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

[teenwonder]

[At least there's a quasi-familiar face on the other end of that question. A familiar face that's the wrong age and currently sporting huge wings himself, but familiar nonetheless.]

Right now? It's just an experiment! Probably.

[And there is absolutely nothing strange about that idea whatsoever.]

[losthermask]

[Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

Shayera props one hand on her hip.]

You seem to be taking it awfully well.

[Shayera is starting to doubt this is a dream. Her subconscious isn't this stupid. No one is that laid back about being experimented upon, especially someone who looked like they might have been trained by Batman.]

[teenwonder]

They happen every month! Is this your first?

[losthermask]

[Shayera had to beat her wings to keep herself aloft, and it hurt; the new wings were painful and annoying. Only the annoyance showed on her face.

And she ignored his question. Her response should make the answer obvious anyway.]

What kinds of experiments? Who runs them? Where are we?

[teenwonder]

Oh! You're that new!

[Well fine, Robin's feeling charitable. He'll give the New Feather speech.]

This is Luceti. It's kind of like an intergalactic prison nobody's found a way out of yet. You might as well get comfortable because you're probably going to be here a while.

[Giving it to her gently.]

[losthermask]

...right. Luceti? Never heard of it.

[And she's heard of most intergalactic prisons in her time. Benefit of dating a Green Lantern.

...and now she had that thought stuck in her head, wonderful.]

[teenwonder]

Nobody's heard of it before coming here. It's under the radar like that.

[losthermask]

[Shayera's not foolish enough to think that she knows everything. It's a big universe. She's seen a lot of it. So she dismisses the fact that she hasn't heard of it yet, for now.]

If it's a prison, who's running it? What was the charge?

[teenwonder]

It's run by a group called the Malnosso. They're the ones running the experiments I mentioned. We don't normally get to interact with them directly, but they keep us on a pretty short leash when we have face-to-face access.

The charge? Nobody knows. The Malnosso give us a sob story about how they're just implants from other worlds too, but it's not helping any of us get home to know that.