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

Yes. Only... she was a part of them, a long time ago, or so I heard. Perhaps things were different, before she had to be locked away. Except, we don't know what happened, and they can't really say... only feel.

...What let her out?

... that, I don't know, but it may have been someone here. That may be why the other spirits started reacting ...

So...it's probably important to figure out who let 'em out?

Anyone could have let them out and not have known what they were doing. I think it's more important to ... find a way to to get them to release us.

And asking won't work?

I'm afraid it's not that simple. Now, I've set up your filter. We can begin the lesson.

Right! I'm ready! ...What are we going to learn about, Sifu?

Since it's just the two of us, why don't we take the time to go over the lessons you have trouble with?

...Math's the hardest one, with division and stuff.

[ UGH MATH... ]

Then we'll start with a few problems and work our way up from there. Have you been studying your multiplication tables?

Yeah! We made flashcards up to twelve!

Good. Remembering those will be very helpful when it comes to dividing. Let's try a word problem.

[She writes it out in the book as she says it aloud.] A pie is divided into twelve (12) pieces. If the group sharing it take two (2) slices each, how many people were there in the group?

[ PIE. Interest is immediately pinged, because pie.

So if her family has twelve pieces of pie and Ikki gets two (although she wants MORE) how many family members are there?

...There's a moment of blankness, although she's writing in the notebook set up. Just tally marks, divvying it up until there are twelve marks in groups of two. ] Six?

[She peers over to study the girl's work once she's done.]

Yes, that's correct! Ready for another one?

Yeah!! [ BOLSTERED BY SUCCEEDING, Ikki's confidence blooms. ]

[She takes the pencil and book back for the next problem.]

There are fifteen (15) students that need to be put into three (3) different groups. How many students will be in each group?

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