[Video] Are these thoughts my own?

[fromsprouts]

[Umemiya's in one of the training rooms in the Spire, sitting on the floor after a workout. He's in that post-exercise hazy clarity of mind, and has worked out that he does actually want to start this conversation. Someone ought to.]

Hey, talking with Akechi reminded me of something--don't worry, this isn't about ethics at all. It's about some of the recent quests, and things I've seen and heard and felt on them.

The first time I went to Icefall Lake, before we named it that, it was with Anasui and Guilmon. The Lakebed Ruins we found, they had mosaic floors, tiled to look like a map created by some Pokemon flying overhead. Except, they changed, when you looked away. You'd look back and instead of forest surrounding where the Bay ought to be, there'd be desert. Or the volcano would be gone.

[His mental voice grows quieter, a little less certain as he goes to explain the next bit.]

I remember at one point, the thought ran through my head, "Which world is the world we exist in? Which world does the world exist in?" And now that I look back, I'm not really sure that thought came from inside my own head.

I'm interested in hearing what else people have encountered, either on their original expeditions or while wayfinding in the three regions.

(ooc: Please feel free to crosstalk and threadjack one another on this post. I just wanna get this stuff 'on the table' to discuss.)

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[shotinhead]

[ You know, as usual. The usual calmness covering up his true feelings. ]

Yeah, yeah, the intrusive thoughts. We've all had them.

[fromsprouts]

[There's a bristle of indignation.]

Great. Do we know any themes in what they say? Times or places they happen more often?

[shotinhead]

Well, they tend to happen when we go to try and rescue others, right? That's what I've noticed.

[fromsprouts]

Huh. And what sort of things have these thoughts said to you?

[Clearly he needs to do more rescues.]

[shotinhead]

Oh. The usual sort of cheerful shit. Gonna leave me behind, gonna be forgotten... makin' us doubt our own senses.

I mean, sometimes, I thought it was just me, but nah!

[fromsprouts]

Hm, the one I got sounded like someone doubting their own senses. It was weird like that.

[shotinhead]

That's how it seems to be. Then again, we have new senses. And if this Pokemon evolution thing is real, that'd also mess with perception.

[fromsprouts]

Ugh, I know about the new senses. I...have been struggling a little with my Aura Sense, especially in town when it's busy.