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Today's dreams were no fun to be dreaming but had some solid bones to hang a plot on.
There's a lot of messy blood and violene in this one, and some dodgy treatment of mental illness, and cruelty to both robots and clones.
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But, there's also plot bones: matrixed up skill loading but quirked, brain networking but only stable if you're drift compatible, having the second set of a powerful emotional memory and knowing the one you care about does not remember caring about you. Identity theft, then trying to stay in control of the new blended person. (Be careful who you pretend to be.) Anger management issues and PTSD, but trying to take a shortcut on the therapeutic work necessary by copy pasting from people who have lived with the same thing longer. Because being mentally ill develops related skills.
Just there's a really good chance of joining all that together in a way that makes their worst selves. And any guy who'd try it by kidnapping everyone like this has quite a lot of worst to be.
So it's nine people in a room running variations, changing every time they wake up, but also every time they mesh minds, becoming for at least a little while more like each other. Starting out very unlike, and with a room full of distinctive accents.
If I get this coherent I'd really want to run it with actors. They'd bring a lot of depth to it.
Because there's one guy trying to do a melting pot on all the rest and skim off the cream to enhance himself, but the others all want to keep their distinctive strengths.
I have not seen that sense 8 thing, but suspect my subconscious borrowed from bits of that as well.
I don't know how busy the background needs to be. Robot bodies? Clones? Mind networking and copy pasting is key. Multi track memories that remember getting dead?
But both bits of dream were about trying to build a good bits version. One by running a bunch of copies and only keeping the best one, this by trying to blend best bits from people the experimenters probably think of as rejects.
They will learn their best is still pretty impressive.
There's a lot of mileage in this.
There's a lot of messy blood and violene in this one, and some dodgy treatment of mental illness, and cruelty to both robots and clones.
( Read more... )
But, there's also plot bones: matrixed up skill loading but quirked, brain networking but only stable if you're drift compatible, having the second set of a powerful emotional memory and knowing the one you care about does not remember caring about you. Identity theft, then trying to stay in control of the new blended person. (Be careful who you pretend to be.) Anger management issues and PTSD, but trying to take a shortcut on the therapeutic work necessary by copy pasting from people who have lived with the same thing longer. Because being mentally ill develops related skills.
Just there's a really good chance of joining all that together in a way that makes their worst selves. And any guy who'd try it by kidnapping everyone like this has quite a lot of worst to be.
So it's nine people in a room running variations, changing every time they wake up, but also every time they mesh minds, becoming for at least a little while more like each other. Starting out very unlike, and with a room full of distinctive accents.
If I get this coherent I'd really want to run it with actors. They'd bring a lot of depth to it.
Because there's one guy trying to do a melting pot on all the rest and skim off the cream to enhance himself, but the others all want to keep their distinctive strengths.
I have not seen that sense 8 thing, but suspect my subconscious borrowed from bits of that as well.
I don't know how busy the background needs to be. Robot bodies? Clones? Mind networking and copy pasting is key. Multi track memories that remember getting dead?
But both bits of dream were about trying to build a good bits version. One by running a bunch of copies and only keeping the best one, this by trying to blend best bits from people the experimenters probably think of as rejects.
They will learn their best is still pretty impressive.
There's a lot of mileage in this.