FAMILY MEETING 2.0

[succiduous]

Who: Everyone. All Y'all. You Cannot Escape.
What: Info share because I know y'all got the plot
When: Late August, post Flower-Murdering
Where: The Inn
Warnings: triggers should be tagged appropriately in post headers! please and thank you!!


[Gnosis has government assigned himself "guy who bothers everyone about the plot" this time around. He craves information. You have information. You will give the information up during what he's calling a Town Hall, but was previously called a Family Meeting.

People who do not show up for the "what the fuck just happened this month" meeting will not be forcibly dragged into it, but will receive the most Disdainful, Judgemental look. Can you truly stand to be judged so harshly by a 35 year old man... no. You cannot. (You probably can actually he's not that intimidating.)

There are no snacks (currently) but there is freshly-brewed tea by Gnosis himself, and there's a framed corkboard he's brought downstairs (presumably out of his room) with notes on it, as well as some of those mysterious photographs that have been taken of everyone that he's asked to have. You know, so he can piece this puzzle together. Once everyone's gathered...]

Let's get started. Some of you have been here longer than others, so I hope you can volunteer information so we can figure out where we are and why, and anything else we later arrivals might have missed from the collective puzzle. Please try to stay on task.


[[ooc: hi hello this is your share-the-plot-ICly log, with the goal of a) catching up new arrivals and b) making sure information circulates ICly to avoid metagaming. which like that hasn't been a problem but you know, just in case. if you've never done one of these before they function a bit like this where everyone shares important info they've discovered with the class.]]

Comments

[simplicitas]

That's what I mean, though. I don't remember it, but that's not weird for me. But that's weird for everyone else, isn't it?

[mooninthewater]

Oh, extremely. I have an excellent memory. How is that not weird for you? [ Beat. ] Do you regenerate when you die but lose all your memories in the process?

[ Because this very specific example is something he knows about- ]

I haven't heard about that phenomena in a Sankta.

[simplicitas]

Huh? No, I... uh, have amnesia. It's caused by the Illuminous Phenomenon.

[Does not explain what this is.]

It's... the reason I don't have a lot of memories left, nor do I feel many emotions at all. The Trader is helping me reclaim some of them, but there's a lot I've lost and keep losing. For instance... there were people here before us, but I don't remember their names anymore, or their faces. I know I fished with someone when I first got here, and there was... someone I helped save from the river, but I can't tell you much more than that.

That's why, when I saw the photo, I thought maybe it was part of the childhood I don't remember. That's all.

[mooninthewater]

Ehe, wow, that’s a lot! I didn’t understand any of that! [ :) ] That’s alright, though. I got the amnesia part, at least. That’s ok. I’ll make sure that you have a lot of good memories and maybe you’ll get that happiness feeling back, okay?

[simplicitas]

...thanks. I appreciate it. My memory has improved a little bit since the Trader gave me the mirror, at least. Sometimes I find shards on the ground and they have a memory within them. If you see me suddenly pick something up, that's why.

[He has veered off on a lot of conversations to go pick up Shiny Thing, like a crow.]

[mooninthewater]

Oh! Should I be on the lookout for shards like that to help you out, then?

[simplicitas]

I don't think anyone else can find them. I think they're tied to me, somehow. ...thanks, though.

[mooninthewater]

…Is there anything else I can do to help you, in that case? I would want you to be happy, of course, but I don't know how helpful I can be in that regard.

[simplicitas]

Yeah. Will you keep being my friend?

[It's an earnest request given by an earnest person. Stick with him. Be his friend through all of this. He firmly believes that having someone there will help just in general.]

[mooninthewater]

Well, that was never even an issue. I'll always be your friend, no matter what, Elsword. You don't even gotta order that~.

[ And, hey, this deserves a hug, right? He thinks it's a hug moment, at least. That's what family meetings are for!!!! Physical affection and memories (that they apparently all forgot-) ]