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

[starfishlovesyou]

[Those guys possessed by the other talkative, way more rowdy spirits don't know what they're missing out on. Everyone could get together and form of a circle of constant staring where that nagging sense of paranoia is far less noticeable.]

[ravelt]

[Just imagine how productive we could be in our staring if we had something like that going on!]

[starfishlovesyou]

[It's almost frightening to think about all the staring we would get done like that. There'll be people queuing up all over the place to get in on this staring circle thing!]

[ravelt]

[We should put up posters for this club. And the posters can just have a guy staring.]

[starfishlovesyou]

[Question! Can the posters also have starfish on them too? Fuuko is pretty sure the starfish are excellent starers, so it's very important that she finds out if starfish are allowed or not.]

[ravelt]

[Ehhh.... Well, okay. There can be starfish on it. One of Haru's traveling companions was a starfish, so he's okay with them.]

[starfishlovesyou]

[... Is that so. Well, that's fantastic, there's no better traveling companion than a starfish. Did Haru ever stare at or poke his starfish friend? If he didn't then he's seriously missing out, you can't not poke a starfish.

But anyway, yes, staring, good. Good.]

[ravelt]

[Well, he's definitely touched the starfish before.

...but not since Lazenby ate him a few times. Never again after that.]

[starfishlovesyou]

[Whoah whoah, slow down now.

That darling little starfish companion was eaten. Not once, but a few times. A few times. What. How. Why not try protecting your starfish friend Haru?! Show it some love!]

[ravelt]

[It's Lazenby's fault!]

[starfishlovesyou]

[It doesn't matter whose fault it is! The point is Haru did nothing to save the poor starfish! Such cruelty.]

[ravelt]

[He's still alive, though.]

[starfishlovesyou]

[He was still eaten, multiple times. That is also the point! How does someone eat something more than once anyway? That sounds very horrible, and very disgusting too.]

[ravelt]

[It happened at times he wasn't around to save Bony!]

[starfishlovesyou]

[Well why wasn't he around when the starfish was in such clear danger of being eaten?! What could possibly have been more important than making sure Bony was okay?]

[ravelt]

[Saving the world.]

[starfishlovesyou]

[... Okay fine, that's the one thing that's more important, but only because lots of other starfish would be saved in the process!]

[ravelt]

[And everyone else in the world too, you know.]

[starfishlovesyou]

[Yes, that's right. All the other starfish. All of them. The starfish would surely be very happy to be alive. Starfish.]

[ravelt]

[...Yeah, I'm gonna go now.]

[starfishlovesyou]

[Oh. Okay then. Well it was nice staring at you Haru! Let's do this again sometime.]

[ravelt]

[This staring was a lot of fun! Haru even waves as he proceeds to walk off to stare at something else.]