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Game: Heart Boosting with Dream
Form: CANDY BRACELETS - 9 'gemstones' of your team's color on a string.
Uses: 6/9 untaken (3 taken: Mau, Josh, Cassie)
Type: one-off
'"He told me that there were more worlds than there are numbers. There is no such thing as "Does not happen". But there is always "Happened somewhere else"--" He tried to explain, while she tried to understand.
When he'd run out of words, she said: "You mean there is a world where the wave didn't happen? Out . . . there somewhere?"
"I think so . . . I think I've almost seen it. Sometimes, at night, when I'm watching the shore, I almost see it. I nearly hear it! And there is a Mau there, a man who is me, and I pity he him, because there is no ghost girl in his world. . ."'
~~ Terry Pratchett, Nation
Alternity: This alternity spans from the beginning of canon, on the Boy's Island, to about a year later. Mau goes home, in the canoe he made. There is no wave. He remembers to catch a red fish on the way home, for a sacrifice. His father is waiting for him on the edge of the reef, and his uncles and the young men come to congratulate him, and there is the feast, with everyone there. He gets the Sunset Wave tattoo, and this thing that keeps getting obliquely referred to that I am assuming is circumcision, because I don't really know what else it could be, and everything is the way it should be. The way he thought it would be.
And the rest of the year is like the rest of his life was, before the wave -- mostly quiet, mostly happy, mostly good. He learns the morning song and the evening song and the dark water chant for the dead. He learns the chant that calls the Grandfathers to their beer, and none of them ever yell at him in his head. The ghost girl doesn't come. No ship comes. The Raiders never come. He works with his father and the other men, getting better at hunting and building and tending crops. Getting drunk for the first time. Starting to learn how to talk to girls. And things in the Nation go on how they always have, and all Mau's questions stay quiet in his head.
+ ow, my heart
Form: CANDY BRACELETS - 9 'gemstones' of your team's color on a string.
Uses: 6/9 untaken (3 taken: Mau, Josh, Cassie)
Type: one-off
'"He told me that there were more worlds than there are numbers. There is no such thing as "Does not happen". But there is always "Happened somewhere else"--" He tried to explain, while she tried to understand.
When he'd run out of words, she said: "You mean there is a world where the wave didn't happen? Out . . . there somewhere?"
"I think so . . . I think I've almost seen it. Sometimes, at night, when I'm watching the shore, I almost see it. I nearly hear it! And there is a Mau there, a man who is me, and I pity he him, because there is no ghost girl in his world. . ."'
~~ Terry Pratchett, Nation
Alternity: This alternity spans from the beginning of canon, on the Boy's Island, to about a year later. Mau goes home, in the canoe he made. There is no wave. He remembers to catch a red fish on the way home, for a sacrifice. His father is waiting for him on the edge of the reef, and his uncles and the young men come to congratulate him, and there is the feast, with everyone there. He gets the Sunset Wave tattoo, and this thing that keeps getting obliquely referred to that I am assuming is circumcision, because I don't really know what else it could be, and everything is the way it should be. The way he thought it would be.
And the rest of the year is like the rest of his life was, before the wave -- mostly quiet, mostly happy, mostly good. He learns the morning song and the evening song and the dark water chant for the dead. He learns the chant that calls the Grandfathers to their beer, and none of them ever yell at him in his head. The ghost girl doesn't come. No ship comes. The Raiders never come. He works with his father and the other men, getting better at hunting and building and tending crops. Getting drunk for the first time. Starting to learn how to talk to girls. And things in the Nation go on how they always have, and all Mau's questions stay quiet in his head.
+ ow, my heart
Unlike regular memories where there is a strong sense of the emotions and sensations in a memory an alternity is more like watching it on TV. Your character is very aware this is someone else's life and while they may get some emotional impact from it -- it should be more like an information dump.
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