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

[line_piece]

Yeah, but all stories come from somewhere. Maybe one of them came from here.

[A little metaphysical, but there you go.]

Like when you dream of a place you've never been before, but you know exactly how it looks anyway. Maybe when that happens, you're dreaming of a real place. Just a place from somewhere else.

[nomorecowbell]

That's really weird.

[line_piece]

Yeah, probably. Games are all I had before coming here, though, so I'm just approaching this from the only angle I'm familiar with.

[nomorecowbell]

Wow, that was really sad. Granted, Nanami still thought of Chiaki as human. "So, what do you think now? I've seen people try to live in stories, and it doesn't end well."

[line_piece]

I know the difference between games and reality. I just think the two have more to say about each other than most people think.

[nomorecowbell]

Why?

[line_piece]

The inspiration to make games comes from real things that happen to people in their lives. And playing fun or immersive games can help you think about the world in a different way.

[She pauses for a moment, thinking.]

...Did I ever tell you about the time my friends and I solved a murder because we played a video game based on a similar event?

[nomorecowbell]

No, you didn't.

[line_piece]

Well... that's actually pretty much the whole story. Someone committed a crime based on the events of the game, which was in turn based on another murder that actually happened years before. Without playing the game ourselves, the rest of us wouldn't have been able to piece together what really happened.

[nomorecowbell]

Why do they make games based on real events? That's morbid.

[line_piece]

Yeah. It was definitely pretty morbid. I can't argue with that.