[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

[dontkillme]

"I wish we'd been the kind of people that made Dreemurr..."

That they'd never let Chara down so badly they want nothing to do with the name? No, that's pointless. "I wish" means nothing. If they'd all wanted that, they'd never have screwed it up this badly. He would have stuck to the plan, if he wanted Dreemurr to be the kind of name Chara could be proud of having. He'd make Mom hang up pictures of Chara and tell all her replacement kids about them, if he wanted that. He'd have found a way to get the SOULs from Dad so that they could all be used the way Chara had meant them to be used, instead of sitting in jars while monsterkind rotted. "I wish" is just another "I'm sorry." If you really meant that, you'd never had let this happen at all in the first place.

"...Chara's a nice name," he instead says. "You've had a name you can be proud of all along. Maybe you can be proud of... being, um..."

...He doesn't know what their new name is. Guilt twists in the pit of his stomach.

"Will it be okay?" He ventures in a tiny voice. "What if someone else saw this, too?"

[achievementhunter]

"...I don't know." They're honest in that much, at least. Too tired to bother with anything else as their lips purse, eyes casting about the fires in search of someone else.

"Sans is no longer here. There may be no point to us withholding our identities, now. If Frisk is in agreement..." Then- haha. He'd be happy, wouldn't he? If they gave up the charade. If Frisk was Frisk, and Chara was Chara, and he could acknowledge the relations he's had with them all along, just like he wanted.

"I need to speak with them."

This? This changes everything.