of things? The meeting was interesting—who knew there were so many people like you, receiving memories of a past life? The group was led by someone from The Bureau—the Department of Medical Services. Some people are staying in their chairs and chatting—they must know each other from previous meetings. Some of them are gravitating towards the food.

How do you feel about tonight? Has it helped you come to terms with the dream of memories you’re having? Maybe it’s time to talk to others, get an understanding of their experience.

Comments

[no_applause]

"Congratulations! I might go for my own PhD at some point, but for now I'll just have to settle for a Masters." She smirks, finding it easy to joke with the man.

"That's an excellent point. The sample size is far too small to be an effective test group, no matter what the method is, so I find it highly unlikely it's any sort of experimentation." She frowned, tapping her chin softly as she thought, "There are just too many variables and unknowns to make heads or tails out of any of this."

[vrepit_no]

"Exactly. If this were an experiment, I'd say that the next step is to gather information - try to narrow down the number of testable variables. Compare data. Like if they only happen in the evening, or if they're centered around a particular area. Hang on. Do we know whether or not this is happening across the country or just here in New York?"

[no_applause]

She nods, thinking. "If this is an experiment, it would also make sense to limit information to the test subjects." His question earns a frown and she shakes her head. "I don't know. That is an excellent question, though. How many of us are there and is it just happening here in the city or is it widespread?"

[vrepit_no]

He folds his arms across his chest as he thinks, leaning against the back of the crappy folding chair. "I wonder if there are other support groups in town, or if this is the only one. We may have observer bias going on without access to the whole sample pool. Maybe I can do some research when I get home. I mean, there's no way that this hasn't gotten to the internet yet, right? And if it goes back far enough I can always check the Way Back Machine. If the conspiracy theorists haven't gotten a hold of it yet... Maybe they should. There'd be a lot more manpower and connections behind it anyway."