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sailmods ([personal profile] sailmods) wrote in [community profile] sail_ooc2023-02-19 12:37 pm
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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.
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[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2023-02-23 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
I think the labour camp one could be really fun! Especially if Darcy ends up begrudgingly intervening to help rescue Rita, or if they have to work together to break out? Further complications to their antagonism rubs my little hands together
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[personal profile] myagic 2023-02-23 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds good! Hehe I love the idea of them reluctantly working together, since somehow I doubt even a Rita who doesn't yet know Darcy will get along with her that much better lmao but maybe some begrudging respect will form...

As a starting point, perhaps she can enter the memory while Rita's snooping but a bit before she gets caught, or else right as it's happening?
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[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2023-02-24 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
While Rita's snooping but before she gets caught sounds good! I'm hype for this!
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[personal profile] myagic 2023-02-24 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Perfect! Me too I can't wait for this, haha.
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[personal profile] myagic 2023-03-08 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
No rush but whenever you're ready, the post is up including a starter for Darcy!