Event || In Your Worst Memory

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Characters: All Heroes of Light. Only those who signed-up can start a memory.
Where: Interdimensional Rift
When: May 27th - May 30th
Summary: The Heroes of Light relive some of their worst memories, with a twist. All characters participating in this will be physically missing from Crystallis for the duration of the event.
Warning: It depends on the memory.

Where you were or what you were doing— It does not really matter. Not any more. Everything around you freezes, nearly as if time itself stopped, as if the world was frozen in time. And before you have a chance to understand what is happening, you can hear a voice right behind you.

"Kali Shashidhwaja."

Should you turn around, you may see a child who seems to be the only one aside from you unaffected by what is happening. And as she stares right at you, it makes no doubt these strange words are aimed at you. But before you can reply to her, the world around you collapses. Reality twists and shatters... Or maybe you are the one who is collapsing and shattering away from reality as you know it. No matter what the answer is, it will only take a few seconds for you to find yourself sinking into a void, Crystallis vanishing into the distance. There is nothing but darkness as far as the eye can see.

And once again you feel different: all the powers from your Jobs are fading. Not only that, but you might find that your Crystal is gone and your clothes back to what they were before you woke up in Crystallis. It is silent, cold and before long it feels as though life itself is slipping out of you... And yet, slowly the world reforms around you. The darkness fades away and a new world appears, yet at the same time this is not a world.

This is a memory. The question is, is it yours or that of someone else?

Comments

[umslay]

If there was something more off-putting that a cheerful Henry talking about curses, it was a serious one talking about curses. And if he was that powerful at such a young age, who knew what he was capable of without his powers removed.

Magic users were terrifying.

Ales waited until the boy was a bit farther before he spoke. "Is this normal where you're from? Knowing how to crush someone's lungs at your age, that is."

[holycrows]

The boy begins walking towards the village as other villagers approach. They notice him and ask him if he is all right and where he came from. Young Henry begins to glow again.

Old Henry speaks.

"It's not unusual. I was also in magic school at the time, but I snuck out a lot to visit with Howly."

He looks at the motionless pile of fur.

[umslay]

Ales's attention is caught again by young Henry, who, judging by the aura, is about to do the same to the other villagers. He takes a step closer to older Henry, knowing that it only was a memory, and he could do nothing about it.

"Magic school, hmm? You must have been one of its brightest students." Good enough to know how to kill and spend time with a wild animal. At least, that's what he thought Howly was.

[holycrows]

"Eh, I was ok. I skipped class a lot.

Ale's intuition is true, as the villages begin to moan and panic, blood coming from place it shouldn't as the flee from the now weeping boy.

Young Returns to the fallen wolf, and embraces is. He whispers something and, surprising to older Henry, it begins to move.

"Wait... H...Howly?" Older Henry says, sounding shocked.

[umslay]

He covers his eyes at the spectacle. Another reason why magic is awful: you can do this to poor unsuspecting civilians. And Henry was not better for it.

"What?" He is still covering his eyes.

[holycrows]

"He's alive..."

The child henry sounds over joyed, and begins hugging the beast, still crying but happier. It licks his face.


"This isn't what happened..."

Adult Henry seems stunned. Footsteps and yelling can be heard in the distance.

[umslay]

Now was the time to be really worried: if the Henry wasn't calm something was wrong. Ales turned to the child and animal, thinking of what was happening.

"This is all supposed to be a memory, right? What if you're affecting it since you were so upset about your wolf?"

They aren't exactly in the past, so it stands to reason that what he is seeing is affected by Henry's mind.

[holycrows]

"I mean... it was a long time ago. I miss him a lot but I did get reven-"

Henry's response is interrupted by a man bursting from the Grass screaming "HERE'S THE BEAST! I'VE FOUND IT!" followed by a hail of Arrows. Young Henry screams in terror, old Henry, almost instinctually, fires a durst of dark energy through the villages, though it floats harmlessly through him.

[umslay]

"Henry, wait! They're not real--" The spell passes through the man as if it were the illusion and the vision real, and Ales stops himself from grabbing the dark mage's robes.

"Listen. None of this is real, just accept that. Whoever brought us here is trying to mess with you."

[holycrows]

Henry lets out a small squeal of shock, and falls backwards into a sitting position. The scene with young henry begins to play out again, exactly like last time.

"This isn't very fun." He says, silently.

[umslay]

"I can tell," he mutters under his breath.

"Look," he punctuates that with a swift hand slice, "I've been to someone else's memory, and it just keeps going and going. Even I don't know how to stop it." Now that Henry is closer to Ales's level, he stands right in front of the dark mage, hands on hips. "Just ignore it, and let's get out of here!"

[holycrows]

"Yeah... yeah. I shouldn't be so upset. Howly's dead. Those villagers are dead."

He looks as Ales.

"How do we get out of here?"

[umslay]

Good. Ales rests his arms at his sides and turns to face the scene.

"No idea. The last memory I was in, the whole thing ended when Chiaki realized something. What, I can't recall." It was all over very fast. Once second, they were talking about the world she was from, and the next, the thing stopped.

"We need to make the memory stop repeating itself."