PARADISA OOC

A number of people have approached me to say that they are having a lot of fun, but think it would be super if they had more time being amnesiacs, as it gives their residents more time to create new relationships, etc, based on the people they THINK they are and all.

So, after discussion with the mods, here's what we decided:

If you are really enjoying yourself, your character can stay an amnesiac for a few more days. No pressure. Meanwhile, everyone who is eager to get to the finish so they can start doing the "___ YOU DID NOT TELL ME THIS ABOUT YOU!" freaking out and the whole thing like that, you can finish on time at midnight tonight.

Capiche?

TL;DR: Much like knocking over a house of cards, the castle's realized that it's easier to take them out than put them back in order, so some residents can get their memories back later than others.

Plot start.

Remember: your name and Paradisa*.

No more!


*You're in a castle, you have a talking journal, kitchen's on the first floor, it likes to mess with you.

Something's up with the castle.

You can just feel it in the air, tonight. It’s a certain intensity, a yearning to do something and reach out. It feels like the castle is just looking for attention from its residents. It feels needy, desperate. It's the incomprehensible whispering you hear when you start to doze off, or the way the ghosts seem a bit distracted, and wishes go stubbornly unanswered.

It wants something, but what...?



(Basically: FOREBODIN' FEELIN'S IN CAIR PARADISA, FEEL FREE TO START REACTIN'.

CUBIE KICKED US OFF, IF YOU WANNA JOIN IN THE "WTF.")

The castle is upset, and the night of September 10th, you can just feel it in the air. It’s a certain intensity, a yearning to do something and reach out to people, and something is just calling out to the residents, looking for attention. It feels needy, desperate.

It wants something, and no one can tell what.

And when it doesn’t get what it’s looking for... in retaliation, at midnight, the castle expends some energy to pull memories from people’s heads. A lot of them.

So much so that everyone* is going to suffer from amnesia about their lives. All they can remember is that they are in Paradisa, and their own name.

The castle will steal memories, from faces to names to events to places to times, and turn them into photographs and news articles and name tags and calendar pages and papers and comics and drawings and sounds and movies, and plaster them all over the walls, all over the castle, in no particular order. Everything is on display for everyone else.

Maybe your baby pictures are in the kitchen. Maybe there’s a DVD of your college graduation in one of the towers. Maybe a eulogy is pinned to the front doors, or a poster of the most incredible moment of your life. Maybe there’s a sound recording playing in someone else’s bathroom of your thirteenth birthday. Maybe a television set up in the stairs is playing the stormy night where your life changed.

All, of course, on public display.

Everything has a small label with the owner’s name on it, but with hundreds of thousands of things scattered everywhere, you may have to ask around, or maybe find weird things of other people’s, first. Whose first date was in a charming little Chinese buffet? Who crashed their car into the neighbour’s picket fence and prized magnolias? Who first made love on the floor during a storm? Who was murdered and reported about in the local newspaper?

It’s interesting to see pieces of other people’s lives. Things you’ve heard, things you’ve known, things you never saw coming. Things you wish they’d told you. Sad things. Funny things. Honest things.

Who are you? Where did you come from? No one knows themselves, but maybe everyone can find themselves and others in the mess.




Of course, at the end of the forty-eight hours, all memories return, but the evidence remains. What to do with it?

On Sunday night, residents can have a huge bonfire on the lawn to destroy all the things people don’t want a physical record of. It’s so bittersweet, to see your memories go up in flames, but who needs them when they’re safe in your head?

You can tuck things into your pockets, and hide them in your closet, or stash them away so you can keep them, if you’d like.



*Participation: It IS opt-in, because we understand juggling a lot of characters can be crazy during plots like this, but please, please, join in. It’s more fun if everyone’s going around with this.
Goals: New CR, and canon exposure

Allo allo chiquitas (and dudes.)

By a considerable amount, Fri-Sat won out for the plot, so mark it on your calendars:

Plot is going down from Friday, Sept 11th to Saturday, Sept 12th.

Hopefully it will be open for backlogging, and there will be an event on Sunday that goes with it for wind down and that.

What is the plot, you ask? Well, it's still about a messy castle, and amnesia. The rest, you will have to wait until tomorrow afternoon to hear about, because we'll need some time to do some good old CR planning. If you're that eager, you can start reviewing your canons now, though. :)

[Mickey Mouse voice]

Hiya, fellas!

We've got a two-day plot in the works for you! We just gotta know when is best for our muns. Now, we won't spoil the surprise, but here's the gist of it:

Amnesia and a VERY cluttered castle.

Please vote for whichever is best for you. Poll closes Saturday night at 9 P.M. EST. Let us know, ha ha ha!

[/Mickey Mouse voice]

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