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

[alloys]

[ His eyes lock on the star, and Twila immediately takes it as a threat. Tony knew better, but he still let the shadows start to gather around him, a welcome presence to obscure the light if necessary. ]

Speak for yourself. They're not my gods. [ But he knew better than to call it merely magic. He'd worked with Shifting too much to believe it was that simple. It was a force to be reckoned with. It had thrown him into a space that didn't exist. It brought him here - three times. ]

Anyone tried to get in touch with him yet?

[ He doesn't budge, meeting Law's eyes unflinchingly. ]

[deathsdoctor]

[So damn twitchy. He eyes the shadows. That wouldn't do much in the day. Aside from that, Law's own abilities tilted things rather drastically. And here this man was with no armor.]

Miss Raine was going to when I spoke to her yesterday.

[Law doesn't even blink.]

... have I unsettled you?

[alloys]

[ Then Raine must've not had any luck yet, if she'd tried. Why keep it to herself if she'd gotten in touch with John?

Unless, of course, she was aligned with Twila, too. ]

Hardly. I'm mining you for information. Was that not obvious?

[deathsdoctor]

Plenty of things here are obvious. I just don't mind sharing the truth.

[A hard empty smile at the shadows. The star has been long snuffed.]

But next time? Try harder. That does not make you terribly convincing.

[alloys]

[ The shadows withdraw - but not because he's intimidated. Tony decides he doesn't need them now. ]

Let's hear you say that come nightfall. We'll see how convincing they can be.

[deathsdoctor]

If you want to meet me in the dark, you better be dressed to impress.

Or are you so drunk on her power you sense nothing, Tony Stark?

[Softly. Genuine sincere warning.

Twila's powers alone won't save you from one of the highest ranking of the Eleven Supernova. If you want to fight the Surgeon of Death, you do it properly.]

[alloys]

[ Tony's metaphorical hackles rise, and he cursed the fact that his suit hadn't shown up in town yet. He'd like nothing better than to take Law up on that offer. No one got to call him out like that and get away with it.

But Twila's reeling him in as well. She doesn't want her vessel hurt, especially one she has such well-established control over. He's not worth it. Save your breath. ]

I won't waste my time. [ He turns to go. ]

[deathsdoctor]

Smart.

[Law is relieved even as he's flooded with Hyt's satisfaction that Twila's turning tail. Good, good, this is good. Reigning in the spirit's wants is difficult. This was going bad.

And the man and not the spirit next speaks. Quietly. Tony probably won't hear.]

I didn't save you for you to throw your life away like that.

[alloys]

[ Tony knows he's said something, but he doesn't turn back to figure out what it was. Twila's pride was smarting, as was his own, and it took his own force of will to keep moving, to fly away from the scene and a fight that wouldn't happen.

Much later, he'd be very glad for that decision. ]