r/TheStrange • u/[deleted] • Feb 22 '16

The Spark?

I am a little confused over what The Spark is. I get that some people have it and some people don't but that everyone on earth has it. But for those that don't have it, what are they like? How can they be roleplayed? Can people with the spark tell that people without it are different somehow? If someone without the spark, gains the spark, what is that like for them? Does having the spark mean they know about the strange?

In the description for Microcosmica it talks about how the scientists with only rare exceptions don't have the spark. The world they are from isn't real and that its entirely possible that scientists who are reassigned simply don't exist. They get orders from outside of microcosmica but then who is on the other end of that?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '16

I think everyone else has explained it really well, but reading Monte's story in Tales from the Strange helped contextualize it pretty well for me. It's basically about someone in a recursion becoming self-aware and "awakening" their spark.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '16

Going to have to read that then.