modly announcement + a WAYWARD PINES MEMORIES mingle!

[officialnotice]

What up, Pinecones?

We wanted to let y'all know that thanks to your feedback in our Plurk poll, we've settled on what seems like the simplest system for you guys to collaborate on and play with the optional false Wayward Pines memories mechanic.

A summary for those still digesting the info-pages:

As a totally optional (but highly encouraged) side mechanic, as new characters begin to remember their actual memories, they also begin to remember false ones in which they grew up in the town of Wayward Pines. These can be solo memories, like the park they went to as a kid or the desk they sat in during homeroom in Wayward Pines Academy, but they can also involve other player-characters.

These false memories should keep the characters at least mostly IC, but other than that, they don't need to have any real adherence to canon. Two characters may have been friends back home, but these false memories could say they're siblings or enemies or maybe just strangers passing in the street. The only real rule is to only include false memories involving characters whose players have agreed to the same memories! This rule is in place because all false memories are relatively cohesive and if Character A remembers a false memory with Character B, B would by nature remember the same memory with A.

While canon memories typically return completely by two weeks into your character's stay, false memories will continue to spring up as time goes on, presumably jogged by familiar faces, places, or activities. This allows you to build new false-memory CR with characters even if they've come in months after your own character arrived.

Want in?


A HANDY STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO FALSE MEMORY FUN:

• Step 1: Create an entry on your character's journal. This will be your Wayward Pines false memory plotting repository. It doesn't have to be fancy, you can leave it totally empty, but if people want to hit you up for false memory plotting, this will be the place they can do so. (Consider using the entry to state your false memory plotting preferences and/or to keep a running list of the false memories you've established so far!)
  
  
• Step 2: Reply to the Taken page with your character's name and a link to your new false memory plotting entry. This will go next to the link for your IC inbox in the taken list.
  
  
• Step 3: (Optional.) Reply to this entry with your link, as well as a brief blurb about what kinds of false memory CR you're looking for. The actual CR meme is in less than a week, but this will be a good place to chat soon enough to use it in your intro log threads.
  
  
• Step 4: (Optional but suggested.) Include the link to your false memories plotting page in the appropriate section in our upcoming CR meme.

Have at it, folks. :)

Comments

10K | Z Nation

[overfivethousand]

A link to his memory page is here!

Basically, 10K has led a pretty reclusive life for the last 10 years or so; mom died of cancer at 8, dad pulled him out of school after his mom died to homeschool him, then died when 10K was 16, leaving him without a high school diploma but with a lot of wilderness survival training and basic handyman skills. He's survived since then doing menial labor (construction, mowing lawns, moving crews) and taking on odd jobs around town.

I'd be interested in people who knew/were friendly with his parents, distant family or cousins, schoolmates from the Before Times, employers either past or present, and "current" friendships.

[keephimtalking]

Think you'd like to have 10K know Lantar as a friend(ish?) through some of their odd jobs?

[overfivethousand]

YES PLEASE. Holy cow a Sidonis!! I am totally here for this, they probably have ended up on odd jobs together, and if you want maybe 10K keeps him listed as a contact for jobs that need more than one body?

[keephimtalking]

\o/ That'd be awesome! Lantar's going to be owning his own bar, but he'll definitely be do for popping into help now and again! He'll also probably call 10K in for help setting everything up/alcohol delivery now and again?

[overfivethousand]

I am here for all of this! :D

Re: 10K | Z Nation

[royalpassport]

Bucky's probably hired him for odd jobs in the past, just to throw some help his way! And Jefferson likely pays him to take care of the lawn, because like hell is he going to mow it AND HOWARD'S TOO USELESS TO.

Re: 10K | Z Nation

[overfivethousand]

Works for me, on both counts! I like the idea of him remaining that ubiquitous neighborhood kid who just does a little of everything.

[inventor]

ditto with bucky. howard probably hires 10k to do odd jobs around his store

and howard's more than happy to sell this survivalist nut any tech he may need for his "prepping" (provided that he's got money)

[overfivethousand]

He is your odd job man about town, no question! Once he starts making money, he'll probably be along to the shop, too.