new year's memories

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Hello, hello, POLYchromatids, and Happy New Year! To ring it in properly, we have a mod-run plot coming your way!

What is it, you ask? Well when the New Year came around, the deities started going through their paperwork, filing their annual reports, you know how it goes. Except somewhere along the way... some files got misplaced. Oops. Those files... they were a little important. Updated records for the City's memory banks? Naaah, not important.

Except it is. And starting January 7th, characters will begin to lose their memories. Maybe it will be the little things- City memories. The name of the the grocer you visit in the Square. The way from that store to the restaurant you eat at. Where you bought the pillows for your apartment. Or maybe it's the bigger in-City-memories. The friends they've met here. The curses that have changed them somehow. And, maybe, the canon memories may start to slip away as well, bit by bit.

Of course, this doesn't happen to everyone, (so this is by no means a mandatory event, your character may or may not participate, that's up to you), and the level of memory loss varies. One character my forget only what a Mars Bar is, another may not even be able to remember their own name. Some may lose select bits of memory, others can lose everything gradually. But never fear. As the deities redo their paperwork and get things back in to order, memories will slowly begin to return.

Player characters can help this process along by trying to trigger memory retrieval with certain characters. For example, if Character A can't remember that he really loves baseball, Character B can try and help him remember by asking him to play a game with them. If Character C cannot remember that the reason they want to live is to get revenge on someone for killing their parents one rainy night, Character D might take them out in the rain and talk about the event to try and force them to remember their reason for living! Depending on what you want your character to forget, and how much, this can be played for serious CR, ("don't you remember what we swore together that day?!"), or lulz ("how do you work the television?"). Memories will return gradually anyway, but other characters can help the process along if they so choose.

You can choose for memories that fade to come back in a matter of a week or longer, or just a matter of days if you have someone jogging their memory, but all memories will be returned by January 31st. By then, the deities will have redone the paperwork misplaced in the New Year's move, and the memory banks will be back up and running.

This also doubles as an organizational post where you can list your characters and what they'll be experiencing, and where you can arrange run-ins, instances where you want to have a character help another remember things, etcetera. You have questions? Feel free to ask those too here in this post and we'll be glad to clarify or help you out!

Comments

[unborn-of-this.livejournal.com]

Could you tell me what you have in mind? Soooob.

[worksmart.livejournal.com]

I haven't really gone through specifics but as an example say scrooge forgot about the night he was visited by ghosts. Would he still be a changed man, but with no idea as to why he became a kinder, gentler McDuck, or would he go back to his miserly ways, as he wouldn't remember the event that brought about the change in him?

[unborn-of-this.livejournal.com]

That's up to player discretion. What can't happen is for Scrooge to have the memory of having done something else for the night he forgot. It's just a blank spot. You can pick whether he is still overcome with feelings of kindness for a reason he can't supply (no memory!), or whether the absence of said memory means he has no personal revelation. In all honesty, the question can be reduced to one of timeline: is this Scrooge right on the brink of making his call, on whether to change, or not? Because if so, the absence of the memory might give him pause. If this is Scrooge several years after the fateful night, when he's long settled into his merry ways, the absence of that memory might not be as relevant, because he'll already beset in the habit of kindness.

I guess specifics would really help with this, soooo, if it's still an issue, let us know as soon as you've decided what you'd like to do with Chase?

[worksmart.livejournal.com]

I think that clarifies it for me <3 thank youuu.