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Heimr has 10 memories. Please put them in a numbered list order when guessing.
They're back. They shouldn't be back, and yet this lonely heart wants to see them again...
Dom takes control, and he allows it. He tried to attack a holy spirit- it is for the best.
The stars fall from the sky. Something is wrong. Something is beautiful. Something is taking root in his mind.
A warm meal is the purest form of love. And how lucky is he, to have so many sons to love once more.
A plague erupts across the land. A wife goes quick, a son goes quicker.
He is not the man he started as. Not in any sense of the word, save memories. And that is okay, because he is still loved, regardless.
Something convinces him his son is alive. Something convinces him his son is dying. The divine makes an offer: a name, for a life. But his will is strong, and it was a faulty deal to begin with. Now only smoke and spite and love remains.
Friends and family can only watch as he walks around holding a child that isn't there. He worsens day by day.
The forest has never liked people in it, but it seems welcoming somehow. Maybe it's the family that already lives here? Regardless, a midway point between Roseroot and Haven would be... not necessary, but close.
The town has never been more quiet.
The Lord of the Mountain has 8 memories, and an additional bonus for solving the puzzle. Please put them in a numbered list order when guessing.
Crystals begin to form across the mountainside in bulk.
He could not leave his post forevermore.
The Fallen Sun's young daughter approached and struck a deal with him.
He was given a staff as by his ancestors who walked before him.
A caravan of humans from the north passed through the mountains.
Softhearted, he could not stand to see others suffer, so he turned his back to duties.
He began to weave netting to catch stray dreams and memories of people that wandered through the mountains, wanting to ward off their nightmares and ensure they didn't forget anything when they left.
He was told to watch over the land of ice and stone.
Zahliya has 8 memories. Please put them in a numbered list order when guessing.
When Moder crushed his skull, he found himself wondering if he was doomed to a life of solitude. The other Guardians were Corrupted, and he was the sole immune one. Why was he alone in this world?
Why does he resent his own existence?
When humans went extinct, he found himself lonely.
Humans are fun to him. Humans always brought him trinkets as offerings when he was a statue.
He wonders if he should be this bitter over his circumstances. Is he not "important"? Is he not "necessary" and "needed"?
He missed humans.
He wished he could talk to them.
All he knew was that he had a duty to perform, though he could not discern where that duty came from.
Zonari has 9 memories. Please put them in a numbered list order when guessing.
Humans were not very interesting to her. Their brains don't follow logic, and their instincts border between banal and sharp. She can't get over her dislike of them.
She clings to each memory and tears it apart with her fingers to learn more. Human, animal, deity, construct, or otherwise.
Something blooms within her. Could humans be worthwhile?
To know her own hatred was to experiment on her own mind and shred the threads of her creation to learn. To know his love was to experiment on his mind and find out what made him love.
Humans are something fascinating. She dreams of pulling their brains apart like spider's silk and seeing what memories stick to her fingers and which ones fall through the cracks.
Curiosity filled her mind.
Something awoke in her when she met the being meant to be her sibling, the one who was pre-programmed with love instead of hate like her.
To understand the brain was to understand others; to understand memories was a way to tame them.
She worked, tirelessly, to unlock the secrets of the psyche.
Moder has 8 memories. Please put them in a numbered list order when guessing.
She was within the arms of a goddess, cradled lovingly like a mother to their own children. The voice the goddess spoke with did not make much sense to her; she could not understand language.
The humans were wiped out. She waited for them to return.
A woman wielding the power of memory destroyed her mind, and allowed the rot to creep in.
Her appreciation for humans began to grow.
A mother lost her son one day. She did not know what to do with this human boy. She thought she might simply eat him, but when she lifted him up, he laughed like how her mother used to, and so she simply carried him back to the settlement where he belonged.
She did not like humans. They were loud, they were destructive, and they had no respect for the forest. She could not understand why they were so awful.
All she felt was guilt for her actions.
The stars fell from the sky, and humanity was wiped out. Moder's family, too, had died, and so she sat alone in the woods for eons.
Ydalir has 10 memories. Please put them in a numbered list order when guessing.
Well, it isn't like she ever asked to be a person, now is it?
Her identity feels loosey-goosey to her. People describe her as a bit listless, but kindly. Unfocused on goals, but interesting. A nice lady, but "with something missing".
She wonders when this feeling of "not being real" will stop.
Someone asked Olivia once, "Don't you want to be someone? Something more? Don't you have dreams?" At the time, she laughed. "No, not really. I don't have any goals besides trading magical items."
She never feels like being much else. Identity is hard to pin down.
She is many things. She is someone who trades goods. She is someone who does magic. She is someone who can reach into the space between worlds and pull items from it.
Questions like that were often considered, but she found no need for them to have an answer.
She wants what most people want. Security, happiness, a world that doesn't have pain in it... a feeling of usefulness.
What does she feel a strong pull toward? People? Animals? Surely, yes, but everyone normal feels that pull, and Olivia would describe herself as at least moderately normal, if not quirky.
To her, it's more convenient not to have an identity at all.
Renard has 8 memories. Please put them in a numbered list order when guessing.
He spent a lot of his free time with Aldric. He often wondered if he should, considering he was only a roving craftsman and Aldric was a family man with a store. Those thoughts never stopped love from blooming.
He took what he could from Olivia and ran into the forest.
His favourite things were small things. The daintier, the better. The cuter the thing he could create, the happier it made him.
Nothing he'd truly wanted would come to fruition anyway.
No matter what he was doing or would do, his love for bringing things to life remains.
He kept fighting to live for eons, even as he became creation itself.
He spent his days making things. Trinkets, like necklaces and bracelets and little glass objects. Weapons, like swords and a spear whose tip wasn't at all sharp since he couldn't bear to see it used. Shoes, when he once got into the idea of selling them as a lad.
The most important thing to him had always been his ability to create.
Sinann has 10 memories. Please put them in a numbered list order when guessing. As a reminder, Sinann's pronouns are it/its.
It lived a simple life.
It dreamed of having a human form so it could interact with people. So it could be more helpful, and experience things everyone else got to experience.
It did not have legs like the others. It could not go on land, and its size meant that the river was too small for it too.
Its favourite things were swimming, eating, and bioluminescent corals - though it did not know how to describe that last thing.
It never felt very capable.
When it slept, it dreamed of being something more important than it was. The blood of a Guardian flowed through it, and that meant it had something to latch onto, didn't it?
Despite its feelings, it kept trying its best to be helpful to others. When Callan lost Terho, it tried to find the location of his grave for mourning. When a child of the Grove got lost in the woods, it would chirp at Moder until she brought them back.
...it was hard to walk, though. When it first stepped out of the river, it faceplanted in front of everyone, and it took at least two people to help it learn to balance.
At least it felt much more like it deserved the "helpful" title now that it could move on its own.
It was always considered "helpful" by everyone, despite not feeling that way about itself.
CALLAN (cws: gore, brief teeth horror, cannibalism)
sticksandbonesmods
2025-10-13 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Callan has 10 memories. Please put them in a numbered list order when guessing.
He set to work. He laid out various skulls and bones from the bottom of the lake, added some skin from rotting corpses of humans and animals that had a texture he liked, and formed all of this into the shape of giant lizard.
In his mind, humans liked such things like more fish, or an even bigger lake, or a pet crocodile, or a single tree frog.
When his daughter was born, she had a few extra eyes and was three times the height of any existing crocodiles here, but he thought she was cool all the same.
He knows the things he likes include being very small, being very large, and eating humans. Humans didn't like it when he did that.
He knew what he wanted.
He wanted to have cool things. Things like skulls, and corpses in the lake, and a necklace of human teeth.
It wasn't like he liked humans or anything... but he definitely wanted them to look at him and feel awe.
He named her "Iv'utli", after a word he made up in his head that meant "very cool lizard".
What is a cool thing that would make humans jealous, he wondered?
One day, he was bored.
Aurora has 10 memories. Please put them in a numbered list order when guessing.
The skies were the freest domain anybody can know. She loved the way the breeze felt in her feathers as she flew. She loved to dodge through the snowfall.
She abandoned the skies and began to walk. Unfortunately, she was still too large, and her being on the ground scared humans even more. They thought she wanted to hunt them.
Humans were quite terrified of her. She knew it was because she was a large bird, and once she plucked a fish the size of six humans from the ocean... but she did not think she was that scary, was she?
Sehul said that humans were scared of that which they didn't know. Humans were scared of them too, they said, but she couldn't bring herself to believe their words. To her perceptions, humans rather liked Sehul.
She sang, but no one liked her voice. She laid down on the earth and did a cartwheel, but her bulk made it so that she nearly crushed many people to death. Being "silly" made people look at her funny.
Nothing worked the way she wanted it to.
She just wanted to be liked. Why did people hate her so much?
She loved to race Sehul and watch the dragon's leathery wings catch on the air.
In her tailfeathers, rainbows were cast over the skies. She always hoped that humans liked them.
Is a giant shadow moving over the land at breakneck pace scary?
Sehul has 10 memories. Please put them in a numbered list order when guessing.
When they were too large to fit in the house, they mostly lived on the clouds making up the Goddess' domain, generally being lazy and sleeping all day. At least they had mellowed out.
Beiwe lifted them up in her arms and asked them if they would like to learn to fight.
Their favourite thing was when Ourania wore long gowns that dragged on the floor. Sehul would sit on them as a pup and make the Goddess drag them everywhere.
Sehul was very good at being a dragon.
They sort of wanted to be a pet, but they supposed they had to grow up eventually too.
No one told Sehul they would get large, though. This was the worst! Being large meant they couldn't fit under the table, because they were now the size of it. Being large meant no getting dragged everywhere.
Dragons are a bit like cats, in that they don't really care what you want or what you say, and they love to steal things and knock things over.
They used to be very small, and could fit under Beiwe's dining table. They skittered underneath it to bite her legs and chew on Ourania's dress.
They flopped over in the backyard, belly-up, and let the sun warm their scales. They were deep in thought.
They don't remember becoming the pinnacle of maturity for the others. Is this what "getting old" means...?
(frozen comment) COMMENT IN CASE I NEED THIS SPACE FOR SOMETHING LATER
sticksandbonesmods
2025-10-14 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
put your toplevels below thanks
[Luca's touch is predictably gentle as he approaches Zahliya and takes his hands. He forces flame to his palms, as if this might somehow wake him. It had worked before, right? But when he fails, he takes a different tack.
Yes, something in the back of his mind does whisper in a sinister tone: alter them, change them, make him love you once more, but he shoves the thought back with as much force as he possibly can. Whatever was between them (bitterness, hate, betrayal) was Luca's to shoulder. Difficult though it may be, it was what he had wrought.
Carefully, he begins to sift through those memories, trying to shift them into the right position.]
1. Humans are fun to him. Humans always brought him trinkets as offerings when he was a statue.
2. He wished he could talk to them.
3. When humans went extinct, he found himself lonely.
4. All he knew was that he had a duty to perform, though he could not discern where that duty came from.
5. He missed humans.
6. When Moder crushed his skull, he found himself wondering if he was doomed to a life of solitude. The other Guardians were Corrupted, and he was the sole immune one. Why was he alone in this world?
7. He wonders if he should be this bitter over his circumstances. Is he not "important"? Is he not "necessary" and "needed"?
8. Why does he resent his own existence?
Yes, something in the back of his mind does whisper in a sinister tone: alter them, change them, make him love you once more, but he shoves the thought back with as much force as he possibly can. Whatever was between them (bitterness, hate, betrayal) was Luca's to shoulder. Difficult though it may be, it was what he had wrought.
Carefully, he begins to sift through those memories, trying to shift them into the right position.]
1. Humans are fun to him. Humans always brought him trinkets as offerings when he was a statue.
2. He wished he could talk to them.
3. When humans went extinct, he found himself lonely.
4. All he knew was that he had a duty to perform, though he could not discern where that duty came from.
5. He missed humans.
6. When Moder crushed his skull, he found himself wondering if he was doomed to a life of solitude. The other Guardians were Corrupted, and he was the sole immune one. Why was he alone in this world?
7. He wonders if he should be this bitter over his circumstances. Is he not "important"? Is he not "necessary" and "needed"?
8. Why does he resent his own existence?
LUCA sorts the memories, but finds that they stubbornly refuse to play the whole memory and associated emotions, getting stuck in a loop.
Memories #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 are in the incorrect order.
Memories #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 are in the incorrect order.
[If you've been traveling alongside Astrid, you might see his eyes turn pitch black as he grasps at his head, doubling over for a moment as a voice whispers out in his mind.
“Please. Please, you have to help them. You have to help them. Please, please, you have to—”
And then he's quickly standing back upright as the voice subsides, eyes fading back into his normal shade, and he looks at those around him with an alarmed expression.]
Heyyy, so. I think there might be people here we have to save?
“Please. Please, you have to help them. You have to help them. Please, please, you have to—”
And then he's quickly standing back upright as the voice subsides, eyes fading back into his normal shade, and he looks at those around him with an alarmed expression.]
Heyyy, so. I think there might be people here we have to save?
Come on, Zahliya. You have to come back. We need you. You have a purpose here, with us.
[Gritting his teeth, Luca tries again.]
1. All he knew was that he had a duty to perform, though he could not discern where that duty came from.
2. Humans are fun to him. Humans always brought him trinkets as offerings when he was a statue.
3. When humans went extinct, he found himself lonely
4. He missed humans.
5. He wished he could talk to them.
6. When Moder crushed his skull, he found himself wondering if he was doomed to a life of solitude. The other Guardians were Corrupted, and he was the sole immune one. Why was he alone in this world?
7. He wonders if he should be this bitter over his circumstances. Is he not "important"? Is he not "necessary" and "needed"?
8. Why does he resent his own existence?
[Gritting his teeth, Luca tries again.]
1. All he knew was that he had a duty to perform, though he could not discern where that duty came from.
2. Humans are fun to him. Humans always brought him trinkets as offerings when he was a statue.
3. When humans went extinct, he found himself lonely
4. He missed humans.
5. He wished he could talk to them.
6. When Moder crushed his skull, he found himself wondering if he was doomed to a life of solitude. The other Guardians were Corrupted, and he was the sole immune one. Why was he alone in this world?
7. He wonders if he should be this bitter over his circumstances. Is he not "important"? Is he not "necessary" and "needed"?
8. Why does he resent his own existence?
[Look, Luca hears you, Astrid, and he is very worried about this but...
His first priority is reaching for Astrid's hand, pulling him closer as he looks over the poor guy.]
First things first. Are you alright?
[Visions might be normal for the guy but uhhh... That was alarming and he's worried about his buddy :(]
His first priority is reaching for Astrid's hand, pulling him closer as he looks over the poor guy.]
First things first. Are you alright?
[Visions might be normal for the guy but uhhh... That was alarming and he's worried about his buddy :(]
Some memories try linking up with the rest, but it seems something is still incorrect...
Memories #1, #3, #4, and #5 are in the incorrect order.
Memories #1, #3, #4, and #5 are in the incorrect order.
[to say kiera is surprised to see zonari huddled up with everyone else from town would be an understatement. they're still pissed at her, likely will be until she acknowledges that it was fucked up of her to just sit there laughing -- something she'll probably never do, but luca and some other idiots have done permanent damage to kiera's skepticism, so they still hold out a tiny bit of hope.
even so, they're well aware that the ladygarg is not generally trusted in town, and they're not quite so petty as to leave her up here to potentially die. as they sift through memories, they try not to give zonari more credit than she's due.
that is, they don't get too optimistic about how she feels about them.]
1. Humans were not very interesting to her. Their brains don't follow logic, and their instincts border between banal and sharp. She can't get over her dislike of them.
2. Something awoke in her when she met the being meant to be her sibling, the one who was pre-programmed with love instead of hate like her.
3. Curiosity filled her mind.
4. To understand the brain was to understand others; to understand memories was a way to tame them.
5. To know her own hatred was to experiment on her own mind and shred the threads of her creation to learn. To know his love was to experiment on his mind and find out what made him love.
6. She worked, tirelessly, to unlock the secrets of the psyche.
7. Something blooms within her. Could humans be worthwhile?
8. Humans are something fascinating. She dreams of pulling their brains apart like spider's silk and seeing what memories stick to her fingers and which ones fall through the cracks.
9. She clings to each memory and tears it apart with her fingers to learn more. Human, animal, deity, construct, or otherwise.
even so, they're well aware that the ladygarg is not generally trusted in town, and they're not quite so petty as to leave her up here to potentially die. as they sift through memories, they try not to give zonari more credit than she's due.
that is, they don't get too optimistic about how she feels about them.]
1. Humans were not very interesting to her. Their brains don't follow logic, and their instincts border between banal and sharp. She can't get over her dislike of them.
2. Something awoke in her when she met the being meant to be her sibling, the one who was pre-programmed with love instead of hate like her.
3. Curiosity filled her mind.
4. To understand the brain was to understand others; to understand memories was a way to tame them.
5. To know her own hatred was to experiment on her own mind and shred the threads of her creation to learn. To know his love was to experiment on his mind and find out what made him love.
6. She worked, tirelessly, to unlock the secrets of the psyche.
7. Something blooms within her. Could humans be worthwhile?
8. Humans are something fascinating. She dreams of pulling their brains apart like spider's silk and seeing what memories stick to her fingers and which ones fall through the cracks.
9. She clings to each memory and tears it apart with her fingers to learn more. Human, animal, deity, construct, or otherwise.
Nebulously when people stop guessing! No timeline.
Idiot. Come on. He needs you!
[Don't worry, Luca is just mad at himself, nbd.]
1. When humans went extinct, he found himself lonely
2. Humans are fun to him. Humans always brought him trinkets as offerings when he was a statue.
3. He missed humans.
4. He wished he could talk to them.
5. All he knew was that he had a duty to perform, though he could not discern where that duty came from.
6. When Moder crushed his skull, he found himself wondering if he was doomed to a life of solitude. The other Guardians were Corrupted, and he was the sole immune one. Why was he alone in this world?
7. He wonders if he should be this bitter over his circumstances. Is he not "important"? Is he not "necessary" and "needed"?
8. Why does he resent his own existence?
[Don't worry, Luca is just mad at himself, nbd.]
1. When humans went extinct, he found himself lonely
2. Humans are fun to him. Humans always brought him trinkets as offerings when he was a statue.
3. He missed humans.
4. He wished he could talk to them.
5. All he knew was that he had a duty to perform, though he could not discern where that duty came from.
6. When Moder crushed his skull, he found himself wondering if he was doomed to a life of solitude. The other Guardians were Corrupted, and he was the sole immune one. Why was he alone in this world?
7. He wonders if he should be this bitter over his circumstances. Is he not "important"? Is he not "necessary" and "needed"?
8. Why does he resent his own existence?
1. The skies were the freest domain anybody can know. She loved the way the breeze felt in her feathers as she flew. She loved to dodge through the snowfall.
2. She loved to race Sehul and watch the dragon's leathery wings catch on the air.
3. In her tailfeathers, rainbows were cast over the skies. She always hoped that humans liked them.
4. Humans were quite terrified of her. She knew it was because she was a large bird, and once she plucked a fish the size of six humans from the ocean... but she did not think she was that scary, was she?
5. Sehul said that humans were scared of that which they didn't know. Humans were scared of them too, they said, but she couldn't bring herself to believe their words. To her perceptions, humans rather liked Sehul.
6. Is a giant shadow moving over the land at breakneck pace scary?
7. She abandoned the skies and began to walk. Unfortunately, she was still too large, and her being on the ground scared humans even more. They thought she wanted to hunt them.
8. She sang, but no one liked her voice. She laid down on the earth and did a cartwheel, but her bulk made it so that she nearly crushed many people to death. Being "silly" made people look at her funny.
9. Nothing worked the way she wanted it to.
10. She just wanted to be liked. Why did people hate her so much?
2. She loved to race Sehul and watch the dragon's leathery wings catch on the air.
3. In her tailfeathers, rainbows were cast over the skies. She always hoped that humans liked them.
4. Humans were quite terrified of her. She knew it was because she was a large bird, and once she plucked a fish the size of six humans from the ocean... but she did not think she was that scary, was she?
5. Sehul said that humans were scared of that which they didn't know. Humans were scared of them too, they said, but she couldn't bring herself to believe their words. To her perceptions, humans rather liked Sehul.
6. Is a giant shadow moving over the land at breakneck pace scary?
7. She abandoned the skies and began to walk. Unfortunately, she was still too large, and her being on the ground scared humans even more. They thought she wanted to hunt them.
8. She sang, but no one liked her voice. She laid down on the earth and did a cartwheel, but her bulk made it so that she nearly crushed many people to death. Being "silly" made people look at her funny.
9. Nothing worked the way she wanted it to.
10. She just wanted to be liked. Why did people hate her so much?
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