[MU] - DECEMBER STORYTELLING / MEMORY SHARE

[lifeaftr_mods]

Something is wrong.

This may not very well be obvious, at first. The Storyteller is not present to put forth yet another diatribe, informative or apologetic, and the backdrop of guttering flame and sandy campfire is as present as ever...albeit briefly.



Those who tell their stories will start to notice something...odd taking place. Indeed, no matter how they intend to begin their tale, the land of Mu will immediately start to warp to accommodate it, or something utterly unlike it, until storytellers and listeners alike may find themselves in an exact recreation of a seemingly random memory, in the most stark and painstaking of detail. There is no altering the memory, nor is there any preventing it once it's begun to play - you will simply have to witness memories that are not your own this go around.

Furthermore, stories that take place in worlds other than LifeAftr will be, frankly, inevitable. Those memories, too, will be recreated, to be relived by the teller and lived by the listener.

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It is time, once more, for you to tell a story...with a slight twist! This is, in fact, our first player plot, as provided by Dragon! The initial setting will be familiar for oldcomers, and newcomers will recognize it from the introduction they received in their dreams.

Yet for this Storytelling only, people can imagine whatever stories they wish, from both their homes and their time on LifeAftr, as long as they don't mind the fact that others will be reliving those stories in the form of an impromptu memory share.

Even those who prefer not to voice their stories aloud are not safe this time around. If the memory is recalled in essence, Mu will shift to accommodate it in full.

There is, however, a benefit to this: those who venture memories to be relived will receive both a befuddled apology from the Storyteller, who will assert that this was most definitely not meant to happen (they're the Storyteller, not the Rememberer!), as well as a tired promise that the relived memories will be worth two offerings each, as if in compensation.

Not that it counts for much, probably.

Comments

[greatcleavage]

[Watching this brings to mind a lot of memories of Roy's own. None that will play out on the tableau around them, as it happens. Which is probably for the best, considering his own variant of this memory ends with him dead, his party sundered, and Azure City conquered. Shepard's success is almost alien to him, and that's profoundly depressing.]

[But he's not going to think about that now; he's developed another line of questioning, one with a little more relevance.]

Were you actually expecting to survive that?

[tenthstreetbred]

[Shepard blinks a bit, surprised at the voice but smiles when she sees who it is.]

To be totally honest? I thought it was a 50/50 shot.

[She shakes her head a bit, looking to the memory, drinking in the details of Elysium.]

I knew I had the training to withstand this sort of assault, the capability to hold my ground, and enough guts to try it... but I didn't know if I would actually survive. I still had to try though.

[A feeling she is pretty sure Roy understands.]

[greatcleavage]

[He can't criticize. He'd taken a much longer shot in his time... But that had at least sparked some hard thought in him.]

[He rises from his own seat, moving over with a little gesture at the spot next to her and a quirk of one eyebrow to ask permission.] What was the context of that battle?