[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

[dedamastai]

I may not know him, but I'm beginning to know you, Laurent had told him once and at the time Damen hadn't quite Understood what he meant. He does now, because Damen may not know this person but he's intimately familiar with Laurent and Laurent doesn't "embellish." In fact, Laurent is often so plain and blunt in his observations that it's immensely uncomfortable.

". . . He didn't tell you." The statement is nonsense, because Damen doesn't mean to say it. They spend so much time talking around the thing that's etched into the gold on their wrists that he shouldn't be surprised, but he is. Damen shakes his head. "Laurent didn't lecture you because he sees himself in you. He lectured you because he sees himself in your worst enemy."

Damen may not be very good at understanding the deep intricacies of Laurent's mind, but he knows that Laurent is deeply mistrustful of goodness but naturally gravitates toward it. It has something to do with Auguste, maybe, who insisted on a fair duel that day at Marlas. It might even have something to do with Damen himself, if he's being romantic about it.

"I'll tell you a secret: Laurent once whipped me so badly I nearly died." That secret is his, in a way that Auguste's death isn't, so it makes for a good object lesson. "Now I would put the whip in his hands and smile if he asked it of me. That is what Laurent thinks might become of you if you don't remember who your enemies are."

This response is extremely late due to RL and hiatusing. Feel free to ignore if you wish!

[shatteredlenses]

"I..."

It's true. Ignis is confused by the short statement that Damen didn't mean to speak aloud, but he is more confused by the nearly panicked knot that forms in his chest as Damen continues. By the time he gets to `That is what Laurent thinks might become of you if you don't remember who your enemies are,' Ignis is all but grinding his teeth together to block out the sound of the screaming he isn't planning on acknowledging no matter how loudly it echoes in the back of his mind.

After several long moments spent trying to beat his emotions into submission, Ignis takes a deep, though shaky, breath and very aptly sidesteps the whole part of the statement that is about him.

Politics at its finest. Or, most desperate anyway.

"If he sees himself in Chancellor Izunia, you really should talk to him about not being so hard on himself. Everyone has their dark sides, but few spend two thousand years cultivating them," Ignis pauses for a moment then, frowning slightly. "Though, his apparent inability to understand trust is a trait they both share."

He cocks his head in Damen's direction, "Does he really not understand you only would allow that because you trust him not to go so far again? Or am I missing the point completely for my lack of proper context?"