It may very well be the worst thing that's ever happened to you! | OPEN MINGLE

[vitaelamorte]

Who: EVERYONE!
Where: EVERYWHERE!
When: Friday October 27th - Tuesday October 31st
Rating: PG-13, warn if you're gonna go higher!
Summary: A catch all for the Horrible Memory Truth Event!
The Story:

For the duration of this event, everyone's entire room will be replaced with a memory playing on loop. They will likely recognize the moment as soon as they see it – it is a moment they remember as the worst moment of their entire lives. It could be a memory from home or something that happened in Wonderland. Lengths of the memories will vary, but they will find that these are not memories they can merely watch – they can step into these memories and attempt to make changes to them, and the memories will be long enough that they have time to make changes (though no more than 24 hours). However, anyone who tries will find that it is futile. No matter what you do or how hard you try, the outcome is always exactly the same somehow. No changes you make will prevent that horrible outcome. It just happens over and over and over again no matter what you do.

On top of that, perhaps complicating any attempts to make changes, everyone will be forced to be honest for the duration of the event. No lies or half-truths are allowed, and filters will be gone for the entire five days. If something bothers someone then they will blurt it out, regardless of whether or not it hurts someone's feelings, and no one will be able to simply keep quiet when they have something to say. They must be truthful and honest with every word they say.

This is a catch-all log for all of your Worst Memory needs! Please mark your threads clearly in the subject line with your character's name and Room Number + Floor for character rooms, or just location if you're making a top level for a public place in the mansion (like the tea rooms or the kitchen) so people can see if there's already a thread available. And here's the plot post if you need it!

Have fun!

Comments

FLOOR 01; ROOM 11

[keephersafe]

[The scene is fuzzy around the edges, like something half forgotten.

A youngster with short, dark hair stands at the edge of a cafeteria room, watching the comings and goings of those around him. The boy looks remarkably like R, but he is most certainly alive. Living and breathing, but with a certain... nothingness in the eyes as he observes. Nearby, a woman with dark hair and eyes just like his is serving food to a group of bedraggled-looking people standing in a line. They shuffle along, some with their heads down and some making idle small-talk and a low hum of activity covers the entire room.

Around the teenager, though, everything is quiet. Like the eye of a storm he stands there, waiting, making no movement as a sudden scuffle breaks out behind the serving line. There are shouts, then several people scream as the dark-haired woman is stabbed through the neck with a potato peeler.

Blood sprays as she falls to the ground. People run to help as her assailant is dragged away, but they're too late.

She dies, with her eyes turned in the direction of her son, and the boy makes no reaction. He only briefly draws his lower lip in between his teeth, bites it lightly, then turns and leaves the building.

R stays and watches this memory playing over and over again. He recognises himself, but he doesn't know where this is, or who the woman is, or what any of this means. While he sits there he has no idea that people are experiencing memories, or that this is one of his - a part of his past that he can no longer remember. Part of his life that the plague took from him the moment he was bitten. If anyone notices he's missing, they'll find him sitting with his back to the wall beside the door of his room, just watching.]