Chapter 24 - Resurgence Team: Numbers One, Two, Three, Four - Clone Memory Recollection Report - Memory Palace and Knowledge review.
Number 1 here, part of OGs clone Resurgence Team. I’ve headed over to a larger tree that has a quite comfortable seat once you climb up a bit, I can see numbers 2 and 3 going in opposite directions along the beach while number 4 is just staring at the night sky.
It's kinda strange being in my position, after a few hours I'll poof and then wake up again. Probably tomorrow, we’ve done long term “awake” testing where we clones stick around for a few days or weeks but it's mostly been just for a few days.
OG doesn't mention it but he’s worried about Alpha Team, hopefully they will be ok and not go crazy at each other. It would be a shame to lose clones out to some “personality conflicts”.
Small joke there, anyway I’m here to have a look at the Memory Palace, check out the general changes and report back on what’s changed.
Before, when we accessed the memory palace normally by closing our eyes we can imagine the front lawn of our house and the front veranda, moving indoors we can see the doors leading into the three bedrooms, the bathroom and the old lounge room/new office.
Each room is filled and going to an item or location in the room would store information that we can add in, stuff like family photos for example.
Entering into the newly upgraded Memory Palace it's a bit different, entering the palace I find myself standing in a circular field of grass, cut into quarters by four stone footpaths. Each path leads to a large door that is connected to a massive tower, like giant points on a compass.
It's more than imagining, it almost feels like I’m watching a video game screen, or through a VR headset, though much better. I can better visualise the Memory Palace now.
I know instinctively which tower is which, looking back at the grass I can see four faint depressions in the grass, like there will be new paths for the towers to come. Entering the tower for OG’s personal memories and memories of home I can see a spiral staircase going up and up along the wall leaving the centre hollow for holographic images or videos to play.
At the centre of the tower there is a short column, only reaching just under my ribs. I can feel it, I know that if I place my hands on here and think, I can call a memory to be viewed here like a hologram playing above my head.
If I want to take a stroll and wander I can walk up the stairs, I know that if I want to jump ahead to a different memory or timeframe I can without the staircase even moving but placing me in a different position all the same.
The edges of the tower are filled with books, their spines showing either books or movies I had read and seen but also memories of me reading them. The books and movies looking just like I remember them, as if I was reading or watching them again.
I place a hand on the column and at once call upon a copy of Isaac Asimov’s “Prelude to Foundation” appears. Dad had it on the shelves and I read it after seeing its strange brown mushroom like plants and behind it a white domed city, one of the many things that got me into reading at a young age.
With a thought, the rest of the Foundation series appear along with several of his other works like the Robot series, good thing that OG has clones. I would not be surprised if we stayed in the memory palace re-reading all our old books, now that it's been so long since I last read them, maybe I can chase that feeling of reading them again for the first time.
I'll be honest it's very damn trippy, what on earth would the next level Memory Palace be like? Also, I can remember details more vividly than before.
OG should not have to worry about the Memory Crystal and Alpha Team, they should be able to see all of this easily enough. Just not anything new for a while, but that's fine. Plenty of old memories, books and movies to watch again.
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Number 2 here, I’ve turned on the map mode and am having a look around us. I am currently zoomed in on my position and the thirty metre radius around me, watching as the others go out of sight.
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I can move the map a bit and can see a definite shift in visibility. While before the image was sharp and clear it now looks like a zoomed in satellite image of a beach, only showing details where I have been before.
To use an example, like I’m reliving the day that the Street View car that goes around had. But while the details close by to it are detailed, further away it becomes fuzzy.
Zooming out I can see the entirety of the island, with its trees and fields but nothing in detail. I zoom out further and see the world in its full view.
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I can kinda guess what’s the Great Barrier of the East, the Oasis must be somewhere in there. Once we have enough clones and a longer range voice chat we should be able to communicate and locate the Alpha Team.
I zoom around a bit more and notice something near the middle of the map, along a river I can see a tiny country in comparison but it's not its size that worries me.
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An Institute city, that must be their main hub. Yea I need to avoid that till I’m ready.
All in all it looks like a standard satellite view of a planet, like what we have currently for Earth and Mars. There might be more here so I have a “feel” around, I think I found a setting?
Bingo! A map grid, legend, the different Norths (True, Magnetic, Grid), elevation and more. This will definitely help when moving through the country. Zooming in with these enabled I can see the settings overlaid onto the map.
If we can print this out using the Memory Crystal or another device we could have physical maps we can share with people who are out of range, going over the massive mountain range is fuzzy in places. Looks like they are not mapped which means that the Oasis must be somewhere in those areas, bit of an easier job for us!
Unfortunately I cannot see any maps of the other Domains and there is no undersea maps like you see in normal satellite imagery, just blue waves.
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Number 3 here, checking out the Biological information in the Memory Palace. Entering it I am amazed at the change to the palace but I need to focus or I'll be here all night. I turn and enter the palace for biological information, upon entering I can see a large staircase going around the edge of the tower and a column at its centre.
Moving to the column I feel the need to place my hands on it, at once I can see a holographic outline of a human with enough room for other models, underneath the holo-model I can see the words “Uspeta - Humans - Basic Information Available” with the other words for the other models in their language though not what the translation is. If there is any translation for them.
I can pull up information on anatomy, first aid, medical procedures and many more. But I can also feel something more, something personal.
I pull up a model of… me. It's me just before the lightning strike, overweight, some muscles and more. Like looking into a mirror of myself.
But there is more, I pull up the image of myself as I was Crossing and nearly vomit. These must be the 3D models mentioned in that original letter given to me by Abcier on that first day, I see myself, legs twenty metres long and aged like an egyptian mummy. Parts of my body ripped open and bleeding green, blue and purple blood, an arm tiny and frail, my body thin and tiny and the warping.
It looks like my skin became water and was rippling through my body and then stopped and became flesh again. I turn off the holo-image, yea I’m gonna stay up tonight or OG will not be getting any sleep.
We will need to have a look at it again, its the best information we have around the Crossing at the moment but for now. I’m glad we can separate our memories so that the others won’t have to see it for themselves.
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Number 4 here, yea there’s nothing in this tower.
Well when I say nothing I mean there are a couple of books in the book shelves about the handful of animals I’ve seen and some images when touching that column. Guess I’ll need to actually start researching the medical and biological information available on Animals and Monsters to see anything.
I can feel that it's not a scam though, all I have is basic information like “What does this look like?”. I get the feeling that if I actually took the time to research, more information would be available.
Well there is one good thing I can do tonight, watching the stars.
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Numbers 1, 2 and 3 would later find number 4 fast asleep where they left him.