Memento Mori (PC Plot - Deerington)
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onerthesAfter three deaths and seeing friends die repeatedly in Deerington, particularly after the third of Peter Parker's Informational Sessions on the network, Vira-Lorr became obsessed with making sure that multiple recordings of various forms were left behind, just in case. The information contained in these various keepsakes, papers, tapes and CDs were intended as an ongoing record of information gathered about Sodder, the Dog Keeper, Mayor and Mother Superior, the town of Deerington, the "Great Sleep" and the Deer of the city.
The information is separated into two forms below:
1) The first are in CD, Audio Tape and Notebook form in both Vira-Lorr's townhouse on Prospero and in the FEAR headquarters. She has been documenting since Majima's disappearance, but begins in active earnest starting in September of 2019.
2) The second are literal "Memento Mori." Vira-Lorr begins to study in September the method of trapping a memory for repeated recall magically into an object after dredging up a sculpture head from the waters of Lake Tomie near the docks which contains a memory of the coven she believes Sodder's mother or grandmother was a member of. These memento mori will not start appearing until October and November, when her research begins to reach fruition (and I start paying points to create them.)
The information is separated into two forms below:
1) The first are in CD, Audio Tape and Notebook form in both Vira-Lorr's townhouse on Prospero and in the FEAR headquarters. She has been documenting since Majima's disappearance, but begins in active earnest starting in September of 2019.
2) The second are literal "Memento Mori." Vira-Lorr begins to study in September the method of trapping a memory for repeated recall magically into an object after dredging up a sculpture head from the waters of Lake Tomie near the docks which contains a memory of the coven she believes Sodder's mother or grandmother was a member of. These memento mori will not start appearing until October and November, when her research begins to reach fruition (and I start paying points to create them.)
"Memento Mori" - Memory Vessels
Date: 2019-09-11 03:03 pm (UTC)-Mechanic: Each of these, per mod ruling, will cost the cost of the item used as a memory vessel +100 for the elemental and dream magic necessary to trap the memory.
The object contains a single memory that, when it is touched, is released and shows the person the vision as described. Content Warnings will be listed in the entry if necessary. These visions may be seen repeatedly, but the memory is trapped within the Memento Mori for as long as it exists.
Vira-Lorr loses access to the memories that she binds in this way, instead trapping them inside of the object to ensure that they are not lost even if she dies.
Memento Mori #1 - The Hand Mirror
Date: 2019-10-24 11:26 pm (UTC)----------
"Good," Vira-Lorr says. "If you can see me right now, I want you to pet the green chicken next to you on the head and tell Susan that she is a good girl. If she is not there, then time has passed and I hope that this sees whoever you are well enough, that it helps."
She coughs into her hand, looking uncomfortable and glancing to the side. As she did, the 'view' panned to the side, looking in the opposite direction. It continued the difficulty of telling whether or not one of them was the reflection, very much looking close and personally into a mirror's form. Looking back, the three eyed woman resumed speaking.
"This is a test. I've stored this memory here, specifically to test if it can be done. If you can see this, the test was successfully. This glimpse is meant to serve as a guide-post for you, a help and an aide. Should the worst come to pass and there is a need to share information with others who are struggling in this place, we must have a way more certain than documents. Deerington destroys them far too easily, but this method seems to have promise not to be lost."
A slow breath and she nodded once to the reflection. "I won't bore you more or confuse you more. When the vision ends, if you are me, I want you to trust me. If you have lost your memories, reach for the black box of jewelry by the bedside. There are glimpses of the truth, glimpses of your past that I will store in there. Each of them, I hope, will help you to remember everything more easily. I only beg you to please be more careful. We cannot keep doing this..."
"If you are not me, please do not touch the black box unless necessary. There are fragments of my past, things to help me remember who I am if I have forgotten. They are also very personal. Instead, I want you to go to this address." She held up an address and a crude map that clearly showed where FEAR headquarters was. "Bang on the door or enter normally, ask to speak to myself, to Moira, or whoever is in charge. If none remain, go to the old magical office and hunt around. There will be more guideposts there. Look for them. Ask for them. They will hopefully guide you forward."
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(The vision ended, and Vira-Lorr was satisfied by it. Not because it was good, but it successfully proved it worked, and gave just enough for her to know how to 'come back' if she died again...)
Memento Mori #2 - The Plague (CW for Zombie Horror and Plague Horror)
Date: 2020-03-19 03:58 pm (UTC)'In Case of the Plague - Touch Me'
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A pair of memories rush over anyone who touches the orb. It feels like they are being pulled in, towards the starstone with a rushing, sucking motion, and in the next they are in a place of abject horror. It is a tunnel in the dark. In the distance a literal hill of rotting bodies can be seen. There are easily a hundred feet or more of them piled upon the top of each other. Where the vision shifts, it floats beside several other individuals who walk on what can only be described as a carpet of rotting flesh, bodies sewn together as far as the eye can see in a tunnel where barely any light shows.
The vision is of a memory of one of Vira-Lorr's last journeys into the tunnels beneath Deerington. It shows her team, comprised of Jean-Paul "Northstar" Beaubier, Sarissa Theron and Newt Scamander along with her as they approach the walls of these tunnels, comprised of the same stone as was in the orb. With chisels, people who bore a green cross on their cheek began to work at the stone, to weather it and to draw the rock and out into bags for carry. A sound echoed, of stitches being ripped out.
"Oh god, no, not again," Vira-Lorr's voice could be heard saying. She was legitimately terrified. Her gaze turned, and the vision showed zombies pulling themselves out of the ground. Vira-Lorr pulled a large cleaver off of her back, angry and red metal shining in the darkness, and fire began to hurl towards them.
The view did not stop until the group was fleeing up the bodies of the dead, rushing to the ropes to clamber towards the light of the city streets and the hospital doors so very close to the gaping maw in the streets. The dead did not follow, but in the horror much could be seen of them. They were relentless and unending, their numbers beyond count. They were armed with needle and thread, wanting nothing more than to sew their victims into the carpet of the dead. They could be killed, and they moved like rotting corpses, but the more noise that was made, the more the Lickers came. Fast, inhuman things who relied on sound to hunt, they lunged with terrible efficiency to attack and devour anything that came to this hellish place. None of her fellows died that day, but it was a near thing and no amount of magical fire stopped the endless surge.
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The second Vision came afterwards. The team, haggard, was giving supplies to a team of medics, all of whom had a blue cross under their other eye. The substances were obvious, clearly shown, and laid out but only the one with the blue cross was allowed to handle them.
A syringe made from antler through unknown means.
Blood, labeled as being deer blood.
Starstone from the depths.
Human hair, labeled as being from the wastes.
The process of preparing the cure was shown, and with it there was a vision of the golems. Strange, inhuman creatures, they barely resembled the visitors as they moved amongst them with supplies. But, when the cure that was being prepared by them and the medics was used on a sick person, even as they were cured, a black gun erupted from their lips, landing on the ground and screaming in fury before it resolved into a black snot monster on two legs that tried to flee.
Everyone moved swiftly to destroy it, before it could get away, and as it was obliterated the vision finally faded completely.
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From the vision, anyone who watches it can decipher all stages of the progress of the Memory Plague from Jan/Feb 2019, and how it is cured. They can know that the golems come from the research facility on Mt Rheum, and it was with their help that the supplies were acquired to get the ingredients. One can also see first-hand the horrors of a tunnel full of zombies and licker-monsters.
Memento Mori #3 - The Blackened Drachma
Date: 2020-12-11 06:41 pm (UTC)The Conception of Cynthia Sodder
The True State of Deerington
The Choice You Must Make
View with Care
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The moment one touches the drachma with an ungloved hand, shadows wrap around the person, and they see a vision from Vira-Lorr's perspective of her encounter with a surreal puzzle box, alongside a white-haired girl named Lysithea.
The vision is long, drawn out and detailed. It may feel as if an eternity is being taken while the puzzle is deciphered in its entirety, though the person can see exactly how it was done by the two of them, piece by piece. The following view of the paint-filled room gives at least an hour of footage, imagery flooding the person of one insane conspiracy after another scrawled on the walls by Superior, all of them detailing the lengthy, surreal history of Deerington.
Following it, they are treated to the sight of Mother Superior herself, in her natural form as a Pthumerian. The ensuing, tense conversation and the vision of Cynthia's conception, followed by the 'true state' of Deerington follow, right down to Vira-Lorr and Lysithea's 'death' at the hands of Superior's maddened form in the world below.
And with a snap, the person is back to their original state. A look at a clock says it has been perhaps five minutes, but it feels as if hours have passed.
Memento Mori #4 - The Ceramic Bowl (CW for Blood, Gore, Unbirthing Horror and Crawling in a corpse)
Date: 2021-02-11 07:45 pm (UTC)The horrifying sight of the past of the Queen, of her sacrifice, her plans and coming to Maine were visible before the fight between she and Allura, before the two awoke separately in their beds, and the memory winked out.
Memento Mori #5 - The Old Pipe (CW for Birthing Horror, Mind-Break, and Cthuluh horrors)
Date: 2021-02-11 07:50 pm (UTC)If someone puffs on the pipe, with or without tobacco being present, the taste will touch their lips and smoke will wrap around them, shrouding them in a mist before they find themselves sopping next to Jack Harkness in the Mayor's mansion. The sad story of Roderic's fall at the time of Julia's birth plays out, as does the fight between he and Jack, alongside Vira-Lorr, as they manage to pacify, to calm him down and verify that he can still be reasoned with. Barely.
Memento Mori #6 - The Recorder (CW Corpses, Childbirth Death, Blood, 4th Wall, Nudity)
Date: 2021-02-11 07:56 pm (UTC)When the note is played, the person will feel compelled to smile, just before slipping into a deep sleep. In it, they will dream of the moon presence, also known as Cynthia Sodder. Visions of her birth, of where her grave lies, and of Vira-Lorr and Orpheus from Greek Myth helping to bring her peace are there. It is, oddly, probably one of the more pleasant experiences that is seen in the Memento Mori in FEAR Headquarters.
The Seventh - A Patch (Murder of an innocent monster, blood, monsters and fighting)
Date: 2022-01-07 07:46 pm (UTC)they see a vision
The Eighth - A Fireman's Doll (Lotsa burning, being a dog and monstrous three headed dogs)
Date: 2022-01-07 07:55 pm (UTC)A vision comes to them