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MARCH EVENT INFO POST: A SOUND OF THUNDER
man, it’s sure been a wild couple of months, huh? Fio has been having weird dreams. a mirror ate Bash. Crabb touched some stuff. Ava and Pratt fed Ebalon’s corpse to a ghost. wild stuff.
anyway, entirely unrelated, there’s suddenly giant holes in reality everywhere?
that’s normal. that’s probably fine. it’s friendly.
WELCOME TO MEMSHARE EVENT BUT BUILT DIFFERENT! throughout the month of March, large cracks will begin to form around the Serena Eterna: on walls, on floors, in the air, under water, anywhere and everywhere. these cracks are completely benign until touched; anyone who touches one will find themselves pulled inside, along with anyone standing too close to them.
inside, they will find themselves in the middle of a fellow passenger’s memory - physically. they will be able to interact with the world of the memory, and those inside it will react to them and their actions. what they do in the memory will have a lasting impact: namely, if you die in the memory, you die in real life, and the new memory formed by their actions will join the existing memory inside the memory-owner’s, well, memory.
super confusing and weird, right? let’s try to explain this through an example.
a crack forms, containing Jack’s memory of the day he and Jill went up the hill. the crack, at separate times, is touched by Tom, alone, and Dick and Harry, together. while in the memory, Tom saves Jack when he falls down in the hill; meanwhile, Dick and Harry are killed when Tom and Jill collide with them, killing them both. Tom leaves the memory unscathed, while Dick and Harry revive in their cabins, thankful that they seem to have been spared the Dumb Death Tax.
from that point on, until otherwise noted, Jack will have three separate memories of the same event: falling down and breaking his crown, being saved by Tom, and dying. despite the fact that these three memories are very much mutually exclusive, and the fact that Jack also has memories of his life after apparently dying, he will be unable to discern which memory is the true one on his own. they will all feel equally real to him.
(note: this isn’t permanent! probably. you have a chance to fix it! a chance.)
please feel free to use this post for plotting purposes. memories can be shared as many times as you feel you can handle; how they are shared (threading out the interaction, handwaving and just writing the memory and the reaction separately, etc) is entirely up to you.
oh, and one more thing.
there will also be npc memories available. these memories will be much less interactive than passenger ones, but will contain Delicious Lore. sign-up thread below, closes on March 1st. memories will be allocated randomly to no more than one or two characters each.
anyway, entirely unrelated, there’s suddenly giant holes in reality everywhere?
that’s normal. that’s probably fine. it’s friendly.
WELCOME TO MEMSHARE EVENT BUT BUILT DIFFERENT! throughout the month of March, large cracks will begin to form around the Serena Eterna: on walls, on floors, in the air, under water, anywhere and everywhere. these cracks are completely benign until touched; anyone who touches one will find themselves pulled inside, along with anyone standing too close to them.
inside, they will find themselves in the middle of a fellow passenger’s memory - physically. they will be able to interact with the world of the memory, and those inside it will react to them and their actions. what they do in the memory will have a lasting impact: namely, if you die in the memory, you die in real life, and the new memory formed by their actions will join the existing memory inside the memory-owner’s, well, memory.
super confusing and weird, right? let’s try to explain this through an example.
a crack forms, containing Jack’s memory of the day he and Jill went up the hill. the crack, at separate times, is touched by Tom, alone, and Dick and Harry, together. while in the memory, Tom saves Jack when he falls down in the hill; meanwhile, Dick and Harry are killed when Tom and Jill collide with them, killing them both. Tom leaves the memory unscathed, while Dick and Harry revive in their cabins, thankful that they seem to have been spared the Dumb Death Tax.
from that point on, until otherwise noted, Jack will have three separate memories of the same event: falling down and breaking his crown, being saved by Tom, and dying. despite the fact that these three memories are very much mutually exclusive, and the fact that Jack also has memories of his life after apparently dying, he will be unable to discern which memory is the true one on his own. they will all feel equally real to him.
(note: this isn’t permanent! probably. you have a chance to fix it! a chance.)
please feel free to use this post for plotting purposes. memories can be shared as many times as you feel you can handle; how they are shared (threading out the interaction, handwaving and just writing the memory and the reaction separately, etc) is entirely up to you.
oh, and one more thing.
there will also be npc memories available. these memories will be much less interactive than passenger ones, but will contain Delicious Lore. sign-up thread below, closes on March 1st. memories will be allocated randomly to no more than one or two characters each.
Dolce / Rune Factory 4 soft spoilers
Meeting Ghosts: As an actual infant, Dolce could see and interact with ghosts, and latched onto Pico (a permanently six-year-old seeming poltergeist). Her parents just accepted this, having actually experienced it Dolce's whole life, and set an extra plate at dinner for Pico and treated her as Dolce's add-along twin rather than an imaginary friend. As such, when Dolce started meeting other ghosts, she couldn't tell the difference between the living and the dead. Seriously.
Sewing/Knitting/Crochet/etc. She became a hobbyist seamstress and clothing designer to lean into the whole elegant gothic lolita fashion and made clothes for her plushies, and did puppet shows to entertain Pico. She's insanely shy (even worse the younger she is) so she almost used it as a talking point, wear things she likes (bats!) and lean into it all the way.
Meeting Ventuswill: Her BFF (other than Pico who is more like a sibling) is a dragon goddess. Come see the palace, it randomly has a farm in the backyard (as you do), and Dolce trying to get Ventuswill to drink medicine instead of pancakes -- which is what Venti demands. See also Dolce trying to learn to cook pancakes and being very very bad at it. She's better with steamed dishes.
Becoming a dragon guardian: SOFT Spoilers: A huge portion of the discussion between Dolce and the Earthmates is laid out in canon. Becoming a guardian means that Venuswill's life is extended and she doesn't have to reincarnate and forget her life. The entire country depends on Venti's runeys that get restored via her existence. However going to sleep for indefinite centuries meant Dolce's own parents and everything else she knew in her time would die and fade, and she had no idea what the world would be like when she woke. Consolation: Venti and Pico would still be there. It was extremely rough on Pico who was awake for 400 years btw.
- NONSpoilers, just FLAVOR: Dolce acts as a costume designer for the stage theater, not realizing (and/or caring?) half of them are ghosts. Also does marionette shows.
Tour Obsidian Mansion with all its CREEPY AF classic goth aesthetics, take in a dinner show (the actors are DEAD :V) maybe a romantic violin performance (the violinist is a ghost) but be very very very careful not to get hit by plushie boobie traps!
Possessed by Marionetta: CW: possession duh. Marionetta is a boss monster that does magic shows (classic IRL illusion style even though the entire world takes magic for granted! That's what funny) and is an annoying pest. Dolce held out really hard, but when the orbs started replacing the other guardians, she got taken over, much to Pico's (understandable) consternation. As a monster, Dolce will not understand a SINGLE thing anyone says/does, and not be in control of herself (ofc) she will be 100% attack/defend/prank.
Bonus: if you snap her out of it with/or instead of the Earthmate MC (Lest/Frey) you can get naked manga Dolce idk. I play ridiculous canons thanks.
Up until possession, Dolce has normal rounded ears. They become pointy almost elf-like after that. She is not an elf, however. There are others in town (Margaret!) who are.
Life in Selphia: Pico drags Dolce to Venti, and Venti erases Dolce's guardian memories (TEMPORARILY -- they get restored) -> New town, 400 years later, what do? Nancy instantly adopts Dolce and Pico, I mean instantly. Meet Nancy the nurse, Dr. Jones the Doctor, whom Dolce becomes very quickly attached to, and works as a pharmacist/alchemist for. The town all seems very very idyllic. Although Dolce is crazy shy still, and Pico generally purposely creates mischief so that Dolce has to run after her and talk to people.
Ethelberd and the Floating Empire: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of RF
The lunatic Ethelberd wants to take over the world, become a God, and has gone on a genocide of Earthmates for stopping him previously, and tries to take all the rune spheres that allowed Dolce and the other guardians to come back to the waking world. Experience AIRSHIP and Floating Empire which is like a metal floating doomsday ship with golems and sechs dragons and giant fucking spiders of doom.
Re: Dolce / Rune Factory 4 soft spoilers
i really wanna thread with dolce because she's so cute but aaa pls feel free to say no!! fdsffd
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