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

[soheartless]

I see.

The spirit controlling me...

I do feel something sometimes. Through it.

This feeling... It feels like loneliness. Except that it's... something I want.

[Hyt wants to stay away.]

[ducked]

[ Tutu gasps as a frown crosses her features. ]

You want to be lonely?

[soheartless]

Alone...

[He looks down.]

In this state, I'm finding that it's what I...

prefer.

[ducked]

[ In that state...she has to remember this isn't really him. Mytho had a spirit in him, too, one that wanted to be lonely. ]

And is that a state you want to stay in?

[soheartless]

I don't know, Tutu.

[A spirit that was hurt preferred solitude over trusting others. In a way, Hyt was already what Mytho could have been link if he hadn't maintained trust in Princess Tutu as he regained his shards.]

Only... only my heart could know for sure.

But... I think I remember. That my heart... It wanted people near, instead.

[But in the form of a struggle. To love or to be loved... to be the heroic prince or the prince of the crows...]

[ducked]

[ She nods to reassure him. ]

Yes, that's what I believe you want as well. I will find away to banish the spirit from you, Mytho. I swear it.

[soheartless]

Tutu...

You will do such a thing?

[ducked]

If it is what my Prince desires.

[soheartless]

I don't know what I particularly desire right now.

Beyond... the desires of this spirit.

[ducked]

Then I will aid you in returning to yourself. I do not know if I can return your heart to you in that form.

[soheartless]

I see.

Tutu, should I... wish you luck?

[ducked]

If you did, I would most certainly take it to heart.

[soheartless]

[He nods. Hyt doesn't have problems with Nala, after all.]

Very well. Then with what I feel right now... I shall.