# Painful Signal — 'To Feel You, No Matter What the Price'

> The Memoria 'Painful Signal.' Its tagline — 'To feel you, no matter what the price might be' — is the emotional summation of the cyborg arm arc: he has lost the sensation of touch in his right arm and that loss is directly about being unable to feel her.

- Branch: Tender Moment
- In-universe: 2048 (present day)
- Released: v3.0 Cosmic Encounter (Jan 2025)
- Characters: Caleb, MC
- Locations: Linkon City
- Page: https://ladsarchive.com/events/caleb-painful-signal/

## Description

Painful Signal is described as a Homecoming Wings Memoria. The tagline 'To feel you, no matter what the price might be' lands the entire cyborg-arm arc in a single line: the sensation he has lost in his right arm was warmth, softness, touch — the ability to feel her through physical contact. He is aware of the loss. The 'price' is not metaphorical; it is the literal trade made when his arm was rebuilt. The Memoria is the most direct emotional articulation of what the mechanical arm costs him in terms of intimacy.

## Story cards

- [Painful Signal](https://ladsarchive.com/cards/caleb-painful-signal-card/)

## Related events

- [Spacepedia: Mechanical Arm Modification — Cyborg Reveal](https://ladsarchive.com/events/caleb-cyborg-arm-reveal/)
- [Longtime Moments — Linkon TV Tower Visit, Past Restaging](https://ladsarchive.com/events/caleb-longtime-moments/)