I'm planning to write a custom prompt/scene for anyone who wants one, so - please let me know here as I likely won't have any general open threads, but there's a lot of scope for customising this towards what you/your character are most interested in.
If Ari has mentioned a particular person, issue or event to them and you want to explore that, let me know! Otherwise, some broader ideas:
Cardalek: - chat with a very young and precocious Ari at a Company event. - see how little Ari is treated by her family - her caring but distant adoptive father, and/or the mess that is the Carrington branch. - overhear her and her best friend planning to run off to the Tradelines together and learn exactly what her problems with Cardalek were.
Space Stations: - the incident where Ari is attacked for being a Tradeliner and shoots someone (hear anti-Tradeline arguments here!) - Ari's first trip downstation after she qualifies. Meet her friends and celebrate, or explore the station and talk to other NPCs. (cw: 16-year-old Ari gets drunk and has sex with a stranger; this isn't only accepted but a cultural expectation. This will not be part of the memory but will likely come up in conversation.)
Space! - stowaway Ari hiding in the laundry room and then negotiating with the captain - her first L-space experience (cw for anything L-space: characters will experience extreme perceptual distortions, probable nausea, possible hallucinations. There are colors not found in normal space, the geometry is all wrong, it's quite Lovecraftian.) Her mentor Leah Savitskaya will be there, but it's also possible to have a later L-space memory where Ari's older and she can support your character through it instead. - Ari's solo L-space test. This test is incredibly dangerous and failure means death. It takes place on an old, small spacecraft, and she may think she is hallucinating your character. - a space battle! Help fight some pirates. Ari may be flying the ship, or working on emergency repairs. (cw: death, injury, characters fearing that defeat means torture and enslavement) Pirates don't board Ari's ship in any of her memories, but it's possible if changes are made, so there's potential for your character to get involved in a fight instead of just watching starships fire at each other. This might work well as a group thread if there's interest. - a simulation! To really mess with their heads. A memory of young Ari in command of a ship, having to handle several problems at once - and then the simulation ending and the memory switching to the actual ship. - something less intense! Just chat with Ari and her shipmates, tour the ship, see her culture and the life she longs to go back to first-hand.
For all scenarios I'm open to the original outcome being changed - for better or worse.
Ari Tayrey
If Ari has mentioned a particular person, issue or event to them and you want to explore that, let me know! Otherwise, some broader ideas:
Cardalek:
- chat with a very young and precocious Ari at a Company event.
- see how little Ari is treated by her family - her caring but distant adoptive father, and/or the mess that is the Carrington branch.
- overhear her and her best friend planning to run off to the Tradelines together and learn exactly what her problems with Cardalek were.
Space Stations:
- the incident where Ari is attacked for being a Tradeliner and shoots someone (hear anti-Tradeline arguments here!)
- Ari's first trip downstation after she qualifies. Meet her friends and celebrate, or explore the station and talk to other NPCs. (cw: 16-year-old Ari gets drunk and has sex with a stranger; this isn't only accepted but a cultural expectation. This will not be part of the memory but will likely come up in conversation.)
Space!
- stowaway Ari hiding in the laundry room and then negotiating with the captain
- her first L-space experience (cw for anything L-space: characters will experience extreme perceptual distortions, probable nausea, possible hallucinations. There are colors not found in normal space, the geometry is all wrong, it's quite Lovecraftian.) Her mentor Leah Savitskaya will be there, but it's also possible to have a later L-space memory where Ari's older and she can support your character through it instead.
- Ari's solo L-space test. This test is incredibly dangerous and failure means death. It takes place on an old, small spacecraft, and she may think she is hallucinating your character.
- a space battle! Help fight some pirates. Ari may be flying the ship, or working on emergency repairs. (cw: death, injury, characters fearing that defeat means torture and enslavement) Pirates don't board Ari's ship in any of her memories, but it's possible if changes are made, so there's potential for your character to get involved in a fight instead of just watching starships fire at each other. This might work well as a group thread if there's interest.
- a simulation! To really mess with their heads. A memory of young Ari in command of a ship, having to handle several problems at once - and then the simulation ending and the memory switching to the actual ship.
- something less intense! Just chat with Ari and her shipmates, tour the ship, see her culture and the life she longs to go back to first-hand.
For all scenarios I'm open to the original outcome being changed - for better or worse.