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.

Comments

[godbent]

[There is. And there's water falling down her face - it puts out some of her fire, and pushes back her ability to spread the fire. Which... is annoying. And in fact makes her intensify the flames, and the hear around her in general as she glares up at the cloud. Instantly, the rain starts to turn into steam around her]

[fourthgenerationprincess]

[ Seeing the steam rise up isn't enough to make Twilight realize there's somepony down in the blaze. Instead, she just assumes that her first attempt didn't work well enough. She conjures a bunch more clouds from the same procedure, and kicks one near the top. This time a veritable waterfall of rain cascades upon the blaze, and it doesn't let up; Twilight pours all her energy into continuing the rain until she has some effect. ]

[godbent]

-Hey! What ate you doing?!

[She's shouting this as the fires start to go out, but more importantly she has the rest die down. She also gets soaked in the process of it. Ugh.]

[fourthgenerationprincess]

[ Twilight's made a huge mistake. She pushes the cloud away to let it drench some other section of the forest, and flies down to see what she's done. ]

Is there somepony down there? [ She recognizes the sopping form and claps a hoof over her mouth. ] Oh dear. Haruhi?! I'm sorry! I was just trying to put out the fire!

[godbent]

So you splash people?! [And her glare becomes more charged in that moment because, well, a fireball forms a mete in front of her eyes and shoots up at Twilight. :T ]

[fourthgenerationprincess]

[ Twilight tries to dodge the fireball, but it singes her left wing. She yells out in pain and quickly descends to the forest floor, landing hard on her hooves. ]

You were the one burning up half the forest! [ She inspects her wings; the lead feathers on her purple, non-magical ones are blackened; her eyes water from the pain. ] You didn't have to burn me, too!

[godbent]

Oh come on, it barely hit you. Besides, I figured you could put it out easy enough.

[She says this dismissively, hot tempered like. Though she does feel bad that she hurt this person who is... her underling]

[fourthgenerationprincess]

[ Twilight summons some water to splash on her wings, and glares back at Haruhi. ]

You should be more careful with how you're using your powers! You might burn up all of Luceti with this attitude, and then we wouldn't have anywhere to live!

[godbent]

[ Continued here ]