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Feb 4, 2019 21:17
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Swedish Thaumocracy posted:The Mover radiates relief as it enters your immediate awareness, and before you know it, it has Taken A Seat.    CourValant posted:Focus on: Wooden Tool This.
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Feb 4, 2019 23:47
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CourValant posted:Focus on: Wooden Tool  Of simple make, this wooden tool helps the Breaking Mover Move. It has a small attachment of unknown substance at the bottom. Like the Mover, the tool is crooked. Examining it closer you notice grooves in the wood where the Movers manipulators have clutched it, indicating it has done so either over an extended period of time or with great force. You sense an awareness inside of it, out of Pace with your own. Do you wish to Rouse the Wooden Tool by Engaging it with your Empathy? If so, what do you say? If not, what else would you like to do?
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Feb 5, 2019 11:05
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Greet the tool, tell it we are here to provide resting assistance on the Mover's journey.
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Feb 5, 2019 11:52
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super sweet best pal posted:Greet the tool, tell it we are here to provide resting assistance on the Mover's journey. +1
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Feb 5, 2019 21:33
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Though you try and eventually succeed in rousing the tool (Walking Stick) into your Pace, you soon realize that attempting to divulge anything of meaning from it's thoughts are ultimately pointless, at least if you are to have any meaningful interaction with the Mover. The Tool is old, weary and of simple make - it offers you no insight beyond polite greetings and humble acceptance of your aid for its Mover. You attempt to probe it for deeper memories, but all you find is a sense of slow rythm and the impact of wood on a variety of materials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbOeu-fw9_Y -- Like the Tool, the Mover appears to be Old. A Status condition which follows naturally the passing of Cycles. All your physical senses tell you that the Mover is either broken or breaking down, though without any reference point you have no way of quesstimating how swift or slow this processmay be. Can a mover even be repaired, like Fence was? You do not know. A cursory investigation of the Mover reveals the following fields of study for your to peruse:     Do you want to Focus your Empathy on any of these, prominent concepts, or delve even deeper into Memories, Wants, Fears or some other Bolded Concept, previously discovered, that the Mover might have encountered in its lifetime?
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Feb 19, 2019 09:43
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Vote: Focus on
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Feb 20, 2019 22:33
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CourValant posted:Vote: Focus on Agreed.
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Feb 20, 2019 23:27
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CourValant posted:Vote: Focus on     
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Feb 21, 2019 09:33
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This makes me sad and you should feel bad for making me sad. Can we somehow use our pace and or focus to give grandma here a mental hug?
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Feb 21, 2019 21:13
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CourValant posted:Can we somehow use our pace and or focus to give grandma here a mental hug? quote:Focus your Empathy on [Encounter Concept] Movers are far too complex to interact with directly, but you can influence them by moving one of their memories, wants, fears, etc to the forefront of their minds, as long as you have encountered one of the previously mentioned concepts during the encounter. Doing this consumes all your Focus, however.
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Feb 21, 2019 21:38
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Swedish Thaumocracy posted:Doing this consumes all your Focus, however.
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Feb 21, 2019 23:29
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Focus on trying to remember where they are now, and if a reconciliation is possible.
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Feb 22, 2019 00:36
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Cloud Potato posted:Focus on trying to remember where they are now, and if a reconciliation is possible. This
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Feb 26, 2019 02:02
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Cloud Potato posted:Focus on trying to remember where they are now, and if a reconciliation is possible. Emptyquote.
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Feb 26, 2019 12:25
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Cloud Potato posted:Focus on trying to remember where they are now, and if a reconciliation is possible. Memories posted:   --    --  -- The Broken Mover creaks as it sits on you, weighing almost nothing at all.
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Feb 28, 2019 22:34
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Great. This LP is in fact The Giving Focus on Empathy: "Sit, Broken Mover, and know that at least for this moment, we shall carry your weight."
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Mar 1, 2019 00:41
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You sift through a dozen gray memories, heavy with the weight of years and sorrow. You seek, but find little in the way of hope or even complacency. Throughout the disarray, the concepts with the greatest Clarity are those that dwell on the entities seen earlier. With effort, you realize one of them must be the Broken Mover itself, for though the entropy of cycles have seen its physical form deteriorate, with a great number of images observed in sequence you begin to recognize the features and patterns that make up its, no, Her countenance. With that clarified, you also realize the other entity, though oh so different in style and gest, shares with your Broken Mover a quality of resemblance. As if they were cut from the same mold, crafted by the same progenitor or craftmaster. And not in the same way as yourself, Life and Fence all share Wood as one of your intrinsic materials, but rather in a way reminiscient of how you and the crafted objects from the inside of a previous movers memories of its nest may have, if only even closer. At any rate, dwelling in Sorrow is not easy, and soon you are more than exhausted. You feel your affected pace quickening, the mind of the Broken Mover slipping from your grasp even as you with the last measures of your Focus probe desperately for even a mote of joy to elevate to conscious thought. You settle on the memory that started it all, and hope that it will not just repeat the pattern endlessly, that instead the Broken Mover may rest upon that Moment in peace. It is a futile hope, because You Are A Bench - but one you cling too anyway, because what else is there? You can do naught but tense and relax the fibres of your Wood in a manner that you believe causes comfort to your occupants wasted form.  Perhaps that will be enough. It will have to be.
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Mar 13, 2019 08:10
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Swedish Thaumocracy posted:Perhaps that will be enough. It will have to be. 
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Mar 13, 2019 20:46
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Be as good a bench as we possibly can be.
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Mar 13, 2019 21:04
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Drain the Mover's life force Mover's not long for the world anyway, might as well transfer it where it can do the most good.
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Mar 15, 2019 10:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8emPcVRhuc There exists a separation in the totality of existence between those that Move and those that do not. You, a Bench, belong squarely in the second category, and as such you have an abundance of that rare resource called Time in which to contemplate things such as this. In your Time you have come to witness Change both great and small. From the Cycles by which you count its passing, to the Growth of Life and and vast complexity of Emotion, stemming from the mindscapes of the Movers. For all that is, all that you perceive, has a mind of its own. Some slow and ponderous, other swift and mercurial, but none so fascinating (to you) as the cacophony of stimuli radiating of off the ones called Humans. They have been a sporadic occurrence ever since your creation. Behemoths of action and bringers of Change, whose vast memories hint of a world much greater than your all-encompassing horizon.  It is in the presence of these ontomorphs that your philosophies have taken root, in the meeting of the static and the active in the brief liminal state when they make themselves seated on your form that you may reach out with your consciousness to sift through their hopes, fears, dreams and expectations to harvest from this pool of senses new datapoints to enhance your own view on the world. And, perhaps, with effort and Focus, to share with them your Perspective, as built up through Time and experience.  As your Pace quickens and the cycles of Light and Dark race before you, Change is brought in full to your permanent residence. Even Path, whom in your Time has always been the same, is transformed in the blink of cycles from a hazy, gravelly thing, by the Actions of Movers into an airy, winding and flattened Thoroughfare. When all is said and done, the trickle of Movers that Move into your field of Influence not only doubles, but tripples, quadroubles, mathematicates to the point where you might Experience the passing of even several per Cycle. Of course, this does not mean that they match their Pace to yours, necessarily, nor you them, for your Focus or perhaps theirs cannot abide such constant interruption to the flow of their existence. Still, it does occur.  A Walker, seated. It's form slumping into yours, emitting an audible sigh before shrinking into itself, minimizing the surface area it has exposed to the world. You experience inexplicable audio laced heavily with rampant emotion and touch gently the shape of it with your Empathy. This is what you find:       Where do you Focus your Empathy?
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Sep 4, 2019 08:17
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It lives! But, of course, a bench is unconcerned with the passage of time. Focus on:
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Sep 5, 2019 01:20
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CAT!
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Sep 5, 2019 01:53
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Focus on:
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Sep 5, 2019 09:10
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Sep 17, 2019 08:14
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Focus:
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Sep 17, 2019 09:38
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Focus:
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Sep 17, 2019 09:47
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Focus:
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Sep 19, 2019 00:55
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AJ_Impy posted:Focus:
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Sep 20, 2019 00:36
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We're just a bench, this is all too deep for us.
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Sep 20, 2019 00:39
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 ->    =  -- The Walker, still curled, wipes moisture from it's upper portion with one of its free manipulators.
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Sep 25, 2019 17:15
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super sweet best pal posted:We're just a bench, this is all too deep for us. You recoil from the torment, your unchanging existence not fully apt to contextualize the Movers' Trauma, your Empathy retreating to the comfort of your Pace even as the Mover composes itself and continues with the activity of it's cycle. -- It is Five seasons later, and though many Movers have come and gone, none have left quiet the same impression as your previous occupants, save a pair of Movers that started coming through recently, resting upon your boards for an unusual amount of time before once more moving on.  Their memories are both vivid and storied, and intertwine in ways you never thought possible, each appearing in the others mindscape as far back as you can sense. The Movers's emotion, though varied, seem to spark with joy when in each-others field of influence and you can't help but synchronize your pace each time they drift within yours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj2qexgX2DM This cycle is one such event. One of many. They rest upon you with smiles upon their countenances, ever-moving across vast, imperceptible distances, yet still in one place all the same. Will you flow where their stories take them? Will you dive into memories, old or new? Will you probe their desires or touch upon their emotions? Whatever the case, You Are a Bench.
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Feb 8, 2020 19:03
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Flow where the stories take them.
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Feb 8, 2020 19:16
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AJ_Impy posted:Flow where the stories take them. Same.
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Feb 8, 2020 19:46
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May 8, 2020 16:26
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Eventually the Movers leave you to your own contemplations and static wonder and so you remain - alone - for a time. Light turns to dark, dark to light, and life grows to flourish. All around you, a stream much too swift to define, the comings and goings, ins and outs of countless events blurring into nonsense, a true lack of comprehension. And thus with your pace receded, time, flies.  Cycle upon cycle, season upon season, waiting for that one connection to snap you out of it. There is no monotony, no great anxiety. You Are A Bench. Even as leaves wilt and wood frays, even as the wind howls an eternal song around you. The waves of the ocean reach for the heavens, as is their wont. Though they have not in your existence attained their goal, but why should that be a reason for them to cease trying? So you wait. Until something happens. You wait. But not forever. -- Something moves. A Mover, then. A Human. But not like the others. You notice it long before you are used to being able to, simply because of it's wake. And it is woken, though it seems tired.  It stares at you, features heavy but still. It speaks, but only to itself. In words you cannot hear nor understand. But when when things really turn strange is when it takes a seat. And the Emotions explode.   And it just sits. Feeling... nothing? Seeing... Everything? With just your view, as you see it, in it's mindscape, albeit a few feet further up.  Currently Seated: ??? Anomalous Mover Dominant Emotion: Whelmed Current Cycle: 8095 Current Season: Autumn What do you do?
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Aug 4, 2020 01:23
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Focus:
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Aug 4, 2020 01:31
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Let the emotions flow into us. The mover has too much and could use some help lightening its load.
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