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

Day 2!

[frost_jewel]

Not at all.

[She doesn't turn around or halt her experimentation. Unless he wants to take a bath in the fountain, which is preposterous all on its own, she isn't in his or anyone else's way.]

Day 2!

[endgames]

I didn't want a shower today.

[Maybe he's just OVER THINKING IT (spoilers: he is), but he thinks he can feel a fine mist coming off that, even from over here.]

Day 2!

[frost_jewel]

Pity. It seems you need one.

[And there is no mist, Mia would darn well know if there was one. He is being intentionally difficult, an attitude which she suddenly has the skill to return.]

Mia: Sass Mode

[endgames]

You seriously can't find some other place to do that.

Stinkymaru

[frost_jewel]

Do you require the use of the fountain? No. You need not even pass it on your walk if you find it so repelling. I am not in your way, or anyone else's way.

[And even if she was, would she care?

Okay, she would care about it for a few specific people. Not for any of Twila's collection.]

[endgames]

[Speaking of that, he's still getting tired of hiding his wings. Genjutsu is too much effort, and he carefully begins to deconstruct it now.]

How would you know? No one can do anything with it like that.

[frost_jewel]

People like me can. Do you want to do something with it?

[He could get a surprise bath.]

[endgames]

You don't count.

[Genjutsu down, he stretches his sore wings, casting long shadows on the ground in the setting sun.]

[frost_jewel]

[The ice shards stop moving in haphazard patterns, turning instead in individual circles as Mia turns to face Shikamaru directly.]

So you are one of them.

[endgames]

"Them"? Tch... [His demeanor seems to do a 180. He laughs quietly, scratching the back of his head with a carefree tone.] What a rude way to put it.

[frost_jewel]

Tell me you are thinking anything different.

[endgames]

The difference is I wouldn't have said it out loud. Now that you've put it in such black and white terms, there's no use trying.

[frost_jewel]

Your world exists in such terms, does it not?

[endgames]

[More like the morally gray.]

Are we really going to talk world sharing now?

[frost_jewel]

No.

[She's going to go right back to making the fountain do her express bidding. It isn't her concern whether or not it vexes Shikamaru.

But this time, she's watching him instead of the water.]

[endgames]

[He raises his chin at her, defiantly. Go ahead and watch. He salutes cheekily, and lets his body quite literally melt down into the shadows, and takes his leave.]