Memory Share Plotting Post

[heromedal]

It's player plot time, baby!

As some of you may know Rex has recently cracked how to create life in the form of his Phantoms, artificial spiritual entities which he largely bases on existing people. You can find out more here!

In an attempt to gather more data to produce more and better Phantoms, sometime mid-July Rex will try casting a spell that will let him duplicate memories and when testing it on one person...

It won't work right! Big shocker!

What Will Happen

There'll be a white noise like sound for a few seconds, and suddenly everyone affected is releasing copies of their memories as floating, colour coded, immaterial marble sized orbs that if touched, cause the toucher to experience the memory and then disappear. This means each memory can be shared only once. They float around and actively attempt to latch onto people.

In an attempt to prevent it from being connected to him, about six hours after the event, Rex will be releasing an original model Phantom, named Mysterious Mischief Maker - Waggery, that will take on an impish trickster form and personality, going around gathering up as many memory orbs as it can while making cryptic comments about being responsible. If allowed to go about his merry way, Waggery will be done cleaning up in about three days.

There's not much to connect it to Rex on a surface level, being bizarre magic never before seen, but character actions and deductions can change everything so if you have alternative ideas for a conclusion feel free to put them below! It's entirely possible he won't have the chance to let out Waggery at all.

How the Memory Share Works

The spell is not working as intended, so its results are inconsistent- not everyone will hear the white noise and to those that do it will sound like it's coming from right beside them. When it stops, the spell works its magic. The orbs exit the body at high velocity, scattering them far and wide and in random trajectories. Once they slow down, they float around and slowly drift towards the closest entity capable of housing their memory. Memories are not lost when an orb is created- it is a copy and is experienced from the original person's perspective. The memory is experienced in real time, with the person going through it frozen in place. Conventional physical means cannot interact with the orbs, they pass through most matter, but just about any magic can be used to manipulate them. Destroying an orb with magic causes a jumbled mess of sensations from the memory to those in the vicinity.

They come in a variety of colours. Suggest more below if you like- claim a colour and an emotional connection first and everyone else has to use it!

Gold- Pure bliss. A life-changingly positive perfect moment.
Black- Absolute horror. A life-changingly negative traumatic moment.
Red- A memory of anger.
Blue- A memory of sadness
Yellow- A memory of fear.
Green- A moment of joy.
Grey- Neutral.
Pink- Love
Orange- Regret
Purple- Pride
Etc.

Aside from the colour, no other indication of the orb's contents is given unless it's experienced.

Waggery's deal

Waggery takes the form of a child-sized humanoid dressed in rags with a vaguely skull-like cloth mask and a backpack that looks a little like a lil' skeleton is being given a piggyback ride. Waggery has no offensive options beyond slapping people with the strength of a child but is a highly mobile flyer and has a few tricks to slow pursuers down or help him slip away. Waggery has been programmed to escape attempts to catch him rather than fight, gather as many orbs as it can find and to maintain the illusion he's some weird magical trickster, play the occasional prank on people. Waggery can also do a small, one person version of the memory spell, just in case he has to "prove" it was him. Waggery is not designed for combat, so pretty much anyone who can catch him can destroy him if they're inclined. To magical senses, he'll probably be identifiable as a spiritual being of some kind but what exactly is impossible to discern, being something brand new not seen in the supernatural world before.

What's next?

This plot is meant, but not guaranteed, to lead into another one later on where Rex tries another mass Phantom production method resulting in copies of people that match their self-perception start turning up.

Rex won't be snooping into Waggery's stolen memory orbs (if he gets away with any) unless you have an interesting suggestion about that.

Comments

[fistsofchange]

Bai Lin:
- Yellowish green: spying on martial arts classes as a child
- Gold: the first time she managed to pull off the cloud body technique
- Black: getting kicked out of her temple
- Blue: the defeat of Warlord Kong
- Red: coming back to her temple
- Green: flirting with Jailbreak

Kohaku Yuhara
- Super Black: daemon attack on her middle school
- Green: the first time she got asked out
- Red: the nineteenth time she got asked out
- Yellow: training with Ako
- Yellowish Green: boarding a plane from Tokyo to Paris to go to Daybreak
- Gray: eating a sandwich for lunch in the Daybreak cafeteria two days ago

What do all these memories entail? You’ll have to wait and see!

[nor_iron_bars]

Aww. Jail would be super flattered to find out she was a positive memory, there. Though it might be more fun to have the two of them find out things they didn't already get to see in person.

[fistsofchange]

For obvious reasons, Jailbreak has been on her mind as of late. I think there’ll be a few in there Jail might find interesting, at least

[nor_iron_bars]

Anything in particular you'd like her to see?

[fistsofchange]

The red one in particular would show a side of her I don’t think Jail has seen before:Lin giving in to unbridled rage. Might be good for thought

[nor_iron_bars]

Ooh, nice.

Similarly, if you want a Sad Childhood Memory, she's got a few of those that might show a very different person than Lin's used to her being.

[fistsofchange]

Yeah I figure enough of their relationship has just been fooling around that despite their obvious chemistry they don’t actually know a lot about each other so sharing some sad backstory moments would be the good shit.

Shit. Imagine if they actually were about to start fooling around when they got nailed by the spell and were IMMEDIATELY whammied by each other’s memory, killing the mood instantly.

[nor_iron_bars]

Oh jeez. I'm really tempted, but that might actually be TOO mean, considering everything else this event is shaping up to be...

Jail would be so annoyed though. "Oh, COME ON."

[fistsofchange]

"What's it take to get laid without something exploding around here?"

[nor_iron_bars]

"Okay, which of us is fucking cursed. ...Literally, a fucking curse."

[fistsofchange]

Realistically speaking that would probably be jailbreak because of an angry ex-girlfriend or an ex-girlfriend's angry husband

[nor_iron_bars]

Honestly, fair. Also it's probably harder to curse Bai Lin, considering the whole anti-magic thing.

("Well, let's think back. Who do you think would want to do this to you?"
"Uhhhhhh... yeah, we're gonna need to narrow it down more.")

[fistsofchange]

“Okay who would want to do this to you who has the knowledge and resources to actually do it?”
“...still gonna have to narrow it down some more.”

[heromedal]

I want you to know I misread that as 'the defeat of Donkey Kong' somehow.

[fistsofchange]

I considered Zho for exactly this reason but the Kong fight was much more thematically impactful to Lin’s everything.

[heromedal]

Fair! I'm still gonna picture Karate Kong tho.

Anyway, more on topic! How would you feel about Rex getting to the cloud body technique memory so he can ask her to teach him and the saga of tricking him into self-care begins?

[fistsofchange]

Let's do it!