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.
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Comments

[ghostlocked]

[He hums as he considers this. He gets the logic, but...]

I don't know. I think it's better that people know what they're up against, not to mention it'd be a fuck of a lot easier on you guys.

[He shrugs.]

Magic and monsters and shit are all common knowledge where I'm from, and we've managed to avoid mass panic.

[knifecollecting]

[His world seems like a mess to her, but she's pretty sure the same is true of when people hear about her world.]

Yeah, but it happens more in your world. There's a chance someone is randomly born with magic. Lots of people back home go through life thinking ghosts and werewolves are just stories. It doesn't affect everyone.

[ghostlocked]

[She is correct.

He mulls this over, though. She's got a point. This is an interesting conversation.]

I'm still a believer in not keeping people in the dark, but I see what you're saying. If someone from my world can miss magic and monsters being a thing, they're seriously out of touch. I don't think that'd be possible, even. But how rare are we talking in your world?

[knifecollecting]

I'm not collecting stats on hauntings and shit. [Jo laughs at the question, shaking her head slightly.]

Even towns where something is common, like, campgrounds where a Wendigo woke up, people will explain it away. It's a bear, that person just got lost and that's that. [Thankfully, most of the time it doesn't seem to be something like that. Or, not thankfully? Jo's still not sure.]

I don't think people believe it even if they hear first hand. You have to be open-minded from the start.