week 4

[afflictionmods]

Hey guys, we've got an exciting week coming up for you! This week will be a mix of dreamscapes and memshares.

We're gonna start off with the first part of the week (Sunday - Thursday afternoon). If any of you are familiar with games like Recolle where pieces of characters' homes will appear in Estelline, it's basically like that! In addition, we'll also allow elements of characters' dreams affect the setting. Both canon and non-canon things can exist. For the latter, as an example: If Herlock dreams about there being a viola that's made for him, there will be a viola that he can actually play. If Xingqiu dreams about a hydro slime that can fly, there might be a hydro slime that can fly roaming about. If Shizuku has a fancy garden she wants to chill in, she can have a little fancy garden somewhere in the courtyard. Not everything in your characters' dreams will appear, but you can pick and choose what will! Things will shift in and out because this is dreamshare. Now you get to put all your fancy weapons to good use.

There is a chance that these changes will become permanent, so keep that in mind!

For now, though, here are guidelines and more information on what's allowed.

✓ Individual structures, 2 max at a time
✓ Creatures/robots, including pets, 2 species max per person at a time. These will be up to 8 feet max; anything larger will be shrunk down. You can have, say, a swarm of Squirtles, though, if you wanted to. Squirtle Squirtle. (Only if they'd dream of it, though.)
✓ Items like phones, music players, wallets, etc. These things will not be permanent.
✓ Cars, bikes, scooters, sail boats, etc.
✓ Small outdoor areas (i.e. a garden, a tennis court in the park)
✖ Large methods of transportation (i.e. planes, helicopters, cruise ships)
✖ Entire buildings (unless the shop is just its own individual building)
✖ Items in the regain gacha
✖ People/characters from your canons, even if they're not human. For non-human characters, if they have some kind of connection to the cast of your canon (i.e. Mokona), they aren't allowed.

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Now, for the second half (Thursday evening - Saturday), in place of a Saturday event, we are having the real memshare portion of the event. There will be opportunities to go into each other's memories, but instead of these memories only being viewable, you can actually interact with them and make decisions that will change the outcome of the memory. This will be very similar to the W1 CYOA situation and Sage -- post-memshare, characters will be able to recall different versions of the same event.

If you'd like a reprieve from pain sharing, these memories do not have to be bad. But we will leave that up to player discretion. You can absolutely go hard if you'd like to.

In these memories, you will be interacting with characters as they were in that point in time. For instance: If Owen went into one of Riku's memories involving Riku as a kid, he'd be able to talk to kid Riku. Older Riku will not be present in the memory itself. Any confrontations regarding memories will occur after Owen emerges from Riku's memory.

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There will be a handful of locations for you to explore (not too many, so as to not take away from the whole experience), though once again, something came up IRL (for Lav this time) so we may need to put a cap on setting investigations.

Furthermore, we are pleased to say that threads for this entire week, including ones on Saturday, will count towards AC! This is because we won't be having a Saturday event like usual, so you may use all threads from this week (barring NPC threads/investigation threads/mod tags) for AC and AC rewards.
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If you guys wanna use this as a plotting post of sorts, feel free to do so! We just wanted to give you a head's up since memshares and dreamscapes do take some time to think about, write up, and plot for.

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[catarou]

Very likely, a good portion of this week will involve big mclarge huge Hypmic spoilers, so if you care about that uhhh yeah just lmk. Otherwise, it's time to play "what the fuck is wrong with hypmic" for a whole week.

Locations

▪ Ramuda's place! The manga shows what's behind the curtain, but I can't link those publicly. It's basically just an inner office where Ramuda does all his work as a fashion designer; it's got mannequins, clothes he's designed hanging around, a table and other fashion designer things. There's also a truly concerning amount of sweets here as well as a lot of lollipops. Like, a lot. Probably don't eat them, because they very likely don't taste great. This also plays in the general area.

Here are some visuals from the anime. Reference 1 Reference 2 Reference 3
▪ Gentaro's house! I have no idea what his place looks like but we're going to pretend. It's got a veranda and a nice garden, too, and there are tons of books everywhere. Very relaxing!

Items

▪ Speakers!! You might find them floating around in random places. Most likely to show up are these.
▪ Gentaro's novels. I'll write up blurbs for them for the weekly log.
▪ Lollipops. Everywhere.
▪ Hachiko, because I would be a fool if this didn't show up.

Memories, where the spoilers are

▪ Visiting the hospital, where Gentaro reads to someone who resembles him, but who's in a coma.
▪ A moment where Hifumi Izanami insults Gentaro's clothes, and Gentaro absolutely loses it.
▪ The first Division Rap Battle, which Fling Posse lost.
▪ A confrontation where Dice, Gentaro, and Ramuda face off against three Ramudas.
▪ A confrontation with Honobono Keitoin (the booba lady), where Dice and Gentaro get the shit beaten out of them and nearly die.
▪ Probably more!!