It was a long trip back to Duckburg, and not an entirely pleasant one. Dad had a lot of questions...and we were honestly afraid to answer him. Would the wrong answer do him more harm than good before he was ready? Would not giving him the right answer drive him away? Could we unwittingly make it impossible for him to recover his memory?
Eventually, Mom settled for telling him we were going to see a family friend, hoping he would have some idea how to handle the present situation given his vast wealth of life experiences...not to mention his vast wealth. If he didn't already know a way to fix things, he could certainly hire the world's best experts to find the way to do it. Dad seemed to accept that, but we could both tell he was antsy.
The arrival in Duckburg harbor couldn't come soon enough...and Deik-Beck thought ahead enough to call Uncle Scrooge and let him know to expect us, as well as getting directions as far as which dock we were to weigh anchor at. He was even kind enough to meet us at the dock.
As the boat sailed into the port, Scrooge stood alone at the dock, waiting for the gangplank to lower so he could meet these family members. The message he'd gotten from the little robot had only told of a port arrival requiring delicacy, so he'd guided the ship to his 'night dock', where any shipping operations he didn't particularly want to be public knowledge - though rarely for reasons of illegality - were conducted in the dead of night. The moon shone bright at zenith as the sound of hooffalls told him that his newest niece was desperate for comfort even before he could see her clearly. He held his arms out and caught her mad dash, holding her close. "There now, lass, it's gonna be alright," he promised comfortingly. "Just calm down and tell Uncle Scrooge what's happened."
Coco managed to get her sniffles under control. "Dad has amnesia."
"Eh?" Scrooge demanded, aghast. "How did that happen?"
"Well, we were at the Cooper Family Vault..." Coco began carefully.
"Ya dinnae say?" Scrooge interrupted eagerly. "Ya know, ah've always wondered what it looked like inside there."
"It was really pretty before the whole place collapsed," Coco allowed.
"Drat!" Scrooge snapped. "And all that treasure gone-"
"Actually, we managed to salvage it all," Coco interrupted. "Speaking of, we could use your help with properly storing all the artifacts on the boat, as well as finding a new place to store all the gold and jewels that were our share once we gave the rest of the Gang their cuts." She looked around. "Uh...you're not gonna carry all of it yourself, are you?"
Scrooge chuckled as he made his way up the ramp. "Now lass, ah may look old but ah'm still as spry as the day ah-" He froze as he caught sight of the massive piles of treasure - gold, jewels, and artifacts made of both - that filled the ship from keel to mast. "...well pluck me tail feathers and call me baldy..." he murmured, completely stunned. "This is more than ah've got in me money bin."
Coco's eyes widened in shock. "We're richer than you, Uncle Scrooge?"
"Nah lass, not at all!" Scrooge insisted. "The money bin is just a good portion o' me liquid assets. Most o' me wealth is locked up in makin' more, after all. But it does place ya as the third wealthiest family in th' world, right after me and Glomgold."
"Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth," Coco pointed out. "Most of the liquid gold and jewels got divided more or less evenly to the others in the gang as their cuts."
"...well, before ya divided it, the Coopers were the second wealthiest family, then," Scrooge concluded. "Not that ye could have publicized it." He shook his head to dispel those thoughts for the moment. "We'll get the ship into th' harbor, and then we'll see what we can do about Sly, eh?"
"Thanks Uncle Scrooge," Coco responded warmly as the ship tacked as instructed, sailing into the cliff-side as the door to the underground harbor opened up.
Once Coco and Carmelita were settled for a night of fitful sleep, Scrooge led Sly through his mansion to an area he'd prepared just for such an occasion. "Ye doin' okay there, Sly?" he asked calmly as he hopped up onto a rope and began to make his way across.
"I guess so," Sly answered as he hopped up without thought, maintaining his balance as effortlessly as ever. "Where are you taking me?"
"Well, ah need ta see ta yer amnesia," Scrooge explained as he hopped onto another rope before sliding down it. "Ta do that, ah need ta see what ya still remember."
"I've tried to remember," Sly pointed out helpfully as he slid after Scrooge without any trouble. "But whenever I try, it hurts."
"Ah don't mean yer conscious memory," Scrooge countered as he leapt off the end of the rope to sidle around a tower over a pit of slime. "It's everythang else ah wanna know aboot right now." He leapt off the other side, catching a hook with his cane and swinging down a sequence of them.
"So you're taking me somewhere to find out what I don't know I remember?" Sly asked as he continued to follow effortlessly, the Cooper family techniques coming to him as easily as breathing.
"Somethin' lahk that," Scrooge allowed as he began a sequence of flips, rolls, jumps, and crawls through a shifting field of lasers. "Just keep up."
"I'll do my best," Sly promised as he leapt onto a laser through the middle of the room, sliding down it straight to the other side.
Scrooge's jaw dropped as he witnessed that. "Blow me bagpipes, where'd ya learn ta do that?"
"Learn what?" Sly asked in confusion as he hopped off the laser to land beside Scrooge.
Scrooge's face fell. This did not bode well. All of Sly's skills as a master thief were completely intact...but none of it triggered any conscious memory. This was going to be difficult, both to overcome...and to explain to Carmelita and Coco...
Ok, if SCROOGE MCDUCK tells you that your entire family fortune, if it was whole, would make you the second wealthiest family in the WORLD, you know your loaded. If you manage to impress him with the cut you took after dividing it evenly between a total of 5-6 parties(do Mrs. Ruby and Muggshot count as one or two, due to marriage?), then you know just how absurdly loaded you are. Wiz from Death Battle has actually calculated Scrooge's wealth, and a CONSERVATIVE estimate was around 300 BILLION DOLLARS.
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Coco offered them each their own cut, but they only took one for Felicia's college fund.
Hmm... most interesting, most interesting indeed...
I wonder how this will end for them all... and damn day rich af
Good show!
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It was actually 300 quadrillion.
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That just proves my point more. The entire accumulated Cooper family fortune by that point was large enough to be second only to the wealth of an over 100 year-old duck with a conservative estimate of his wealth having 18 figures. The Cooper family line goes back to at least ANCIENT EGYPT, so the Cooper vault had to have at least 16-17 figures worth of wealth in it. Not counting any of the possible non-main vaults that most likely were used by Coopers before the one in the story. Can I also point out that Scrooge can't die due to old age due to both finding the Holy Grail and the Fountain of Youth, the latter of which he drank from? So his wealth will only grow.
Interesting. This reminds me of a study they did with a guy who lost his memory. If you asked him where his bathroom was, he couldn't tell you. But when he needed to go he got up and headed there without thinking, showing that the location had been ingrained into his head as a habit.
he asked calmly as he hopped up onto a rope and began to make his way across."
techniques coming to him as easily as breathing."
1 & 2. Extra quotation marks.
It's definitely going to be a large obstacle to overcome Sly's amnesia here.
Now if only I could properly say that Deik-Beik was on the same boat as the Coopers.
This is gonna be hella tricky
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There is term for that memory and there is two of it that is Declarative Memory and Procedural Memory.Declarative Memory is about human data or simply memory that kept inside the brain that contains only fact and event while Procedural Memory is the body memory that remember all skill or direction for the place despite lost in memory of the head.This was founded where a man were kept at the hospital due to his head has a problem and something cure or procedure happened to him that caused him lose his new memory but kept the old one except the body memory still kept the new skill but unfortunately no one has a answer how to stop losing the new memory and he becomes old and thought he was still a young man. That was how the term come in so basically Sly can't remember anything about fact or event at all but his body still know how to use all skill and move that he know.It make me question one thing, are our body has another subconscious that we don't know ?
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There isn't another subconscious; he just can't remember things consciously. His subconscious thoughts and knowledge are still there influencing his actions. It's how he's still able to speak and move; only it comes without the context.
You don't consciously put any effort into every breath you take, your body mostly breathes on its own accord and you can only modulate how much air you take in at any given time consciously. Breathing deeply or shallowly takes conscious efforts or at the very least you can make it so that your body takes deep or shallow breathes subconsciously which would require enough repetition to force subconscious muscle memory.
If his subconscious weren't working, then he certainly wouldn't be breathing. Muscle memory is based in repetition, that is basically creating a copy and paste action you can do later at a later time saved to your subconscious. Such a simple act like picking up a glass of water, you've done it hundreds of times and you don't really consider all the actions that go into simply lifting the glass of water. The only thing the subconscious would compile to the act of picking up a glass is the many variables depending on what your picking up and how you pick it up and stores that extra information away for different situations. It doesn't require conscious thought for the mind to hit the paste button to perform said action with all variables depending on the situation, it is an instinctive action.
If you've done something before enough times, then it becomes second nature through your subconscious. Said subconscious will then recognize when you want to perform a paste command, with only environmental prompting as a catalyst for a set action.
Still waiting for the other shoe to drop with Deik-Bek.
Scrooge being surprised by the laser slide was pretty good, shows Sly's dad didn't use it enough to make it his signature technique. I can't wait to see what happens next, but at least Scrooge's nephews should be able to help Coco keep her spirits up.
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A good statement but I din't ask about Sly's subconscious but us instead.This question happened because the sleepwalking incident that I was experiencing in the past where I was asleep in the sofa and awakening at my bed without someone carry me up to it and also my body is cannot be easily carried by an adult man with also my brother say that I walking myself to my bed without I realizing it for as I already mentioned unconscious in sleep but my body still move on it own and opening door and also tucked myself into bed without I noticed it.That is my question right now , are there subconscious mind in our body that we didn't know? If not then please elaborate how my body do all the action without I am noticing and before you immediately say it memory gaping,it is not because my eye were to be confirm to be closed by my brother statement.Also I was climbing to my bed in case I haven't input this yet in my action.
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Actually, canon explanation is that Sly's Dad never mastered that technique, and each Cooper is supposed to add a new obstacle to the Vault to force the next generation to develop a new skill.
Something I've been meaning to ask given Scrooge's implied eternal youth and his voice actor for the reboot: Is the TARDIS currently parked in the basement of McDuck Manor?
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It's amazing how coordinated you can be even when you don't realize you are doing something entirely on autopilot. Humans have more spatial awareness then they think and don't necessarily need their eyes to get somewhere if they are in a familiar place. Sleep walking can be dangerous, but it could be you reacting to needing a place of comfort to actually get to full sleep and you do have four other senses other than sight.
I think it's either stage three or stage four, maybe both, of sleep that you are still capable of movement before you hit the full REM stage of dreaming. In the third or fourth stage of sleep your body is completely under the control of your subconscious mind while your conscious mind is for all intents and purposes taking a break from whatever day you just had to start collating the information of your experiences.
Your subconscious mind controls your body just as much or even more then your conscious mind ever does. Also you don't need two subconscious minds, just the one you have and yes it can do all that by itself.
The subject of sleep walking is called Somnambulism, which is more common in the sleep deprived and children. Adults don't experience it as much unless they are under severe amounts of stress.
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It seems so useful for someone who want to sleep comfortably from sofa to bed but at the same time it also seem scary like someone possessed you and move on it and make you why it doing it for you.My teenager life may have been stressed or something that make me do like that.
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Can I just say I love the casual usage of attempted physical therapy to jolt memory by Scrooge?
Nobody else was commenting on it, so I'll just mention it.
I have to ask. Will Professor Ludwig Von Drake make an appearance in this story?
8242292 Oh gods, put him in the same room as Gyro Gearloose and Bentley and watch them make a giant robot when all they needed was a can opener or something else simple.
I remember, long ago, starting to read this one... only to abandon it. But now that I have a central anchor point, hopefully that opinion will have shifted. Either that or it was due to errors in grammar or similar that were ironed out since then.
I'm still calling it the "electric slide" or a "light jog".
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I like the sound of 'Laser Glide' me self
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Like duct tape?
Technically speaking, I believe scrooge makes a distinction between his money and his money. The latter being that which he has personally, with his own two hands, earned. This is what he keeps in his vault and will not part with.