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

[elevatoravatar]

"I am Elizabeth, A simple elevator attendant who has been woefully inattentive of her duties!"

She smiles widely at that.

[fellpool]

"Simple ... elevator attendant..." His ears flatten against his head at that. So far, there was nothing simple about this woman. "Um, nice to meet you, Elizabeth."

[elevatoravatar]

"Indeed Leon."

She nods and ponders for a moment.

"If Minato did walk this place, would it be possible after this ordeal is over to see where?"

[fellpool]

Again, he finds he has to try mentally translating Elizabeth's words. "You mean, where he was living?"

[elevatoravatar]

She smiles and nods.

"Yes... I am trying to recreate his path along the 22 arcana, yet do not have the same training he did so it is... Difficult."

[fellpool]

"Well, his housemates are still living in the house, so it would be kinda awkward to intrude... But we can look outside of it. He attended the school here, too." His brows knit together at Elizabeth's words. "What do you mean you're trying to recreate his path? You can't exactly ... recreate what happened in Iwatodai."

[elevatoravatar]

"Not that path. The path of the Fool to the World. His power, it came from every heart he touched, and with that he was able to become one with the universe. My power is mine alone, and has proven to be not enough to.... Save him from the wall or the beast that claws at it."

[fellpool]

"His ... power." He stares blankly at her for a long moment, trying to make heads or tails of her explanation. The power used to defeat Nyx? Even more so than that fake life and memories, that part of the story was vague. "So then ... something more powerful than all the Personas he had."

[elevatoravatar]

"Yes. The power of the wild card is more than that. I speculate it takes power from all those others whom the possessor has touched, but it is only a theory of mine. I have only seen two who reached the world."

[fellpool]

"W-- what do you mean about saving him, though? He died." There's a pang of guilt as he so bluntly states that fact. He was unfortunately not privy to the details of what had happened after Minato's death.

[elevatoravatar]

"Answer me this. What is more important, the shell or the soul? If one has the soul, another shell can be built, but if the soul has turned itself into a wall to trap a beast, one can do nothing."

She ponders a bit.

"Minato chose to take his soul and with the power of the universe construct a great wall around Nyx with it so she may sleep. If that were all, now that the wall is built the soul could simply be rescued and perhaps my master could grant another shell. However humanity's sorrow and wish for self destruction gave birth to the beast Erebus, who claws at this wall. I have killed the beast twice now, but as long as humanity's will for destruction is so great it cries out for oblivion the beast will revive."

[fellpool]

Elizabeth's story sounds surreal. If not for the knowledge that Leon now had concerning Minato's world, with the Dark Hour and the Shadows that had populated that hidden time, he would have been even more skeptical of what she said.

"So you're trying to save his soul from eternal ... guardianship." He's not sure what the implication was otherwise; could it mean that being this wall meant he was also being harmed every time Erebus attacked the wall?

That would be horrifying. He tries to put that thought out of his mind.

[elevatoravatar]

"An eternity of suffering to keep a beast created from the darkest emotions at bay is not... A fitting tribute to what he gave up."

[fellpool]

"It isn't," he agrees readily, looking away as the uncomfortable thought came to mind again. "I ... hope that you manage to do it, then."

[elevatoravatar]

"Hope. Yes, that is currently my only lead. But now that I have met you I suspect I have more."

She smiles and clasps her hands together looking at him.

[fellpool]

He tenses a little bit at that, confused by her sudden enthusiasm.

"Me? A lead?"

[elevatoravatar]

"Certainly! You.... Would not be a magician by chance, would you?"

[fellpool]

"Um." His eye twitches just a bit at that; more obviously, his ears flatten against his hair. He tries to remind himself that Elizabeth was already pretty strange, so... "I guess you could say that. I'm more a scientist, though."

[elevatoravatar]

"No no... The first arcana. The magician! Harnessing one's power to guide destiny!"

She beams then hugs Leon looking absolutely thrilled.

[fellpool]

"Wha--?" Leon isn't given room to say much more than that, his eyes widening as Elizabeth embraces him; his arms flail a little even as his face heats up. "Wh-- what are you talking about now?!"

[elevatoravatar]

"Do you know of the tarot?"

[fellpool]

He levels a twitchy look at Elizabeth for the seemingly-unrelated question. "Fortune telling cards or something?"

[elevatoravatar]

"Yes. I am on the fool's journey. And the Magician is the first step. He who wields skill, logic and intellect to move the universe!"

[fellpool]

His brows knit together in confusion, and he stills in her arms as he mulls over her description.

...It was a pretty fitting description, if he did say so himself.

"So you have to ... meet everyone from the tarot?"

[elevatoravatar]

"I... Do not know, but I do know that forging links with them is the first step I must take."

She nods and lets go of him.