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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.
prettypurpleparlor: Fiercely held (Pray you ne'er give heed)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2017-12-22 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing.

[Her voice is quiet, but her tone is bitter.]

Absolutely nothing at all.

[Muffet straightens up with a sigh, pulling herself together and letting go of her old grudge in order to explain more clearly:]

I doubt he actually cared much at all about them as a person- what he wanted was their soul. You heard, specifically, that he mentioned setting a bounty on a human soul? I know other worlds don't seem to deal with them as much, but for us souls are a very real and present thing. That's what that little light in front of them was, the one I had caught in my web.

A monster who claims a human soul and takes it for their own can gain incredible power. In theory, a human who claims a monster soul can do the same, but that's so much more difficult that it's never been done. If I'd brought him their soul, he could have used it to escape past the Barrier, the magical seal that trapped our people underneath the mountain.
tomodachi: (deep thoughts from crow)

[personal profile] tomodachi 2017-12-22 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
... Huh. Why is there a dumb Barrier-thing keeping you from leaving the mountain?
prettypurpleparlor: I have within my pantry (Table ready)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2017-12-22 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a rather long story, but the short version is that a very long time ago monsterkind and humanity went to war with each other and monsters lost very badly. The survivors were sealed beneath Mt. Ebott with a magical spell- anyone can come into the Underground, but only someone with a human soul and a monster soul can leave, and it would take the power of a full seven human souls to break the Barrier completely.

[Muffet answers in the calm, steady cadence of someone repeating facts she'd learned in history class at a young age.]

...If you meant 'why did they think it was a good idea to seal people under a mountain in the first place', your guess is as good as mine. This was all long before my time.
tomodachi: (you humans are so typical...)

[personal profile] tomodachi 2017-12-23 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Well I don't know about this war or anything, but the humans sound like jerks for doing something like that.
prettypurpleparlor: A subtle web (I'm sure you're very welcome)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2017-12-25 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't dispute that, although I won't blame all of humanity for those humans in particular. Both of our species have done some thoroughly shameful things, over the ages.
tomodachi: (deep thoughts from crow)

[personal profile] tomodachi 2017-12-30 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah? Like what? 'Cause for a spider lady, you don't seem all that bad in comparison to some things I've seen before.
prettypurpleparlor: I have within my pantry (Table ready)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2017-12-31 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Muffet doesn't raise an eyebrow at that, because she doesn't actually have eyebrows, but she makes an equivalent expression.]

I'll take that as a compliment, then. Leaving aside the poor child you just saw, who nearly wound up being killed for their soul more than a few times as they made their way through the Underground, I know there were at least six humans before them who weren't so lucky. All of them fell into the Underground long before my time, I admit, but the point stands.