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State of the Game (January) | EVENT GET
Temperatures around Aterat and its surroundings remain very low, affording the snows the fell in late December to stick around. While it makes for slushy sidewalks and much shoveling for those who run businesses, it leaves the place charming, and there is certainly no shortage of warm drinks to go around to stave off the chill.
While various investigations into the recent happenings continue apace, things seem to be rather uneventful (at least in a threatening manner) throughout the city and the citizens are in high spirits. The downtime might even be a great time, if you've been feeling the itch of enterprise, to get your own business going!
Remember, if you guys think of a place that could be a fun addition to the city, you can submit it on the Content Submission page! It doesn't have to be a place for your character's homeworld. It could be something that came up in OOC conversation or whatever sparks inspiration!
And for a bit of OOC information:
» The Test Drive is still up, so invite your friends!
» December AC Check-In is live, and will require no activity proof again, because life has been very unkind to just about everyone.
Throughout the end of December and the beginning of January, snow flurries are common, though the snowfall is never particularly heavy. That will change the evening of the 8th, with heavy snowfall overnight, bringing several inches of fresh snow to blanket the city and the surrounding areas.
Beginning on the 9th, though, a different sort of rain begins to fall. Periodically over the course of the week, brief rains of small crystals of various sizes will fall from the sky. These crystals are no larger than a small coin and shouldn't damage property when they fall, but they do come in a variety of colors and seem to glow with an inner light.
Anyone who picks one up will be treated to a glimpse at the memory contained within. That's right, these crystals house the memories of the other residents of Aterat. They could be as brief as the knowledge of a name, or as involved as a full memory of an event. The memories themselves are as varied as the crystals that fall, and the memories within could be happy or sad, frustrating or elating, but they will involve the emotions of the person they are from. They could also include the information of who it belongs to, but they may also be ambiguous.
You're able to discover as many crystals as you'd like, also, seeing as this strange rain of crystals is lasting a week and there are quite a few memories to go around!
It should also be noted this event is completely voluntary and you need not submit any of your characters' memories if you choose not to. You also can include the stipulation that whoever finds a crystal containing their memories will have no way of knowing from whom it originated. The sky really is the limit!
I encourage everyone to use the post below to share whatever memories they would like to appear in crystals (and to see the tag below for NPC memories they could also stumble upon, free game of course)
If you have any questions, please ask them below!
Happy New Year!
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NPC Memory Crystals
Fatigue weighs heavy on your eyelids as you fight to contain another yawn. Your fellow researchers are just as exhausted, but you’re so close to an answer and that adrenaline alone keeps you going. That and the knowledge that he is expecting results and he’s not someone to disappoint.
You adjust the precious specimens of crystal other, stouter people than you have so carefully and selflessly collected, small shards really, arrayed in small, custom-built stands across your workstation. If you could only get their power, the light they shed as they quietly shine, to refract between the scattered mirrors correctly-
And then it works. The manufactured crystal connected to all these mirrors and shards lights up, illuminating your workspace. You feel your face spread into a smile of glee, excitement swelling in your chest. Then a heavy but comfortable hand rests on your shoulder.
“You’ve done it, m’boy. Good work.”
The memory ends as you turn to face the source of your praise.
(OOC: While the vision fades before the speaker is seen, for some reason, that voice sounded familiar, as though you’d heard it before but can’t place where)
Loyalty
No visions come with this crystal, but a name, “Tobey”. It evokes feelings of safety, security, warmth, and love. It also fills you with the idea that Tobey will never betray you, he will always protect you, comfort you, and be at your side, through thick and thin, and includes the knowledge that he has as long as you can remember. It feels as though you know the world is a cold place, but Tobey is home, wherever he is.
Note: You're welcome to come up with some of your own, also! Also, if you have any questions about these, feel free to ask!
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Aerith
Illyana
Ivy
Most of Ivy's memories are pretty bad, but if you'd like to do anything with her feel free to let me know and we can talk about things! One can be found and that's just:
I'd like to get back into doing things more consistently so if anyone wants to do anything feel free to poke me!
Jacob Memories to find~
The sun warms your skin as the thick heady scent of fresh-cut grass fills your nose. There is a distance cheering in the distance while you find your center. This is what everything was for.
Your breath goes fast and you run, moving your leg in the familiar motion of a swift kick. No picture accompanies the memory but there is excitement, cheering, adulation, and the overwhelming feeling that you could step sideways off the earth and fly. It is a perfect moment and everyone is cheering along with you.
You did it!
Bloody Nightmare: (content warning for bloody stuff)
The darkroom is large from your view. You're a child.
The darkness is oppressive in a way that accents a childish outlook. You remind yourself that there is nothing in the dark; nothing to be afraid of. You're brave! You're strong and you won't let something so silly scare you. You aren't afraid but you know deep down that you're denying your fears.
A scrapping sound echoes from downstairs, the same sound that had awoken you.
After a few slow breaths, you rise from your bed. You see a football poster hanging on the wall with your hockey sticks mounted above it. The back of the door has a toy basketball hoop and the floor of the room is a minefield of dirty clothes. It's only when you're out in the hall that the way is cleared. Your heart is pounding but you don't stop moving. A small palm is placed on the banister going downstairs and the noise is heard again.
The heavy eaches of breathing fill your ears and it takes a moment to realize it's your own breath. The slushing scraping noise becomes more clear but you can't identify the noise. It's wet but sounds like tearing mixed with wood splintering. You don't recognize it. The house doesn't make these noises.
Your path turns towards the back of the house and you walk through the family room. There is a couch facing a TV and a fireplace on the far wall. The shelves are littered with family pictures of a young boy and his parents. Occasionally the pictures flicker and show an older daughter but as quickly as the girl appears she disappears.
A large doorway opens into the dining room and beyond that, you know is the kitchen. Your eyes are locked on the kitchen door as the slick sickening noise gets louder. There are no doors between you and the kitchen but it's too dark to see inside the far room.
The carpet gives way to a wooden floor as you step from the family room to the dining room. It's now that you can see into the kitchen and you freeze. A dark pool of red is spilling from the kitchen and soon it's surrounding your bare feet. The liquid is thick and warm followed by a sickening copper scent. You try to move but you can't.
That's when you see those eyes. They glowed like a cat but were as large as a tiger's. Your muscles resist and attempt to run but every nerve is locked in place. You scream in your mind but your lips are frozen. You can't move or scream. The nightmare comes closer and it's then that you see his shape.
Human.
Except that he's too large to be human. It's then that you see the limp figures behind him, piled up in a messy batch of limbs and torn skin. You can't see the details but your imagination fills in the rest. Your parents. Who you love with everything that you are. They are your only family...
No.
They aren't your only family but you forgot. You somehow forgot. You have a sister who you haven't seen for months.
Your heart sinks and the pressure in your head is unbearable. You hear a single command and you can't help but comply. 'sleep'. With that thought echoing in your head you feel your eyes get heavy and you fall to the ground, suddenly feeling nothing at all.
Surviving Hell: (content warning with blood and substance abuse and depression)
The boy standing in front of the mirror is familiar. His face is that of a child compared to the chiseled features he's known for in the city. Sixteen. His birthday is today but he can't celebrate. He has to be okay. He has to hide it.
You are this boy.
You're fighting an oppressive force in your mind, hopelessness, and pain. You can't escape the darkness but you're fighting against it. You want to be strong. Not to save yourself but to ease the guilt of those around you. It's your fault. You hurt them. Now they're trying to save you but you can't be saved. They don't understand.
Fingers tremble as you reach for the pills next to the sink. The white cap opens but the strength of your need sends the orange plastic bottom as well as the round light blue pills to the sink. Your fingers are trembling as you put one and then another in your mouth. You swallow and feel your throat burn as the solid tablet travels down your dry throat.
It doesn't work fast enough. Your left-hand raises and you begin to claw at your neck until two evenly spaced marks appear on your skin. Your eyes rise to the mirror and you finally see yourself. Bright red blood drips from your neck and you're repulsed by the desire and need that wells within your gut. It's not okay. Pretend to be okay.
You reach for the pills and three more balances on your tongue before you collapse to the bathroom floor. The cold tire hurts when it slams against your knees but the pain is barely noticeable compared to the weight of need that continues to try your throat and cloud your thoughts. Your head bends forward and you try to breathe but every breath hurts.
Seconds last for hours and the memory only ends when a loud bang shakes the bathroom door.
Rhy Maresh | Possible Memories
Sugar Spun Prince | CW: None | Length: ~700 Words
Youthful Aspirations | CW: Nudity | Length: ~600 Words
Banner Night | CW: Foreplay, Referenced character death, Alcohol abuse, Minor B&E, possible dubious consent to make-outs | Length: ~1100 Words
Pennants And Longings | CW: Referenced regicide, lightly referenced past sexual actions. | Length: ~1.7k Words
The Inheritor | CW: Referenced Near Drowning, Referenced Death Through Gifting Magic, Questionable Morality | Length: ~2000 Words
Ballpit Shenanigans | CW: None | Length: Variable (Linked Comment Thread
Tommy Shepherd | Possible Memories
Welcome To Mutanthood | CW: Child Abuse, Physical Abuse, Referenced Neglect/Food Denial | Length: ~1600
Super Juvie | CW: Imprisonment, Violence, Implied Experimentation, Racism | Length: ~1100 Words
Green And Silver | CW: None | Length: ~900
Explosion of Friendship | CW: Explosions | Length: ~900 Words
First Date | CW: None | Length: ~900 Words
Nida | Possible Memories
Impression: Freedom and Elation
Impression: Fatigue and Achievement
Graduation | CW: None | Length: ~660 Words
Beautiful Green Gown | CW: Cross Dressing | Length: ~720 Words
The Showdown | CW: Betrayal, Violence, Blood, Death, implied manipulation | Length: ~4000 Words
A Last Choice | CW: Self-Hate, Violence, Self-Harm, Suicide, Breaking Mirror, Blood | Length: ~3300 Words
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Meeting Carol | CW: Violence, Guns, Referenced City Destruction | Length: ~1100 Words
Feed the Beast | CW: None | Length: ~600
flerkincat, Chewie. Of course she finds nothing fitting and has to consider suitable garments for exploring the city.Post Fight Talks | CW: Referenced Fighting | Length: ~600 Words
Mono - Possible Memory Options
Mono and Six in the toy room - Written memory - 1354 Words - Just two weird kids having fun and burning stuff in an incinerator at the end. No CWs unless you don't like toys getting burned.
A leap of faith - Written Memory - 951 Words - Mono and Six need to get across a gap between two buildings. Mono gets inventive, and then trusts Six to catch him if he jumps across after her. She catches him, and they have a brief exchange about how they were a team and they wouldn't leave each other behind.
Thin Man is freed and kidnaps Six - Video - Watch till about 2:15 CW For Light Body Horror as the Thin Man is extremely tall and moves in a slightly unsettling way. Also he crawls out of the television with serious Ring vibes and eventually kidnaps Six who screams while Mono is frozen in fear.
Mono using the television to teleport - Video Clip - 15 Seconds - CW for the thing in the tv and it's eye watching him, and Mono falling out of the tv at the end.
Llewellyn - Possible Memory Options
Jackson's Last Case - 984 Words - Llewellyn almost gets murdered by a corrupt detective who’d been framing people for murder and taking credit for solving the cases. CW for guns, corruption, mention of past murders without details and an attempted murder at the end. Luckily, he's a bad shot.
Where we start in life - 985 Words - Llewellyn and Felix the kid from the boy’s home he started bringing books to and checking in on after the kid’s friend got murdered. CW for obvious brief mention of a murder, no details only that it happened. Also allusions to child abuse, but no descriptions of it.
The Accidental Engagement Announcement - 515 Words not including threads - Llewellyn, as everyone who knows him by now is aware, has a tendency to fuss with the side of his face and behind his ear. Not good when there is a device implanted behind your ear that controls a feed to a public network.
Harry Dresden | Possible Memory Options
A Toad Demon, A pretty girl, a naked wizard, and a love Potion
Costume clad vampires and Harry's first taste of Red Court vampire saliva
Ignis memories
Meeting Ravus
Effin Bahamut
Gladio and his cup noodles
Cooking class
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I would love to have Jacob find either one of Illyana's or Aeirth's memory crystals. In either case he'll return them and apologize for seeing. We can thread it or not, I'll be making closed threads as I catch up a bit. Either of them are also welcome to find any of Jacob's crystals.
I think for Illyana memory IV might be interesting? Since they've talked a lot about different things that relate to that.
For Aerith we can do the high fives because I think that's really funny but we can also do the first one talking about her being an Ancient since Jacob can tell her about his sister and her special blood that skipped him.
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Let me know your thoughts!
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Also that's good to know! I WILL AVOID SPOILERS IN OUR TAGS! If I had known I would have offered to do a livestream day >>... I plan to canon update him in a few months, so let me know when you get to the end!
Also in the Thin Man video, I would only wathc up to the 2:15 for sure because I think that video has all of the Thin Man scenes which has spoilers for the end game. <3
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You can totally spoil and you can totally live stream it. I don't mind and knowing the end won't really affect me so much because I am very anti-surprises. It honestly helps me anxiety knowing the end at times (I totally sometimes skip to the end of books when it gets tight before finishing them or I don't finish them.)
I'm weird, I know.
Anyway. I watched all these and I love them. If I can grab both the teacher and thin man that would be awesome. Should I just tag your current post and have them meet? What do you think? I'm still catching up but since I'm no longer in pain today is catch up day :D
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I think it'd be cool to do something different since these memories get to be so unique in the way they are shared.
We can also handwave Nida knowing that Jacob has it and him seeing Jacob carrying it around with him or we can thread it. Let me know what you're feeling. Today is tag day so I'll be around.
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You are welcome to grab both for sure! You can thow Jacob at Mono on his top level if you want, but I will say he's like... emotionally unstable there so he might be little more difficult even around people he likes! I expect he might've seen one of Jacob's too (probs Bloody Nightmare) which will make him questiony in return.
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And that checks out. Jacob has a rather dark past that he doesn't talk about. He was kidnapped by a monster that day and Mono might relate to that type of terror because his parents didn't make it out alive.
Even if it was difficult Jacob will still try and offer to meet Mono somewhere and try and help. I didn't actually realize how similar the whole kidnapping small kids and nightmares was similar to Jacob's backstory, so that's interesting. But yeah, I'll tag you and we'll see how it goes. It'll likely be after work but I am excited.
/cue all the flailing
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Anyway, maybe I will set something up sooner rather than later? Like just date it towards the end of this month where it's still cold?
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And yeah, toward the end of this month is great.
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I'd love for that! In return they could find one of his if you'd like? I'd be down for either (or both) and we could thread it out if you'd like. I don't mind going slow, it's how I exist anymore haha
I'd be good with either or for Aerith. One is more funny but the other would offer more options for talking. So up to you?
Jagger Crowe | Possible Memories
Here are a few others you can choose from that I can write up for you if you'd like them:
A Meeting with his current partner (back home), that probably saved the man's life (TW: suicidal ideation)
The awkward time Jagger lost his virginity only to lose control of his abilities and learn way more about his girlfriend than she wanted to share.
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Permission to have Cloud find the Hojo crystal, because he doesn't hate that guy enough already.
I'd like Jagger to find the crystal containing her memory of taking Pixie's soul, because what are happy memories?
Is there anything in particular you'd like Harry to find other than the memory you have listed for Ivy?
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Yeah definitely. I have a post up for Jacob that's sorta just him around attempting to collect crystals but not touch them lol. If you wanna tag that. I'm also cool with slow always.
I like the highfive one for Aerith because I feel like their conversations so far have been rather silly. From bad cookies to tripping to now awkward high fives lol.
Cloud Strife || FFVII Remake - Possible Memories
Dont I Get a Say in This? | Cloud has a conversation with Aerith in a dream; she warns him not to fall in love with her, no matter what.
Seven Seconds to the End | Cloud and Sephiroth have a talk at the end of the Universe (spoilers for the end of the game)
If you'd like to do anything else, just let me know!
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Dad's death Fayt's dad dies protecting him
Albels that go stab in the night - Aquaria & Airyglyph have to now work together, & Albel is the one chosen to accompany the party to represent the kingdom of Airyglyph.
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Not really, though if you'd like to do something we can talk about some other things!
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Here ya go!
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