event: memory corrupt

[mayfield_mods]

On the morning of Friday, June 1st, characters who are participating in this event will wake up with their memories of their entire life history altered. While they will still remember their time in Mayfield, they will believe themselves to be from an alternate universe than the canon they're from. Examples of AUs we will allow include but are not limited to:

alternate timeline; the overall world remains the same, but someone makes a different decision than the one in canon that sends the universe traveling down the other leg of the Trousers of Time. (For example, what if Harry Potter chose to be in Slytherin rather than Gryffindor?)

alternate setting; the fundamental rules of how the canon world works have changed. (Example: If Pokemon often killed humans or died instead of fainting.)

alternate history; your character is now from a different era in their world than the one in canon.

alternate future; essentially a fake/alternate canon-update. Please note that while your character may now have memories of being older than their current age, they will not physically age up as well.

Feel free to come up with AUs outside of the above as well. That said, we will not allow the following types of AUs:

non-canon crossovers; if the crossover doesn't exist in canon, it won't be allowed. (A Kingdom Hearts character believing themselves to be from the world of Aladdin is fine; a Kingdom Hearts character believing themselves to be from the world of Harry Potter is not.)

alternate species; your character must remain the same species as they are in canon.

We will also not allow the following:

alternate regains; all current regains your character may have in Mayfield will remain the same. A non magic-user in canon who is being taken from a universe where they're a sorcerer will still be unable to use magic in Mayfield. Characters will also not be able to use the Post Office to trade for regains from their alternate universe, unless it's a regain they would be able to normally acquire.

physical changes; no matter what AU your character is from, they will remain physically identical to their canon counterpart.

If you have any questions, please use the thread in this post. Feel free to also use this post to plot with your fellow players. This event will end on Tuesday, June 5th, upon which all characters will wake up with their canon memories intact.

EDIT: A general event log has been put up!

Comments

[soveryhuman]

So for this event, I'm pulling out Actual Roman Rory!

Which is to say he was always a hot Italian Roman soldier, who just happened to be around when the Doctor and his beautiful ginger Pond companion stopped in for a visit to the Pandorica! His beautiful, beautiful ginger companion. :'|

In this universe, Rory Williams was never born in Leadworth in modern times, and not even because he got killed and sucked into a crack in time and erased. He was born a Roman, raised a Roman, lived and became a pretty average badass Roman guy. Amy, being Amy, eventually wound up finagling a visit to her favorite time period, and the Doctor, being the Doctor, naturally managed to pop in for this visit just in time for alien shenanigans. I'm still not sure on the details because I'm great at last-minute planning, but suffice it to say Roranicus wound up running around with the TARDIS duo getting into these shenanigans. I've been thinking maybe being a rare actual human Roman when shit got real with the Pandorica. You know, volunteered his services, stabbed a Cyberman, failed to prevent Amy being shot by a plastic Roman WHOOPS. The Doctor would zap back from the future to ask him to get him out of the Pandorica, and Amy would go in as canon demands, and when the Doctor ollied outtie 2000 years into the future, Rory asked to go along to make up for being shit at keeping gingers safe.

He would have tried to pull some last centurion stunts in this universe but I mean. "I'll look after your companion in her box for less than a tenth of the time it will be hanging out on this planet" doesn't really seem as good an idea as "take me with you, I'll stab things."

And then he probably grappled with a Dalek in the future keeping someone from getting exterminated and got himself exterminated instead. It's just what happens, bro. But he got to tell a beautiful scottish lady that she was a beautiful scottish lady before the end.

Believe it or not, this is not because he's Rory. It's just because he was an adorable side character on Doctor Who and that is what happens to them. :'|

But the universe reset through the power of Amy's memories and he got back to his time alive and Roman, so it's okay! He probably remembers his adventure and most people think he's nuts and eventually those two would probably drop in to be like "by the way you're not crazy it's cool bro" or something, but he'd have totally come into the game from before that would happen.

So coming to Mayfield, BIG CHANGE from his usual! He's likely gotten involved in some time period adjustment shenanigans and sought out good sword substitutes to handle all these horror game problems with, and then probably followed the Doctor like a lost puppy a bit and Amy a bit more. IDEK IDEK THIS JUST SEEMS LIKE A FUN IDEA AND I LIKE ROMANS.