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♠ | OPEN MEME | MULTI-PURPOSE JAMJAR

the multi-purpose jamjar meme

it's fun, it's easy, and it's free. top-level with your preferences and then roll or pick from the settings/prompts listed below. fly with assumed cross-canon cr or toss some canon cr into some new and rocky situations. go hog wild.

I - SETTING

i. horror: you've been yoinked from your own world and thrown into a new and terrifying situation. roll with horrible monster transformations, hostile set-pieces, sadistic npcs, and more. all that matters is making it through the night.

ii. survival: through some twist of fate or another, you've been allocated into a resource-poor environment. basic amenities like food, water, and shelter that you might have once taken for granted are suddenly either outright absent or require significant labor to attain. you're not just a stranger in a strange land - you're a stranger in a strange land with only your own wits to help you survive.

iii. slice-of-life: ordinary cityscapes and peaceful suburbias are all very well and good, if you weren't stuck in them without a clear means of escape. the most you can do now is try to adapt to a peaceful life that you might have never had. you've been given a chance at normalcy, but not everyone's cut out to acquiesce to the ordinary day-to-day demands of schools, jobs, picnics, and what have you. relaxing can be tough, but here, you've got all the time in the world for it.

iv. fantasy: not only are you stuck in a pre-industrial revolution hell, but now you've got these fancy new magic powers and special weapons, maybe even at the cost of whatever abilities you might have once had. now go forth and destroy the one ring or kill some giants or something.

v. sci-fi: maybe you're trapped on a spaceship or on some newly colonized planet in the far-flung, distant future. maybe you're being drafted into a corrupt army, or trying to escape the nigh-omniscient artificial intelligence that monitors everything in a dystopian future-opolis. the setting's whatever you want it to be.

vi. au / memory regain: your name's not the one you had and your life's not the one you lived...but it's not like you know that. maybe you're plagued by strange dreams of who you actually are, or someone from your world's been dropped into your new life to try and jog your memory. either way, you've always felt that something was off about this world and this life you've had. you could never tell what until now.

vii. prison: some all-knowing or interdimensional or corrupt law enforcement has finally snagged you, and decided that you are unquestionably guilty. of what? who knows. maybe you're a legitimate criminal, or maybe you're genuinely innocent and imprisoned under false pretenses. no matter what the case is, you're being kept under lock and key and put under heavy surveillance. plot an escape with fellow inmates or sway a security guard to your cause - or maybe a friend of yours has managed to sneak their way in to try and break you out.

viii. merc-work: you've been snatched from your home so you can do some high-quality work for some higher power. you're an assassin, a spy, a thief, or some other shady agent. tormented by the moral quandaries of your work? in it for the money? salty that your captors are responsible for forcing you into this? but then again, maybe playing along is your best chance of getting home...

ix. wildcard: idk man do what you want i'm not a cop

II - SITUATION

i. first impressions: hey, i just met you, and this is crazy, but where the FUCK are we (so handle my stress-induced breakdown maybe)?

ii. second impressions: hey, remember when we first met? nostalgia's really a trip, huh? when you're in a brand new world, you've got to hold onto whatever familiarity you can get.

iii. an Event™: SOMETHING is happening and y'all have to deal with it. how are you coping? have you run into each other by chance, have you buddied up willingly, or are you stuck together in the middle of some hellish happenstance?

iv. living conditions: congratulations, you're now being housed with a complete stranger. or maybe not. maybe you're friends back home or you've met before. regardless of how you generally get along with your new roomie, the stress of adapting to a new situation doesn't always make for a fun teething period.

v. mysteries & conspiracies: what's a jamjar anyway? you're not about to take this lying down. whatever's going on here, whoever's abducting people from their worlds and whisking them away again, you're going to get to the bottom of it. no matter what it takes.

vi. crau hijinks: hey, don't i know you? what, you don't remember? what are you talking about? we were best buds in that [unrelated previous game experience wherein you confessed your love or some shit]! don't you remember me?

vii. grudging teamwork: for whatever reason, you're being forced to work with someone you don't know or can't stand. fight a monster, solve a puzzle, break out of confinement, find your way home, get unstuck or unlost, etc. you just have to work together to do it.

viii. violent ends, violent means: got stuck facing each other in gladiatorial combat? facing off against a violent threat together? or maybe you ran into this absolute dipshit on the streets and decided you didn't like their face or whatever. look, i'll save you some time and just say that this is either going to be a magnet for some prime angst or hurt/comfort.

ix. play the hero: swoop in and save the day from...whatever the heck's going on here. play the hero or the damsel, whether wanted or otherwise.

x. network tomfoolery: idly commenting on proceedings, bored and spamming people's inboxes, figuring out what the heck this shiny thing and all the buttons do, etc. maybe there's an internet here. maybe you can send someone airbrushed ted cruz. i'm not going to say what you can and can't do.

xi. inbox'd: leave a message after the beep! just kidding, they picked up. what'd you wanna chat about in private, champ?

xii. wildcard: once again i ask do i look like a cop

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Your average everyday teenage girl who just so happens to have spent the last ten or so years of her life in a virtual reality world under her control. No biggie. She's kind of quiet and weird on account of having spent so much time alone but if you're nice in her direction for like five seconds, she'll glom right onto you. Supremely reckless and has basically no sense of danger or self-preservation.

down to clown on basically everything except horror and AU settings! ]

[Racto generally assumes that most people are younger than them. It is, generally, not an unsafe assumption. They look like someone in their late forties or early fifties, even if they're in actuality quite a bit older than that. Thin, lean, wiry, a walking billboard for the dangers of self-neglect and sleep debt, with most of their skin surface area consumed by scar tissue, Vale Racto tends to looks very much like someone you'd rather not have approaching you out of nowhere.]

[But if there's a kid that needs help, they're going to help, regardless of what it means for themself.]

[When they speak, their voice is rough and gravelly. Might have something to do with that scar that snakes up around their throat like a choker. Don't recognize this girl, but they don't recognize this place at all, so...you know, it's just one of those days.]

Hey. Hey, kid. You all good, there?

[ The transition from home to here happens as if between blinks, far too quick for Rin to really process it. She'd just finished dressing for the morning, was ready to settle down and draw and then... here she was, in a place completely unfamiliar with absolutely no awareness of how she'd gotten from A to B. It takes a second for what she's seeing to click, but when it does, she starts hard enough to stagger back a few steps. If it wasn't for the familiar, comforting shape of her tablet in her hands, she's not altogether sure if she wouldn't have followed through with a swoon of shock as well.

Her breath is catching hard in her throat and she can tell she's halfway to not being able to breathe at all when the sound of someone's voice brings her back down to earth with a hard bump. She spins on her heel so quickly that she almost throws herself off-balance and holds out her tablet a little protectively like she thinks that might protect her from attack. Her entire body language can basically be summed up as Cringe. ]

W... what...

[ There's... another person here. But that can't be right. For all the things she's made and drawn for the VR, she's never seen another person. ]

W–what is this place?! What's going on?

[ Despite her attempt to sound at least a little braver than she feels, her voice cracks. ]

[Shit. This is a hell of an adjustment for her, then. Right away, Racto stops, gives her some space. Hands up, palms out, the universal gesture for "easy, there." They keep their voice as steady as they can. Can't do a whole lot about looking all scarred-up to hell, but she already seems pretty spooked by just about everything else.]

I think you got tossed into a new world, same as me. You were minding your own business and then...found yourself here, right?

[That's kinda what happened to them less than an hour ago. They're still adjusting. There's sunlight here, which is weird, 'cause Racto's lived most of their life in a completely nocturnal state by necessity. There wasn't a sun where they came from.]

[Still. Looks like it's an adjustment for just about everyone.]

Rin Asunaro | Shelter

time to ADOPT A CHILDE how do you feel about survival or sol setting

give me sol........ IN a survival setting. Galaxy Brain.

oh hoHO HOHO

jet star | the true lives of the fabulous killjoys

2-7? 7-7? who knows!!! but BaTtLe!

[sounds of jet sighing]

wowee what a hater

party poison | the true lives of the fabulous killjoys

nathan wallace | repo! the genetic opera

can't resist

so rude

jodariel | pyre

Bryn Pendragon | OC

Yuri | Doki Doki Literature Club

Sophie Summerhelm | OC

Georgia Mason | Newsflesh

DYSTOPIA GAME. poison's an unregistered whatever. LET'S DO IT

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viii merc work; vii grudging teamwork

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Dipper Pines | Gravity Falls

Ahsoka Tano | Star Wars

iii Slice of Life, subset: Suburbia; iv Living Conditions

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