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

[strangelyliteral]

Adding prices to the shelves. What, you've never seen that before?

[She turns her head to regard him, and tries to figure out why he seems familiar.]

[dissonates]

Can't say that I have.

[He's eyeballing the prices, rather than her.]

You know that it's pointless here, right?

[strangelyliteral]

It won't be, once I'm done with it.

[dissonates]

What are you talking about? Money doesn't exist.

[strangelyliteral]

No, but goods and services do. This will just inspire others to get on the right path.

[dissonates]

That's stupid. You can't put value on something you didn't have to work for yourself.

[And he'll just go ahead and pluck an apple out of a bin, starting to peel off the tag.]

[strangelyliteral]

There are people here that provide goods and services that they do not get compensated for. All for the sake of making this place "better" for everyone in it, but they don't get anything in return for that. You don't think that's unfair?

[dissonates]

I think if they wanted something for their trouble, they shouldn't be giving their products away.

[He gestures to the bins.]

Who worked for all this, exactly? Because I'm certain it wasn't you.

[strangelyliteral]

Hey, I'm only putting the prices up because I want to get people thinking. It's not like this is my store or anything.

[dissonates]

You could've just put up a poster, or announced it on the journals. Now whoever comes here for food has to pick a bunch of trash off of it first.

[strangelyliteral]

It is not trash! Besides, it just seemed better to get everything done first, then let people know about it. Otherwise people like you would try to stop things before they got started. Ugh.

[dissonates]

Clearly it isn't preventing me from doing that.

[He says as he grabs another apple to remove the sticker.]

[strangelyliteral]

Clearly. [Huff.]

... Say, aren't you the other guy who works at the bar?


(We can continue here!)