Fading Memory

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This sheet lead me down a long and strange rabbit hole of distractions. My linguistic curiosity lead me to a debate between Wong/Wang as chinese names, which lead me to korean names, which lead me back to the Chinese three kingdoms period, which lead to me reading about the insane tactics of Cao Cao, which made me deep dive history’s greatest generals, which lead to me having a debate about Napoleon and Cao Cao with a friend of mine, which then lead to us discussing modern AI art capabilities somehow. So uh. Good job.

Dreaming Together With You - A Fading Memory Experiment - On Hiatus

I vibe the forum activity so far, but if the crew wants a Discord I would consider making one. If I did, it would be after the application deadline. Folks should weigh in on the topic and let me know what they want :)

Edit; intention of statement clarified, messy first thing in the morning typing went down.

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@Jumbus The Weeping Sam

The Elm tree was eighty feet tall, by swift estimation. Its rotted state is revealed by the break in the tree's core; the once great deciduous plant had swayed and splintered at a point roughly eight feet off the ground. This meant that a significant portion of the tree had fallen and snapped through the canopy of its nearby brethren, cascading the destruction of its own fall into an avalanche of broken branches and fallen leaves. Such is the way of nature.

The standing portion of its stump is coated in a rising colony of broad-capped mushrooms, climbing atop one another along the north side of the dead tree and forming the facsimile of a staircase up its surface. Considering her familiarity with the region and the timeline of these things, she can ascertain that the rot must have been set in for quite some time and that the mushroom colony had already begun forming before the inevitable collapse.

In this spot of the Weeping Sam, Rowan experiences a strange sensation in the wake of the fallen tree; the canopy, shattered as it is and broken apart by the death of the forest giant, is opened and allows a much greater amount of sunlight through than is typical of the dour forest. Rather than the dappling of visibility through a canvass of leaves, Rowan witnesses the forest floor in plain, unhindered, sunlight. The tumbled Elm further has broken open the earth, and already has begun to reconstitute itself into the forest ecology with the assistance of the mushrooms- as well as other forest entities.

When she first enters the clearing, she seems unnoticed by a female deer who is making great progress in stripping the upper boughs of their moss and lichen. If Rowan had to guess at a cause of the tree's death, it was the seemingly suffocating layer of ivy that had amassed in its upper branches- ivy that was now feeding the herbivores of the forest floor.

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@Gisk Sounds good.

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I hope none of you get tired of Nier music anytime soon, because hoo boy am I amassing a lot on this playlist of mine.

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The little crow’s sanguine expression swiveled to follow Toby towards her newfound path of least resistance. In brisk, bouncing, steps the young girl skipped at Toby’s side.

“Ooo! He can play too. Hey, Bread Boy, I want to play a game!” She shouts towards William. “Or are you boring?”

She seems to mentally register the reason for this diversion as they approach William and she lowers her voice to a more conversational level rather than yelling over the crowd.

“Aw, wait. Chores? Boring. Boring boring boring. Just like Big Z-“ The Bilica nickname for Weasel; they would never call him that themselves. “- and Gav; chores.” She makes a sour expression and sticks her tongue out as if tasting something nasty. She promptly begins to ignore the two despite having tailed them briefly, and swivels on her heels to look around the crowded streets.

She almost looked deflated enough to warrant pity. Almost.

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Lmao she is pretty mean. All the Bilica children are; she’s just an innocent sort of mean who doesn’t seem to know any better.

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The cobbled street colloquially called 'Market Lane' begins at a corner, where it splits off the main road up the hill to the Communal Meeting Hall. The prominent structure at this juncture is none other than the Hoar Grocer, with its centuries-old and intricately carved wooden frame. The roof is said to have been the hull of the original wagons brought by the Hoar family in the pioneer days, and over the generations the family has maintained and brought its structure into aesthetic and cultural heritage with carving and painting the heritage of the town upon it.

Other stalls and vendors, in preparation for the Festival, have been erected along this cobbled street in front of homes and the local café. At the far end of the street lies one of the town's two restaurants.

Sometimes when one wishes upon fate, fate conspires to answer.

Toby finds herself in, perhaps, the busiest place in the town on this given day. Despite the Hoar Grocer itself being cleaned out, the festival permits the villagers to set up their stalls and barter openly; this means that nearly one third of the village was currently walking this street and being an obstacle to her mission. On top of that all, as the throng of familiar faces maneuvered around she soon found herself in the sights of a vicious little crow indeed. If Toby isn't too overwhelmed then perhaps she may notice in time to flee, but indeed it is the young Odaya Bilica, youngest sibling to the tormentor Weasel at eight years of age, whose deep red eyes find Toby in her moment of desperation.

Manifesting as if from some foul nightmare, the raven-haired girl weaves through the crowd to suddenly be at Toby's side. Staring up at her with a sharp and tangible alertness.

"...Whatcha doin'?" She asks in a drawling tone, jabbing at Toby's side with a finger. "You're always so boring... Are you doing anything fun? It'd better be something fun. Because... I'm bored. I want to play."

Where Odaya was, her brothers were often not far.

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@Fading Memory Let me run this by you: Audrey does odd jobs for Hickory, mainly consisting of chasing down overdue(and sometimes just missing) library books from the townsfolk.

The goth punk girl with a bad reputation knocks on your door and politely(but flatly) asks if you're aware that Fifty Shades of Gray is past due, and would you please turn it over now, thank you very much.

@Gisk

Sounds good to me, I imagine Hickory’s probably a favorite among the characters broadly speaking for being laid back and knowledgable and generally having things like that for people to do.

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@myrkwise if nobody else interacts with Toby soon I’ll throw an NPC scene at you.

I’m big on organic scenes and people coming or going naturally, so if I ever do something like that feel free to jump in or have a character leave or whatever.