weep not for the memories

[brushoff]

WHO: Everybody!
WHERE: all cities
WHEN: March 4 - March 6
WHAT: it's a catch-all log, sucka! Tag here and thread around for the Dorian Ruins Everything Guilt Extravaganza part of the overall March plot. Please check out this ooc post for details!
WARNINGS: Traumatic memories. Possible talk of murder, death, blood, other nasty things. I'll try to update if the warnings needed but please use content warnings if it gets super nasty!

It starts off on March 4th, the early morning before the sun's even risen. You know those weird mirages that were hanging around the day before? Well now it's getting a little personal.

These mirages come and go seemingly for no reason. They might stay for a minute, they might stay for an hour. The images vary between person but the unifying factor is that the mirages consist of people the player characters have hurt, whether people in-game or from their homes. Whether they murdered them, slandered them, or even had a petty little argument, the unifying factor is the guilt each character feels towards or about this mirage. After all, you know you hurt them somehow. You know their existence somehow makes you feel guilty.

Another unifying factor? The creepy way these mirages just seem to stick to you. They'll follow you if you try to leave, staring you down with their creepy unblinking mirage eyes. And whoops: everybody can see said mirages. Hopefully you're not being stalked by someone you and somebody else both know, wouldn't that be awkward?

Have fun confronting your traumatizing past and/or wondering why your buddy's got some creepy ghost guy following him, imPorts!

( ooc: this is a catch-all log! Make starters of your characters getting haunted by their creepy mirages, have other people react to said creepy mirages, ???, profit. Hit me up on the ooc post if you have any questions! )

Comments

[burlyboy]

Um, okay! I think I'll trust your judgment on this one, fella.

[ He doesn't see it, precisely - people who come back from the dead aren't like themselves, that's the whole point of why it's so fucked up - but he's not invested enough to push the topic to someone so clearly in pain, and he's certainly not confident in his own knowledge of it. ]

You've see necromancy before?

[song_of_ice]

[He really doesn't know what he's experienced. Necromancy, magic, the god's work. There were so many ways it could be described, but none of them felt right. He only knew the end result, being the end result himself.]

Of a sort.

[He is silent for a moment. There were other dead aside from him.]

The dead walk in my world, but I don't know why.

[burlyboy]

[ That's a painful thought. Magnus is, for a moment, glad that what he saw was an anomaly, not a strange occurrence to expect. If he knew that the dead could walk, once upon a time, things... things would be much harder. ]

What do you mean, the dead walk? Are they themselves, or..>?

[song_of_ice]

No. They have no thought, no consciousness. Only the drive to kill.

I don't know how or why.

WHOOP sorry for the html bork there!

[burlyboy]

Well, those were my two first questions. At least that's not happening here.

[ He frowns, glancing over to Ygritte, then back over at Jon. ]

And if you kill them again...?

[song_of_ice]

It requires fire to kill the walkers.

The ones controlling them, it will take something else.

[burlyboy]

Oh, so - you don't know what's going on, but you do know someone's controlling them? Sounds like they've bought themselves a ticket to someone getting out and killing 'em, if you ask me, [ Magnus remarks with a small frown. He doens't have much of a moral problem with killing other people, provided that it's well deserved, but he does have a problem with necromancy, generally speaking. Especially the sort that does nothing but bring terror onto those who have had the indignity of being left behind. ]

I'm guessing that the people behind these, uh, these walkers must be made of some pretty powerful stuff.