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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.
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[personal profile] covertizer 2017-12-21 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[ That doesn't entirely clear things up for him, as there's... a lot Goro Akechi can say about things, but without knowing what things...

Akechi is here after all. He knows people will talk to him, and vice versa. ]


What did you talk about?
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[personal profile] shineinside 2017-12-21 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
About what he did, and why.

[ It wasn't the conversation she expected, to say the least. ]

When we talked before, I thought that you were just dismissing his perspective, and his possible reasons for taking drastic action. I didn't really understand what kind of person he is.
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[personal profile] covertizer 2017-12-21 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Right... What Goro Akechi Did, and the consequences of. There were a lot of things, none of them great. Apart from the part where he ate that spicy takoyaki and suffered for it - why couldn't one of those memories have come up instead? ]

Maybe I was. [ He shrugs. ] But I never knew what his perspective was, because he wasn't willing to tell me. Not transparently, at least.

[ With hindsight, maybe there were hints. Maybe there were moments when Akechi had seen the hand he was holding out to him, hoping he'd take it, and had brushed their palms together briefly. But nothing solid, nothing that suggested he wanted or accepted the support Akira had considered offering. ]
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[personal profile] shineinside 2017-12-21 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Yuka decides against sharing any of what Akechi may have confided, regardless of his intentions. ]

I was just sort of confusing someone else's circumstances with my own, and I jumped to conclusions. I won't bring him up again.
Edited 2017-12-21 22:35 (UTC)
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[personal profile] covertizer 2017-12-21 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ no pls gossip. did you see the part were they played him like a fiddle? Terrifying, but oddly satisfying after that tense November keeping the wool pulled over his eyes, pretending that they had no clue what he was doing.

... Well. Up until everything that had happened in December. That had been sobering. ]


You can if you want. I'm not avoiding him here, or avoiding talking about him. There are just... things that only one person has the right to talk about, and his circumstances are one of those things.

I don't hold a grudge or anything.