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ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴅᴛᴇᴀᴍ ᴏғ ʜᴀᴅʀɪᴇʟ ([personal profile] hadrielmods) wrote in [community profile] hadriel_logs2018-11-14 07:35 am

Event Log: Memories Past

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.
theweakhavepurpose: (Knowing)

[personal profile] theweakhavepurpose 2018-11-25 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
What happens if you don't? Do they fight?

[he's not touching that first part, he doesn't want to get into a theological debate over something he doesn't really believe in but will vehemently defend.]
oldtonew: (Default)

[personal profile] oldtonew 2018-11-25 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
One element may gain power over the others and throw things out of balance. They bicker. It is our duty to settle them.

[ She shrugs a little. ]

Without water, there can be no crops. But too much water and the earth will crumble, the animals will drown. Plants will sour, fire cannot fight the rot. Too much fire and everything will burn to dust. So there must be balance.
theweakhavepurpose: (Leaving)

[personal profile] theweakhavepurpose 2018-11-25 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
That's more complicated than I expected.

Sounds like an important job.
oldtonew: (003)

[personal profile] oldtonew 2018-11-26 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
They are alive. Nothing can be alive and remain simple.

[ She shrugs again. ]

Yes. But it is important. I want my people to have a future. I want the Horde to be strong.
theweakhavepurpose: (Companion)

[personal profile] theweakhavepurpose 2018-11-27 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Does only your side talk to the spirits? Because other people might be offering them something better.
oldtonew: (004)

[personal profile] oldtonew 2018-11-27 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ That's the trouble, isn't it? Kettara nods slowly. ]

No. The Alliance has trained many shaman of their own. Some of them have even joined the Earthen Ring as I did. But no human has ever done it.

[ She wonders what would happen if that changed. ]

The elements have fallen out of balance, back home. Not even the elders know why it has happened. I worry what will become of things.
theweakhavepurpose: (Everything goes to hell)

[personal profile] theweakhavepurpose 2018-11-27 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
They're being pulled in too many different directions. It happens to people too, should they be loyal to their family? Their friends? Community? Town? Religion? Country? What takes precedence when everyone needs their help?

[ Poor spirits. He feels bad for them. ]

There's no humans because we're too proud to ask things for help. We think we're better than everything else.
oldtonew: (014)

[personal profile] oldtonew 2018-11-27 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know, [ Kettara admits. ] I don't know what I would do if the Warchief called for aid against the Alliance. I serve the Earthen Ring first, but the Horde is my family.

[ Inevitably, she knows, there will be conflict. ]

Why is that?
theweakhavepurpose: (Captured)

[personal profile] theweakhavepurpose 2018-11-27 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
There's never an easy solution.

Why do humans think they're better? I have no idea. We ruin and destroy everything so we're definitely not the prime species.
oldtonew: (004)

[personal profile] oldtonew 2018-11-27 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
No. But I will try my best to honor my oath and my family.

[ She watches him for a moment, thoughtful. ]

My master says it is better to look upon individuals rather than the whole. That we are not defined by the actions of others. But - this is difficult, for me. I look at humans and think of how they treated my mother.

[ How they treated her, growing up. ]

But it was a human woman who aided our Warchief. I - admire that. She had no reason to do so, but without her, the Horde would not exist.
theweakhavepurpose: (Escape)

[personal profile] theweakhavepurpose 2018-11-28 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
[He wants to say 'then they're just individually awful' but that's pretty morose even for him.]

It is better, but it's a lot harder. It means you have to see shades of things instead of black or white. It's a hell of a lot easier to define everything as us or them. Enemy or friend.

But that's how you demonize an entire group of people.

[Or a whole race. ]
oldtonew: (014)

[personal profile] oldtonew 2018-11-28 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.

[ She watches him for a moment. ]

You aren't so bad, for a human.
oldtonew: (003)

[personal profile] oldtonew 2018-11-30 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Kettara snorts. ]

Humans are strange! I don't understand why you do things the way you do. But - I am trying.
theweakhavepurpose: (Shotgun)

[personal profile] theweakhavepurpose 2018-12-01 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
You'll be better at it than me in no time.