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[advocacy]

spam.

[The first thing Daneca Wasserman does is the absolute last thing she should do.]

[She panics.]

[Something is wrong and she knows it. This room isn't hers. Not the ones she recognizes and remembers anyway. And yet this is her cabin. She checked six - no seven - times.]

[So Daneca panics and then immediately vanishes out of sight.]

No, no, stupid, [she mutters, berating herself as she hurries down the hall, footsteps reverberating off the walls. Normally Daneca would just hide out in her room until she could calm down, but her room isn't there.]

[She throws herself down in a chair in the common room, hugging her knees and trying to take as little space as possible. Maybe if she just keeps repeating to herself over and over again quietly that it's okay she'll believe it eventually.]

[Daneca does gradually come back into view, head buried in her knees, once she manages to calm herself down enough with some deep breathing.]

voice.

[Once she's visible again, Daneca tries her room again. It's still the same - not right, that it is - but she can do this. She just needs to find out what's going on with other people.]

How many people have found their rooms aren't what they remember it to be?

((ooc: daneca is now from haven! her trouble is becoming invisible when she's stressed/anxious. you can still hear her though and see what she's interacting with, but otherwise she's completely invisible.))

Comments

[fridgetothefire]

The 'weird stuff' the barge does almost always acts primarily on our faculties, memories, forms, abilities, or behavior, rather than its own structure, except in the event of breaches, which are more coherent and - with a single known exception - do not leave us with any memory of the barge itself or its workings.

When the barge's structure does change, it is typically restricted to the common areas rather than the cabins, which is the opposite of what we are observing.

It is possible that my understanding of the barge has itself been fabricated. It is also possible that this is an unprecedented form of 'weird stuff'.

But the theory that we are affected better fits the known patterns.

[advocacy]

I guess pointing out the fact I don't feel affected doesn't hold much water either.

[Daneca sighs, tired to the bone.]

Just one month. That's all I want. One little tiny month without something like this happening.

[fridgetothefire]

[The evidence suggests this has never happened. But Anya tactfully does not mention this.]

Is your room unsatisfactory in particular ways, or is your distress caused primarily by the unfamiliarity?

[advocacy]

Unfamiliarity.

I mean, it's fine. It's obviously a teenage girl's room. It's just not my room.

[fridgetothefire]

Disruption of assumed constants is perturbing to many people. Perhaps you could spend time in one of the unmodified areas, such as the library.

[advocacy]

I spent some time in the common room. [...Which wasn't all that relaxing with the douchebag vampire, but hey.] I think I'll be okay now.