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The Mods of LifeAftr ([personal profile] lifeaftr_mods) wrote in [community profile] aftr_stories2017-12-19 08:57 pm
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[MU] - DECEMBER STORYTELLING / MEMORY SHARE

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.



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.
scourgingstars: (if you do believe in glory)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2017-12-20 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
...I don’t know. As long as I stay in the desert, then I’m no danger to anyone.

[Then it would be fine. The desert side of Monsun was the only place ‘Ardyn Lucis Caelum’ could exist, and the selfless streak that had been unearthed refused to allow ‘Ardyn Izunia’ and that to which he was vessel come back to the forefront.]

It’s possible I may someday prove a threat to all of you. But not now, and likely not so long as the Storyteller proves the greater force here.
shineinside: (Y: If you say so)

[personal profile] shineinside 2017-12-20 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Everyone's better in the desert. So, whatever moved Ardyn to ruin a world, it came from something he felt. Some dark place within his heart.

If he's talking about staying in the desert, then he at least understands that that's true. It means he's something more than just a monster.

But still.]


I want to trust you... but if that part of you comes back, then I'll fight you to protect them. There are people here I can't allow you to hurt.

...Until then, I don't think it's impossible for us to be friends.
scourgingstars: (don't you put me on the backburner)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2017-12-20 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd be a poor friend, I think--I don't have very many of those.

[Ardyn laughed softly, hollow and tired.]

But should the day come when you need stand in opposition to me, then I hope you'll not hesitate.
shineinside: (Y: My day has been SO long)

[personal profile] shineinside 2017-12-20 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[What do you even say to that?]

Then I hope it never comes to that.
scourgingstars: (i'll never wear your broken crown)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2017-12-20 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope so as well. Forgive me--I'd not have planned for such a thing to come to light this way.
shineinside: (Y: This is what I actually look like)

[personal profile] shineinside 2017-12-20 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Storytelling isn't always like this, is it? I think we all have memories that we don't want other people to see.
scourgingstars: (i see my red door)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2017-12-20 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
No, this is...distressingly against the standard I think we've all become accustomed to. Ordinarily it's much less jarring than this.
shineinside: (Y: It's a long and upsetting story)

[personal profile] shineinside 2017-12-20 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder if something is different this time, or if this is just what it's going to be like from now on...

[ She looks nervous at the prospect. The memories that got unearthed for her this time already danced too close to the main thing she doesn't want to have to talk to strangers about. ]
scourgingstars: (don't turn up when you need)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2017-12-20 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose that someone will have to have words with the Storyteller, should he lower himself to appear in our presence tonight.