{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Tell us the amnesia story!", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/682982283755520000/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>Tell us the amnesia story!</p></div>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/682941783925194752/\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>I was going to Wi\ufffczards of the Coast Magic: The Gathering summer camp in Seattle in the mid-1990s, we were using the University of Washington dorms. One day we went to a campus playing field to play soccer, I tripped over my feet and hit my head on the ground.</p><p>WotC had some sort of &ldquo;game center&rdquo; in Seattle with tabletop space, and an arcade (I remember playing Medieval Madness pinball for the first time) and a simulation system of we-clearly-lifted-this-from-the-military Battletech pods. Like, enclosed simulator cockpits. Beth Morsund showed off how she could wipe several Mad Cats as an Elemental.</p><p>Anyway walking back to the dorms I kept asking &ldquo;did we do BattleTech pods?&rdquo;, getting an answer, and forgetting it. Eventually we got back to the dorm, I called home collect, was told to notify someone and immediately forgot, but things apparently worked their way up the ladder until one guy took me to the U of W hospital, where I got an MRI and cleared up sitting in a waiting room while the guy played 40 Questions with me and I&rsquo;m sure was happy I could identify Wall of Kelp as one of two blue walls in Homelands</p><p>Things were still a little fuzzy but they cleared up over months as I&rsquo;d been told, but apparently directly before this I met Richard Garfield and got a card signed, which I still have no memory of whatsoever</p></blockquote><p><p>Oh, also, the guy taking me to the hospital had an electric car, one of the &lsquo;90s ones that showed it off with half-shielded rear tires, and it didn&rsquo;t make noise on straightaways but squealed in turns.</p></p>"}