December Exploration: I'll Find Another Point of View

[lifeaftr_mods]

DECEMBER EXPLORATION

Hello, intrepid adventurers! While December may be fairly low key in regards to the events surrounding characters' waking moments, it seems that in their dreams, something will have changed…

Player Event: Stay in My Memories

For this month, Storytelling has been adapted to a special player plot, as suggested by Dragon! Read below for more information regarding the specifics, and of course, feel free to use this post for plotting as well.

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With some marked shifts on the horizon, the Storyteller will appear to be busier and busier as the month wears on. Is it a lack of attention that causes it? A lack of power? Either way, characters will find their monthly evening on the island of Mu slightly different than usual.

With the Storyteller seemingly absent from the proceedings, Mu itself seems to be taking an interest in the stories characters are willingly - and unwillingly - going to tell. For this month, you may choose to weave a character’s tale from within LifeAftr, or from your character’s canon, at the cost of having said story played out entirely in memory.

Mu will shift to reflect the memory or story being portrayed. Characters will then be witness to these, both willingly or unwillingly, until the story has played itself out in full. Characters will be capable of interacting with each other, but not the memories themselves, making for a somewhat awkward time of things for everyone involved.
A very tired and apologetic Storyteller will of course compensate characters for their troubles. Any memory witnessed during December’s storytelling will be worth two offerings, meaning a total of six offerings can be collected in total. Memories will need to be played ICly for favors to be accrued, as every memory will be public.

And these additional offerings may come in very handy, as you’ll find out in the near future…

New Island: Chol

As advised earlier this month, a new island will be appearing on the 14th! Chol will be added to the locations page in the coming days!

A small island, Chol is currently the site of a great amount of activity. Our adventurers are seemingly not the first to arrive there, nor will they be the last. While no Search Requests are required to see the layout of the island itself, characters will have the chance to interact with a new NPC, as well as barter and trade with NPCs that will be out and about for very interesting reasons.

Chol will see the introduction of January’s event, offering plenty of time for IC preparations and gathering of knowledge. This event is due to be scheduled in late January, and will pose a high risk of death. More details regarding this will be provided, both OOCly and ICly, at the appropriate time.

Holiday Application Period

Lastly, we recently posted a plurk to confirm interest for the December application round. Due to the holidays, we have done a slight shift to the current schedule:

Applications will open December 26th, and will close January 2nd. This means the IC intro post for the month January will go up on January 5th, before our schedule resumes its usual pacing of applications closing at the end of the month. In future, it is likely we will continue to confirm interest in December prior to using this schedule!

Current Timeline of Events

[ ♆ ] December 14th: Thew new island surfaces!
[ ♆ ] December 15th: Monthly TDM goes up
[ ♆ ] December 17th: Reserves open
[ ♆ ] December 20th: Storytelling Player Event
[ ♆ ] December 26th: Applications open
[ ♆ ] January 2nd: Applications close
[ ♆ ] January 5th: Intro log goes up

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Comments

QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS

[lifeaftr_mods]

[achievementhunter]

Hey Birb you ninny I have a question how about uhhhh projecting the emotions of the memory onto anyone who witnesses it is that cool

[lifeaftr_mods]

Hello and may I say you're looking dashing today Birb

It is up to player discretion as to how the memory plays out for witnesses- they may feel the emotions of the person at the time, see the memory through their eyes... your only limit is your own creativity!

[alittleditty]

semi-related to the above, does this mean that the story-teller (heh) can observe the memory with the observers and/or talk to them possibly?

Like in a "well fuck that sure is me down there" kind of way

[lifeaftr_mods]

Yes! As per the post: characters will be capable of interacting with each other, but not the memories themselves.

This includes the character "telling" the story, as it were. Characters are not required to exist simultaneously outside the memories playing out, but if you'd like to go that route, you're welcome to!

[ungrieved]

hey birb what if a character is possibly unrecognizable in the memory in question (i.e. if they were a literal baby at the time)

will there be any way of knowing that this memory belongs to This Person or nah

[lifeaftr_mods]

Hye zero if a character is potentially unrecognizable due to change of age or appearance, again, it is player discretion as to whether they can be identified through other means. This could be their name being said in the memory itself, or just "a feeling" that it's them.

[ungrieved]

bless you birb and might i say you are looking so handsome

[scourgingstars]

ASKING FOR POSTERITY in case anyone aside from me needed to worry about this i say, as tabata holds a massive sword of damocles over my head until next year

are headcanon-based memories acceptable?

[lifeaftr_mods]

Headcanon-based memories are perfectly acceptable, and in the case of currently updating canons, we won't be mad if you need to come to us later and give a heads up for some retconning. Them's the breaks with these dang -looks at smudged writing- from the fanta seas.

[jinglejangle]

More for clarification for those of us who didn't do IC storytellings for their old memories but - would I be right in assuming you only get favors for new memories/stories? As in, ones the storyteller wouldn't know already?

[lifeaftr_mods]

Correct! It should be a story that has not already been told in a previous Storytelling!

[shineinside]

Is weaving a memory replay an in-character choice, like normal storytelling, or does it just Happen involuntarily?

[lifeaftr_mods]

In scientific terms, It Just Fucking Happens.

...that is to say, it's involuntary on behalf of the characters and Storyteller alike. Memories will come to light regardless of character intent or consent.

[shineinside]

Sorry, got some more! I'm a bit hazy on the experience for spectators - are they just seeing it as if they were bystanders to the event, or actually seeing the world of the memory through that character's eyes? If the latter, how does interacting with each other during a memory work? Are we MST3King each other's backstories?

[lifeaftr_mods]

As it stands, we aren't setting out any hard and fast rules for how the memories are experienced by the spectators. Mu is a strange, fluxing place, so experiences can vary.

Characters "telling the story" - the ones whose memories are being played out - are not required to exist simultaneously outside the memories as they happen, but if you'd like to go that route, you're welcome to! This allows for both uninterrupted visualization of the memory in question as well as the potential for discussion on the side.

The only hard boundary is that the memories themselves cannot be altered.

[shineinside]

OK, thank you!

wait did i reply to the wrong header WHATEVER

[bloodyashes]

this is a stupid complicated question i'm sorry and it's more of a "I can do this, right" - but if we have a headcanon for how a character normally senses their world's form of magic, we can just give the handwavium for people experiencing the memory from the backseat that it is something they can understand, even if it'd normally be complete nonsense as a sensory input, right

because man let me tell you about homestuck my headcanons for how the fuck abyss' jrpg magic works

[lifeaftr_mods]

We'll leave that up to player discretion - if you'd like to streamline the reliving of the memory for the sake of those experiencing it, we're fine with that!

[shatteredlenses]

Wanders in to make things difficult.

This is such a wonderful event! It's also rather visually-focused, so I have to ask all the questions about how it works with the local blind guy. When he's recounting his own memories, I'm assuming that he'll 'see' them first person. After all, they are his memories, but what about other people's memories? Will he be limited to feel/sound/smell etc or will the magical nature of the event allow him to see them within his mind as if he were remembering something he'd seen before losing his vision?

[lifeaftr_mods]

We'll leave that up to you! Since it is a dreamworld, it's entirely plausible that the fickle nature of Mu will allow Ignis his sense of sight back in the metaphysical sense, at least this go around. If you'd rather have the challenge of articulating Ignis's memories or have him witnessing others while bereft of his sight, we'll allow that too!

[shatteredlenses]

Ah man, you guys are the best! What am I going to do with all this power???

Oh, I know! SUFFERING! Bow over-dramatically and flees

[catpiper]

JUST TO BE SURE-Is it okay to have distortions in memory too? Like if a character is super young and can't remember someone, their face can be blurry or have other weird junk like that happen?

[lifeaftr_mods]

As long as that's in line with how the character would remember it, yes! There can be no deliberate obfuscating on anyone's end, but if the character's memory is hazy and it would make sense for them to remember things as such, that's fine!

[noctanotheroneout]

Are we required to write out the memories in detail, or can we embed/link videos of said memories?

[lifeaftr_mods]

You may link videos, but we do ask for some written information as well, such as how your character feels about the memory now, or how they felt in that moment.