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The All-Purpose JamJar Meme

Jamjars give people opportunities to place their favorites into alternate scenarios of circumstantial bonding, alliance, animosity, teamwork and sexuality! Some encounters are innocuous and some epiphany-spurring, and whether you're interacting with a castmate or engaging in cross-canon CR, there are opportunities for creativity and exploration only made possible through this format. If you are fucking lazy or don't want to deal with activity-checks or want to do a miniature test drive, just meme it. Just... fucking meme it.

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✿1. Horror: Your characters are taken from their own worlds and thrown into a terrifying situation! Things are creepy, resources are scarce, and ensuring your own survival is paramount.
✿2. Sex Game: For whatever contrived and nonsensical reason, your characters are forced into a world where they gotta bone. Aside from smutstuff, you have the opportunity to play out how very awkward it is to navigate these agreements and encounters before and after. Lasting bonds can form from something you didn't expect! But so can eternal regret.
✿3. Slice of Life: Characters are forced to live together in familial units. They have an opportunity here -- in spite of being stuck -- to relax and slow down and do some fun, ordinary things. Picnics, dates, school, etc.
✿4. Fantasy: Characters are forced into guilds and roles, given weapons and are made to utilize their powers in coordinated units to complete missions.
✿5. Scifi: Characters are thrust on to the frontier of spacial colonization! Characters on a spaceship! Characters being drafted into an Imperial Earth Army to fight/conquer foreign entities! Characters being in a world where they are assessed, identified, tracked and policed by artificial intelligence! And so on!
✿6. Reincarnation/ New Identity: Your character has been reborn at this game, or given a new identity. Work out their karma or help them come to terms with having to live a new life.
✿7. Asylum/Prison/Institutionalized Identity: Characters are locked up and put under heavy surveillance. Slowly they are institutionalized and disintegrated from ordinary social rules of engagement. They could be told that they've been identified as mentally dysfunctional, or they could be in prison! Are they pleading their innocence, or do they know they're guilty as fuck back in their world?
✿8. Assignment-Based/Mercenary/Survival: Characters have to put their skills to good use as drafted mercenaries. Help your captors assassinate, spy, sabotage, infiltrate, steal, and terrorize for points that will lead up to your freedom or the freedom of others.
✿9. Your Choice!: Do whatever!

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✿1. First Impressions: You never forget your first impression of someone. Unless it was entirely forgettable.
✿2. Oh Hey Again: I kind of know you!!!! Hi!!! I hate this place but love familiarity hi!!!
✿3. Event: SOMETHING IS HAPPENING and your characters have either run into each other or sought each other out to stick together during it!
✿4. Living Quarters: Surprise, your characters are in the same house! Or room! Or building! Either way you have to share space and facilities with this person. Enjoy!
✿5. Mystery: Who Did It? Why Are We Here? Characters are disappearing, people are dying, whatever is happening it is FISHY!
✿6. Canon Update/Respawn/"But we know each other, I swear!": One character comes (back) to a game and does not remember previous CR. A relationship or friend or even hateship is forgotten. How will this be dealt with?
✿7. Begrudgingly Working Together: You are so fucking annoying but I guess we have to fight Monster of the Day Together/Get Unstuck-UnLost Together/Find Our Way Back/Help Each Other Out.
✿8. Is This a Date: Gee, you guys sure are doing a lot of things that people on dates do and you're having a lot of fun [sweats]...
✿9. Violence: Characters beat the shit out of each other or help each other out of a gory situation with terrible traumatic injuries or something!
✿10. One-Sided(?) Crush: How do you get their attention? Or, alternatively, how do you ignore that this person obviously is crushing on you and it's totally awkward
✿11. Protecting/Saving: Your character's chance to be a hero or a damsel!
✿12. Network Post: Mandatory bs.
✿13. Inbox: Hey, can I talk to you for a second? In private?
✿14. Your Choice!: Do whatever!

Comments

[leucism]

Never worried, just concerned. Like the mother of a prodigious son, hovering over him while studying as if she were a wolf circling a nug. [ a visceral image. while Dorian was always prone to figurative language to express his (often hyperbolic) points, he felt he had to use enhanced imagery with Cole. he hoped — through this naturalistic choice of words — he could promote visualization of what he meant for Cole. while Cole often seemed like an abstract concept, being a spirit, or demon, or ghost, or whatever, he had some ties and connections to the earth, so he hoped it would help get his point across.

of course, it could just serve to confuse him more. Dorian was never sure with this one whether his point landed or completely missed. it was even worse with his jokes. ] I suppose I should feel safe with you, what with your bizarre hostile sensing, but I can't help but feel apprehensive when you disappear from the battlefield. Quite literally.

[existency]

[ It's clear which of the two it is with how Cole's brow knits together, because it's not quite a analogy he understands completely. Or, well, half of it he understands. A wolf circling a nug, playing, poking, because a nug would never have a chance. It shivers or blisters, not happy anywhere but underground, so it's easy prey. So, because of that, the metaphor is unsurprisingly lost, and he focuses on that, wanting to understand as he always does, curious especially with Dorian who talks the most of things that Cole doesn't understand. ]

That's very strange. If the mother circles, the son shies away. He's afraid of being eaten, or, no, disappointing.

[ Has he felt something like that before? He can never be sure, but it's familiar enough that he feels a bit confident with saying it, but the point itself flies over his head. ]

I won't disappoint you. I only disappear for a little while. Everyone else becomes the nug for a little bit, but it's to make sure I'm helping. I always come back. [ Though he remembers a fear when he wasn't so certain about that, when he was in the White Spire and killing to make sure that he didn't disappear. He pauses, thoughtfully, then ultimately just adds simply: ] At least, I want to.