[MU] - MAY STORYTELLING

[lifeaftr_mods]

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.

Comments

[postictal]

[Give Tim a minute here, while he rubs at the back of his neck with one hand, frowning, and considers that.]

...I forget if you've explained what that means to me or not.

[yourattention]

It's a very all-ages word association game that definitely I didn't play with children who did not understand half the cards.

[So it's a word association game for terrible people, is what he's saying.]

[postictal]

[What a suspiciously specific denial, Connor. Tim frowns very slightly.]

...all-ages, huh?

[yourattention]

They can play it. [points at Chara] That makes it all ages.

[This is definitely how that label works, right?]

[postictal]

That's not how...

[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?

[yourattention]

It's fine, we'll just play with Helen Keller rules. [He immediately realizes he'll need to explain that one, at least.] If you don't understand a card, you can play it on the assumption that the best answer is the one that makes the least sense and if the Card Czar doesn't know what to pick, they can Helen Keller it and pick at random.

[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.]

[postictal]

I'm assuming all those rules make sense to people who actually know the game.

[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.]