Event Eleven.

[awashmods]

With Tears
[ 9/21 - 9/28 ]

There could be a lot of causes of this event -- perhaps it's the amount of color that's been restored to the Town! Perhaps it's the number of characters who came in this month? Perhaps it's all the muddling around in the well? The possibilities are endless... but either way, something everyone has done has caused a few unexpected side effects this month.

Starting on 9/21, whenever someone makes contact with another character, they will share a memory with them. The type of "contact" that has to happen can be very loose, and will vary from character to character. A particularly handsy character may have to touch someone to share a memory with them, while a more reticent character may only have to make eye contact. Feel free to be as creative as you like; the trigger for the memory sharing can be anything you'd like for it to be! Both characters will experience the memory in question that's being shared, so the character doing the sharing will be very aware of what just happened.

As for the memories... they can be anything! Happy, sad, dramatic, mundane and everything in between... whatever you'd personally like the other character to experience is fair game here. But, of course, this is Awash, and things can never be that simple, so there is a bit of a twist:

For Yellows: Any character who is experiencing a yellow's memory will feel the physical aspects of what the character was experiencing in their memory. If the character was stabbed? They'll feel like they were stabbed. If they were peacefully sleeping, they'll probably feel more rested.

For Reds: Characters experiencing a red character's memory will be able to experience their thoughts in that memory. They will be able to hear what the character was thinking, what was going through their head, and what was on their mind (if anything!).

For Blues: Every character experiencing a blue character's memory will feel the character's emotional state. They'll feel how upset the character was, how happy they were, how overwhelmed they were. Those emotions will be as fresh and intense as if they were their own emotions.

Please note that these are influenced by the characters who are sharing the memories; your character, regardless of color, can experience all of these! They can also be as strong or weak of an impact as you want -- it can vary by character, so please don't feel as though you have to share every last thought a character had, for instance, to share a memory.

Oh, and one more thing: it will be very, very subtle at first, but the longer the week goes on, the more strongly characters will feel the need to be around others; they will be tense, stressed and nervous the longer they go without spending time with someone. So that plan to hole up in your house and let this pass you by? It's... going to be a lot harder than it first seemed.

The event log for this event will be up 9/21! If there are any questions, please feel free to ask them here!

Comments

QUESTIONS

[awashmods]

[crowsigliere]

Just a quick question as far as how the memories themselves are experienced! If A is sharing one with B, would it feel as though they were experiencing the memory (again, in the sharer's case) firsthand, as if they B were in A's place? Or would it feel more like watching as a (very invested) bystander who happens to share whatever physical/emotional/thoughts that occur?

[awashmods]

For the character sharing the memory, it'll feel as though they're just remembering whatever it was again! They won't be experiencing the actual event as if it's an out of body experience or anything -- it'll be a bit more like a very vivid flashback instead. For character B, the one receiving the memory, you can play it either way -- they can either see character A as if they were a bystander watching the memory occur, or as if they are seeing it through character A's eyes; whichever way would be more fun to play out for you!

[crowsigliere]

Awesome, that's perfect! Thank you!

Re: QUESTIONS

[queenofminiskirts]

Can a memory the character themselves have forgotten be shared? Or does it have to be one they actually remember? Because Kaoru has a few that were modified by another esper and another that...due to complicated circumstances she doesn't remember?

[awashmods]

Memories that can't be remembered, for reasons like that or for amnesiac characters, for instance, can be used in this event without any problems! It's up to you if you'd like to use them or not.

[queenofminiskirts]

Can 'making the motion to touch/reach out to someone' a trigger?

[awashmods]

Yes, we're leaving said trigger/type of "contact" that each character uses entirely up to you, so anything is fine!

[tendershepherd]

Just a quick clarification on the twist:

So when you say physical aspects for yellows, that's basically only what/how their body physically felt during the memory but removed from the emotion that may've caused it?

For instance, if the character in a memory felt a weight on their chest that made it hard to breathe because of, say, fear or something, the person the memory is shared with will only feel the physical aspect but not the emotion of fear that caused the physical reaction. Am I understanding it right?

[awashmods]

That's correct! Yellows will share only the physical aspect of whatever a character was experiencing at that time. It can be the exhaustion from running a long distance, the pain of being stabbed, or similar things along those lines. If you would like them to feel the physical aspect of an emotion without the emotional cue, that's perfectly fine!

[tendershepherd]

Awesome, thank you!

And one more similar question: Yellows can't share their emotions from the memory at all, or can they it's just not as clear/strong as it would be if they were blue?

Asking cuz when I read the post the last part sounded like that to me so I just want to be sure!

[awashmods]

That's correct, yellows can't share their emotions from their memories. Those effects divided by color are restricted to the colors listed.

All we meant by the last part is that the volor of the character receiving the memory has no impact! A blue character can receive a yellow character's physical sensations when experiencing their memories. We hope that clarifies things!

[tenthousandmiles]

do the physical aspects include what the character could see and hear during the memory?

[awashmods]

All of the memories, regardless of color, will include what could be seen and heard during the memory! We're sorry if that wasn't clear. By the physical aspects, we mostly mean an additional ability to explicitly experience what the character was touched by/hit by/etc, which you wouldn't usually receive just by remembering something!

[hydrokinetics]

Hi mods! Just a quick clarification and just to make sure, but can memories also be things that have happened to characters in Awash? Or do these need to just stick to canon memories? Thank you in advance!

[awashmods]

Awash memories are perfectly fine to share! Anything that would fall under that umbrella of a character's memories is fair game.

[umbraportation]

Can someone experiencing the physical effects of a yellow actually carry that outside of the memory? Such as not just feeling unsubstantial but also being unsubstantial for a time? Especially since Nico has experienced it for himself?

It would be in small ways such as his hand passing through a doorknob before becoming solid again. Basically just small bursts at a time for a couple of hours.

[awashmods]

While the characters experiencing the physical effects of a yellow will feel those physical effects, they won't actually have them happen to them! For instance, if a character is shot or stabbed, the other character will feel as though they were stabbed, but won't actually have been literally stabbed!

So it's totally fine to have the feeling of those effects linger if you'd like them to, but nobody will actually be intangible; they'll just feel as though they are! We hope that helps clarify things!

[umbraportation]

Gotcha! Thanks mods!

[whereabout]

Is headcanon for stuff that we know happened legit? i.e. we know babby Joshua killed a lot of people offscreen, would fleshing out a random murder from that be cool? Or do we need to stick to things that happened onscreen?

[awashmods]

Of course! Please feel free to extrapolate on events that you know happened to your character for the sake of the memories they're sharing!

[passio]

if a character’s memory trigger is eye contact, but they’re unable to see (because of a dark room, fairy wings, etc.) would the memory still be shared?

[awashmods]

If they can't see to make eye contact, then the memory won't be shared! The trigger definitely has to be, well, triggered for it to work, no matter what type of character contact you choose for it.

[allweather]

is the memory share a one and done deal, or if characters keep high fiving or whatever, can they keep seeing more memories from the same people?

[awashmods]

That's up to you! We'll leave it flexible; it can either be one and done if you'd like the characters to be able to have a serious talk without tripping into each other's memories over and over, or they can end up having memory dominoes for a few hours.

Whatever works best to play with at the time!

[allweather]

nice, i love dominoes

thank you!!

[good_ideas]

Quick question about Shiho and her psychometry! Esper powers in ZKC originate in the brain and are measurable through diodes and CAT scans so would that count as a physical aspect and would characters then also be able to see other people’s thoughts and the information off of items and such inside Shiho’s memories?

[awashmods]

That would be fine, yes! Since that would be a physical aspect of Shiho's memories and doesn't really fit into something that would be considered more "emotional", you're more than welcome to make use of that if you'd like to!