Hi! So I was out yesterday cause I was getting my second shot and then recovering from side effects. So what I did with myself was, I re-watched Memento.
This is what occurred to me.
- As a mod, I would have a darn hard time. finding 16 characters at all. Actually appearing in the main timelines there's just Leonard, Teddy, Natalie, Jimmy G, Dobb, the hotel clerk, and the escort. Oh and I guess the tattoo parlor lady. And then if you add the flashbacks you can add Sammi Jankins, Sammi''s wife, Lenny's wife, maybe the actual John G and his accomplice? And then we're still short three characters. And the characters don't neatly split up among timelines. In particular, Leonard and Teddy feature heavily in both. So I wonder if multiple players can be assigned the same character. Or if there are two players who are in both timelines somehow.
- There isn't an obvious single group of people to be a scum team. The bad guys are either outright shown or implied to be allied against one another. I wouldn't be surprised if we were looking at multi-ball. And it's a movie where even the hero ends up being an anti-hero and everyone Leonard meets mistreats or takes advantage of him. So maybe the scum team is not associated with flavor at all, since all the characters are scummy to some degree.
- It's been said, but the two timelines DO converge and interact, but only at the end, and when they do it's sort of pivotal to the film. So, if I were designing the game, I would probably create a mechanism for the timelines to come together at MiLo or ExLo, or possibly when an event triggers it.
- In terms of PRs, I'm pretty darn sure we have investigative PRs because investigating/mystery solving is such an important part of the film. Other than that nothing obvious pops up.
Addressing the case on me: I've struggled to engage with this game as much as I'd like to so far. But I'm a bad exile for today. Mainly because it's not my timeline.