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aftr_stories2019-05-19 08:58 pm
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[MU] - MAY STORYTELLING
The world is silent, and the dream-night is absolute. The Storyteller has no commentary to offer you, or warnings to venture, or anything else. There is only the drape of Mu's night and the vision of a campfire, and the means with which you might tell your stories.
Io still awaits, in your waking days. After tonight, Cahypdo will vanish. What happens until then is all routine - and no one has any idea what might be coming.
It is time, once more, for you to tell a story. The setting will be familiar for oldcomers, and newcomers will recognize it from the introduction they received in their dreams. This too is a dream, and the ink-black dark is illuminated only by the bonfire surrounded by log seats. And seated around the fire are your fellow islanders, many of whom doubtless know the drill by now.
One by one, you will each have the opportunity to share your stories, as stories possess a certain undeniable power. Newcomers can tell whatever tale they wish, but for those who have been in LifeAftr for at least one Storytelling, only stories of their time in LifeAftr will count down the road. The story need not be long, or conventional, or even verbal; as long as the Storyteller knows it has been told, it will qualify. Those of the nonverbal persuasion have, as of a request issued by Ren (catpiper), an alternative means of telling their stories if they so choose, in the form of the Chamber of Glyphs.
If you prefer to keep your mouth shut, that's always an option, though you're more liable to benefit if you do. Perhaps you'd rather not relive any of your history, varied and variegated as it must be. Or maybe you're something of a compulsive un-truther, prone to embellishments and long, fanciful tangents. As long as the core of the story is true to its spirit, you are free to spin your tale however you like.
So choose well.
Io still awaits, in your waking days. After tonight, Cahypdo will vanish. What happens until then is all routine - and no one has any idea what might be coming.
It is time, once more, for you to tell a story. The setting will be familiar for oldcomers, and newcomers will recognize it from the introduction they received in their dreams. This too is a dream, and the ink-black dark is illuminated only by the bonfire surrounded by log seats. And seated around the fire are your fellow islanders, many of whom doubtless know the drill by now.
One by one, you will each have the opportunity to share your stories, as stories possess a certain undeniable power. Newcomers can tell whatever tale they wish, but for those who have been in LifeAftr for at least one Storytelling, only stories of their time in LifeAftr will count down the road. The story need not be long, or conventional, or even verbal; as long as the Storyteller knows it has been told, it will qualify. Those of the nonverbal persuasion have, as of a request issued by Ren (
catpiper), an alternative means of telling their stories if they so choose, in the form of the Chamber of Glyphs.If you prefer to keep your mouth shut, that's always an option, though you're more liable to benefit if you do. Perhaps you'd rather not relive any of your history, varied and variegated as it must be. Or maybe you're something of a compulsive un-truther, prone to embellishments and long, fanciful tangents. As long as the core of the story is true to its spirit, you are free to spin your tale however you like.
So choose well.
small ic announcement
[He doesn't have them on him right this minute, but he's referring to Denny's new entertainment section.]
So if anyone here likes checkers, or chess, or dominoes...there's also a board for tic tac toe. Just try not to break anything or lose any pieces. If you do, just...let me know, and I'll make new ones. It's not really a big deal.
It's not much. Might help pass the time, if you're interested. I'm not sure on what else there is to make, but if anyone has any...I dunno, requests for anything else like that, I can try my best.
So...yeah. That's it.
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[He says this like it doesn't require further explanation for Literally Everyone Else.]
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...I forget if you've explained what that means to me or not.
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[So it's a word association game for terrible people, is what he's saying.]
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...all-ages, huh?
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[This is definitely how that label works, right?]
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[You know what? He's not gonna go there.]
How much of this game relies on references that maybe three people on these islands will get?
cw: ableism? kind of?
[For the record, these are real rules a local group I know plays with abd that is really what we call them because they grew out of an Apple to Apples rule wgere if you played "Helen Keller" as a card, you automatically won. No, I have no idea why.]
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[He should maybe make a...rule list? Or have Connor make it. Except he's not sure that, if Connor makes it, it'll be all the way comprehensible.]
Zero gave me permission blame them
[Just giving you a quick tingle, ol buddy ol chum. Nothing to concern yourself with.]
What against humanity?
[Why haven't they heard of this and why don't they have like, ten????]
oh my god
[He pulls something else from his pocket and flicks it over to Chara. Congrats, you've activated my trap card. This joke is only funny on a meta level.]
Look. It's necessary. It's VITAL.
Their brow furrows further. And then
They look to him with a glint in their eyes. It's not unhappy, no.
That's the look of someone who's just found something their mother definitely wouldn't approve of.]
And there's a whole deck of these?
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Oh yeah. Hundreds of cards, all exactly like that. [Pause.] House rules are no stabbing, though.
[He's not about to get stabbed over Cards Against Humanity, okay? If he deserves it, that's fine but card games aren't worth it.]
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A bad sport is not one of them.
[Although if they still had the ability to LOAD, cheater may have been something to add to the list. Maybe.
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[Has he had things thrown at him for his answers? Definitely. There's only one thing Connor likes more than memes and it's off-color jokes.]
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[Because they'll absolutely be the shit who makes the worst joke possible.]
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[why play a mean game when you can be out there actually against humanity]
But I thought it was fun.