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

[livemoore]

[ It took Liv a long time to pull herself away from watching the boat party go to hell. Longer than it should have. She watches herself fall overboard, hit the side of the boat and then float face first in the water too many times before realizing if this is what she's reliving, then what the hell is Frank seeing?

Snapping herself out of it she actually runs to his room and she doesn't even knock, just pushes herself inside. He can do what he wants, she's not afraid of him, she refuses to be, though she doesn't actually want to get shot. ]

I'm here.

[ She stretches out her arm, and in a stop position. ]

I'm here, I'm real, and Wonderland is screwing with you, don't let it. Frank. Don't.

[scoutsniper]

[Too late, he wants to say. This place had been fucking with him from the beginning, but never quite as bluntly as now. He doesn't want to be in the memory, but it's no surprise to him. But he doesn't want to leave, as though it feels like it's his duty to stay with it, as long and as many times as it plays out. ]

I can't, Liv. I can't. [Still, the pistol lowers, no longer aiming at her.]

[livemoore]

I know.

[ She does know, and she steps forward. ]

We can't change anything in our memories. And that's why you need to get out of here. Just come with me, Frank.

[scoutsniper]

[His eyes squeeze shut, for a long moment, and he shakes his head.] I can't leave them. They're...they're suffering. [Over and over, his daughter clinging to him, his son crying his name. ]

[livemoore]

They're not. They aren't, not anymore. This is your memory, Frank. It's in your own mind.

[ Which means over and over again he replays it, his kids, always in pain. ]

[scoutsniper]

It's always in my own mind, Liv. This is real. Real enough. There's just...the first minute. It's worth almost all of it. [That first minute, when everything is happy and perfect and he saw a life stretching out in front of him like a golden path.]

[livemoore]

Tell me about them. Come in a different room and talk to me about them, tell me all the thing that make that first minute perfect.

[ If that won't help, if he says on, that's fine. But she's trying anything, here. ]

[scoutsniper]

[He knows he promised her, but he can't move, not yet, as though his body had been filled with cement or something. He holds out a hand, at least, as if holding her hand would help. Or, at least signal he's trying.]

My wife is happy, and my kids, you know, they're talking to me about school. Just dumb shit like which kids are the jerks and who's cool and how mean their math teacher is. It's just...normal.

[livemoore]

[ Liv takes his hand, then laces their fingers together so that their hands are pressing palm to palm. ] Tell me their names.

[ She asks that gently, stepping a little closer to him, trying to keep him grounded somehow, focused on her as they talk. ]

[scoutsniper]

[It hurts to say their names, the syllables burning like acid in his throat. ]

Lisa--my little girl. And Frank Jr. My son. They both died. Because I thought shit was over. [A mistake he's not making again. Ever.]

[livemoore]

[ Once she's close enough, Liv presses her forehead to his. ]

It wasn't your fault. I know you've probably heard that, that you don't accept it. I understand why. But you still need to know. It wasn't your fault.

[scoutsniper]

I don't know that. Every time I dig, it gets deeper and it's all starting to point back to me. [It's something he's missing out on being back home--getting to the truth, and stopping them. Making them pay. ]

[livemoore]

I wish I could help you.

[ And Liv does, she genuinely does. He shouldn't have to dig alone. ]

But just because someone or something out there wanted to hurt you, that's them being threatened by you and a coward's move was to do...what they did.

[ She can't say it, and it's not even her family. She just hurts for him. ]

[scoutsniper]

Doesn't mean they deserve to get away with it, Liv. Any of it.

[livemoore]

No, it doesn't. I agree with you.

[ She has done some stupid things in her life as a dead person to try and get to answers, to try and bring down people who only want to make others suffer, so is she going to be the one to tell him what he's doing back home is wrong? No. But that doesn't mean he can do anything here and now. ]

Whatever you need to do, you will. I know you will. But the people who did this aren't in Wonderland, Frank.

[scoutsniper]

Yeah, I know. [One of the things he hates about being here. ] Kills me to think how much they're doing back there.

[livemoore]

But they're not, not while you're here. So at least...I don't know, at least there's that. You aren't missing the chance to make them pay.

[scoutsniper]

It feels like it, though. Like they're not suffering enough.

[There's brain logic and then there's 'been shot in the head' logic.]

[livemoore]

[ Liv feels so far out of her element; she has no idea what to do. Whatever common sense she's trying to reach isn't happening, so now what? ]

When someone takes away the people you love it never feels like enough.

[ Maybe no matter what he does or how far he goes, nothing will ever feel like enough. ]

[scoutsniper]

Yeah. Nothing feels like enough.

[Common sense died for him with his family. ]

[livemoore]

I promised you I wouldn't leave, so I'm not.

[ She's stubborn as hell and yes, she knows it. ]

So, right now, what do you want to do?

[ If it winds up that he wants to keep trying to save his family in some fruitless loop, she doesn't know what she's going to do. But she made a promise. ]