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week 4

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.

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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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VIBRATES IN DREAMSCAPE i have a few immediate thoughts!!!

POTENTIAL LOCATIONS

hinomori household - a traditional japanese home with tatami and paper doors and everything. key points will include her bedroom and the gardens, but the rest is able to be explored as well
miyamasuzaka girl's academy, shizuku's high school! key points include the courtyard and roof, where mmj does practices
the stage SEKAI, born of MORE MORE JUMP's true feelings and desires to be idols, with one main stage and a back stage, though you can see countless stages all with full audiences in the distance. though, you can't reach them even if you can navigate through the shadow audiences...
shizuku's old agency -
... probably where the worst memories will show up to be honest, since this is where most of the bullying she went through happened. it's a normal agency though. there's a stage and a dance hall.

ITEMS

phone - shizuku's phone! nothing too special, but she has recordings from her practices with the girls, demos and near finished drafts of several mmj songs, and a perfectly polished version of a small handful of songs on it.
cheerful*days CD - a few cds from shizuku's time in cheerful days. who cares about them though.
MORE MORE JUMP CD- the ideal first album from MMJ! not real yet, but it will be someday. more polished versions of their songs will be available on these!

MEMORIES

cheerful*days early days - before things got bad, but shizuku struggles with anxiety, especially after being made the center. warnings will include perceptions warped by anxiety
not so cheerful*days - when things got bad. warnings will include perceptions warped by anxiety, bullying, sad shizukus
dance practice with mmj
baby shiho maybe :0
AND MORE

Edited 2022-06-12 00:44 (UTC)

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!!

Warning: There are spoilers for the Enstars game that's about to come out in English! Please just let me know if you'd prefer pre-!! memories or avoidance of mainline plot spoilers.

Locations:
- A certain seedy club with a stage and thematic lighting. This is where Double Face did their first live. It ended badly for their host... A place with a lot of bad vibes.
- The Antique Market stage, site of the showdown between Valkyrie and Double Face. It's a place filled with feelings of vengeance and retribution.
- The NewDi office; mundane and boring, but there are echoes here of discussions of normal idol business. It's a happier place.
- A flower garden full of white flowers. It was cultivated seed by seed by Madara's own hands. Peaceful and idyllic... until the explosions start?!

Items:
- A purple idol uniform
- A white idol uniform
- Posters and merch for MaM and (lesser so) Double Face

Memories:
- His first live with Kohaku as Double Face (with warnings for potential murder/ambiguous outcome of someone's state of being)
- Coming back to Yumenosaki from abroad in his third year (warnings for violence, mentions of suicide)
- Kanata's defeat in second year, Madara's POV from overseas (warnings for isolation and self-esteem issues)
- A whole flower garden being blown up around him by landmines (yeah) (warnings for violence and explosions, family issues)
- Any song/live performance your heart might desire! Just go pick an outfit from the wiki! (these will be relatively free of warnings!) (but may contain lengthy speeches)
- SPOILER ALERT: Various meetings with the Gatekeeper, including Nagisa's capture (warnings for topics such as kidnapping, forced isolation, apparent backstabbing and betrayal, murder, suicide, accidental death, and more. I will warn if anything else specific comes up and discuss in advance if it might.) (note that these adjacent memories will have lots more to do with his cool espionage side though!)

Edited 2022-06-14 19:44 (UTC)

POSSIBLE LOCATIONS:

💧 Umebachidou is the strange little bookstore where Tamamori lives: it's a two-story, stand-alone iron building that looks more like a fortified storehouse or treasury than a bookstore. There are reasons for that! You can invade his messy-ass room (goldfish... included...?!) or take a look at all the Japanese and translated literature from the Meiji/Taisho eras (available up to 1922, except all of Yumeno Kyusaku's works are available earlier than real life, for Reasons). Let me know if your character wants to go snooping more closely, it'll be fun. ☆

💧 The Kikai Bathhouse is a traditional Japanese bathhouse renowned for its painted view of Mount Fuji while you soak. If your character is really feeling like a good long hot bath while staring dreamily at the mountains, this is the place for them! And whoever else wants to wander in here and bathe together. It's a communal bathhouse, folks.

💧 The Touyou Cinema, which is a very small one-room old-timey movie theater -- it's so old it usually still has benshis accompanying its movies. The inside is pretty nice and good for leisure, though! There's just the one theater with a small screen, and all that ever plays here is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for some reason. Forever. There are no other movies at this theater.

💧 The very fashionable and very colorful Café Éclair, where one may partake in excellent cups of coffee, tea, Calspi, or other beverages while listening to authentic gramophone sounds of French jazz and sinking into both the plush booths and the sophisticated atmosphere. There's a food menu, too; it includes light Japanese dishes as well as more Western-influenced fare such as omurice. It's all from around 1922, of course.

💧 Please note that due to the nature of the dreamscape, other characters will now be able to see Tamamori's personal hallucinations, which are a pretty regular thing for him, though he doesn't generally mention them to people he doesn't know well (for obvious reasons). They can consist of anything (buildings, furniture, clothing, etc.) from the world changing colors and gaining strange things like fish swimming through the air or beautiful clouds (yeah, the things in the screenshot aren't a stylistic choice, they're actually happening), to the entire landscape itself changing in fantastical and bizarre ways. A whole forest could pop up in the background, you could suddenly appear to be underwater, or fireworks could start happening. These are generally very temporary and will come up only in Tamamori's vicinity; they're largely based on Japanese or older Western literature, but they can also be based off of his own writing, so feel free to pull concepts and possibilities from the short stories he delivered in Week 3 if you'd like. Yes, this includes suddenly being in unusual or fantasy outfits if that's your jam (as mentioned briefly before lol). If you'd rather not play with something involving hallucinations and sensory alteration, feel free to ignore this part! Just let me know as well so I know not to bring it up in threads.

💧 There will almost always be a light to heavy rain happening outside and around Tamamori’s areas.

PETS/ITEMS/MISC:

💧 It's time to meet a very special boi-- it's Frog Man!!! He's a character from Tamamori's story, Haruhiko-san and Frog Man (Sabo may recognize him, actually), and is a hallucination who accompanies Tamamori around -- oddly, he seems to have his own consciousness and opinions, and calls himself a young frog who loves to read. He can grow as big as a house (though he'll be constrained by the size limitations) or small enough to fit on your shoulder, and he's very curious about and enjoys interacting with the world. He generally sticks with Tamamori. May be seen in one of Florence's beanies. CV: Omikuji.

💧 There's a cute blobby-eyed goldfish swimming a leisurely little swim in the goldfish bowl up in his Umebachidou room.

💧 There's a streetcar that runs through occasionally. A veritable antique!

💧 There's a number of foot bridges (modified for cars, but still pretty small) that may appear occasionally -- the most frequent one being Suidoubashi. Don't drop anything into the river below, who knows whether you'll be able to get it back. Definitely don't drop yourself in--

💧 A number of beautiful oil-paper umbrellas in various colors. These should keep you dry in the rain that comes with them.

💧 Calspi, Calspi EVERYWHERE. It's the Hashihime knock-off version of Calpis/Calpico/what-have-you, though to Tamamori, the real-world version is the knock-off..... it's also got the old packaging, which is white dots on a dark blue background resembling the Milky Way. See those polka-dot wallpaper things in his room? He puts Calspi packaging up on the wall. True interior designer, this one.

MEMORIES:

💧 Please see this spreadsheet for possible memories!

Edited 2022-06-18 00:09 (UTC)

Hello!! I won't be doing much dreamscaping, but I'll most likely be reacting to everyone else's. What I bring with me are memshares.

The ones I have in mind so far are:

1. Curious about what Hien meant about being a monster and his first moments of being something like a god-like existence (it's miserable)? This memshare is for you! Your character has a very likely chance of getting devoured by a wispy monster, which will translate into their bodies feeling sore for a day.

2. What the heck is that tent in the courtyard and why is there blood in it? What was the kid like who Hien treasured so much? This memshare will explain all that! Expect to interact with a boy in his teenage years that isn't Hien. It'll be sad.

3. What about Hien before he became an Overseer? He wasn't always a dark tsundere edgelord. This memshare will explain that! He'll be a regular human and hanging out in a university. Imagine that.

4. Or maybe you don't care about trauma dump and just wanna have fun. Remember Hien's special talent being "manipulating people (as a dog)"? This memshare will land you in a school full of small, talking animals and you're the only humanoid! It'll be cute, fluffy, and pretty chill. And yeah, you'll see Hien as a dog too.

5. Maybe you don't like all of these or you want a different memshare regarding whatever else you're curious about Hien? I can write that too! Just tell me what kind of event you'd like to see and I'll make a wildcard just for you.

my locations/dreamscape things are not super concrete, but i do have a few ideas for memories that i'll be putting together!

here's what i have so far:

locations:
→trailer from Piffle
→maybe a flying car
→an acid corroded building, perhaps? scaled down of course... and also anyone is welcome to recognize a specific building, as it would be from a destroyed tokyo
→acid tokyo reservoir pool but smaller than canon... not sure
→i'll probably come up with more later but this is all i have for now

memories:
→tower - this will be a lot of fai's past, back from when he was a small child. please keep in mind cws for this! i have his opt out post linked below
→random stuff from celes/his childhood - nice memories of fai traveling around celes! feel free to join him! he was a quiet kid, so enjoy seeing that side of him
→his first major confrontation with ashura - death and destruction of celes, along with a confrontation with ashura that will very likely turn violent
→literally any of the worlds he visits... his latest world was acid tokyo, so that could be fun! some options are racing flying cars, fighting in a battle with kurogane and fai (i can play kurogane too so don't worry about hitting me up with this one), forest world with a lake, or a ghost adventure!

fai's memories come with a whole host of content warnings, so please see his opt-out here for reference! most of these will occur in any memories that have to do with the tower/his early childhood

Edited 2022-06-13 19:06 (UTC)

I'm going to be out (wheeze) from Tuesday to Thursday so I'll be around on mobile for a few days, BUT here are some things you can spot around because of Owen for the dreamscapes half:

•The Great Calamity - it's a big fuckoff moon that's still visible in the daytime, and it reeks of bad vibes.
•Stalls for an outdoor market! Mostly ones that are selling food, though there are some that might be selling random trinkets.
•Wolves. Just like. There's wolves now.
•i can't think of anything specific at the moment but you can probably find a lot of random magical knickknacks around that Owen's been thinking of lately - examples would include, like. a sword, a crystal skull, a flintlock rifle, a matching pair of dolls, a fancy staff or globe.........

NOW. FOR THE MEMORIES. Which is where the content warnings come into play. There's also the risk of spoilers, but here are! Some options!

1. Owen and Cain's meet cute! Main warnings are for violence and eye gore.
2. Something stupid and silly around the wizard manor! Like an awkward tea party, someone trying to wife Owen, Owen playing didney princess with the animals around the manor, or taking Cerberus for a walk... These are much sillier things that shouldn't need any major warnings.
3. One of the many, many times Owen's died? There's a lot of options from starting fights, saying things he should, or just him doing Owen things. Naturally this would involve warnings for death, potentially including suicide.
4. Owen as a much younger wizard, ~100, wiping a village off the map, or other times in Owen's Early Centuries running around the North. Warnings are violence and death, potentially including suicide, chronic illness, and assisted suicide.
5. Owen as a child! Everything is great. Warnings for starvation, child abuse and child death, and forced captivity.

There may also be other CWs depending on the scenario. :worry:

Belated contributions!!!

LOCATIONS/ETC.

Film Noir bar in Duval - exterior, interior
30th floor of the Spirius Corporation building - 1, 2
The Land of Canaan.......... i.e. the sky fetus
Beached mystery boat that is always in the distance that you can never actually reach that haunts my dreams
Alest chirpee and Alest horse

MEMSHARE

Rideaux only memories:
Recovering after organ replacement surgery when he's 6 and being in a lot!! of pain!!!
[cw: suicide, child abuse] Overhearing neighbors at his apartment talking after his father's death
[cw: implied child prostitution] Meeting Bisley for the first time and being offered a position as a Spirius agent (ftr Bisley does not have anything to do with the cw, it's just context for his situation at the time)

Memories that overlap with Julius's:
Having lunch at the Spirius cafeteria when they're 12/13
Getting Julius to write all the mission reports for both of them because he's still trying to teach himself how to read/write
[cw: murder] Destroying a fractured dimension after murdering a bunch of people together as teenagers...
Julius almost beating him to death when they're 16/17
Drinking at the bar together when they're like ~20
Disastrous company hot pot three years ago

wanders in here late with a two-fer because sabo's memories are "lmao".

MEMORIES & LOCATIONS:
Mt. Colubo / ASL Treehouse
- A CUTE HARMLESS MEMORY. if you wanna see ace and sabo as ten-year old terror children running around a mountain doing whatever they want and getting into all sorts of things then that's basically what's happening here. though i guess there can be soft themes of child abuse, child abandonment, bigotry, classist thinking if you wanna ruin some good fun? closes my eyes.

Gray Terminal, cw: child abuse, trauma, violence, criminal activity, classist thinking/prejudice
- if you want sad things aka the events around why sabo has brother abandonment issues and filled with enough guilt to fill an ocean. ace is also here to feel bad about everything and be smol, angy, and sad

SPOILERS!!! Marineford (for scale), cw: violence, (mass) death, gore, execution, ""police"" brutality, war
- ace's really bad day aka (sabo voice) ace, you stupid fuck nugget.
- SINCE IT'S REALLY, REALLY BIG it's not a location for the dreamscape. we're just here for the memories
- as a fun(?) note about marineford, emi and i will entertain the idea of running it a bit like a mini-cyoa for anyone who is interested. emi's tagging schedule is sporadic and i'm uncomfortable taking over it entirely, so people are free to interact with the event on their own with the write up, but for those who want to get more "involved" we can create a thread within discord and do some stuff! it won't be a true cyoa but. you know.

Edited 2022-06-15 03:24 (UTC)

gimme gray terminal i swear i will live this weekend

reaches for both of you

potential locations:

The hallway of what seems like a run-down apartment complex. One of the windows is busted, and rain seems to be coming in.
An apartment unit that is Very Much not run down. It has an open floor-plan with an impressive skyline view. There are two other doors in the apartment, the one on the left which leads into a bedroom, and the one on the right is always locked. There are an impressive amount of cat toys.
Any of the locations in Rideaux's list! The two ones in particular are Canaan and Spirius.

potential cats:

You'll have a higher chance of seeing Rollo, regardless of whether he's with Julius or not. He's a cat with a large personality and even larger stature. He seems to be able to understand what you're saying, which is good for one-sided conversations. If you offer food, he will absolutely follow you.
There's also Julius Catstatine III, a cat that is for some reason wearing a bolo tie for a collar, and one black mitten. He tends to be more of a runner than anything else.

potential julius-only memories (lots of cws attached):

Julius (13) accidentally killing his half-brother's mother, with his five-year old brother right there! (manslaughter, violence, etc)
Julius (15) trying to cook for his brother and drastically fails. (child endangerment??) Also an option for Ludger having cooked for him at some point later.
Julius (27) works as the proctor for Ludger's entrance exam into Spirius and rigs the test so he fails.
There's other stuff, too. Solo world-destroying missions! Julius trying to impress his asshole of a dad! The World's Worst Camping Trip (affectionately)! Basically any flavor of feeling you want, he's got it. [smacks him like a used car salesman]

And again, there are some joint memories with Rideaux that are here if you want them both!

Memories here for my own organizational purposes!

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