[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

[greatcleavage]

"....I have several questions," Roy said, in masterful understatement. "So those were the mushi to which you referred, that one time?"

[onegreeneye]

...He supposed, if this place was going to be showing everyone his memories, it could have picked worse than this one. Not embarrassing, not particularly traumatic... could definitely be worse.

On the other hand, shit, now he wanted a cigarette.

Ginko nodded, resting his chin in his palm and tapping his fingers idly against his tusks. "One species, anyway. Most of them don't look quite like that."

[greatcleavage]

"Are they, that species, actually snakes which are also mushi, or are their forms coincidental, or products of a parallel development? Or is it something more weirdly psychological?"

He had to start somewhere, so he'd start with that one.

[onegreeneye]

Really, that one's not too hard - and Ginko is glad to explain it. Though, to be fair, he's glad to explain most things about mushi.

"I suppose you could call it a combination of a parallel environment and coincidence.. Those mushi, Yobiko, bore holes in rocks by the seaside to make their nests; their shape allows them to move easily in those tunnels, but not enough is known about their history to say which developed first."