May Support Group Thread

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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

[neverjedi]

"Okay, that is possible, given that I don't know anything, but I'm pretty confident on anyone declaring themselves Emperor being a dick."

He's just not a fan of the idea, okay?

[consortofalderaan]

"I cannot argue with that."

From what Bail could gather, he would soon learn if he was a morally upstanding person in his memories or not.

"Do you find these meetings helpful?" He was curious what the other Different thought about these meetings. Did they share his distaste for them or did they actually like them?

[neverjedi]

"I find them helpful for meeting people I would like to keep in touch with away from these meetings."

Which was both a yes and a hell no. He was actively afraid of the Bureau.

[consortofalderaan]

Bail raised his eyebrows.

"Not a fan," of the Bureau, "are you?"

He thought about that for a moment.

"And have you found many who feel the same?"

[neverjedi]

"I think... their initial methods of contact seems... less than inspiring of trust." He was being as careful to be neutral and diplomatic as he could, but in truth the affects on people around him when that memory struck didn't do them any favors in his eyes and he suspected the general nature of it all, and that, was also relevant to the feelings of others.

[consortofalderaan]

"How did they first contact you?" Bail asked. "A Mr. Martin spoke with me."

[neverjedi]

"Yes, the same. After the first snippet of memory." Nothing revolutionary or special there but... deeply uneasy. "It's possible I'm being unfair by associating him with the upheaval but so much here does not make sense-"

[consortofalderaan]

"Without more answers, I can't say I blame you," Bail said. "Or that I'm not thinking the same myself."

[neverjedi]

"I think you may have hit upon the crux of my discomfort. I feel like there are answers, they're known, and they're being withheld. If I truly believed that there were none, at least for now, I'd be far more inclined to give the benefit of the doubt."

Which was just about all he was prepared to say in this setting, but it wasn't something he'd mind being overheard, either.