Possession Event

[lucetimods]

Who: People in Luceti
What: Spiritual possession
When: The 26th to the 1st
Where: Luceti!
Summary: Check out the previous mod post.
Rating: If it gets smutty, move it somewhere private.


Starting at midnight on the 26th, Luceti and its inhabitants will find itself the focus of the Filial spirits, usually quiet and reclusive, now stepping out to deal with one of their own.

As promised, here is some additional information to help figure out how to play around with the spirits and interacting with similarly possessed people.

First off, each spirit has a certain time or place when they are at their most powerful. Consequently, characters possessed by them will enjoy these boosts and this in itself can be a deciding factor in what would otherwise be a stalemate. Here’s a quick run down:

Sona - She’s most powerful around lakes, rivers, and the ocean. Mostly this is concentrated at the southern lake.

Kipinn - He’s most powerful in high places, like mountain tops and the roofs of community buildings.

Faeren - She’s most powerful in the farmlands alongside things that grow.

Tsinku - He’s most powerful in the village itself, where technology thrives.

Eferin - He’s most powerful in the center of the forest where his heat may cause trees to burn. In fact, the upcoming forest fire may cause some trouble if his followers get too rowdy.

Hyt - It’s most powerful during the daytime under a bright sky.

Twila - It’s most powerful during the night time.

Nala- She has no domain and is generally welcome wherever she goes.

How possessed characters will deal with other possessed characters will depend on the interactions of the spirits themselves. A useful spreadsheet sums up these relationships. Those that have a friendly attitude to one another will generally allow ‘trespassers’ into their domain, but those they are not so friendly with may cause conflict.

Finally, to elaborate on Twila-possessed characters. Those with a natural affinity for darkness are likely to be possessed first. Once they have, they can try to recruit others less-compatible candidates to ‘join the cause’. Their goal is numbers. The more who are working with Twila, the better. Once they do, they’ll be inclined to act in their own self interest and if necessary, deal with others who try to get in their way. In the long term, the spirit Twila wants to stay this way, bonded to the Lucetians as hybrids, that way it cannot be imprisoned again. Think of it as pure survival instinct of an animal that’s spent way too long in a cage.

All isn’t lost. The other spirits may not be able to cage it again, but they won’t accept Twila reacting in this manner. Though it’s hard to tell what their beef with Twila is, they have an instinctive familiarity with the dark spirit and seem to act as its jail keepers.

They have the power to free people from Twila, but given their poor communication skills, figuring that out might just be a challenge. After all, the spirits can only communicate in shades of feeling and intentions, but not actually verbalize directions or marching orders. However, there will be a Malnosso post mid-event that will give everyone, possessed or otherwise, the info they need to turn things around.

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Day 3 | I'll have you know this tag was painful to write

[endgames]

[Shikamaru's had enough of his job. Sure it was only two days, but it made him miss how much he enjoyed slacking off. In fact, with all the other spirits moving in now, he thinks he'll take a vacation. It's kind of annoying how they all showed up...

That said, it hasn't turned him off completely from his friends and allies, Temari included. Those bonds aren't going to be so quickly severed from something like this. If anything, he feels more slighted. Those are his friends, dammit. 8|

And so it happens when he steps out onto the roof, and sees Temari, that his reaction is much different than it would be for others like her.]

Hey, good-looking.

[dangerouswind]

[Still reeling a bit from that sudden compulsion to go to the roof, Temari turns sharply at the words. That was about the last thing she ever expected to come out of Shikamaru's mouth.

Yo, Temari or Hey, you, she had heard a million times before. She regards him with a somewhat confused expression.]

What's with you?

[Because clearly something is up, with that opening statement.

... and yet there's a part of her that's tensed and waiting.]

[endgames]

[They say spontaneity can be a good thing, right? Looks like it's paid here. He shrugs his shoulders with a smile, and steps forward to stand beside here. Like everyone else, his larger wings are plainly visible now, black as ink.]

I'm heading out on a vacation of sorts. I'm glad to have caught you before going. [He looks out at the sky and the sunrise as if thinking to stretch his wings here and now. Instead turns back to her again, watching the sunlight play shadows in her hair.] I'd tell you, too, that you look very beautiful right now. But I think you might punch me.

[dangerouswind]

[And now things are officially weird, but instead of any sort of angry concern, all she feels is tension.

It's as if an enemy is standing beside her and just that very thought unsettles her deeply. She ignores all else and focuses on the pertinent point.]

Vacation?

[endgames]

[Well he tried. It's the best he's going to get, with the circumstances, though he wonders if she's thought anymore on what he had to say to her back at the restaurant, a month ago.]

I feel like getting away from the village for a while. [He nods at the expanse of the enclosure, beyond their building.] Gonna take it easy, maybe do a little sight-seeing.

[dangerouswind]

There a reason for this?

[endgames]

[Her response is a shrug.]

[dangerouswind]

That all?

[endgames]

I don't want to be here when things hit the fan. Let's leave it at that.

[dangerouswind]

That's not like you.

[endgames]

It's plenty like me. You remember our match in the chuunin exams. [He tilts his head.] I'm the number one at running away, when I want to be. And I want to avoid a witch hunt.

[dangerouswind]

I remember. I remember a few other things, too. [She looks out over the buildings, frowning, wings twitching a little.] Something's wrong, Shikamaru.

[endgames]

Besides... [Low voice. He trails off, flapping the tips of his wings instead. This or something else?]

[dangerouswind]

These are strange enough, don't you think?

[endgames]

Heh. I'd say Malnosso experiments have conditioned me to think otherwise, but I don't think this is one of theirs.

[dangerouswind]

What makes you say that?

[endgames]

--not an authorized one, let's say.

[Because okay. Maybe this was all Davis and Carol were after after all.]

But you've felt the spirits around before, haven't you?

[dangerouswind]

Here and there. I'm not the familiar with them.

[endgames]

[...of course not.]

Well this... [He gestures across from them, to the less tangible state of the town.] It feels much like they're closer now.

[Continue here?]