Event Log: Memories Past

[hadrielmods]

Who: Everyone
What: Memory Share Event!
Where: All around the city
When: November 14th-20th
Warnings: Please remember to tag all warnings for memory shares!

Have you ever looked through someone else's eyes? Heard through their ears, spoken with their tongue? The gods have tried to teach some of you empathy, but it's time you learned the hard way, exactly what the others here have been through. For a week, every time you brush skin to skin with someone, you'll experience a memory of theirs: happy, sad, it doesn't matter. All that matters is that it feels real to you.

The first touch may come as a surprise- it lasts only for a split second but may feel like an eternity, where you're trapped in someone else's memory. After that, it could be more expected, and some may even figure out how to control it and share specific scenes from their past with others. Or, you might wear gloves and long sleeve shirts for awhile, nobody's judging.

Maybe curtail the handholding for awhile- or go right ahead, if that's your thing. After all, you never really know somebody unless you've walked a mile in their shoes, right?

► This log covers November 14th-20th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► If you die in a memory, you don't die in real life, but if you do die in real life please let us know here.

Comments

Family

[survivethis]

Jill hadn't intended to visit the precious memories of another person, but sometimes it's difficult to avoid running into someone and then it all happens so suddenly.

The memory she sees appears to be a good one, though there appears to be lingering concern about what may come for the children in the future.

Still, Jill can't help but smile as she observes the children. They all look so happy.

[bythewaves]

Maglor looks up, surprised by the nudge and then by the moment that Jill seems to freeze.

"Lady Jill?" He says worriedly, although the smile is reassuring.

[survivethis]

Jill blinks out of her stupor, her eyes taking on their usual spark again as she looks at him, though there's clear confusion on her face. She's a bit disoriented.

"Oh. Well, that was weird." Did he not realize what happened? Maybe she's the only one who noticed.

[bythewaves]

Maglor blinks at her curiously.

"What was weird? You ... froze for a moment, there. Are our hosts up to something again?"

[survivethis]

"I guess so. I saw you, but you weren't here, it was somewhere else. There was another person with you, and two children playing."

She wonders if any of that sounds familiar. It's vague, she knows, but maybe there's some truth to it.

[bythewaves]

He pauses and then frowns a little.

"Ah. Our hosts are hungry again it seems. I've many memories of children, but I was dwelling on Elrond and Elros, and I would guess that was what you saw. Which... probably makes the location Amon Ereb, our last stronghold, and the second person my brother Maedhros. I wonder who is hungry, as sharing memories is a tricky one to evoke emotion."

[survivethis]

Jill is thankful her own memories haven't been shared if that's the case. They're not too pleasant, at least not in the last ten years or so.

"I'm sorry. I know it's not my fault, but I feel like I've poked into something private of yours."

[bythewaves]

"Do not be." He smiles at her, wryly.

"Neither of us can help it, eh? I am only glad it was not a darker memory."

[survivethis]

"It looked like a happy time. You all seemed very close."

Jill didn't grow up with a big family, but her unit was much like her family.

[bythewaves]

"We were." Maglor smiles, a little sadly.

"We were a large family, so a very noisy bunch! But it was a very good time."