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

Questions-

[heromedal]

Colour/emotion suggestions-

[heromedal]

[highelves]

Pink - Love?

[nor_iron_bars]

Do people who touch the orbs experience the memory from the perspective of the person who it belongs to, or do they watch it from a third-person point of view? If the former, do they also hear the thoughts and/or feel the emotions they were having at the time?

[highelves]

can a memory be a mini montage of events? for example, if i wanted ruby to show two different individuals via a "love" memory (her mom and dad), could those two moments be combined in one orb?

[fireindreams]

For characters who have another soul within them that are their own person, is it possible for those memories to be shared as well? Grimm has a person named the Nightmare King within him that has his own memories and whatnot, so I was wondering if it was possible.

[heromedal]

They're experienced from the perspective of the person whose memory they're having. I'd say yes on the thoughts and feelings on the whole, but ultimately it's open to being variable so people can be as obvious or mysterious as they like.

[heromedal]

I'd say no- one memory per orb, but nothing's stopping you from having two memory orbs be very close to one another.

[heromedal]

I will say yes, as the magic is based on copying memories out of the soul rather than the brain.

Rex/Waggery planning-

[heromedal]

Rex will be affected by the original magic because he can't do anything without it exploding in his face, so his memories will be up for grabs. There are a shocking number of golden orbs from him, because he considers every single memory with his mother to be pure gold and when it hits her death there's a lot of black.

Especially interested in people getting to see what his mom was like and wondering how he turned out the way he did. Lots of being a dirty crime boy, eating mud to stop his stomach dissolving, fighting things, etc. Also very open to people getting to see the really embarrassing moments where he's helped someone and they've been nice to him.

Like I say, I'm open to people working out Rex is responsible if it makes sense. Hit me up here as well if you want a Waggery encounter.

[highelves]

for the event, i plan on having several different types of memories for my muses.

ana will have a wide variety of orbs with a range of different colors: red for when she found out her dad was in a crime ring, blue for when her mom left and she got thrown onto the streets, green for getting accepted into daybreak... and if there's one specifically for love, she'll have several of those. one orb for her mom, one for her guardian after living on the streets, and one for all of the friends she's made here at daybreak (as reluctant as she is to call y'all her friends in the first place). she's going to absolutely hate the love-based ones floating around, god.

ruby will have green orbs for when she gets accepted into daybreak. green/love for her mom and dad, weiss, lia...all her friends here, too. meeting everyone means so much to her and she'll have fond memories of all of her friends. but...there will also be a lot of red/blue when it comes to her time in regular school, so.

asami (CW: parental death) will primarily have red and blue orbs for her mother's murder, her father's vehement denial of how her mother died, and her father's mistreatment before asami ran away. however, she'll also have green for when she started learning runes, joining the garrison, and getting into daybreak academy.

[yokeye]

How far is the range on this spell, radius-wise?

Re: Questions-

[no_dejare_de_quererte]

Can one memory orb have a mix of colors? Like, can a memory be both angry and sad? So like.. part red, part blue?

[heromedal]

Easily enough to hit the whole of the school, probably some of Soleil. Doesn't work on everyone in that range, however.

Re: Questions-

[heromedal]

I'd say whatever is the most prominent of the emotions would be the colour. If you'd say it's close to exactly equal, sure, double colour.

[transfusionem]

OH BOY, MEMORIES.

Adelaide will be hit by this, of course, and have...perhaps a shocking number of red, blue, and yellow memories! She will also have at least two black memories - one of her being turned into a vampire, and another one I'm not going to specify yet. Gotta keep the mystery alive! I'm down for sharing all sorts of things, but I'd rather the black memories go to close-ish CR.

Hieke will have all sorts of memories with all sorts of colors, ranging from gold to black and everything in between. If you want to see a bit of his past, there'll be something there. A lot of it will involve his time as a daemon making contracts, too, so if anyone wants to get suspicious of him, that's cool, too.

Lance has a bunch of really mundane memories, but if you want to see a loving, supportive family, it's there for you.

[transfusionem]

I want to see that Good Shit.

[heromedal]

Adelaide really needs to see Helen making Rex joyful, I agree.

Possibly a memory of Rex, Helen and the vampire boyfriend/some other creature just to show Rex has literally never not been okay with magical races no matter how monstrous. It's the heart.

[nor_iron_bars]

So, I'm thinking of having Jail hit by this, if other people want to see some stuff from her. Possible options include:

-that time she got buried alive
-the time her familiar, Althea, died
-past absurd criminal shenanigans
-one or more of her particularly weird ex-girlfriends

[onebetter]

James is going to be radiating some normal as fuck memories. He's your guy if you want memories of:

-going to the mall with friends
-asking out your first girlfriend and getting a confession back
-studying hard as hell at home while feeling a lingering fear of not living up to your father's expectation
-watching horror movies with friends and feeling like there is a thick glass wall between you and them, because you live in a different world...................

I'll gladly write out custom memories here, too, like... if you can picture if happening in an Arizona small town life, James might have got the memory for you.

[transfusionem]

PLEASE, it'll be so cute...

And then Adelaide will have to ask what happened to his mom, but, you know, it's the thought that counts.

[moonlitdancer]

Serena will have mostly grey memories, there hasn't been a lot of her life she's had strong feelings on one way or another. Every now and then there will be some green floating around, as well as some blue.

Weiss will have a lot of blue red and yellow, with one memory in particular being half red and half blue. There will be a few green ones floating around, but they'll be vastly outnumbered by the negative memories. There will be a handful of pink ones too, but notably they're all about her older sister and the family butler, not her actual parents.

[caduceusoncall]

slams fists on table: MEMORY EVENT!!

Mercy will have one black memory, a few blue memories of times when she couldn't help people and of her time in the foster care system, and many green memories of joining various schools and successfully helping people. The black memory will be her earliest one: Of losing her parents to daemons! So that's fun. I don't mind who it goes to, but be warned there will be violence, parental death, probably some gore descriptions...it's not a pretty one, folks.

Akko will have exclusively golden memories of her time at Luna Nova. She's perpetually happy as fuck about all of that. Most of her memories will revolve around someone named Chariot.

Jill has a lot of mundane memories. One black, one red, maybe a spattering of grey memories. The black one will be the memory of being turned. The red one, her last argument with her ex, and the grey ones are all just various memories of bar patrons that left an impression on her.

[marmoron]

ALRIGHT, editing this whole thing to sort by memory colors since I've decided on throwing Keith into this mess after all. I would prefer that it's closer CR that get the more negative/traumatic memories or at least for memories of a similar level of angst to be exchanged if that makes sense.

Black- His first transformation into a wolf which ended in a near death experience
Red- transitioning to life at orphanages and group homes, getting his knife stolen at the orphanage/his first major fist fight, getting into a fist fight with James at high school
Blue- his dad's funeral, changes in his life past his dad's death, kids at elementary school asking why his mom never comes to pick him up, the conversation he had with his dad on the ghost train during spirit tracks
Yellow- getting jumped by Jolyne and being forced to use fire on her (for context his dad burned to death in a fire), fear of being sent to juvenile detention following an incident at the orphanage
Green- finding Cosmo, moments with friends at Daybreak, finding his dad's old motorcycle at his cabin and riding around in the desert, getting into daybreak, dancing with James at prom, early childhood memories of his dad and pet scorpion, perhaps some veeery crusty memories of being hugged by his mom (who is btw pretty alien looking)
Purple- managing to lose the cops while they chased him around the desert canyon on his motorcycle, taking down the death knight in the herald fight

[heromedal]

He'll probably keep the explanation to 'she died.' No one needs to know about the ten days of no sleep, every second might be your last hell.

Unless they get a memory of it.