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

[welnares]

That's a good way to describe it . . . Ah, but since we all come from different worlds with different currencies – probably – what do you think we should use? Something entirely new, maybe? Or an exchange of something, like a service . . .

[He looks at the tags the woman has already put up.]

Is this what your world uses?

[strangelyliteral]

We'll have to use something new, if they won't provide us with anything old. Though exchanges of goods and services is the best way to start.

[She beams at his observation.] Even my world has different kinds of money! I just like American money best. Nice crisp dollars.

[welnares]

That doesn't get confusing?

[Coming from a world with only one type of currency, it sounds hectic to him.]

My world uses something called gald, so I've never seen anything like "American money" before . . .

[strangelyliteral]

Different countries have different currency. America likes to have their money represented by dead presidents. Or dead almost presidents. Cool green rectangular paper. And some coins when you need change or something.

The only time you need to pay attention to what other countries do with their money is to watch the exchange rate when they're sending you a rare item so you don't get cheated.

[welnares]

Exchange rate . . . as in what one country's money is worth in another? [It's the only guess he can make that sounds right to him, given all those context clues. But this is not his field of expertise, no.] Or am I wrong?

[He'll need to ask about "dead presidents" and "dead almost presidents" later.]

It sounds like it might be easy to confuse rates if that's how it is . . .

[strangelyliteral]

You're right! And it is very annoying. One U S dollar is a thousand yen. A thousand! That's worse than a penny! A tenth of a penny! And then there are the countries that are trying out new currency. Like this newfangled Euro they have now? It's going to take a lot of different currency off the market if that ever goes through. So it's important to watch the money!

[welnares]

[Wow.

He didn't really understand any of that. But he thinks he gets the gist of it.]

I see . . .

You must enjoy being meticulous.

[And he means that in a completely genuine, not sarcastic way.]

[strangelyliteral]

I like working. It's productive.


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