Liquid Chaos (Open to all)

Subject: Liquid Chaos (Open to all) Sun Dec 02, 2012 3:44 am

Short Character Info:

Digital Ghost. A pegasus pony who got too carried away with his work. Too dedicated to stop for his health. That all changed one day when something called "Liquid Chaos" managed to sneak into his workspace. It possessed his new "super computer" and was sucked in. For days he'd been trapped until he managed to understand the structure of the technology he was in. Phasing out of his prison like a Ghost from the grave, he materialized back into his workspace. Now, he has a new passion. His horizons had broadened and a new thirst for understanding took hold of him. After quite a bit of practice, he could now possess material things and move them as if it was his own body. He could enter computers and travel through the digital world. Information was at his fingertips. He set out on a journey to master his new skill. He figured he had an eternity to do it, for he realized his body halted aging after that little accident. An eternity...

Thread proper: (Continued from Chatbox RP)

It was a disaster... A pony had drank the potion. A potion made up from three others, all brewed by one pony. The one who drank it wanted to forget about a loved one. He forgot more than that, unfortunately. Normally, things like these wouldn't concern Digital, but he had a heavy guilt floating above him. Because of his careless words, he brought this upon the others. 'Why was I this stupid!? How could I have done this! You idiot! You should have kept your mouth shut! It was a stupid advice, "Why not mix those three if you can't decide which one to use." What a fool I am!' Digital had let his mouth slip and now somepony had to suffer for it.

Digital had thought of a plan to replant those memories. If only he could follow through. His thought-up method was still a theory. Possible but not without risks considering he had never tried it before on a pony. After straying away from a fight that resulted in Comical drinking the brew, he found a digital essence which he thought would help them get started. He took the fragment and "downloaded" it into his own mind. He disappeared briefly after that and when he returned, only a blank expression was on his face. He would never say it, but that fragment he found showed him what the possibilities are if they were to use the brew known as Liquid Chaos. He wasn't sure why he found it, or what left it there, but he knew he had to find a way to discourage the others of using this potion of the demons. And he had to do it without alerting them...

Subject: Re: Liquid Chaos (Open to all) Sun Dec 02, 2012 3:57 am

Short Character Info: (Based on another alternate ending to her story. See my DA page entry: Crazy In Love part 5 for more info!)

The Unicorn known as Shadow Flare died that fateful day when she lunged the knife at Rowan's heart, the knife landing in her eye and causing her to pass into the next world. However, she returned, her thirst for revenge enough to power for her materialize her body. However, her curse of the Voices followed her after death, which was the source of her magic and uncontrollable random rages. These Voices are the essence of Chaos itself. But in her afterlife, she was learning the meaning of forgiveness to help her pass onto the next world and be reborn....

When he drank the potion, she lost it. When he left for home, not knowing he was her plushie to steady the voices, her anger bubble popped. The Voices grabbed hold for a second, but the memory of her dear friend flashed in her mind. He was her plushie, she had to save him. That was all she knew. The Voices told her he was a coward, and he was. But he was still her friend.

"This will not be the end! You asked me to take care of you, you idiot, but not like this!" she shouted to the sky, her ectoplasm shaking at her raw emotion. Her eyes glowed a faint pink, her ectoplasm slightly rising to the unstable mode the more she thought about it. The Voices began to whisper in her ear. Kill him, they said. He abandoned you just like Rowan, they said.

"We have to find a cure!"

Subject: Re: Liquid Chaos (Open to all) Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:26 pm

"Yes... We have to find a cure." 'Hopefully one that doesn't use this Liquid Chaos. It's simply too dangerous.' "Do you have any idea where to start?" Digital asked the mare, who happened to be a ghost. Not a "ghost" like him, but an actual ghost, a spirit out of it's former body which manifested a physical form to interact with beings in this plane of existence. Digital was merely a by-product of a strange accident that made him into what he is now. Very much alive, but can't be totally considered as "living" by the most common of definitions. Oh how his mother and father would have reacted, knowing that the name he was given took a more literal direction.

His irises glowed, even through his eyelids when he blinked, as he searched for a stream of data from the "dataverse," as he liked to call it, to connect to. There has to be some article about the strange brews relevant to their current predicament, especially Liquid Chaos. As the name implies, this particular brew should not be played around with. It surprised him that somepony managed to concoct such a thing. He noticed firsthoof what the effects were. Completely unpredictable. As his search came to an end, he couldn't find a stream of data flowing across this area, but he could sense faint traces of it. Perhaps a shift had caused it to disappear? The majority of details and possibilities concerning his powers are completely foreign to him as of now. 'So much to learn and all the time in Equestria.'

Subject: Re: Liquid Chaos (Open to all) Sat Dec 08, 2012 1:56 pm

Shadow shook her head in agitation. Her emotions had her bristled and her digital ghost friend seemed to be scanning the best way he could, but it seemed everything was going too slow. She growled, thinking of things through the Voices themselves until they whispered in her ear: Liquid Chaos. It's substance was entirely unstable, but because of it, it might work. She grinned a kind mad scientist grin, her ectoplasm shimmering a bit with madness.

"Suppose we use... Liquid Chaos. I have a whole case I bought from Truemane a few months back..." she said, her voice above a whisper.

Subject: Re: Liquid Chaos (Open to all) Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:15 pm

He couldn't help but grunt at the mention of the brew. The very idea was exactly what he opposed. And Shadow's expression didn't make him feel better about it. "Is there some other way?" He didn't trust the brew making things better. In fact, he thought it would only make things worse. "It's already unstable enough as it is, now who knows how it will affect him with that mixture he ingested." There was something nagging behind his head, telling him to avoid the Chaos at all cost.

"Let's try to find another way before we resort to that brew." He said, feeling that the mare would say something along the lines of, "We don't have a choice."

Subject: Re: Liquid Chaos (Open to all) Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:45 am

"Then what do you propose, genius?" she replied, annoyed at her idea being shot down. The Voices ceased whispering for the time being, allowing her to calm down.

She thought for a moment, allowing herself to rise off the ground for a few inches. What could being them back to make him face his cowardice? She had promised to take care of him, so nothing that would force harm upon him---at least while she was around. She had no idea what the digitized ghost was thinking, but maybe he DID have a more brilliant plan.

"What do you think could possibly work?"

Subject: Re: Liquid Chaos (Open to all) Sat Dec 15, 2012 8:28 am

"What do you think could possibly work?"

Digital rubbed his chin before replying. He wasn't sure himself and the idea he was about to suggest was a mere theory on his part. "Data Retrieval." It may have sounded crazy, but anything sounded less crazy than that brew. "Think about it. In a way, our anatomy is just a very complex machine. We move our bodies through signals flowing through our nerves, just like how computers can operate the different systems they are attached to. Alright, since we got the analogy straight lets move on. The 'brain' of the machine is just like our brains. They send electric signals throughout the system. A slight bump may be enough to corrupt the brain, thus leading to memory and motor function loss. Now my theory is that if we find fragments of his memory locked away in his head, we could release those memories from suppression. I did enough data retrieval from my own computers so I know it's only a temporary loss. In a similar way, we could act as the retrievers. Think of his condition as something like amnesia. Memories get locked up until something stumbles upon it. Of course, unlike amnesia, we can't just simply whack him over the head and pray to Celestia it worked. We have to go deeper."

It was a long shot considering the unknown effects of the three potions brewed together, but it had to be better than resorting to Liquid Chaos... right? "Let's give this a try before we use Liquid Chaos."

Subject: Re: Liquid Chaos (Open to all) Sat Dec 22, 2012 8:56 pm

The data retrieval method seemed a bit farfetched, but then the fact that they were both ghosts seemed just as farfetched. She had no choice to concede--there seemed to be no other options planting themselves in her mind. She nodded, forcing her ectoplasm to shift her into her ghost form. Shadow paused for a second, then sighed.

"But which memory do we begin with?" she queried.

Subject: Re: Liquid Chaos (Open to all) Sun Dec 30, 2012 3:40 am

Digital put his hoof tho his chin. That was a good question. Which memory should they go for? "I guess we could start with his most recent one. That is often the easiest thing to recover. Although... given his recent heartbreak... if could make him feel hurt without knowing why. We could try to recover the earlier ones, but they'd be much hard to find."

He sighed as he walked under the shade of a nearby tree. "You're the one with a connection to him. You should choose which path we'll take. Then we'll try it. With any luck we can pull this off."

Subject: Re: Liquid Chaos (Open to all) Sat Jan 05, 2013 8:32 pm

"All right," she began, unsure of this all the same. She closed her eyes and began to focus her thoughts, peering into a memory that seemed to make them both happy, the day that he had downloaded an MMO that they were going to play together. The day she took him under her metaphorical wing and called him "Apprentice". She made the picture as clear as she could in her mind and then opened an eye.

"If you wanted to focus on this memory, that would be great."

Subject: Re: Liquid Chaos (Open to all) Sat Jan 12, 2013 7:51 am

"Very well. Brace your mind, and don't think about something you don't want me to know." Digital focused his mind to link with Shadow's. His body glowed with a circuitry pattern running down the length of his body and down his limbs. His mind successfully invaded Shadow's, and he saw still fragments of her memories, snapshots of her past experiences, flashing before his eyes. As he tunneled his way deeper into her subconscious, darkness enclosed on him, making him feel a little claustrophobic. Strange... although this is my first time doing this... He continued on until he saw a bright light ahead.

He saw a floating memory fragment. Was this the one she wanted to show him? Digital reached out to the fragment and gently held it in his hooves. "Just data retrieval... Just focus... focus..." He held the fragment to his head and attempted to duplicate it. He saw the fragment split into two identical ones. He took the duplicate and returned the original. "Okay. I'm severing the mind link." But as he started to disconnect the link they had, a sort of force had blown him away, not only on the mental level, but back in the physical world as well. He was thrown back to the tree. Hard. His glow faded as he staggered to get up. "I've felt kicks like that before when I tried it with computers... but that was a strong one." Digital could feel warm liquid trickling down his cheek. He rubbed his hoof on the liquid and saw that it was blood. "That's right... I forgot I could still bleed..."

Subject: Re: Liquid Chaos (Open to all) Sun Jan 13, 2013 12:27 am

Her ectoplasm shook a bit, having the memory duplicated. It felt like a small pinch that was over in a few moments. Her brow furrowed when she saw that he had started bleeding, as she produced a cloth out of a small void, and handing it to him. "Now what do we do?" she asked.

Subject: Re: Liquid Chaos (Open to all) Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:29 am

Digital took the cloth which seemed to have come from nowhere and used it to wipe off some of the blood from his forehead. "Now? Now we try to implant this memory into someone..." Digital held up his hoof and a holographic image of a crystal floated freely above his hoof. 'Neat!'

Digital looked around nervously. That wasn't his thought, and no one else was there. 'Strange... I must be hearing things.'

"We have to try it out first before we'll go all out. Got any ideas on where we could find some volunteers to test this out?" Ghost wasn't big on using anyone else as a lab rat, but on the other hoof, he couldn't just throw his method at the wall and hope it sticks. Though he will admit he's just banging rocks together to see if it sparks. Everything starts from something...

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