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exsiliumooc2014-01-05 02:42 pm
moralperil) wrote in exsiliumooc2014-01-05 02:42 pm
canon-update with a mini-plot!
After nearly a year and a half in Exsilium, Mahdi is going home for a short time! Ze will be departing tonight, to return around the 9th , a year older and all sorts of types wiser, and a lot worse for wear.
Upon returning, Mahdi's mental health and reality-altering abilities will be in a state of great flux. From the 9th, the day of Mahdi's return, until the 16th, while Mahdi is working to balance and under hir new level of power and adjust to being back in Exsilium, hir powers will be going a bit haywire. Anyone who makes skin-to-skin contact with hir or eats food made by hir may accidentally receive a 'shed' memory and beginning shedding memories themselves, or experience a few hours of extremely dissonant emotion. Those with the ability to see or sense spiritual power may notice that Mahdi's previously-meager power has tripled, and may feel a sense of chaos or even foreboding from hir. More explanations of this mini-event behind the cut!
WHAT THEY HEY HAPPENED
* Mahdi consumed the soul of one of hir own kind in order to wipe them from existence. Specifically, a greater mortal Keeran with whom ze had a very troubled history, who enjoyed torturing and killing young humans. This was essentially like a huge info and power dump into Mahdi's small body and hir system is overloading. One byproduct of this is that Mahdi is unintentionally 'shedding' non-essential memories. Think of it like when you clean up your files and you realize you have 500 kitten gifs, so you decide to trim down your collection a bit, since you didn't even remember saving like half of them and somehow that one of Donald Glover going "MY EMOTIONSSSS" is there like three times. The problem is that Mahdi is not doing this intentionally, nor realizing that instead of being completely forgotten, memories are being pushed onto others.
WHAT IS A SHED MEMORY?
* Mahdi will be sending brief snippets of memories to others. They are not character-defining, important, memories, but rather times at which ze (or Keeran, the greater mortal whom Mahdi consumed) experienced a very strong emotion or sensation. Something like this,
A gray day, and ice has only just frozen over. You observe your breath as steam, marveling at something invisible given form. You could not have known just how cold the world could smell: metallic, static, sharp. The dips in black pavement made small iced-over puddles, you tap your foot along the ends of one until it cracks. You lean over and pick up the ice. It stings your bare hands, and that makes you laugh.
It stings just like when you burned your tongue on the coffee this morning. Things hurt in this world, and that's alright. The sun is already sinking behind a line of tree and squad one-family houses. That's alright, you think.
The ice shatters on the ground, and you expect it to tinkle like glass, but it's not nearly musical enough. Then you just feel cold.
The memory is something that is clear and vivid and has a strong emotional resonance, but is not something that would change the character to forget. This is not "my character's greatest hits and tragedies 101". Considering what a horrible person Keeran was and the things Mahdi has gone through, there were be some creepy/unpleasant/violent memories in the mix, but nothing involving direct acts.
SO WHAT KIND OF MEMORIES COULD MY CHARACTER RECEIVE, AND HOW WILL THAT BE DETERMINED?
* I will post up a sort of meet 'n greet log around the 9th for people to run into Mahdi, touch hir accidentally (or on purpose depending on the person), and receive a memory. I will have around 10 - 15 memories prepared to put in the mix, and use RNG to determine what your character receives. If you would prefer content that is free of some subjects (nothing sexual, nothing creepy or violent, nothing sad, etc.), I will ask you on the log to state as much and I will roll again if I get something within those parameters. I will also roll again if I feel the content is inappropriate to a character if they are a minor. When your character receives the memory, they may experience it immediately, or it could take a few hours - only sinking in when the character is alone. Up to you.
WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE?
* A dreamy, brief flashback. Those effected will feel like the memory did indeed happen to them, but there's just something slightly off about it... but it doesn't seem like it's anything new and important, either? Like it's just this random moment? Huh. Depending on your character and the memory, they might just go about their business, or they might sense something's wrong, or they might be upset by the content. Again, up to you!
AND THEN MY CHARACTER SHEDS MEMORIES?
* If your character does not immediately turn around and return the memory to Mahdi, they will then shed a similar memory onto the next person they make skin-to-skin contact with, who might then shed a memory onto someone else, etc. Of course, I expect that everyone will play this out with the consent of the players involved.
WHAT KIND OF MEMORIES WOULD MY CHARACTER SHED?
* This is your time to shine and write some stuff about your character that's not strictly canon (unless you play an OC like me, and then it's all canon, mwahahaha). Like I said, the key point of these memories as they're ones that probably wouldn't be missed. Your characters will not experience any sense that they've lost anything, or that there's a gap in their recollection or change to their personality. The entire process is painless. I will not be overseeing what memories you decide to have your characters shed onto others, but I ask you to keep the spirit of the idea in mind.
WHAT'S THE POINT IF IT'S NOT BIG REVELATORY MEMORIES THAT MAKE EVERYONE UNDERSTAND MY CHARACTERS PAIN/LOVE OF PIZZA/WICKED SCAR?
* This is a way to connect your characters to each other in a small way, and consider aspects of their life and personality outside of the most obviously defining points. If you want to write angst, consider writing about a moment of despair or reflection or loneliness, rather than a direct memory of a traumatic event. Looking at an empty bed can cause just as deep a feeling of heartbreak as initially losing the person who slept there. Remember that even a happy memory could have hints of tragedy. Remember that there are many types of emotions aside from just plain happiness and sadness, from hunger to horniness (handle with care) to confusion and exhaustion!
SO HOW DOES THIS GET FIXED?
* If your character notices something is wrong / hears from Mahdi something is going wrong, they can choose to return the memory to hir. They will briefly experience it one last time, and Mahdi will take it in and then intentionally forget it. The only way your character will remember the shed memory in the end - either from Mahdi or someone else - is if they choose to make a record of it somehow. Once Mahdi's power has leveled out, the shed memories will disappear or be returned to their rightful owners.
AND WHAT'S THIS ABOUT DISSONANT EMOTIONS?
* As another possible side-effect of interacting with Mahdi, touching hir or eating hir food, your character may experience an intensely unexpected emotion, rather opposite to what they usually feel, for around an hour or two. IE, your happy-go-lucky character is now incredibly angry and grim, your very laid-back character is extremely uptight and productive, etc. etc. Have fun with that if you like!
SO WHEN IS THIS ALL HAPPENING, AGAIN?
1/9 - 1/16. I wanted to make sure new characters could get in on this if they wanted. I will be posting up a log as soon as Iget my dragoon to lvl 50 on FFXIV have enough prompts written.
DO I NEED TO SIGN UP?
Nope! Just tag in to the log, and contrive of a way for our characters to touch, or for your character to eat Mahdi's food. I'll have a reminder to post preferences on the log. But if you'd like to ask questions or plot here, fire away!
PS. As an aside to Mahdi's close CR, when ze returns ze will initially pretend not to remember Exsilium, and may keep up the ruse for some time in order to try and keep others at arms' length.
Upon returning, Mahdi's mental health and reality-altering abilities will be in a state of great flux. From the 9th, the day of Mahdi's return, until the 16th, while Mahdi is working to balance and under hir new level of power and adjust to being back in Exsilium, hir powers will be going a bit haywire. Anyone who makes skin-to-skin contact with hir or eats food made by hir may accidentally receive a 'shed' memory and beginning shedding memories themselves, or experience a few hours of extremely dissonant emotion. Those with the ability to see or sense spiritual power may notice that Mahdi's previously-meager power has tripled, and may feel a sense of chaos or even foreboding from hir. More explanations of this mini-event behind the cut!
WHAT THEY HEY HAPPENED
* Mahdi consumed the soul of one of hir own kind in order to wipe them from existence. Specifically, a greater mortal Keeran with whom ze had a very troubled history, who enjoyed torturing and killing young humans. This was essentially like a huge info and power dump into Mahdi's small body and hir system is overloading. One byproduct of this is that Mahdi is unintentionally 'shedding' non-essential memories. Think of it like when you clean up your files and you realize you have 500 kitten gifs, so you decide to trim down your collection a bit, since you didn't even remember saving like half of them and somehow that one of Donald Glover going "MY EMOTIONSSSS" is there like three times. The problem is that Mahdi is not doing this intentionally, nor realizing that instead of being completely forgotten, memories are being pushed onto others.
WHAT IS A SHED MEMORY?
* Mahdi will be sending brief snippets of memories to others. They are not character-defining, important, memories, but rather times at which ze (or Keeran, the greater mortal whom Mahdi consumed) experienced a very strong emotion or sensation. Something like this,
A gray day, and ice has only just frozen over. You observe your breath as steam, marveling at something invisible given form. You could not have known just how cold the world could smell: metallic, static, sharp. The dips in black pavement made small iced-over puddles, you tap your foot along the ends of one until it cracks. You lean over and pick up the ice. It stings your bare hands, and that makes you laugh.
It stings just like when you burned your tongue on the coffee this morning. Things hurt in this world, and that's alright. The sun is already sinking behind a line of tree and squad one-family houses. That's alright, you think.
The ice shatters on the ground, and you expect it to tinkle like glass, but it's not nearly musical enough. Then you just feel cold.
The memory is something that is clear and vivid and has a strong emotional resonance, but is not something that would change the character to forget. This is not "my character's greatest hits and tragedies 101". Considering what a horrible person Keeran was and the things Mahdi has gone through, there were be some creepy/unpleasant/violent memories in the mix, but nothing involving direct acts.
SO WHAT KIND OF MEMORIES COULD MY CHARACTER RECEIVE, AND HOW WILL THAT BE DETERMINED?
* I will post up a sort of meet 'n greet log around the 9th for people to run into Mahdi, touch hir accidentally (or on purpose depending on the person), and receive a memory. I will have around 10 - 15 memories prepared to put in the mix, and use RNG to determine what your character receives. If you would prefer content that is free of some subjects (nothing sexual, nothing creepy or violent, nothing sad, etc.), I will ask you on the log to state as much and I will roll again if I get something within those parameters. I will also roll again if I feel the content is inappropriate to a character if they are a minor. When your character receives the memory, they may experience it immediately, or it could take a few hours - only sinking in when the character is alone. Up to you.
WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE?
* A dreamy, brief flashback. Those effected will feel like the memory did indeed happen to them, but there's just something slightly off about it... but it doesn't seem like it's anything new and important, either? Like it's just this random moment? Huh. Depending on your character and the memory, they might just go about their business, or they might sense something's wrong, or they might be upset by the content. Again, up to you!
AND THEN MY CHARACTER SHEDS MEMORIES?
* If your character does not immediately turn around and return the memory to Mahdi, they will then shed a similar memory onto the next person they make skin-to-skin contact with, who might then shed a memory onto someone else, etc. Of course, I expect that everyone will play this out with the consent of the players involved.
WHAT KIND OF MEMORIES WOULD MY CHARACTER SHED?
* This is your time to shine and write some stuff about your character that's not strictly canon (unless you play an OC like me, and then it's all canon, mwahahaha). Like I said, the key point of these memories as they're ones that probably wouldn't be missed. Your characters will not experience any sense that they've lost anything, or that there's a gap in their recollection or change to their personality. The entire process is painless. I will not be overseeing what memories you decide to have your characters shed onto others, but I ask you to keep the spirit of the idea in mind.
WHAT'S THE POINT IF IT'S NOT BIG REVELATORY MEMORIES THAT MAKE EVERYONE UNDERSTAND MY CHARACTERS PAIN/LOVE OF PIZZA/WICKED SCAR?
* This is a way to connect your characters to each other in a small way, and consider aspects of their life and personality outside of the most obviously defining points. If you want to write angst, consider writing about a moment of despair or reflection or loneliness, rather than a direct memory of a traumatic event. Looking at an empty bed can cause just as deep a feeling of heartbreak as initially losing the person who slept there. Remember that even a happy memory could have hints of tragedy. Remember that there are many types of emotions aside from just plain happiness and sadness, from hunger to horniness (handle with care) to confusion and exhaustion!
SO HOW DOES THIS GET FIXED?
* If your character notices something is wrong / hears from Mahdi something is going wrong, they can choose to return the memory to hir. They will briefly experience it one last time, and Mahdi will take it in and then intentionally forget it. The only way your character will remember the shed memory in the end - either from Mahdi or someone else - is if they choose to make a record of it somehow. Once Mahdi's power has leveled out, the shed memories will disappear or be returned to their rightful owners.
AND WHAT'S THIS ABOUT DISSONANT EMOTIONS?
* As another possible side-effect of interacting with Mahdi, touching hir or eating hir food, your character may experience an intensely unexpected emotion, rather opposite to what they usually feel, for around an hour or two. IE, your happy-go-lucky character is now incredibly angry and grim, your very laid-back character is extremely uptight and productive, etc. etc. Have fun with that if you like!
SO WHEN IS THIS ALL HAPPENING, AGAIN?
1/9 - 1/16. I wanted to make sure new characters could get in on this if they wanted. I will be posting up a log as soon as I
DO I NEED TO SIGN UP?
Nope! Just tag in to the log, and contrive of a way for our characters to touch, or for your character to eat Mahdi's food. I'll have a reminder to post preferences on the log. But if you'd like to ask questions or plot here, fire away!
PS. As an aside to Mahdi's close CR, when ze returns ze will initially pretend not to remember Exsilium, and may keep up the ruse for some time in order to try and keep others at arms' length.
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I assume memories that are 'shed' by characters are gone for good?
no subject
The memories Mahdi sheds will be lost forever. However, when hir powers are set to rights, the memories other people shed will be returned to their rightful owners.
(But... they're probably not that memorable, anyway.)