Subject: Hi there! Nume's author here.
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Posted on: 2014-01-02 05:48:00 UTC

Short answer: Yes. Yes, they do.

Long answer: Through some unknown mechanism, the neuralyzer forcibly rearranges neural pathways, at once erasing whatever memories were there before and making the pathways plastic and receptive to new memories for a short period of time. It's specifically used to erase big, worldview-shattering things (i.e. alien encounters) that even normal, forgetting-prone brains would clamp onto like an alligator doing a death roll. However the subject's brain would naturally process and store the memories in question is irrelevant.

Also, Nume has actually been neuralyzed before, repeatedly, by his first partner, who was Not Nice and liked to use it to get her way. I think this is only referenced once in a very early Fill the Plothole story of mine, though, and the event is written so vaguely that it's probably easy to miss, so it's not surprising that it's not common knowledge.

~Neshomeh, who should get back to writing that prequel story she started this summer.

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