lucetilogs | Possession Event

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Henry's been unaffected by the spirits for the most part. The small part being just watching everyone seemingly acting more strange over this whole spirit outbreak thing.

Henry for the most part has been lying low, gathering what little information he can. That is until he see's Richard walking about. Maybe Richard was still okay. If so, he needed his king friend to help with this important mission!

The boy approaches him, still not catching sight of the black wings yet.]

[Richard's lips curl upwards into a smile when he spots the boy approaching, acting for all the world as if there's nothing wrong and he's just his normal self. Just be a good boy and ignore those black wings there, Henry, won't you?]

Henry. How have you been lately? Unaffected by everything that's been happening, I hope?

[Now that he's actually closer, Henry does take note of the black wings. Richard didn't normally have black ones did he? And even so they weren't supposed to be that big.

Uh oh. Something wasn't right here.

But, in order to hide his suspicions he tries to remain completely neutral.]

I've been okay. Nothing's weird has happened to me yet. What about you?

[Because those are some mighty big wings you have Rich.]

It's strange, but lately I've been feeling better than I have for a long time. Perhaps it has something to do with summer being on its way. It is hard to want to remain indoors with such pleasant weather outside.

[Although he doesn't really like it himself right now; it's far too bright for his tastes.]

[Henry side eyes Richard's wings wondering if that has something to do with anything.]

Yeah, it's almost going to be summer break too. I'm going to be able to get off of school and everything.

Ah yes, I had almost forgotten that you attended the school here. I trust you've been doing your homework without any prompting?

[It's teasing, but in a friendly manner that seems not out of the ordinary at all.]

I haven't been able to do it at all because of my penalty.

Of course... how silly of me. You must be enjoying the respite from the work, and making your classmates jealous in the process.

[Ouch, Richard. That's not how he feels at all about it.]

Not really. I can't read my book anymore.

Still?

[Richard is not exactly the most well-versed when it comes to things like death penalties and how long it takes before they can be removed.]

Yeah, I heard they take a long time for them to go away.

I'm afraid I haven't had personal experience with how these penalties work.

[And frankly, he's rather glad for that.]

Good, they aren't fun.

You could always try bargaining with the Malnosso to get it removed early, you know.

[Which is quite likely the most terrible suggestion ever, but he's also not exactly himself right now.]

They don't seem like the kind of people who'd make a deal like that.

[But, of course it couldn't hurt, right? Richard wouldn't suggest anything that would be bad...right?]

Possession Event

Why don't you share some of that creepy Twila philosphy on Henry?

No Henry no

yes Richard yes

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject