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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.
yourattention: (has been bad)

[personal profile] yourattention 2017-12-24 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but it's like they always told us in scouts: "Be prepared for the potential of facing your worst nightmare tomorrow, because the cosmic irony of your fake friend showing up tomorrow would make for a great story."

[Connor's inability to ever just say the scout motto might have been part of the reason why he was eventually kicked out. Also his inability to take it seriously. He did learn like three and a half useful skills earning merit badges, though.]

You have to be prepared for anything. Even a zombie apocalypse. Or a drug bust.

[God, would you believe this asshole was almost an Eagle Scout?]
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[personal profile] postictal 2017-12-25 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Well, first of all? I'm pretty sure the former is way more likely than the latter around here.

[Unless the Storyteller is an undercover narc, he's pretty sure they don't have to worry about drug busts.]

Didn't know scouts were big on world-hopping and hallucinations.
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[personal profile] yourattention 2017-12-30 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
If the Boy Scouts of America wasn't run by religious nutjobs and they believed multiverse theory, I absolutely would have had to earn a "Citizenship in the Multiverse" badge to be an Eagle Scout. [As it was, he had to earn three different badges about citizenship.] The hallucinating is why they kicked me out. Apparently, hotboxing your tent is against scout code.

[He did not actually hotbox his tent, but it makes for a better story than someone finding him talking to a tree while he was high and reporting him to the troop leader.]
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[personal profile] postictal 2017-12-30 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Tim, unsurprisingly, was never in the Scouts. What little he knows about them is what he knows by osmosis, if that. But he can still respect a good zinger when he hears one.]

See, I'd ask how old you'd have to be to get your hands on that kind of product, but I grew up in Alabama, so. [So. He knows. Oh, how he knows.]
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[personal profile] yourattention 2017-12-30 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
Everybody's got a cousin who can hook them up with something. [As you do.] . . . but it's actually like. It helps with the crazy, sometimes.

[It also, occasionally, makes the crazy worse. He'll take "sometimes better with side effects," though. That's baseline better than "terrible, always."]
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[personal profile] postictal 2017-12-30 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
Guess I can't fault you there. [It's a dream, and dreams are fluid. Tim takes advantage of the fabric of this one to slip the tin of cigarettes he has from his pocket. He's pretty sure lighting one up wouldn't have any damn effect here, but at least it proves that he's got them.]

Got my own poison of choice for that.