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

[geiger]

[ It was, in fact, one of the things that made them S.P.E.C.I.A.L., and if he'd been in better humour she might have remarked on that. As it is she just shrugs, sighing. ]

I'm sorry. I guess not growing up in the wasteland, just stepping out into it one day, I get something of a weird perspective on it.

[thecourier]

[Even in better humour, he might have had a few things to say about that particular acronym that she wouldn't have wanted to hear, so maybe it's best she doesn't say anything after all.]

Yeah, I guess y' do.

[No subtlety, there.]

Every day, out there, I survive. I ain't gonna look at that one thing as the definin' moment of it. That... was the day one fink in a bad suit decided he wanted t' see me dead, an' after everythin' 'd lived through, I really thought it was gonna be the end 'f it.

[geiger]

[ Nora wants to insist that it wasn't the end of him, and that if it's the worst memory they could find for him he was fortunate, since she still firmly believes that him surviving it and coming back stronger is an inspiring story, but she can see she's not going to get anywhere with that. ]

At least tell me this, did that asshole get what was coming to him?

[thecourier]

[A short, sharp nod.]

Yeah. Once I pieced my memory back t'gether an' remembered what happened, I got m'self down t' the Strip. [He smiles thinly, without humour.]

Benny weren't as lucky, an' I'm a better shot.

[geiger]

Good to know. Even if he hadn't shot you, I didn't like the look of him.

[thecourier]

[A soft snort.]

Folks like Benny 're a dime a dozen on the Strip. They'll all stab each other in the back fer a chance t' get one rung further up the ladder.

[Granted, Benny was the only one who had shot him, but realistically..? It could have been any of them.]

Ended up takin' on his operation fer m'self.

[geiger]

We don't have anything on the same scale in the Commonwealth. There are plenty of raiders, of course, but most of them are trying to cling onto their own little corner.

[ It was still terribly dangerous, of course, but at least for the most part there weren't any big gang bosses like that to deal with. ]

[thecourier]

New Vegas ain't so big, on the grand scale a' things. House's influence never got out much further than the walls. Y' ain't ever heard of 'im, right?

[A lion in a very fine cage, so to speak. People knew of House, in places beyond Freeside, but aside from the occasional Securitron he had very little real pull out there.]

The Mojave's its own master. 'S always been that way.

[geiger]

Name sounds vaguely familiar from before the war, but that's all. I really miss the days of national broadcasting, sometimes it feels like the rest of America might as well be on Mars for how far away it seems.