bentflame: (displeased)
bentflame ([personal profile] bentflame) wrote2008-10-21 07:09 pm

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It's odd the way people come and go from this place. Oftentimes, it doesn't even seem to be of their own will. I've noticed that when someone suddenly stops being able to access the community, they disappear from their home worlds, as well- it's a bizarre phenomenon, and I don't like it. If I were to suddenly disappear from my world, there's no telling what sort of chaos and anarchy would descend upon it. And there are other people that I don't want to disappear, either. It would be a complete disaster.

Those who have left do occasionally return, at least, though it seems to come with a price- except for a few rare cases, they return with their memories completely wiped of any and all time spent here. All that experience, and knowledge gained... lost, forever. The thought is almost disorienting.

I wonder if there's a definite way to prevent this from happening.

[identity profile] peoplesprincess.livejournal.com 2008-10-22 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
They certainly don't just disappear from the community- people from their home worlds wonder where they are, as well. I believe there was a case a month or so ago where someone with the ability to "sense" the presence of the missing person at all times suddenly lost track of him entirely, as if he didn't exist at all.
oceanicbutterfly: (hmm)

[personal profile] oceanicbutterfly 2008-10-22 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It might be that it happens in different ways sometimes. I know Nozomi hasn't disappeared, even though she hasn't come back since that one time.

[identity profile] peoplesprincess.livejournal.com 2008-10-22 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that was different, wasn't it? She wasn't actually here.

Besides, the fact that it "might not happen" doesn't change the fact that it still might.
oceanicbutterfly: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] oceanicbutterfly 2008-10-22 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
...how so?

But it might be that it depends entirely on the person in question. If the possibility doesn't actually exist at all, there's no sense in worrying about it. You can't really tell without more information.

[identity profile] peoplesprincess.livejournal.com 2008-10-22 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
She only came once. She never had a journal. If a virus had been going on, it's likely that she would have been immune, because they only seem to affect people who are active participants of the community.

Perhaps. Perhaps not. We really have no way of telling whether the possibility exists or not.

... And I'm certainly not worrying about anything.