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Dr. Frederick Chilton ([personal profile] slightlyoffchilt) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2015-06-02 05:11 pm

4. (LUCID DREAMING) (VIDEO)

[Chilton wears an unusually grim expression, when he tunes into the Network. He closes his office door behind him, which angled the communicator down to his door-closing hand -- one of his fingers sports a particularly ancient looking ring. There's a sharp glint in that glimpse, before the camera angle soon directs back to the doctor's face.]

Desirable difficulty. Are you familiar with the concept? [Rhetorical, of course.] The theory that the presence of an inconvenience or obstacle, and the act of overcoming that roadblock, will better synthesize cerebral information. The concept could be expanded upon how the brain identifies and encodes patterns, themes, what have you, in the midst of a crisis.

[Chilton flips the communicator camera back around to showcase his environment. The bright ceiling luminescence and mint green hallways of Heropa Downtown Hospital provide a sterilized, if normalized, depiction of a stereotypical medical center.

It's the collapsed, unconscious doctors with their noose-like stethoscopes and limp, unmoving patients lining the walls, floor, the rooms that juxtapose something unsettling.
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Would you consider this difficulty desirable?

[This is all in reference to the Pestilence of the Horseman Plot. If you need an excuse for a point of infection, you can consider this to be it!]
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[personal profile] inmyothertights 2015-06-13 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I don't-

I don't actually know about that.
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[personal profile] inmyothertights 2015-06-15 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Are you going to charge me for this?
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[personal profile] inmyothertights 2015-06-15 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm pretty sure that's unethical.
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[personal profile] inmyothertights 2015-06-17 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, you're my therapist, not my mom.
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[personal profile] inmyothertights 2015-06-19 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, my mom isn't my therapist, I'm pretty sure that's deeply unethical.
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[personal profile] inmyothertights 2015-06-20 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
My mom's pretty concerned about ethics.
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[personal profile] inmyothertights 2015-06-24 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
Go on a world-altering spree?
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[personal profile] inmyothertights 2015-06-27 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I could be a benevolent magical overlord.
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[personal profile] inmyothertights 2015-07-06 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
All hail.

Not to worry, you're in good graces.
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[personal profile] inmyothertights 2015-07-07 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I think that's pretty typical. For a lot of people, I mean.
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[personal profile] inmyothertights 2015-07-07 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
No, no, I didn't mean it that way.
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[personal profile] inmyothertights 2015-07-08 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm getting really used to that.