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Priority Log - Part 2
Log 06 Priority (Part II)
Still the Big Screen Car
The last two weeks have been a busy time at FONY Records! Maybe you've been working diligently on your upcoming projects — or maybe you've been fighting the sense that something is wrong. That this life, whether it's better or worse than before, is not your own.
Either way, passengers will finally receive a new objective on their phones...
From here on out, characters can regain their real memories. They can do so randomly, but the most reliable way is to work with another passenger: they will know that by touching foreheads (yes, headbutting counts) for pairs, or huddling very closely for groups, they will unlock some memories for one or all of them — of course, it also allows the other person to see and feel everything play out, as though they lived it themselves.
It's memshare time!
As passengers regain their memories, their AU lives will start to fade. Production crews disappear, texts from your parents delete themselves, your favorite coffee shop is suddenly empty... Because you can't have both.
At least one character will need to reject the AU in order for everyone to progress; there is no minimum comment count. Characters may go both routes, but should ultimately prioritize one for the AC Poll.
Remembering
As characters regain the memories of their real lives, all semblance of their fake ones will rapidly disappear. And choosing to remember comes with side effects: passengers are overtaken by a fierce chill as the source of the cold finally presents itself. The shadows in the empty buildings around them start to stretch out. These shades collect in huge swathes — and shape themselves into sharp, spindly arms and fingers. They'll grab at whoever passes, leaving them cold and constricted, making it hard to remember what's happened and trying to drag them back into the illusions of the AU. However, when these shadows have manifested, they're also vulnerable: they can be dissolved by using a strong light, like a fire, flashlight, or stage light. Even sunlight will do the trick, but physically resisting the shadows will grow more and more difficult as they sap warmth from everything they touch.
For those less physically inclined, the shades have one more weakness: real, happy memories. By focusing on something that brought them past comfort, however small, characters can drive off the shades little by little.
This force controlling the AU clearly lives in shadows. Characters can weaken it by confronting these shades, in which case they will find themselves alone with their memories and a ghostly, empty city of Danaca.
Resisting
But maybe you don't want to remember—maybe your life in Danaca is too good to give up, and you'd rather have this even if it's not real. Unfortunately, once the illusion starts to shatter, there's no stopping the cracks from spreading.Characters that don't regain their memories through contact with other passengers (whether intentionally or unintentionally), will still find their fake identities starting to fade away, but their real identities won't be able to fill the gaps. Instead, they'll find themselves... hollow. Devoid of personality, hopes and dreams. Empty.
...And in that empty space, something else might slip in. The steady collapsing of Danaca has left plenty of strong emotions and ghosts hovering in the air, and passengers might find themselves embodying a powerful current of despair or anger. Or perhaps one of the false denizens might inhabit them (Chadsef, anyone?). Contact with another passenger might also ignite enough memory to return their personality, but it might also give them the wrong one; they might start acting like someone from their memories instead, such as a childhood friend (or enemy).
Regardless of the scenario, there is one common thread: an innate desire for contact with other passengers. Though they won't remember why, passengers will eventually be driven to reclaim their original selves through memshare with other characters. Whether they get everything back before they leave is up to you!
OOC Notes
AC Check is up! The deadline to submit AC is December 1st, 11:59 p.m. EST. Please note this is a day extended as we've pushed the log back a day, AC schedule overall will remain as normal.
Memshare: To add a little spice, memories do not need to be limited by your character's canon point. That is to say, sharing scenes from your character's future will also count as memshare.
Continuing Memloss: Characters may or may not regain all their memories prior to leaving the car, player's choice. The memshare mechanic will no longer be in effect, however players are free to naturally regain memories over time.
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glances nervously at timestamp
I did.
[Said quietly. Calmly. Her hand, which had been on Toko's shoulder drops to her side. Piecing together the truth of her own life along with the glimpse of a world she'd never seen before. The truth of Toko, which she is still unfolding in her head as she asks, shifting the conversation from her own sins,]
Do you remember the train?
glances lasciviously at your ass
I do n-now. Do you?
[Moron. She slaps both hands to her head and grumbles.]
Ugh! F-forget I said that! Just tell me why would you — you had a notebook here. You were r-recording everything. Are you gonna...
[She remembers thinking this woman was wise. Sophisticated, intelligent, and admirable. Lucretia knows best.
But does she?]
blushu
No. No I wouldn't.
[The insistence is there but the words ring hollow, despite the truth of them. Like she can feel Toko's distrust. Why should she trust her? Lucretia wouldn't, if the roles were swapped.
Pleading,]I promise you. That was, [A breath,] A very dire circumstance. There were no other options left.
no subject
E-everything they knew...and you, th-they wouldn't remember you either. You weren't giving them a choice. Why? Why would you do that?
[To them. To herself.
Toko lost her memories once, but that wasn't for some greater good. It was to guarantee her participation in a madwoman's game. It's not the same at all.]
no subject
No. It didn't matter. She'd made peace with that possibility that day she fed her journal to the Voidfish. It was worth the cost.
Scrubbing her face, she looks at Toko,]
...You know something about betraying those that you love for the greater good, don't you? About being trapped in a corner with no other way out.
[Based on that memory she saw... she can't guess the whole context but it didn't seem like Toko wanted to turn on that girl.]
no subject
Toko looks stricken, watering eyes blown wide by the accusation.]
What? [She sounds so small now. Her head is flipping through freshly renewed regrets, each diminishing her by a hair until she's scrunched up on the spot. Elbows in, tugging her knuckles, head ducked low, shoulders crouched over the cage of her chest.]
I...I don't kn-know what you're talking about...