[UA] Clockworks and Memories

[Andy Winnenberg]

--- Antonio Rodriguez <aajrdguez at sprynet.com> wrote:
> > > 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 could beintersting to play this along the lines of
Memento (great flick folx. VERY UAable) where the character
upon losing his memory has to keep checking his files (in
the case of the movie a series of Polaroids with notes
about the subjects written on them) in order to remember
anything. After a few minutes the memory is gone again. 

The mechanomancer could regain lost memories by reading his
notes, but after a few moments they're gone again. 

Now what if he altered his notes for some reason, then
forgot?

What if he is posessed by a ghost writter?

Who is to say he worte his notes for that matter?



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Andy Winnenberg
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