[UA] Clockworks and Memories

[Antonio Rodriguez]

> > I prefer the idea of a clockworker who spent all his memories on
> > something _huge_.  He wakes up with total amnesia, including not
> > remembering what he was building (perhaps he was working with
> > someone else as well, who promised to clue him in afterward, bu
> > instead ran off).  After spending time discovering who he is and
> > what's going  on with the building mechanical oddities, he
> > discovers the probably reason for his lost memories.  Then it's
> [snip]
>
> Can you get your memories back?
> I don't have the books to hand, and I can't recall any similar
> threads, but
> can you break/magickize/use a clockwork to retrive the memories you
> 'invested' in it in the first place?
> Cue every amnesiac clockworker breaking every clockwork he meets.
> Joe.
> --
> Joe Murphy (Broin)
> broin at notzen.com

I got a rather disturbing idea with this post. If a mechanomancer records
dutifully whatever happens to him, and then sacrifices the memories of these
events for constructs, can he still re-acquire the knowledge of what
happened to him through his written accounts?

I'm trying to distinguish the concept of memories and knowledge here. Going
to One-Shots, if Uder Kram-? (don't have the book with me now, sorry) has
written a detailed log of his wife's illness and death, and sacrificed the
memory of her death, could he still gain the knowledge of his wife's being
dead by reading his log? And then how about sacrificing the memory of ever
having read the log, and then re-reading?

It smells like the worst case of gouda cheese, but at the same time, I'm not
sure how I'd handle it. Any ideas?

Antonio Rodriguez


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