the JAM JAR meme

[m3m3]

t h e JAM-JAR m e m e


You know the story: sometimes you see a character you'd love to tag, but your character's canon just wouldn't mesh with theirs. Maybe yours comes from a dystopian future ruled by sentient rabbit overlords while theirs is Greek mythology, or your think their tough-as-nails street cop might be alarmed by your alien cyborg. Maybe their version of history just contradicts yours. Whatever. If only you saw this character in a game setting, where your character would have a reason to talk to theirs...!

Now they do.

The Jam-Jar meme: all the convenience of a jam-jar setting, without going to the trouble of joining a game! Tag anyone you want without worrying about trying to make the canons mesh somehow. (Or just tag your cast-mates. I won't judge.)

Option One: The Spooky Jam-Jar
Someone's collecting individuals from disparate worlds, presumably for nefarious purposes. Comes in three varieties: survival horror, psychological horror, and mystery. Can you and your tag-mate survive your creepy new environment?

Option Two: The Spaceship Jam-Jar
For good or ill, you're all stuck together on this boat out here in space. Do you want to be a hero, a villain, or just a bad-ass space pirate?

Option Three: The Slice-of-Life Jam-Jar
Welcome to the City of Manycanons. Okay, so you're brought here against your will, and you're kinda stuck here, but life isn't all that bad: nobody can die and you're not being experimented on daily. Why not get to know your new neighbors?

Option Four: The Sexy Jam-Jar
Place: the Island of Smutville; Population: you. Something's making you want to have a lot of sex-- maybe it's the water, maybe it's the air, maybe there's even something in your brain or your blood. Either way: you want it, and you want it now. Who's going to give it to you?

Pick a scenario, and for extra shits and giggles, throw in any stereotypical jam-jar events for good measure. A very brief and not remotely exhaustive list includes: body-swap, sex-swap, amnesia, reversion-to-childhood, love-at-first-sight curses, truth-curses, etc. (Please note your preferences in your post. Conversely, don't just assume that someone's a-okay with something just because they didn't specifically state they weren't okay with it.)

Be excellent to each other: don't godmod, respect people's boundaries and preferences, and tag around!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Quick! Add a memory loss option!

[(Anonymous)]

I second this!

[(Anonymous)]

stop samefagging memory loss anon

[(Anonymous)]

Oh wow.

[m3m3]

Memory loss doesn't really determine what kind of atmosphere the jam-jar will have though... It could still be spooky/smutty/slice-of-life/sci-fi or whatever. It is an option under the "events" section, though, so if that appears to you, you can always put your character out as under an amnesia event in whichever jam-jar style(s) you prefer. :)

Edit: I'll try to think up a good memory loss option for when I'm posting it next time though, if people are interested in the meme this time around.

Aya Brea | Parasite Eve | Spooky Jam-Jar ahoy!

[mitochondriaaya]

"Son of Sam and Folbigg on a date..." Aya swore, keeping her foot jammed hard against the bottom of the door as she reloaded her gun. Not a lot of ammo left, that was what she got for getting her ass kidnapped just after fighting an Ultimate Being. What was left was water logged or half slagged from not-quite-dodging some blasts...

...let's not think about that Brea, not right now...

...and now there were more Things to face. They weren't mitochondrial, she could tell that much by the feel of them, and they burned just fine when she had the energy, but she'd entered this place exhausted and that wasn't helping. Right, well, no use worrying about that right now. "Fraser Jeffries Milat..." why not continue swearing as she got the door yanked open and her reloaded weapon shoved into the fangs of whatever it was?

It was cathartic, plus maybe someone else would hear her.

Hyuuga Hinata | Naruto | Slice O' Life!

[softer_strength]

The cuff on her arm was beeping shrilly, a sound that thundered through her head and made her stir on the floor mats. Were she anyone else she might hate the thing that was proof of her imprisonment, but for all the electronic bracer was sealed to her arm it hadn't been an unpleasant time. In fact she had...a house. The readout on the cuff told her it was time for school, which seemed mandatory.

Well then.

She picked herself up off the floor from where she'd passed out the night before after training and went to shower and change. Today was going to be special apparently because the cuff was flashing after another moment. "Ah...a roommate?" she blinked. Someone else had been taken from their home?

She would have to try to make them comfortable when they arrived! For now though she was running late!

Cool idea. Mind a panicked/confused castmate?

[itachi_san]

By the time she got home, there was another person there. But it probably wasn't exactly what she had expected.

She could hear beeping of the bracer before she saw the young man huddled in the corner. He looked like he'd been in some kind of terrible fight before he arrived. His clothes were torn. His skin was bruised and burned. There were bloodstains on the floor.

He didn't even look up when the door opened. He was too busy fixating on the strange device that was sealed to his arm and the knife he was using to try and desperately get it off.

*facepalm* I don't mind at all, you're a great player after all!

[softer_strength]

She'd spent the day at school wondering about who she'd be living with. Would they tall or short? Would they prefer dresses or pants? Would they be happy or sad to be taken away from their home?

By the end of the day she'd convinced herself there would be a girl moving in and she would probably be older and stronger than herself...and so she'd stopped on the way 'home' to pick up her meal and one for her new roommate, as well as a small cake to welcome them and...

...oh yes, she knew that shrill sound. That was the warning the cuff had shrieked at her when she had tried to remove it. Her steps sped her through the house, food trays left on a nearby chair, until she could find the new arrival, "Ahno! No! Please stop! It won't c-come off!" And he was bleeding already, obviously she had to get the knife away!

She'd figure out identity later.

totally didn't realize who I tagged there! Hi!

[itachi_san]

He flipped the knife around into a defensive position when he saw her rush toward him. It was instinct, and after everything he'd been through today, instinct well taken. He hadn't managed to pry the device from his arm, but it wasn't for lack of trying. The gashes in his arm were terrible!

"Stay back!!" he shouted frantically as he pushed his back further against the wall. "What do you... you creeps... even WANT with me?!"

Fancy meeting you here! :)

[softer_strength]

She froze at his cry, muscles tense and ready but the moment he stopped prying at the device it stopped shrilling at him. "It is bolted through the bones of your arm and sealed to the skin," she noted, lifting her hands to show they were empty.

"Ahno...please? Let me wrap your arm? I will t-try to explain this place." He was hurt, and confused, and obviously he'd been taken from some great battle. "It is safe here, as safe as such can be..."

I know, same here!

[itachi_san]

He didn't care so much about her empty hands as he did the device that was bolted into her arm as well. She wasn't one of his captors. She was a captive, just like him. But that didn't make him implicitly trust her. He kept the knife raised as he started asking a flurry of questions.

"Who are you? What is this place? What do they want?!"

Onward to more weird plots!

[softer_strength]

Ah, yes, she might have reacted much the same when she was first taken. She closed her eyes a moment to align her thoughts then sat easily on her heels, "My name is Hyuuga Hinata, I have been her a few months. This place is..." how did she put it? "The history classes at the school says this place was once a penal colony but that it evolved to a 'more balanced social structure' by which I believe it means those who run the city grew bored with c-criminals." Or only criminals.

"I do not know what they want. When I get to close to the tower in the center of the city, or the outer boundaries, the cuff overrides my nervous system and I wake up in the hospital. They require I attend school, good grades are how I receive a living allowance, and beyond that? It is strange town. There are no children younger than ten here, and no elderly..."

If you like weird Naruto plots, you should join the RP comm I'm part of

[itachi_san]

(http://one-long-mission.dreamwidth.org/)

Those answers left just as many questions. But this girl wasn't harmed. At least, she didn't look like she was. Which meant she was most likely telling the truth. Or at least the truth as she had come to know it.

However she tried to sugar-coat it, they were prisoners.

"What is this... this thing?!" He demanded. He held up a shaky arm, blood running freely from self-inflicted wounds.

Mary-Jean | OC 'How to Survive a Horror Movie | SPAAAAAAACE!

[1_of_13]

She. Hated. Space.

Events that took place in Space had a high kill count and a very low set of escape options and that just made her day really. Still, she'd been staring out of the view screen for a good two minutes now and nothing had tried to kill her yet so moving on!

Every ship had a cockpit, and as long as there weren't any pulsing cocoons there or a slaughtered crew screaming in tongues, well, it should be alright...right?

Even odds that the piloting manual was in Korean or something.

[prezstandsalone]

There is a strange pod in cargo however containing a handsome man frozen in place. There is no card or information on the pod, just one word. "Brother."

The pod starts beeping once the ship is boarded and it looks like the man's hand is starting to move.

[1_of_13]

'Boarded' was a polite term for waking up on a strange ship but hey, sure, she could pretend! The beeping only caught her attention because she was sitting in the cockpit with security feeds on; best to know what was coming for you.

Frozen guy in cargo bay huh? Which flavor of killer or monster was he then?

Best to go ask. After she checked the shotgun on her back. Rock salt rounds wouldn't punch through the hull!

[prezstandsalone]

Nathan's eyes flutter open and takes in the situation. He is encased in metal, he can't feel any wind around him and he has no idea what day it is much less what year.

Once he realizes his arms can move he starts banging on the lid of the box hoping someone will hear him.

[1_of_13]

Oh...goodie. A giftboxed potential psycho killer. Instinct said to drag the pod to a cargo bay and get it blasted into vacuum as soon as possible.

Fortunately for the person banging on the inside though her conscience could override instinct. It took her a moment to figure out the cycling controls, but soon enough to top of the metal pod was inching upward with a hiss and...she was backing away, shotgun raised and pointed.

She really, really hoped he wasn't going to melt into a swarm of alien bugs and try to eat her face or something.

[prezstandsalone]

Nathan tries to step out of the pod only to find his legs weren't ready to move yet. He starts to fall to the ground but his ability kicks in and he floats back up to a standing position.

He looks at the woman in front of his and croaks. "Where....am....I?"

[1_of_13]

Well, lack of mobility was a pretty commonly known side effect of cold sleep; the flying, however, was not. That was...definitely new.

Great.

Yes Nathan, the shotgun was still pointed at you. "No idea beyond 'In Space. Who are you?"

Sean Renard l Grimm l Spooky all the way baby

[thegrimmismine]

Sean knew he should have called for back up, but when one of his subjects alerted him to the haunted house he felt he had to go and make sure a creature wasn't causing trouble. He stepped in the door wincing slightly at the loud creak of the floor.

"Hello," he calls out, "is anyone here?"

The Slice-of-Life Jamjar

[snarkybroad]

[Of all of the things that she could be magically summoned to, it's a ... a first-year college English class. Thank god it's just about over, because Rose is bored as hell.]

roommates? XD

[any_sane_adventurer]

[Rose wasn't the only bored one. Somehow everyone was completely ignoring the horror terror despite her obviously inhuman appearance. She looked even more bored than Rose and perhaps ready to cause a bit of mischief.]

Another prompt suggestion

[(Anonymous)]

The War Jamjar: Whether your summoners called you accidentally or intentionally, whether they show their faces or not, one thing is abundantly clear -- now that you're here, they want you to fight against demons, witches, or zombies, or they want you to put down dissidents or overthrow tyrants, or they're simply one army among many and you happen to have been drafted to their side. If you're lucky, maybe you've even been gifted with new powers to fight this war.