Like Tears in Rain

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Olivia grows pale after BOB-B addresses the others on what to do. She manages to find some privacy and get a computer for herself.

1. She turns on the computer and gets a webcam and a mic. And she activates the apps and starts recording herself.

2. She looks down solemnly, pondering what her fate could bring before collecting herself and starts sharing her thoughts.

Here I am, 26 years old, and up to this point, never had too many meaningful connections with people, but then I found one and now it's possibly that I could die, or the one I connected with, or even both of us! I mean here I just arrived and I met this Amy girl. Someone who loves to laugh, obsesses over Seinfeld. But admittedly, there's something about her. How she's just enjoying herself, the way she lives life. I admire that about her. And then we bonded over the show ourselves. I watched a lot of the episodes and they're pretty funny. And we both had this nice bonding moment. And... it felt really nice. But then the fear came back when she said that she was wiped away from existence before. The idea of that, just having your body, your presence, just completely evaporate without a trace, it just.... Ugh! But I don't know if I'm going to make it out alive. Me or her, or anyone here. I don't know which among of us wants to wipe us out. I sure hope it's not her because for that one moment, it felt really nice to make a connection. It made me feel whole for a change. And if I have to die here, well at least I'd have this memory. Though it would be nice if we both survived, maybe we could be friends. It's something I hope for, but.... I'm not feeling optimistic. This is Olivia Lynn speaking, and if these end up being my last words, then I hope they all remember me before I end up disappearing for good.

She ends the recording right there.

3. She will then finalize the recording and burn it on a blank drive. And leave it in a safe. In addition, she will upload it on YouTube and leave the video via a link where people can view it if they find the link, which she will leave on a Wordpad file.

[Risdio51]

Kaworu does not change the smile on his face, as he knows exactly what to do.

1. Kaworu grabs a piece of paper.

2. On it, he only writes one thing.

"Shinji Ikari: I love you. -Kaworu Nagisa"

3. To keep it safe, he will simply leave the paper in the cockpit of Evangelion Unit 02. Should Asuka find it, she'll probably give it to Shinji.

[Dookie]

1. Choose your medium. It may be a diary, an audio recording, even a dance, whatever. Why an album, of course! An album of her greatest hits! It'll be a double album - One disc is the Sober Helena tracks, and the other is the Drunk Helena tracks. Disc 1 is more experimental and earrapy, and Disc 2 is more traditional pop.

2. Outline a few things that will be recorded. (No need to be detailed right now). Hour Love, Party Bch, Deth is Cumming, Da Droogs don work, Noo Yorc Noo Yorc, and other Helena classics.


3. How will you keep this safe if you find yourself removed from the time stream? Get creative. We're gonna spread that shit around. I'm talking YouTube, Spotify, Pandora, Vinyl, CD, VHS, LaserDisc, HD DVD, Nintendo Wii, Teddy Ruxbin, Flexplay, Training Manual, Car Commercial, Ringtone, Computer Virus, Billboard, Theme Song, GTA Soundtrack, Nutcracker, Stuffed Animal, Documentary, Comic Book, T-Shirt, Tombstone, Wheel of Fortune Sponsor, FNAF Clone, and Burger King Burger.

[Kennifer]

Amy is still shaking a bit; she fears she won't be able to write legibly. She also doesn't want to record something, because she's having trouble forming her words properly right now. Knowing what it's like to stop existing is, well... it makes this whole prospect very difficult and uncomfortable for her.

She's going to get on the computer...

1. Choose your medium. It may be a diary, an audio recording, even a dance, whatever.

She'll use a text document, one she can edit a few times as needed while she takes the time to collect her thoughts, so she won't leave anything out.

2. Outline a few things that will be recorded. (No need to be detailed right now).

A series of letters.

The first is to her family, full of childhood memories. Growing up with her sister, the bunny they raised together, waiting up for Santa, her first day of school, her graduation, events they attended as a family, anything she can think of that would spark their memories.

The second is to her current boss. This one is more formal; the details of her job, the date she was hired, any funny events that happened at the office, contributions she'd made to the company and that sort of thing.

The third, she pauses a bit longer before writing. To her friends she'd met in the mountains; Chip and Ada, Dr. Kondraki, Sericle... even the Tainted Soul, anyone who had tried to help her the first time she'd gone through these fears. This one was heartfelt and very emotional, written in what can only be described as a pleading tone. Please, please, you tried to help me before, please don't forget me...

Despite feeling she probably looks like a hot mess right now she'll take a selfie with the computer's webcam and attach it to each of the letters.

After pausing a moment, she writes one final letter, to the other participants of this game. It simply says "I'm sorry. I didn't want this to happen. Please don't forget me." A photo is attached to this as well.

3. How will you keep this safe if you find yourself removed from the time stream? Get creative.

She'll label the documents clearly and put them on a thumb drive. She also prints out physical copies of each and places them in addressed envelopes; the first is addressed to her parents, the second to the boss. The third, names listed on it with instructions to please find anyone on this list and bring them the letter. The fourth simply says "please open this". These she will keep in the safest spot in her room, with a note telling whoever finds them to send them to the addresses and to open the files on the thumb drive.

This all takes her longer to do than she'd like; she's got so many things she wants to say, so many memories she doesn't want to be lost. Plus she's shaking enough that she keeps making typos. This seems to have taken a lot out of her.

[Risdio51]

"Amy, are you okay?"

Amy's nervousness is…familiar to Kaworu, to say the least. Let's just say she's starting to remind him of a boy who mustn't run away.

[Kennifer]

"I'm... really not, to be perfectly honest."

Despite this she was still trying to smile.

[MadameButterflyKnife]

Kaworu does not change the smile on his face, as he knows exactly what to do.

1. Kaworu grabs a piece of paper.

2. On it, he only writes one thing.

"Shinji Ikari: I love you. -Kaworu Nagisa"

3. To keep it safe, he will simply leave the paper in the cockpit of Evangelion Unit 02. Should Asuka find it, she'll probably give it to Shinji.

MORI-RT scans over this plan in particular.  Very gay. And as my database informs me, being gay is considered homosexual in most regions and time periods.

[Risdio51]

"Is there a problem with that? I simply live to make Shinji happy."

[Kennifer]

"Not that there's anything wrong with that," Amy says softly.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Olivia came to Amy, with her also looking down as well. I'm scared.... for everyone.... Just imagining now popping out of existence, I can't even imagine...

[Kennifer]

"It's... not something I want to go through again, or... I don't want to see it happen to anyone else I like. Especially not being forgotten entirely. I... the last time, people still remembered I'd existed at least, but if nobody did, I..."

...yeah Amy's not having a good time, and she's barely trying to cover it now.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Me neither! For the first time in my life, I really felt like I've been making connections with people and just the thought of losing them, it's just...

Olivia's composure is now starting to come apart herself, as she takes off her glasses and cups her eyes over her hands.

[Zanreo]

1. Choose your medium. It may be a diary, an audio recording, even a dance, whatever.

Missingno will grab a camera of some kind and record a clip of themselves.

2. Outline a few things that will be recorded. (No need to be detailed right now).

They start recording, talking about who they are and how they know the world might not trust them, but even if they're a glitch they just want to live their life. They don't want themselves or anyone else to disappear, but if it were to happen, they ask to at least please remember them.

3. How will you keep this safe if you find yourself removed from the time stream? Get creative.

First off, copy the video to a thumb drive... then use their power to make a bunch of copies, so even if one gets lost there'll still be plenty of backups (maybe a bit too many, but oh well). They then get a bunch of boxes and split the drives into more or less equal amounts before putting them into these, attaching a note to each box saying "please open if Missingno disappears or you don't remember who they are" and put them in different places in their room.

[wingedcatgirl]

1. Choose your medium. It may be a diary, an audio recording, even a dance, whatever.
Text seems the obvious choice. Is this a diary or an autobiography? Honestly, the difference seems mostly to be perspective.

2. Outline a few things that will be recorded. (No need to be detailed right now).
-Early life, before what's-its-name showed up. She'll be glossing over the details of this, but she still needs to include enough to make it clear why she was so eager to accept that deal.
-Euphoria-fueled wild years. For a few years after her transformation, she, uh, got salacious. Check with BOB-B who the target audience for this document is and censor accordingly.
-Wandering years. After calming down from the wild years, she just wandered the dimensions as an adventurer, doing whatever odd jobs she came across. This might've continued indefinitely, if not for...
-Whatever the fuck was up with that very brief employment at MAE.
(Charis examines her hair after writing this bit. The intrusive red streak vanished not long ago, and she doesn't know whether to be relieved or worried.)

3. How will you keep this safe if you find yourself removed from the time stream? Get creative.
That's... a very good question, actually. If Charis is removed from the time stream, wouldn't it follow that anything she made would vanish too? Check with BOB-B on relevant research and countermeasures. But for starters, magic might help. Start with time, an inverted null, a protection... and go on until she can't think of any more runes to add. A spell this important, you don't want to rush. And once the spell is designed, apply it liberally - get as many secure containers as possible, of as many different types as possible, and store a copy of the book in each one, cast the spell, and stash them away in various safe places throughout the dimensions... or as far throughout the dimensions as BOB-B will allow her to go.

[EeveeGirlChey]

Gwyneth then sits on the cushion and puts a hardcover journal with a lock and a pen that she had brought along on her lap. She closes her eyes and manifests onto her stationary. The crystals glow around her.

1. Choose your medium. It may be a diary, an audio recording, even a dance, whatever.

Gwyneth will use her telekinetic powers to unlock and open the journal and levitate the pen over to a blank page.

She will do some deep thinking, wondering what would happen to her if she survived or disappeared from time. After this, she will start to write.

2. Outline a few things that will be recorded. (No need to be detailed right now).

Oh man, where to start here?

I think my early years would be a good start. I was born on Gallifrey but aside from when I was sent to the Academy as a little girl, I had a happy, fulfilling childhood here on Earth.

Both of my parents were successful in the entertainment industry, I had a lot of friends, and I was just a happy Time Tot in general. I started my career when I was still a teenager, I went around the galaxy and studied a lot of subjects, I did some modeling, and I started a family and later on, my business.

I know exactly what success is and it's not easy to obtain. It took me almost my entire life to get to where I am today.

Sometimes, I'm not sure what to prioritize, my husband and two children or my business. I think they're both important to me, but what's more important? I'm very proud of what I'm doing at Goop and how I'm helping lots of people to learn better ways of living (even if it's through GoopGlow drinks, yoga mats, crystals, supplements, and vibrators) but my children are growing up fast. They're teenagers now and I feel like I'm missing out on their lives.

Although there is a big thing that I have to keep a secret from the general public and that's the fact that I'm actually a Time Lady. The Goopers and my family know that but they swore to secrecy. It's definitely for the best since the Time Lords have been notified of how I go around planets and source certain things for potential Goop products. If my real identity gets out, I could end up back in Gallifrey and on trial for illegally smuggling goods from space.

I can't put my family through that. I also can't put my family or my company through having me get wiped from time. Hell, I'm really scared that if I get wiped, all of my hard work will go with it.

I hope that won't come to any of that. I've lived 249 years and I want to be around for centuries more.

Gwyneth will then close the journal.

3. How will you keep this safe if you find yourself removed from the time stream? Get creative.

Gwyneth will be making sure that she has three copies of what she wrote. She will be scanning and transcribing her journal entry in a very private part of the house and putting the transcribed file and original scan of the entry on a USB drive and a CD-R. The USB drive will be hidden somewhere safe and off-site while the journal and CD-R will be kept among her many things. This method is called the 3-2-1 method and it's used for backing up computer data just in case if something bad happens. You can find out more through this video here.

[PointMaid]

BOB-B and MORI-RT inspect the work. They chirp computer beeps at each other.

We have reached a decision.

On the most skilled at the task, preserving your memories in the unfortunate case you should be erased from the timeline.

As it happens

...And this does not happen often

We are agreed.

Leave it to a Time Lady to preserve memories. Should have figured.

Congratulations to Gwyneth Paltrow. We will guard you most carefully tonight so you should have no fear of assassins.

[EeveeGirlChey]

Gwyneth smiles brightly.

"Thank you! Thank you so much. This calls for some GoopGlow!"

Gwyneth then goes off to the kitchen to mix some GoopGloe powder into some water.

[Kennifer]

"...I hope that stuff doesn't turn her purple."

[MadameButterflyKnife]

"Her becoming purple doesn't appear to have any high level timeline effects, at least."

"It does appear concerning, I will admit."

[PointMaid]

It will soon be nighttime. Please wrap up your business before then. Your rooms will be prepared.

Night will fall at 10:00pm ET

[Risdio51]

"Congratulations, Gwyneth. I hope you live in safety for the rest of the time here. Regardless of their oddities, any Lilin deserves happiness."

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Yeah, congrats, Gwyneth. Just keep your Goop away from me.

[Kennifer]

"I don't want to see any of us disappear..."

Amy still looks kinda distraught over the thought of un-existing again.

[Cassie]

"C-...Congrats, Gwyneth."

"Also you haven't told me what a Lilim is and what makes Gwyneth qualify as one!" She turns to Kaworu.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Yeah, same here, Olivia says to Amy, looking rather solemn.