The Consequences [Concluded]

[CCRunner]

As long as we get back in time for the experiment!

[rhawn]

Go to the nearest convenience store and buy a pack of menthol cigarettes and a lighter. Smoke while walking back to the police station to check on results of fingerprint scan.

[Stildawn]

Dude you forgot to mention actually doing the scan lol.... Can that please be added in GH?

[CCRunner]

He sort of implies it at the end... hope that counts

[GeneralHankerchief]

You agree to getting fingerprinted, with Officer Purvis assuring some results in about 20-30 minutes. In the meantime, he directs you to a convenience store two blocks away to where you can buy cigarettes and a lighter. You make your way there, and purchase the objects without incident.

$20 has been subtracted from your inventory.

The items "pack of cigarettes" and "lighter" have been added to your inventory.

Lighting up your first cig on the way back, you start coughing like mad, but still manage to suck it all the way down. You're about to start your second when Officer Purvis calls you in, saying the database check for matches is done.

[Beefy187]

Stand up as if to greet the officer. Put one of your hand in the pocket where your lighter is. Quickly check the exits first and the surrounding, if there is anything out of the ordinary. Do this before you listen to the result.

[Myrddraal]

We're obviously not a smoker.

[Jolt]

This might be the part where we'll turn into Jason Bourne. A schizophrenic one, but one nonetheless.

[Mithrandir]

I think it'd be best for society if we turn out to be guilty, we let ourselves get arrested with a fair trial.

Who knows what attrocities we commited...

[Beefy187]

I think it'd be best for society if we turn out to be guilty, we let ourselves get arrested with a fair trial.

Who knows what attrocities we commited...

I agree. If we are to die, we die by trial and justice.
Worst we can do is running for our life and getting gunned down.

[Mithrandir]

Should make an intresting write up if we get to court, and after that, it'd be like an episode of OZ.

[Thermal]

$20 was a lot of money to lose....

[GeneralHankerchief]

Sorry guys, just moved back to school so I'm a bit busy at the moment. Look for an update in a couple of hours.

[Double A]

While we're throwing around theories...

What if we're an ex SysTech employee, and we found out something we REALLY shouldn't have, like they plan to assassinate the president, and take over the country, or the CEO is Magneto, or that soilent green is people.

And if the cops are somehow being paid by SysTech to find us, we're pretty boned.

[GeneralHankerchief]

You check around for odd occurances, finding nothing. "All right, friend," Officer Purvis says, "Unfortunately, we don't have *any* matches, not even partial ones. I'm not sure exactly where you came from, but it's like you never existed before today. We've got you in the system now, which will help if something comes up in the future, but for now we can't help you anymore. Best of luck in the future." You shake the officer's hand and leave the station, disappointed.

By the time you walk back downtown, it will most likely be time for the psychological experiment. Where would you like to go now?

[Splitpersonality]

We're a clone, or a synthetically created human.

If no one else got that by reading the officer's words, then there it is.

or at least I"m leaning towards that.

There is also a slight possibility that we were created with the sole purpose of being some sort of spy, and this psychological experiment might bring that out in us, but that is only mindless speculation.


I vote we go to the psychological experiment now.

[Beefy187]

We can speak the language without a problem.
Do we have the same accent as the natives?
So we seem to be American at least.

Btw, does everyone have to register their finger prints in America?

[Splitpersonality]

Btw, does everyone have to register their finger prints in America?

No, as far as I know this is just the criminal database.

If we're not in the criminal database that means that we're not criminals, but what the officer said was very.... specific... too specific to let go I think.

[Beefy187]

We're a clone, or a synthetically created human.

If no one else got that by reading the officer's words, then there it is.

or at least I"m leaning towards that.

There is also a slight possibility that we were created with the sole purpose of being some sort of spy, and this psychological experiment might bring that out in us, but that is only mindless speculation.


I vote we go to the psychological experiment now.

I agree that he was too specific, especially if not everyone has to register their finger print.
But I didn't get the clone part. What makes you say that?

Perhaps this is a parallel world. Not everything is the same as the world we know.

Anyway, I also vote we go to the psychology experiment.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Go downtown and do the experiment.

If the experiment is what caused it, then at least we have a record now.

[A Very Super Market]

Well, in this version of the world, people seem to be a lot more conformist. Maybe that has to do with universal fingerprinting?

[Splitpersonality]

But I didn't get the clone part. What makes you say that?

"It's as if you didn't exist before today."

Something that is entirely viable.

You don't know WHO you are, WHERE you are, or HOW you got there. A clone would not have memories, as they would be freshly created from just raw materials, you can't MAKE memories in the human mind, we're not that advanced in science yet...


If you look at sci fi, it could also be a product of teleportation or time travel.


Modern teleportation theories state that we would have to clone ourselves, in a different location, and then immediately terminate the original copy, so that your "consciousness" is transferred to your new consciousness.

Perhaps something went wrong and we didn't have our memory transferred successfully?

[CCRunner]

A clone would also have the same finger prints as whoever they were cloned as though wouldn't it?

[Splitpersonality]

Not necessarily, the fact that there are not even "partial matches" gives this lots of reason as well...

There should be at least a couple of partial matches over nothing... Perhaps we're an alien from another planet then?

[Beefy187]

If we are from the future (and if everyone is registered on the data base) we should be on the data base unless we are more then 100 years apart.

From the Croatoan message and Rosetta Stoned, we know for sure that we have some message to deliver. Aliens and Future person maybe, but what would the clone have to say?

[Splitpersonality]

If we are from the future (and if everyone is registered on the data base) we should be on the data base unless we are more then 100 years apart.

From the Croatoan message and Rosetta Stoned, we know for sure that we have some message to deliver. Aliens and Future person maybe, but what would the clone have to say?

But everyone is not registered in the database... it's a criminal database, ergo we wouldn't be there unless we're a criminal in the future.

[miotas]

Wow, all I got from the write up is that we aren't a criminal.

[ULC]

A clone would also have the same finger prints as whoever they were cloned as though wouldn't it?

No, not at all. Fingerprints are complete individual.

It's also possible that we are a chimera - a clone of several people combined into one. We could detect this pretty easily, in a relative sense.

[ULC]

Hmmm...on second thought IT IS a good possibility we may be a clone of several people. The Rosetta Stone was sought in Alchemy as a means for immortality and perfection.

Think about it, and it starts to make a little sense. If we are, then we'd be at peak human capability - I think we should test ourselves a bit, see how strong, enduring, or fast we are.

[Splitpersonality]

Think about it, and it starts to make a little sense. If we are, then we'd be at peak human capability - I think we should test ourselves a bit, see how strong, enduring, or fast we are.

Are you suggesting we fight the cop?