Storytelling

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Storytelling

The world is made of people telling stories.

Should your character require an object, specific or general, the Storyteller may be willing to listen to your request and oblige accordingly. However, they can only fulfill requests due to offerings of...well, stories.

Here, you may visit the Storyteller's Temple and offer your stories. You do not need to spend them right away; it's often advisable to have a store of offerings in case you need to make some emergency donations or emergency requests. But it is useful to contribute every so often!

Not sure how many stories your character has? Check our Accruals Page!

When submitting an offering, please keep the following limitations in mind:

I) THREE-STORY LIMIT
To keep things fair, characters may only offer three stories per month. These stories can be given all at once, one by one, and so on. You do not need to contribute three stories per month, or even at all, if you'd rather not! This is simply the upper limit of how many stories can be accrued each month.

II) RELEVANCY
Those who have been in LifeAftr for at least one month must relate stories of their time in LifeAftr for them to count. Newcomers can tell whatever tales they wish, including tales from home.

III) VERACITY
You might be something of a compulsive un-truther, prone to embellishments and long, fanciful tangents. However, as long as the core of the story is true to its spirit, you are free to spin your tale however you like.

Stories need not be long, or conventional, or even verbal; as long as the Storyteller knows they have been told, they will qualify. They can be told in whatever way is most comfortable - through nursery rhyme, through song, through charades, through pictograms, through simple conversation. Write-ups of stories do not need to be intensive and overly detailed, unless the player wishes to go fully into that detail; greater length and depth of an OOC write-up will not increase the power or value of your story.

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.

Storytelling Submissions

You can start by posting a blank comment with your character name in the header, and use that comment as an umbrella each time you wish to contribute a story. There is no limit to how many stories at a time your character gives, as long as they do not exceed three per month - they can tell one, two, or three stories at a time!

Please do not add any character tags to this post!

To submit a story, fill out the form below:
<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name/Journal:</b> Name (<user name="NAME">) <b>Date of Offering(s):</b> On approximately what day were this stories or story told? <b>Number of Offering(s):</b> List character's number of offerings here. A maximum of THREE STORIES can be told each month. <b>Offering(s):</b> Describe the story or stories related here. A link to a past game or a wiki will suffice if you'd rather not write it all out, but it is helpful to note if your character was an engaging or enthusiastic storyteller, plainly unwilling and undetailed, or anything else of note!

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Comments

(example) SHREK

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Player Name: Zero
Character Name/Journal: Shrek (shrek)
Date of Offering(s): 11/15
Number of Offering(s): Two
Offering(s):

1) Here's a thing that happened to one of Shrek and one of his friends in his last game. Basically, they were walking down the sidewalk, talking about something meaningless. Then this bus screeched up, stopped right next to them, and a bunch of people with "Down with Cis" shirts climbed out and started beating them both up. Shrek was punched and kicked a bit too, but managed to avoid brutalization by going for their faces. After figuring out what was happening, Shrek started attacking them back, getting them off of his friend. He was quite injured but Shrek called 911 and he made a full recovery at the hospital. Shrek himself was fine, with only a cut on his arm that they patched up.

2) Shrek also offers a story from his canon. He gives a not-so-detailed synopsis of cinematic masterpiece Shrek 2. He purposefully omits some of the details about his relationship struggles with Fiona, and tends to be heavily biased in his relation of events - callous and flippant about his enemies, while wry and warm about his friends. But he more or less gives the whole story.

ren

[catpiper]

Yukio Okumura

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Player Name: Hydok
Character Name/Journal: Yukio Okumura (reflash)
Date of Offering(s): 2/10
Number of Offering(s): 1
Offering(s): Yukio's going to draw a... really... he's trying his best okay... little series of drawings that is probably an island adventure with Ren which involves a paint fight. It's cute even if his art is terrible.

the drifter

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Player Name: Zero
Character Name/Journal: The Drifter (hyperlit)
Date of Offering(s): 02/20
Number of Offering(s): One.
Offering(s): The Drifter will relate the return of someone very dear to them. This will be accompanied by thanking the Storyteller for returning Ren to the islands - even if it was not their doing, they cannot help but be grateful that she is here with them again. She seemed so much happier here, after all...