The Story:
Working Titles: Nostalgia/Nostalgia: The Memory Man
Short Summary: When some teenagers end up in a therapy group for those with amnesia and emotional behavioural issues, some start to realize that they have all fallen victim to the same memory thief who has stolen their most important childhood memories and embark on a quest to reclaim their own pasts and get their own lives back. However, in order to do as part of their quest, they must not only find out who took their memories, and then track down Nostalgia in the Memories Realm but also master each emotional area and emotional memory of their own past to reclaim and regain their past, present and future as well as face, battle and overcome the Emotions & Lost Memory Shadow Creatures that now fill each part of those stolen memories in their minds and torment them. Written by Zaylee Knowles.
Summary: A time travelling memory salesman from the future trades, steals, captures, withdraws and collects children's memories and emotions via their purest, happiest, emotional memories as well as other emotional memories in the form of emotional moments in exchange for gifts. However, as some of the children grow older and attend a therapy group for teenagers with amnesia and emotional behavioural issues to try and regain their missing moments, they start to miss some of their happiest moments which now just remain as a deep empty haze full of nothing but darkness and Emotion & Lost Memory Shadow Creatures that torment them, even though other people remember those moments very clearly. Some of the teens realize that they've been tricked and robbed of joy and have problems expressing emotions due to their missing memories, so as they group up to solve the mystery of their lost memories, they must not only find out who took their memories, how they were taken but also track down the 'Happy Memory Man' who is called Nostalgia to try and get their most precious memories and feelings back and the stolen moments of their lives that now render their histories, miserable places void of any joyful sanctuary with no hope of redemption.
Since Nostalgia has his own plans to conquer time and the emotional memories that he trades are a source of energy and power to him which he gathers, utilises and harnesses to sustain himself and to further his own agenda, he is not however, willing to return the emotional memories that he has collected easily. So first, they must track down a Memory Keeper that looks after the Emotions Plane in the Realm of Memories who might be able to assist them in their quest. Another possibility this journey holds is that the Memory Keeper might just be able to help them destroy Nostalgia who they discover has been known to reside in the Bermuda Triangle and the Realm of Memories which will enable them to regain their emotional memories and their happiest historical moments. The quest ahead, however, will not be easy because the trail of memory clues that they will have to follow relate to their own past memories, fears and minds as they visit their own memories and each other’s which are held in a captive state in the Memories Realm due to the trades that Nostalgia has made and wade through those moments and try to reclaim each one as the master and owner. In order to reclaim their emotional memories that have been taken, they must revisit and pass each emotional memory test and face, battle and overcome the Emotion & Lost Memory Shadow Creatures that have replaced each missing memory which means mastering each emotion to unlock their ownership of each emotional memory, relearn how to experience emotions, remaster those emotions and emotional moments and relearn how to create some new emotional memories in order to give them ownership of their own past and present as they attempt to reclaim and regain the missing parts of their lives and pasts in order to prepare for their future. Written by Zaylee Knowles
(this project will have a loose connection to the Time Switch project but will be a slightly darker fable for 10 yrs upwards and will be suitable for the middle grade age range of 10 to 14 years) Genre: dark fable
Developed from: Yesterday's Memories, Shadowlands & Realm of Emotions
This is a multimedia project, and, in the game, there will be emotional quests and Emotions Shadow Creatures for each player to face and each player can choose which member of the group they wish to play the game in as well as team up with friends to play the game together as a group.
Memory Hunters
A follow on project from this will involve the group returning from their adventure with emotional powers that allow them to do things such as anger=create storms, sadness=create rains and they start to search for other children and young people like themselves who have been through similar experiences with Nostalgia to help them to regain their emotional memories, their pasts, their presents and their futures because now they can access the Realm of Memories and find lost, stolen or forgotten memories that belong themselves or other people. This series will also explore themes such as what defines identity, how our past connects with and relates to our present and future and how the present can impact upon, connect and relate to our future. Written by Zaylee Knowles
