MEMORY SHARE ※ 1

[wildestmods]

MEMORY SHARE

It's during a pause in their day. A nap. An idle moment looking out from the gardens at the landscape passing by below. Taking a moment to catch their breath after a jog in one of the castle's larger magic rooms.

The squad is suddenly connected. Mental pathways locking together, they're forced into one another's innermost beings. Thrust into one another's memory palaces where the mind collects and stores everything that makes them who they are. The core of their beings are only a few steps away and no one can prevent the link.

To make matters worse, it comes with no explanation or no ability to pull out and stop. Once they're through the first memory, perhaps they can find a way out, but they're already witnessing some event from their host's past. And, if they left, who knows whether or not they'd end up accidentally invading another memory palace?

And if they were there, who was in theirs?

[ooc: So, how this works: the memories can either be viewed in spectator mode or the guest can be experiencing everything themselves. The person whose memories are being shown, the host, can watch as their current self or take the form they had of their past self. They can also be invisible until the memory is finished. They can talk about the memory with the "guest" that's visiting.

They cannot control the first memory shown, the player decides that, but they can sometimes control any other memories they'd like to show people after. Of course, there's also always the option of an extreme emotional reaction bringing up other memories unbidden.]

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[hallelujahjunction]

Perhaps because Price is picking up on the closeness, the camaraderie, Dan's memory shifts to his blood relatives, all his brothers and sisters with him gathered around a campfire with a beat-up van pulled up next to it. Many of the kids have blood spattered on their shabby clothing. Their mood is jovial, at least, even while a young version of Dan is busy applying stitches to the youngest, a girl shy of seven, on her arm.

"Just for tonight, because we're celebrating," the oldest girl says, passing a bottle of whiskey around to her siblings and smoking a cigarette. "And let's take a moment to praise Tabby for her sharpshooting!"

A pre-teen girl takes a bow and does a twirl, and the rest of the kids holler and applaud. One of the boys ducks behind the van to change out of bloody clothes, and teenage Dan comes with him, leaving the little girl eating a candybar and snuggled up with her big sister.

"You did great out there, Eli. Dad would be proud." Young Dan strips off his shirt and tosses it into the back of the van, rooting through a van that's clearly got all the possessions this family owns - including a rack of firearms - until he finds shirts for himself and his little brother.

"Yeah, I did that breathing trick he taught me, you know, exhale in two parts on the trigger-pull. Real came in handy." A fleeting solemn look passes Eli's face, then passes. "Do you really think we can break the curse?"

"We rid the whole of East Texas from crocottas. We got to have some good luck coming our way. We deserve a break." Dan pats Eli on the shoulder. "Come on. We'll go together, just you and me, to pick up the hoodoo tomorrow morning. When was the last time we got some quality moments away from the whole clan?"

"It just feels too good to be true," Eli says. "But now that I say that out loud, I don't want to be someone who says that about things."

"Ain't nothing too good to be true." Dan holds out a pack of cigarettes to Eli, and the two of them sit on the bed of the van as they button up their flannels. "You can have one. I won't tell Kitty."

The real Dan sits on the ground, rubbing his temples, trying not to look at the faces of these children he saw die.

[myagents]

'Ain't nothing too good to be true' sounds like a very odd take to Price, and he visibly tilts his head when he hears it. Most things are too good to be true, actually. Probably Dan himself thinks something similar.

Price's eyes dart to Dan for a moment, worried, as if to make sure that he's reacting properly and not making him angry. Yes, Dan is not prone to anger, but he is not an exception worth not applying the rule for. Hell, Price half wishes he was properly mad at him, it's a dangerous behaviour he's used to experiencing as opposed to...Whatever it is that Dan does. Then again, Price not so subtly asked Bunny to hit him during their argument, so...There's that.