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

[stillplaying]

Her eyebrows raised. That much was already clear, wasn't it? Walking and ruining the clothes and wigs that meant so much to her. The more important question was why. What was Effie thinking stepping outside the village? Especially this deep in the forest.

"Hunting," she answered with a scowl.

Effie was aware of where their meat came from, wasn't she? Or was she as oblivious on that as she was everything else? Actually, on second thought, there was no doubt about the Capitol woman's obliviousness, was there?

[trinkett]

Effie opened her mouth to reprimand or instruct or commend or comment, but became distracted by the sound of the burbling river, not far away.

"Oh. Carry on, then."

She had to get to water.

[stillplaying]

No comments about the way small twigs or leaves were sticking out of her hair? No complaints over the mud stains on her clothing or the sweat dripping down her forehead?

Not that Katniss was fond of any of that. But this sort of behavior was very un-Effie like. She hated that feeling of worry. And yet, as she looked Effie over, she felt exactly that.

"Are you okay?"

[trinkett]

"I'm magnificent." Effie opened her wings, showing Katniss their span. Sona had possessed her to the hilt.

"Yours could be a little...cleaner," she added in a helpful voice. She might be aloof but she was still well-meaning.

[stillplaying]

She scowled at her, irritation clear on her face. Her wings might have been a little scruffy, speckled with dirt. But they were more beautiful than they ever had been. White and iridescent and so, so much better than those stupid mockingjay wings.

"We're in the woods," said with another eye roll. "You get dirty."

Captcha is killing me : /

[trinkett]

"I see," she replied dryly. "Will you be home for dinner? And that Sharpe fellow, too?"

Even though they lived together, Effie still often called him that Sharpe fellow.