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

[250mhzwabl]

. . . wow.

[Really, what else can be said to something like that? Jack's drawn his knees up to his chest while she speaks, and leans on them now, arms crossed and chin perched atop them. Perhaps it's in the way Elizabeth presents it, but the ability to part the boundaries between worlds really does come across as less than the main crux of the issue. If anything, it just makes more terrible her awareness of how trapped they are.]

God, that- wow. I'm sorry to hear that.

[tearmeanewone]

[Elizabeth does feel somewhat disquieted by how serious the conversation has turned. Almost as though she feels... wrong putting all of her sad life story onto Jack. It's rubbing her the wrong way, a little.]

Don't be sorry. It isn't your fault or my fault. And I never have to go back. [She smiles weakly. There is nowhere for her to go back to. Not anymore.]

[250mhzwabl]

[Except she might, mightn't she? Isn't that what they say happens to people who disappear? That they go right back where they came from?

But that's not a certainty for everyone. And Jack is not about to torment this poor girl with maybes. So he smiles, nodding in agreement.]

Right. And in the meantime you can rest your feet here for a little while, practise your French, fly some space ships . . . trust me. The last I checked, back in 2012, Paris was not going anywhere.

[Again, a technical truth. He has no idea what Paris has been like since the Grey hit. With its street layout, he doesn't really want to.]

[tearmeanewone]

Oh good. Then it will definitely be there when I arrive. I plan on visiting before I turn 120 years old. [She laughs, perhaps a little too amused by the joke.] Have you been to Paris, then?

[250mhzwabl]

Once. Years and years ago. [It's a nice memory, a chaotic tumbled thing from his years at university, and he looks off across the roofs and forest in a state of quiet relaxation.] It was a lot of fun. Everything was delicious, and the weather was gorgeous. We spent hours laying in parks and smoking too many cigarettes, stupid stuff like that.

[tearmeanewone]

It sounds amazing... [Elizabeth's voice is quiet, but full of intense longing and passion. She could almost imagine herself laying in parks and smoking, letting hour after hour of sunny, breezy weather go by. Friendly people smiling at her as they pass. Bicycles, sidewalk artists, so much food...]

God I want to go. I want the chance to do stupid stuff like that. [She leans back and looks up at the sky, wondering to herself if she could fly so high up she could leave the enclosure.]