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

[hollower]

[Perona's wings ruffle at the insult, and her eyebrows knit together for a moment, but that's really all she does before a smirk curls on her lips. Yep, this definitely was that rude boy she met long ago, and she's actually kind of glad to see him again. Or at least the delighted whisper in Perona's head is. This boy's untainted by the other spirits, and if she plays her hand right, it'd be another person to spin in her ever growing web.

Perons snickers and straightens up, putting a hand on her hip as she looks down at the little kid.]

...Rude boy. It's good to see you again. I've been growing bored without your incessant pestering, horohorohoro!

[dogboy]

It's definitely the same hag, older or not. You have a stupid laugh.

[So she's sharing with someone too, like Raven and Masaomi and the rest of those big winged folks. The natural darkness inside of him from his past life as Cerberus likes what's in her.]

[hollower]

Mmh...should you really be making me mad, when you don't know if I've become stronger? Not very smart, but only so much can be expected of a child.

[And she has indeed grown stronger recently, especially with Twila's influence. With nothing to occupy her time, Perona's been practicing with her new affinity toward shadows and darkness. Needless to say, she's gotten fairly good at it. Not that she'd attack him outright, but he is testing her limited patience.]

[dogboy]

I don't caaaare if you're stronger or not, you're still Perona. I could take you on easily.

[It's kind of like a puppy talking big, though there's no real threat in his words or stance. Perona had been one of the nicer people after all, someone that he'd told his story from back home to.]

[hollower]

[A very noisy puppy indeed. Perona snorts, her shoulders shaking from the effort not to laugh, and she just smiles, her wings ruffling behind her back. It's cute how he tries to act so big, when he's just a tiny, bratty little kid.]

Oh, I'm sure you could...but I tend not to kick cute animals.

[dogboy]

[Grrrr. Part of him's too tired to deal with the song and dance of trading barbs, but the other side's fired up.]

I'm not an animal! -- Or cute! [nsjgb sheesh he swears--]

[hollower]

[Snickering into her hand, Perona's tempted to ruffle his hair, or give him a scratch behind the ears to really get his temper flaring, but she decides to not stoop down to the level of a child. Instead she just nods her head with a smile.]

Of course, of course... [Now let's get down to more serious affairs.] Mm, but you've come back during a frustrating time, if you haven't seen already, Rude Boy.

[dogboy]

How could I not, Old Hag? Everyone's got weirdly huge wings and everyone's that got a pair doesn't... feel the same! [It's hard to explain. Avatars have their own feeling, and Luceti didn't have that except for a small part that shared their memories and whatnot.] ... I haven't been here in a while though, so I can't say that for sure.

[hollower]

[OOC: Continued here!]