elspeth as a sim
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There aren't any! There's a section with a list of kinds on that page, anterograde and retrogade and dissociative and lacunar and all that—and from the descriptions, probably the closest to what she's experiencing is in fact retrogade amnesia, an inability to recall memories, especially specific rather than general ones, from before its onset—but they don't have their own individual pages, and trying to search for their names just redirects back to this main page.

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Well that's sorta weird.

She'll try the medical siimgle results for retrograde amnesia.

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Other non-Simpedia pages also have a similar offness to them in looking like they are just collections of statements without much of a connection between them. They're nevertheless informative: retrograde amnesia is most often caused by brain injury, illness, a seizure or stroke, or degenerative brain disease. It is also, however, not usually—or maybe even not ever—as complete and thorough as hers seems to be. Most people who suffer from retrograde amnesia forget recent memories, but older or otherwise stronger ones, such as ones from childhood and adolescence, tend to remain or at least be much easier to recover.

It does seem to match her experience, at least from description, well enough. Facts, names, people, faces, and places tend to be forgotten, while skills and general things like how to speak or how to play an instrument or how to drive tend to stay.

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Okay. So she has retrograde amnesia, a weirdly thorough case of it but still. Hopefully the doctor will be able to narrow down why that should be. Her head doesn't hurt so she probably didn't hit it on something but she can't rule out any of the others. She should be scared but mostly she's just sort of flailing through dream logic, confident this will all make sense at some point and discounting everything that isn't sensemaking including the prospect of being scared about having a degenerative brain disease.

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Her number is 653, and the last number that was called was 624. She will probably need to wait a while longer still.

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Fine.

She searches for her own name.

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She has a Simbook page! It's empty and doesn't even have her picture. And her name is uncommon enough that the first + last name combination literally only has that one page as a hit.

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She doesn't remember making it (of course) and it doesn't seem like the sort of thing she'd do, to make a Simbook and then fill in literally nothing. Doesn't she have a blog or something? Maybe she has her own name wrong, and she made this account shortly before her memories start when they were just starting to go wrong, and actually her name is Penelope Smith or something. Does she have a physical ID?

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She does, yes, it's in her inventory. It looks legit, has a face very much the one she'll see looking out the mirror at her, and the name on it is indeed Elspeth Cullen. It also has a date of birth which she can use to calculate her exact age! She is definitely a young adult.

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Does it say anything else about her on it that she doesn't know? Such as her birthday, when is her birthday.

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Her birthday is on the second Thursday. Her birth year was six years ago.

Young adult!

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...she probably had a stroke. People with strokes can't read. Right? Like, sure, six is young adult but that's not actually much... time? That's... 168 days? That's not enough that it makes sense that she knows how to... read and drive and stuff. She just had, like, a really really big stroke. Probably.

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The little screen calling the numbers buzzes and switches to showing 625.

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She doesn't as far as she can remember (which may not be very far!) seem to be deteriorating, so maybe they're right not to have triaged her as higher priority.

Does she have a bank account history?

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She does! It contains a single purchase: her house. Literally today.

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...who did she buy it from. Where did the money in the account come from when it was deposited.

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There isn't a deposit date or source. Her history contains only the purchase of the house, and then her current balance, which is §3,580.

As for whom she bought the house from, it was Landgraab Real Estate, Inc.

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Suppose she siimgles them.

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The top result is a sponsored webpage and their official website. It has beautiful pictures of enormous houses in various climates on the front page, and the top menu has options for stuff like finding houses to buy or rent and "Our Values" and "Careers" and "History". The bottom of the page has legal information (including the fact that this company is owned by Landgraab Holdings, Inc.) and contact information.

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Okay. She is going to call them.

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It rings once before an automated voice picks up.

"Good afternoon, and welcome to Landgraab Real Estate, where your housing dreams come true! Please choose an option depending on what you wish to inquire about. Press one if you want to buy a house; two if you want to buy an apartment; three if you want to sell a house or apartment; four if you want to rent a house or apartment; five if you are currently renting one of our houses or apartments; or nine for other inquiries. Wait in line to hear the options again."

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"Please hold for a moment! One of our helpers will be with you shortly. You are number three in line."

Soft jazz ensues.

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While soft jazz plays she will switch back to the browser. Are there any Cullen families that look - plausible -

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She can find a couple of Cullens, but the last name itself is really not common, and none of their owners look like plausible family. Maybe the two Cullens who seem to have contributed to scientific papers but don't seem to otherwise have an online presence.

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