modly announcement + a WAYWARD PINES MEMORIES mingle!

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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

[keephimtalking]

Lmao, they can be the old Pines Gang or something?

[ratkingcole]

Idk if "gang" could really be accurate, given how small the town is. More like a couple of shitheads who got into trouble on occasion

[keephimtalking]

A smol gang. Well, smol until Lantar hit his growth spurt.

They probably got arrested as kids together once or something?

[ratkingcole]

Yeah, that sounds about right. Are they still close, or did they start to drift apart?

I'm tempted to suggest that they're exes or something, so they don't hang out much anymore but I totally understand if that's not the direction you want to go in with this.

[keephimtalking]

I don't mind this, actually! Dysfunctional teen delinquent couple. o_o

Lantar's currently trying to improve his life and be more law abiding, so they'd probably have drifted apart either way...

[ratkingcole]

Yeah, she wouldn't be interested in going straight with him.

I can't imagine they flat out hate each other now, but Corstine at least feels a little sour about the whole "law abiding" thing.

[keephimtalking]

Lantar definitely doesn't hate her and will continue to be the long-suffering voice of reason and a willing ear to listen if she ever drops by to gripe at him or something.

He's got his boundaries set pretty tight these days though and she'll have to smoke out on the porch gdi. >:v

[ratkingcole]

Gods, you used to be cool, Lantar.

Meanwhile this all contrasts heavily with the real memories she'll be getting back of a different childhood and a different boyfriend and everything ending up so much worse.

[keephimtalking]

He has more money than you do. :u

If it's any comfort, Lantar is technically dead in another universe too...

[ratkingcole]

Yeah well. Y'know. The economy and shit.

Speaking of which, can she borrow some money?

[keephimtalking]

If you want his money, you can come work for him.

[ratkingcole]

She will, don't think she won't.

She just won't cut back on her shitty extracurriculars.

[keephimtalking]

Yeah, well, as long as she leaves it out of his house and his business, he doesn't care what she does with her money and time.

(He'll just occasionally call her up to make sure she hasn't overdosed on drugs or something.)