introductory antimemetics | Glowfic Constellation

Quinn is actually quite annoyed by this anomaly. She usually doesn't bother to feel annoyed by anomalies, she's been in this line of work for almost two decades now, but she ran into this one entirely by accident, and it caused her to lose the memory of her anniversary dinner the other night because it upset U-4987. She has little enough time with her husband without having her memories of it stolen from her.

She didn't figure that out immediately, though. She was chasing down a report of a suspected anomaly in the area, and when it was time to feed Sunshine, she dipped into a grocery store to chat with random people about nothing at all. And it did feel fed, at the time, and of course she doesn't remember what memory she fed it. The problem is that whatever it was didn't actually sate it, and it lost the memory, and then ate something else that it was sure it could retain. And it wasn't until Adam mentioned the dinner two days later that she realized she forgot, and that's one of the most irritating ways to lose a memory. She and Adam had a recreation of the dinner for her sake, but now it feels personal.

Now, what does she know about this anomaly? It at least passes for human, probably. The feeling she had as she walked out of the grocery store was what she had been expecting: having just lost a memory that she'd expected to lose, after deciding to go inside and talk to a human, so unless it modified her memory after the fact (which it could've), she acted in accordance with her plans. It seemed localised enough, and she hasn't had any other unaccounted-for similar episodes of lost memory (that she noticed) since. It hasn't erased the memory of the grocery store itself, or really anything other than the supposed interaction she'd already meant to forget. Its behavior is entirely unrelated to that of the reported anomaly. It's resistant to Quinn's regular class W mnestics. And that's about it.

So now she's gotta review the actual evidence. She got the security footage from around the time she visited, and she has an operative on the same mnestic she's on watching it.

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some_guy

Maybe. How hard does he want to try to figure that out?

Uhhh. He just needs to figure out what he wrote on the piece of paper? Did he write YES or NO?

some_guy

He wrote YES, probably. Seems like the sort of thing he'd do under the circumstances.

Al...right.

How about the number? Did he write a number greater than zero on the third piece of paper?

some_guy

Is he going to try to figure out if there was a person, or is he trying to do something like remember the physical experience of drawing out the numeral?

Physical experience.

some_guy

He drew a 1.

Alright! And what'd he write on the fourth piece of paper?

some_guy

Probably it was something in line with the assignment? Unless he slacked off, is that the sort of thing he might do?

Nope. He wouldn't have been hired for this position if he'd been the kind to slack off. He was meant to describe what happened to the person Quinn talked to from the moment they arrived at to the moment they left the grocery store.

some_guy

Then probably he did that and it's all written right there if he really needs to know.

Yeah but he needs to know from memory. So, what does he remember writing on the paper?

some_guy

It took up multiple lines. There was something about pineapple juice.

He writes the words "pineapple juice" miserably on the piece of paper and tries to recall more. There was a person, yes...?

some_guy

He... probably didn't write all that about the... floor tiles...? Yeah, there was somebody.

Okay! Did that person enter the building or were they already in the building when the video started fifteen minutes prior to Quinn's arrival?

some_guy

Logically, it is one of those and not both or neither.

Okay but which.

some_guy

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

He puts his pen down and sets the five minute timer and tries not to think about the problem at all.

Five minutes elapse and then the timer goes off.

Okay! Did he write YES on the second piece of paper.

Construed solely as a piece of paper and not as meaningfully representative of anything?

Well logically he wrote YES if and only if he perceived his boss interacting with a person—