melodiesooc | Event: In Your Worst Memory (2)

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Event: In Your Worst Memory (2)

Hello dear players, the event is live and everyone by now should have received their twist. If you haven't signed-up, it is too late now to handle your own memory, but you are till free to visit the memories of other characters! The first OOC post with all the details can be found here. Don't forget that all characters somehow involved in the event will disappear from Aqures Ixen for a total of three days.

This post is for you to use so that you can plot out, explain to other player what your memory is and coordinate what is happening. Should you have any question for the mods, you can also ask it here!

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The Memory: Tazendra is pleased to assist her friend, Khaavren, Captain of His Majesty's Phoenix Guard, to make an arrest of Pricne Adron e'Kieron, who is currently staging a coup. The fact both Adron's army and the Imperial Army lie between them (and are about to fight) is no matter for Khaavren's sense of duty.

The problem is that no one knows fully at the time, but Adron has a back-up plan: a spell using ancient and powerful sorcery that is supposed to steal the symbol of rulership, the Imperial Orb, from the Emperor. This would make Adron Emperor by Imperial law (as the Orb is a magical artifact, it both protects the Emperor and prevents theft until it's good and ready to move on). Because of a delay due to politics -- a disgraced lord going by Greycat (but once known as Lord Garland) was manipulating things and now he just wants to stab Khaavren for being meddlesome -- the party will arrive two minutes too late, and will then see the spell backfire. Adron will teleport everyone clear, but the resulting magical backlash destroys the capital, causes the Orb to be sent to the afterworld for safekeeping, and generally causes the Empire and all sorcery to collapse for several hundred years.

Tazendra's first reaction will be 'hey, since I'm in two places at once, maybe I can tell Lord Adron to stop his spell before everything goes to pieces? That would be awesome!'

it doesn't work. At first, it's just a matter of too many soldiers in the way: they can arrive, but not before the past party does. As the scene repeats, Greycat's/Garland's group becomes more and more numerous powerful and starts interfering both in Memory!Tazendra's party and the Heroes' party. Eventually, I figure Garland will be able to kill Khaavren*, Tazendra will flip out and go into a berserker rage and be a risk to ally and enemy, and, assuming no one can talk her down, she's either going to get killed by Garland's daughter (which happens in canon, just hundreds of years later) or some poor hapless Hero who is trying to keep her from killing them.

(This is a slight tweak from the mod-related twist.) Of course, if you can talk Tazendra into dropping the subject before it gets people killed... but she's feeling like the entire thing is a challenge to her.

If you like, you may specify an early (a few random soldiers, most of whom are distracted), middle (the brigands actually focusing on you and getting souped up), or final run.

* Well, or another of her friends. if anyone wants to volunteer, I mean.

Do you have any preferences for how Aerich works in? Unless one of them get killed first I can see Aerich attempting to talk her down on account of the lyorn tendency toward 'don't go against the way things are supposed to be'

He's probably the only one who could. Especially since he might figure out that there is some point to the exercise while the whole thing is set up to more entrench Tazendra in 'I am going to keep doing things, since the odds are getting worse, which makes it more interesting'. (It's not even for the goal of changing the past, but because she's being challenged, so she fights.)

Now I can't help wondering if it's better or worse to recognize and point out the ramping up of difficulty. XD You say we can make it even more difficult?

ANYWAY so maybe I toss him in for early cycle, and he goes with it to start because supporting your friends is good and stopping another friend from destroying himself and the Empire is also good. Then later attempting to apply the brakes?

I have to say, I love Tazendra completely missing the point of the exercise. 'I accept that it happened, but I wanted to see how difficult it would get by fighting it.' (She is the real-life equivalent of 'how long can I last on the highest difficulty level of my new game'.)

(The worst part is, I don't remember if anyone mentioned that people can be revived in Crystalis*. Because that's going to make her even more reckless.)

Sounds good.

* She might remember it from the dream event, but she might not.

I was wondering if Daisy could perhaps be alongside Tazendra, at least until Tazendra has to make the final run, perhaps trying to hold them off so Tazendra can finish her mission. And probably dying and have it all still fail.

Sounds good to me.

I want to throw Val at you, into this, so I'll try not to be a pain in the butt!

You are not being a pain in the butt at all! Go for it!

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Event: In Your Worst Memory (2)

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