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Piper 90: Mods ([personal profile] goneawaymod) wrote in [community profile] goneawayworld2020-08-08 01:55 am

Invasion!

Who: The New Hires
What: Sudden Memory Share
Where: Their Memory Palaces
When: After Intermission
Warnings/Notes: Possible in every memory, warn in subject lines.

Contact.

It's during a pause in their day. A nap. An idle moment looking across the Top Deck. Taking a slow breath between reps in the training room.

The New Hires are connected. Mental pathways locking together, they're forced into one another's innermost beings. Thrust into one another's memory palaces where the mind collects and stores everything that makes them who they are. The core of their beings are only a few steps away and no one can help the violation.

To make matters worse, it comes with no explanation or no ability to pull out and stop. Once they're through the first memory, perhaps they can find a way out, but they're already witnessing some event from their host's past. And, if they left, who knows whether or not they'd end up accidentally invading another memory palace?

And if they were there, who was in theirs?

[[So, how this works: the memories can either be viewed in spectator mode or experiencing everything themselves. The person whose memories are being shown, the host, can watch as their current self or take the form they had of their past self.

They cannot control the first memory shown, the player decides that, but they can control any other memories they'd like to show people. Of course, there's always the option of an extreme emotional reaction bringing up memories unbidden.]]
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[personal profile] valkywhee 2020-08-13 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Sure seems that way." Nora puffs her breath up through her bangs, but really, she's not too upset. Guts wouldn't do something like this on purpose. "No big deal, it's not like it's a secret I'm an orphan."
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[personal profile] garmr 2020-08-13 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm sorry. This must feel pretty invasive," he says this earnestly. He wouldn't be too happy about a peanut gallery in his traumatic memories, even if Nora seems fine with it.

He looks on with quiet sympathy at the sight of the kid trudging along on her own. There's nothing he can do about it now, but there's a certain softness in him that comes out around children that are hurting. Don't say anything, Nora. He's supposed to be a cold badass.
Edited 2020-08-13 15:27 (UTC)
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[personal profile] valkywhee 2020-08-20 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Eh. It was a long time ago and everything turned out all right." She shrugs. Not everyone is devoted to being grim, stoic badasses, Guts. Some people are perky, well-adjusted badasses. "I made it to Kuroyuri just fine."

That triggers the memory to advance itself to the village. "Those kids were jerks," she says without any real animosity, shaking her head.
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[personal profile] garmr 2020-08-21 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
He can’t be perky, but he can see that she has mostly resolved her feelings on the matter, so he eases up a bit.

“Surprised you went so easy on ‘em,” he remarks. Guts is pretty convinced Child Nora could beat up a group of bratty kids if she wanted. He’s felt her hammer enough times in the training room to be sure of this.

Should have bitten all of them to teach them a lesson.
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[personal profile] valkywhee 2020-08-24 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
The boys' faces are indistinct, a group of identical, frightening menaces young Nora is too overwhelmed to respond to. "I wouldn't now, but then I was scared out of my mind," the adult version says, sympathetic to her child self.

At that moment, Ren comes running into the memory and Nora's life, his face crystal clear, and Nora half-snorts, half-chuckles as the pair's eyes meet and he freezes up. "Heh."
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[personal profile] garmr 2020-08-27 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. So she wasn't trained to murder people from a young age as he had wondered. He takes another look as Ren comes into the picture in clear detail.

"Friend of yours?"

Not a particularly brave friend, from the looks of things.
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[personal profile] valkywhee 2020-08-31 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's Ren," Nora says, smiling fondly. "He's my best friend."

When Ren's father appears, the memory gets shaky again as young Nora takes advantage of the distraction to dart away with her loaf of bread, which she starts to eat crouched beneath one of Kuroyuri's stilt houses