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

[rather_be_surfing]

Been here and there, just checking stuff out. Looks like a lot of people have the new wings.

[And the powers to go with them...]

[corrinesbell]

Yep. Think they're gonna be around for a long time? This doesn't feel like an experiment at all.

[rather_be_surfing]

...Hard to say. Lot of people do seem to be enjoying themselves, though.

[corrinesbell]

It feels a little weird, but also like...like we're sort of freer this way? I mean, most people've never flown before. Or had really intense magic before. This actually happened one other time, but it felt different then.

[rather_be_surfing]

"It did?" That gets his attention.

"What happened?"

[corrinesbell]

"You know...I don't really remember, either, I guess. I mean, what's going on now, I think, is that all the spirits decided they felt like getting inside our heads for a while. It should probably bother me more that they can do that."

As Eferin sees no issue with Sheena's explanation, it sounds an awful lot more like her usual self. "But it was years ago, the last time. Way closer to the beginning. ...People were killing each other."

[rather_be_surfing]

"Killing each other? Why?"

He certainly doesn't feel like killing anyone now. Granted, people sporting black wings are putting him on edge for some reason, but he hasn't felt the need to kill.

[corrinesbell]

"I don't know." And, now that she focuses on not knowing, it bothers her a lot. "Maybe...maybe we thought that was the only way to stop this from happening?"

All at once she frowns and turns away a fraction. "It doesn't matter. What's going on now is different."

[rather_be_surfing]

"How do you know?"

even on his first go-around, he'd arrived long after the last time this had happened; all he had to go on was whatever he could glean from the journals and get others to talk about.

[corrinesbell]

"There's just something telling me. Isn't it telling you too? It's kinda like...it's warm." Both eyebrows go up. "I swear you should know, too. For some reason."

[rather_be_surfing]

Derek shakes his head.

"I just know there's something up, and I feel uneasy. That's about it."

[corrinesbell]

A long, exhausted sigh escapes Sheena then, and her shoulders roll forward.

"I'm glad she's not here for this."

[rather_be_surfing]

"Who?"

He didn't mean to pry, but with Tsinku playing at the edges of his head, and her with Eferin in tow, it was hard to resist at the moment. The two spirits were...sociable with each other, after all.

[corrinesbell]

Elicia, she almost says, but halfway to speaking she realizes that isn't who she really meant.

"This friend I used to have, before she went home. Her name was Stella. She wouldn't like seeing all this again."

[rather_be_surfing]

"So she was here the first time," he nods.

"Does it feel like it might go that way again?"

He didn't get that feeling. If anything, it was more like...a need to do something about the problem.

[corrinesbell]

One headshake. "Nope. This feels different. We've got a purpose, and maybe I know what it is now, but definitely not how to do it."

[rather_be_surfing]

"Yeah, that is the problem. I have a vague idea, but right now it's all 'watch and wait'. See what information comes up first."

And that's frustrating, because other than cataloging who had what colored wings, he has no idea what he's looking for. Yet. Although Sheena does seem to be a welcome presence to him.