Event: Reminiscence, Part Three

[snowblindmods]

REMINISCENCE

Late at night during night 81--or perhaps very early on day 82, it's difficult to tell--a message from @dulcedeleche appears in everyone's inboxes, reading as follows: This should revert some of the anomaly changes. Just install it. Or don't if you don't want to. Attached is a file called adjm31. It is entirely up to each character if they install it or not. When installed, a new application appears. It doesn't have an icon, and it's called adjm31, the same as its file name. If a character runs it, it will display a black screen for thirty seconds, humming the entire time, until it suddenly goes back to normal. Something slides into their brains, icy and precise--a snow queen freezing the ground she walks on. One memory is selected: a memory of the person the monster resembles, and one associated with fond feelings. It could be the warmth of a friendly moment or the thrill of triumphing over an enemy. It's always an important memory, something you know well. And then it's gone, turned to ice and shattered. It doesn't hurt. But it won't come back again. The monster associated with that character hesitates and begins to lose form, eventually melting into the snow entirely. If your character chooses not to install and use this app, then their monster will continue to pursue them. They will have to wait for another solution, if it comes. Remember that the consequences of running the app will not be known until someone actually runs it.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[snowblindmods]

[starsandtights]

Does this happen after Winter stops talking to people?

Is there any sort of time limit to use the app?

Can they literally feel something inside their brain?

Are they aware, somehow, that they've lost a memory?

[snowblindmods]

1) Yes.

2) The time limit is the end of the event. There will be a post for this when it happens.

3) It definitely feels like something, yes.

4) Yes, they'll be aware of the process and know they lost a memory, but not what it was.

[phaseshifter]

If a character runs the app, will they be aware that they've lost a memory of the person? Or will it just seem like nothing is different from their perspective?

[snowblindmods]

They'll be aware of the process and know they lost a memory, but they won't know what it was.

Re: QUESTIONS

[rattlingthestars]

If the character doesn't use it will the perusal be constant or is it more like their monsters when they come are always this thing? & will the monsters that stick around continue to behave as they are or will they become less willing to listen?

[snowblindmods]

The monsters will continue to behave as they did and follow as they have been following during the event.

Re: QUESTIONS

[silverfuller]

Just to make sure: Does the pleasant memory also have to be tied to the person the character is seeing or can it be any pleasant memory?

[snowblindmods]

It has to be tied to the person the character is seeing, but it doesn't have to be direct. The cause of happiness doesn't have to be that person.

[lionson]

I just want to check, but that memory that someone loses, it's just one memory of the person, right? Not all memories of that person?

[snowblindmods]

It's just one memory, yes.

Re: QUESTIONS

[0thingsonmymind]

I assume winter won't be replying to questions on this? will chars even be able to reach her or will they get the same sort of results England got when trying?

[snowblindmods]

Attempts to PM @dulcedeleche will give a user not found error.

[rattlingthestars]

Is it too spoilers to ask if using/not using the app will have long term consequences ala the beacon?

[snowblindmods]

The loss of a memory of the person the monster is based after is the consequence for turning it on. There is no guarantee there won't be a consequence for not turning it on as well.