ANNIVERSARY EVENT IS HERE!!
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missrecalled_oocHoly wow, our second anniversary! How has that even happened?! Thank you all so much for these wonderful years so far!
For some, anniversaries are a time to look back. For some it is a time to look forward. For a second anniversary, why not both?
But wait, how will both work? What kind of weirdo event could involve looking forward and back at the same time?!
This one, of course!
In this event, each character's future is able to send memories back to their younger selves. These will not be whole scenes. Actually they won't be super useful. They will, in fact, be super confusing. Each glimpse is a glimpse, no more.
Again: None of these will not be a full scenes. In fact unless the scenery is necessary to make the glimpse even more puzzling there will be none. Some glimpses will be from the character's point of view (meaning the character's future self isn't visible) and some will be from a veiw point that includes the character. Not every character in the scene will be there, necessarily. and no glimpse should last more than a half minute.
Again, the point of this is to be a cryptic glimpse, a confusion. Fun for the players far more than from the characters.
In fact for those who started their time in this game on the Isle this will be very unfun. Their glimpses should be not just more confusing, but nearly always should be upsetting glimpses. Seeing themselves with someone they hate, for example. Or seeing someone they love in terrible danger.
Wait, did I just say people who started their time in game on the Isle? YEP! You read that right. This event doesn't care if the character is currently in Auradon or on the Isle. The variable factor is instead where the character started!
A twist! I know!
So happy glimpses for the most part for those who started in Auradon and unhappy ones for those who first arrived on the Isle.
Further - some characters in game are in game at the end of their canon. Either for themselves (as in they are dead) or in total. Well, that is where the bonus fun comes in! Because the characters are here now. Their fates may well have been changed because of it! This includes head canoning them staying in this world, or jumping to another world with another game. Or maybe they went home, and shockingly were still alive there. Somehow because they were here.
Okay so lets see, we covered that the bad glimpses go mostly to those who appeared first on the Isle, and good ones to those who started in Auradon. And we know how we can handle anyone who is at the end of their canon if they want to. What else is left?
The order.
As much as is reasonably possible, these glimpses should happen in chronological order, starting from as soon as they return to their world (or for those staying in this world when the game ends, figure about 10 years as the start point to keep from creating headcanons that conflict too wildly). As for where they stop...
You are hereby advised NOT to go to the last possible canon point - whatever that may be for you - because part two... will be using that last moment. More details will come for that when the second half drops.
For now, the best way to think of it is that your character's future self is trying to send memories back to their younger selves, but the connection is worse than voice chat on Discord when everyone on the call is doing falsetto voices. But they're not going to show their current moment, they're building to it.
Please note that all the usual rules for the game apply and these future memory snippets are subject to the same magical censoring, though you could feel free to have the "transmission" just cut out over the whole of the swear word, rather than replacing it.
Alright! If you have questions, leave them below.
For some, anniversaries are a time to look back. For some it is a time to look forward. For a second anniversary, why not both?
But wait, how will both work? What kind of weirdo event could involve looking forward and back at the same time?!
This one, of course!
In this event, each character's future is able to send memories back to their younger selves. These will not be whole scenes. Actually they won't be super useful. They will, in fact, be super confusing. Each glimpse is a glimpse, no more.
Again: None of these will not be a full scenes. In fact unless the scenery is necessary to make the glimpse even more puzzling there will be none. Some glimpses will be from the character's point of view (meaning the character's future self isn't visible) and some will be from a veiw point that includes the character. Not every character in the scene will be there, necessarily. and no glimpse should last more than a half minute.
Again, the point of this is to be a cryptic glimpse, a confusion. Fun for the players far more than from the characters.
In fact for those who started their time in this game on the Isle this will be very unfun. Their glimpses should be not just more confusing, but nearly always should be upsetting glimpses. Seeing themselves with someone they hate, for example. Or seeing someone they love in terrible danger.
Wait, did I just say people who started their time in game on the Isle? YEP! You read that right. This event doesn't care if the character is currently in Auradon or on the Isle. The variable factor is instead where the character started!
A twist! I know!
So happy glimpses for the most part for those who started in Auradon and unhappy ones for those who first arrived on the Isle.
Further - some characters in game are in game at the end of their canon. Either for themselves (as in they are dead) or in total. Well, that is where the bonus fun comes in! Because the characters are here now. Their fates may well have been changed because of it! This includes head canoning them staying in this world, or jumping to another world with another game. Or maybe they went home, and shockingly were still alive there. Somehow because they were here.
Okay so lets see, we covered that the bad glimpses go mostly to those who appeared first on the Isle, and good ones to those who started in Auradon. And we know how we can handle anyone who is at the end of their canon if they want to. What else is left?
The order.
As much as is reasonably possible, these glimpses should happen in chronological order, starting from as soon as they return to their world (or for those staying in this world when the game ends, figure about 10 years as the start point to keep from creating headcanons that conflict too wildly). As for where they stop...
You are hereby advised NOT to go to the last possible canon point - whatever that may be for you - because part two... will be using that last moment. More details will come for that when the second half drops.
For now, the best way to think of it is that your character's future self is trying to send memories back to their younger selves, but the connection is worse than voice chat on Discord when everyone on the call is doing falsetto voices. But they're not going to show their current moment, they're building to it.
Please note that all the usual rules for the game apply and these future memory snippets are subject to the same magical censoring, though you could feel free to have the "transmission" just cut out over the whole of the swear word, rather than replacing it.
Alright! If you have questions, leave them below.
Examples!
Date: 2024-10-20 08:35 am (UTC)Yes:
Ian's voice was heard, though the image was hard to see. There were two people sort of visible, one seemed to be Ian but flickering in and out. The other seemed to be changing rapidly between two different people, making it hard to make out the features of either.
"Ben?" Came Ian's voice. "Ben! Y-you're alive!"
The flickering man spoke. "Barely. Where have you been? And why didn't I leap home? Why do you look so different? W-why are you looking at me like that?"
The scene faded out.
Yes:
Ian with hair a mix of red and blond, a dark haired woman, a blond woman, and a dark haired man stood in a room full of computer equipment. With a sudden almost panicked look, Ian started counting.
"One two three! ROCK PAPER SCISSORS!" As they counted, Ian and the dark haired woman threw rock paper scissors.
Ian threw rock, the woman threw paper.
"GODS! DANG IT!" Ian said, clearly upset. "Why do I keep losing?"
"Ian," the blond woman said, as the dark haired woman smiled, "always go paper."
"That's not how statistical probability works."
The scene faded out.
Please note this is right at the upper edge for how detailed and how long a snippet should be.
No:
Ian walked into a red lit room where many people were playing poker. A dark haired woman at one end of the table seemed to be enjoying herself immensely. Until she saw Ian. Then she looked like someone pretending to be having fun, but the tension was visible in her face.
It was visible in Ian's.
"Hey," Ian said softly. "It's turtle time," the words were said with weight, gravitas.
All traces of amusement left the woman's face. Ian nodded.
The woman leaned forward to the others at the poker table. "If you had pocket kings, you would have raised pre-flop.
One of the other players, a man with a cigar gave her an intrigued look, neither confirming nor denying.
"I call," she added, putting her chips in.
"Dang it," the man with the cigar said, throwing in his cards. A seven and a five, both red.
The woman gave a feline smile as she dropped a pair of queens face up. "Cash me out," she said to another person at the table, "and put it on my tab."
"We just got started!" the man with the cigar protested.
"Hey," the woman said, smiling at him, "At least now you got a shot at winning."
Ian opened the door and nodded out to the hall. The woman drew close and dropped her voice to something hardly more than a whisper. "Tell me you're not about to say what you're about to say."
The scene faded.
Basically, it should not be a whole scene, even if the scene in canon cuts away at an odd point. And it should not be super detailed. The more people the less detail. But even if it is only your character alone, unless the detail makes things confusing or can be fun to play off of, err on the side of less detail.
Also please remember to spoiler tag.
Oh, hey, why not one more example?
Let's take one from Xion this time!
Yes
A small figure in a dark cloak, hood hiding the face stood. In the figure's gloved hand was a Keyblade that looked just like Xion's. And it was pointed... At Lea. He looked either pained or scared or worried. Hard to tell.
The scene faded.
Hope those examples helped...
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Date: 2024-10-28 11:20 pm (UTC)Edit: Also, do the future events have to be things the character remembers by whatever ends up being the 'final' canon point? Gajeel and Lily have a major event that they only remember the aftermath of, thanks to brainwashing shenanigans.
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Date: 2024-10-30 05:30 am (UTC)Thank you for that second question! I actually meant to address this in the main post. Memories are being "Sent" by a future version of themselves, and that future version is static, the same end point/canon point is sending all of these memories, so anything they do not remember they cannot send.
Likewise, if there are any memories in which different characters perceive different things - such as mental communications that can only be heard by a select few characters or scenes where multiple people are seeing the same thing differently because magic, those memories will not come through.
Hope this helps and thank you for the questions!