Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170729051211/@comment-26397825-20170731052857

SpiritedDreaming wrote: And for the altering/deleting memories, well. I could go a few ways I guess. The basic premise would be that it requires concentration and the user is left unaware of the world around them as they basically 'see' the target's memory in their own mind.

The first option is that they'd have to make the target think of the memory, sort of like Legilimency from Harry Potter, and bring it to the forefront of their mind, or the user won't be able to do anything with the memory. This means that a person could conceivably avoid it by simply not thinking of what the user wants them to think of.

The second option is that there's a memory age limit; you pretty much can't delete memories that are too old. I'd limit it to a day or two at most, that way they can't go digging through month old memories. This gives the user a time limit to play with the memories, making it only useful if you have the person then and there and able to be manipulated without getting a knife in the back while you're doing it. Had a thought to tie into the second option. Due to it being specific rifling, the target is aware of the user inside their head and so knows that something has been modified. They don't know what, but they know something happened. If it's a deleted memory, then they know the memory was deleted and can make tracks to recover it through second hand accounts and the like.

So while the first is subtle, the user does have to make the target think of the memory before they can edit or delete it. This means the target can prevent it from happening by thinking of other things, similar to Occlusion from Hary Potter. And the second allows the user to dig through and select it, but the target is aware of it happening. This allows the target to recover the memory or alter it back to normal through the same process a person alters their memory from what really happened in real life through second hand accounts and any audio or video footage they can find.

What are people's thoughts on this?