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Possession Event

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.

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[Law wakes up at midnight, sweating, and feeling something slide into him and push away something else. He hisses quietly, the light level of the room increasing slightly. He can't see it but the black and gold of his feathers is fading away to white. White, until the faint light hits his wings, and the white breaks up into a shimmering, shifting rainbow.

His back hurts. Just a bit.

Law's eyes fall on Itachi and a feeling of absolute indifference passes through him at the same time as a wave of concern for his partner, and his head falls back on the pillow, because... what?

Something's wrong with him. That's obvious.

There's something in him.

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Luceti, there is one possessed pirate prowling around. Sitting on rooftops, watching from afar, walking or flying where the mood takes him. Hyt!Law gives no fucks about territory, and no fucks about spirit grudges except Hyt's own. He goes and does what he wants, seemingly some shade of numbly and remotely indifferent to all.

Well except for Itachi. Hyt may give no fucks about the Sona possessed ninja, but Law sure does. Which is turning out to be a real pain for the spirit trying to keep control of a man who has a real problem with this sort of thing. Especially as the pirate has more than enough willpower to be capable of fighting free eventually. Which would make him vulnerable and open to Twila's influence. Hyt won't allow this.

... and given the ninja is sticking with the pirate constantly...

It means being nicer to this Sona possessed host, and allowing the true Law to bleed through more. The water spirit is probably amused unless the ninja is giving her an equally hard time.

It won't let up with any Twila possessed Law knows, though. Hyt has limits after all. Even if it is a dear friend.]

Edited 2013-05-27 06:49 (UTC)

[There's definitely seriousness happening in Luceti right now. Wings have grown out to match a way that's only ever meant hostility to the enclosure. People were beginning to act strangely, probably in relation to the network chatter earlier this week. It's a time for the hero community to come together to get to the bottom of this before the other shoe drops and things fall apart. Robin had climbed up to consider the issue on the rooftop of a community house when Kipinn's influence took hold and derailed everything.

From the 27th on, Robin will grow increasingly carefree and enthusiastic. Once it becomes apparent that flight is an option, he'll be fond of traveling up to the top of the barrier and diving straight down in a dead plummet that only ends a foot away from the ground. Apologies if he startles you when he zooms past. It's not intentional. Unless you're one of Faeren's. Then it's just funny to see how mad you'll get.]

[Law's shifting around wakens Itachi, who slowly raises himself up onto his elbows. He may not really be able to see his partner, but the flickering on of the Sharingan reveals that something's off. Way off.

As for himself, he can tell there's something there too - in the wings, especially, but his attitude so far remains about the same in regards to everything. Itachi appears to be Itachi.]

Law.

[It's not a question, or the need to know the pirate's well being, but a simple acknowledgement that he's awake and aware that something's up.]

Edited 2013-05-27 07:26 (UTC)

Something's inside of me.

[It's forced calm, even as his wings give an agitated flap (and flash). He's not panicked yet, even if it's obvious this is hitting (smashing) some major psychological buttons. He's refusing to panic.

If there's something in him, he has to force it out. And for that he needs to keep it together and stay rational.

Belatedly, he realizes Itachi's Sharingan is on. Which means...]

You too?

Mn.

[The ninja nods his head once in response. He twitches his wings, noticing the size difference as well.]

Influencing, but not overtaking.

...Will you be alright?

[Last time he was possessed by a spirit years ago, Kain had the chance to bond with Kipinn. He's the spirit that he's been the closest to all along, after all. The affinity between them is so well-developed that at first, Kipinn is the one who's drawn to him. Unfortunately... a much stronger spirit moves in and wins out instead.]

[Recent events have made him even more bitter toward this place than ever before, so Twila has an easy target in him. Kain's inner darkness is coaxed to the surface and his wings darken and gradually grow as he gives in to the spirit's influence. There's no use fighting it. Right now, he welcomes this darkness wholeheartedly.]

[Kain will be especially going after anyone possessed by Hyt... and he's looking to pick fights with anyone's path he crosses. He obviously is taking advantage of the flight power to get around, so a sudden attacking dragoon from above is likely.]

Edited 2013-05-27 10:30 (UTC)

[So Mulder is dropped off fresh from a mission and exhausted, when a spirit takes over.]

[Personality-wise, it's one who meshes well with him: impulsive, headstrong, not always considering consequences... but he'll become a bit more aggressive than he tends to be and with a new-found arrogance too. Element-wise... it's perhaps surprising. Fire. Eferin isn't one that Mulder has even contacted yet. He has his reasons for that. Even though he's moved on from his issues with fire it's still an element he respects enough to give it some space.]

[Except not anymore.]

I don't ever really get a chance to rest, do I? I have to solve everything around here, and I'm not even getting paid!

[He's going to spend a lot of time outside, especially going for runs where he can especially feel the heat of exertion. Part of him is trying to make sense of this latest strangeness, though, even with the influence affecting him.]

[Technically Zatanna's been able to fly for awhile now. Okay, so she levitates with her magic, which isn't the same--or anywhere remotely close. Sure she'd been a little worried when her wings just started to spontaneously grow, but its turned out to be great! And now she's racing around the village when she sees a cape-wearing streak pull out of a suicide dive just before he hits the ground.

Okay, so he's got some moves. Robin's also practically got a target painted on his back, and Zatanna flies over in his direction to have some fun.]

Hey, Creeper Boy! [Not what she would normally call him, but hey, who cares? It's funny.] Be careful or people are going to start thinking you're capable of having fun!

[Anya's initial reaction, of course, is to freak out. She doesn't know what's going on, or why. There might have been some reference to it that she read weeks ago, but that knowledge was out of reach. Mostly, her back hurts. She had just gotten used to those wings, and now they were doing what, exactly? Growing? Changing color? Sitting up in bed, her back quivering, she slowly watches the gold feathers darkening as a blackness overtakes them.

For a while she just feels sick. Agitated. Frustrated. Tries to keep herself holed up until restlessness drives her outdoors in the early hours of the new morning. She might try to demand answers of anyone she meets, but that desire will also pass. She feels ... better, now, that the illness and agitation are passed.

This is inconvenient. Good thing that Anya's taken to wearing backless halters again - dealing with the wings had been difficult enough, dealing with them at this new and not-so-improved size? Well. Getting around outside is faster. Flying is - great, even. Better than walking. It makes her plans so much easier.

And those plans are? Going to every business in Luceti and marking the items up with price and sale tags. Beginning with the grocery store, as there aren't anyone involved in regularly manning it, and she'll eventually start spreading out to the other businesses as days go on - clothing shop, item shop, you name it, she'll try to price it unless she's stopped.

The dark spirit within her has other business it wants to attend to, so it just may try to see if it can influence anyone while Anya is caught up in her pricing spree. Because - what could be more satisfying than to have currency in the village?]

[Are you having difficulties, Luceti? Did that thing you were holding just turn into a rabbit or a dove and wiggle free of your arms? Did your shoelaces tie themselves together, despite the fact that you weren't actually wearing shoelaces? Or maybe your outfit just changed entirely in a puff of smoke, leaving you wearing something you wouldn't otherwise be caught dead in?

You might have just been the victim of a magical prank. Especially if you hear someone talking backwards just before, which is the method used by one Zatanna Zatara, teen magician and Kipinn-possessed. Of course the jokes aren't anything harmful, each done in the name of fun, and they'll all be reversed within a few minutes of happening. Unless someone has the earth spirit in them, in which case they may actually have to say please. Those taken by Eferin may actually end up immune to his mischevious streak, as Zatanna seeks to impress--which means those nearby may be in trouble.

She doesn't spend all of her time playing jokes, though. Sometimes Zatanna just enjoys zipping around the village, taking advantage of the large green wings that let her actually fly instead of just levitate. And she'll definitely talk to people; Zatanna's pretty friendly anyway, but being taken by the winds has made her moreso. Even those she teases with a joke will also get a hello; she's not making any attempt to hide the fact that she's one responsible. It's magic! It should be fun for all.]

{{ooc: It is entirely up to you whether or not your character has a trick played on them! Again, pranks will be harmless and reversible, strictly done for fun. Think of them as icebreakers, almost. And please feel free to contact me with any questions.}}

[There's an exclamation of surprise as Aang wakes up that morning with wings - full-grown wings. There's a brief moment of shock, considering the people they know with big winds are primarily cultists, but that's quickly forgotten when he jumps from the top bunk and finds his wings actually flapping - keeping his feet off the ground.

He's likely to be the first awake, and he wastes no time calling out.]

Everyone, look! You've got to see this! It's amazing!

[The real test is taking up to the skies. He spends more of the week in the air then on the ground, getting lost in the simple joy of flight - and in how extraordinarily powerful his "airbending" seems to be. He gets lost in the simple idea of having fun and showing off. At times, he can be seen racing with Appa or Momo, but he'll also challenge anyone he can see flying nearby. And in some areas, further from the villages, he uses these new powers to generate small windstorms just as obstacles to race through.

He's also more of an incurable prankster as well; at times between races, he stops by the bakery just to make some ammo, as he proceeds to swoop over town and drop pies on people for laughs.]

Edited 2013-05-27 15:22 (UTC)

Effie Trinket is quite frankly shocked that her wings have gotten this large and luminous, seemingly overnight. She rather liked them, in fact. Surely larger wings must be a badge of honor, a gift from the Malnosso for doing such a wonderful job with her advice-giving-work.

Until she goes out and realizes that MANY people have these newly-enlarged appendages.

Possessed by Sona (but not quite realizing this, of course), Effie makes her way toward the river. Eventually she will wind up by the Southern Lake in her seemingly-aimless ramble, hungry and slightly irritated that she's come this far from civilization. There are twigs and leaves in her wig, for crying out loud! And she has the most undignified desire to strip off her clothing and dive directly into that still-cold lake....

[ The moment it reaches midnight, the sensation hits Saten like an impact straight in her chest. For a moment she's stunned, caught off-guard and confused by the event. But as the spirit's hold on her grows, so does her awareness of it.

"Who are you?" It's her first question. Not of fear, but of curiosity. But no answer immediately comes, leaving her almost... worried. Was something wrong with this being she had so suddenly come into contact with?

But as the seconds tick by, something spreads to her consciousness. Maybe it's an answer. Maybe it's just something she realized on her own.

"You're just like me. Isn't that so?"

Though the strength of her own natural darkness still remains, Twila has known well enough to try to put a cap on it to limit suspicion. Saten's no longer accompanied by her radius of darkness, but every movement she makes, down to the smallest of twitches, seems to leave a wisp of black smoke or a trail of dark energy in her wake. The lack of surrounding darkness also reveals something previously not visible during her times in this state: besides her large, black filial wings, Saten possesses a second set of wings, almost identical to the filial set in size and shade. The only notable difference is that on this second set, all the feathers seem to fade into nothing towards their tips.

Spread your darkness. It's a call she knows well, but until now, Saten hasn't been quite so driven by it. Now it's an urging, insistent call that she heeds to with no resistance. It's that urging that causes her to seek out others, especially anyone lacking large, black wings. ]

Hello there.

[ Spread this darkness ]

Edited 2013-05-27 14:46 (UTC)

[Something feels... off. When Riku first wakes up, it's with an abrupt jolt. He can feel the darkness in his heart spark like wildfire. And when he looks over his shoulder only to find large, pitch black wings, he's able to piece two and two together.

Is it happening again?

His gut instinct's telling him to push that darkness away. It's not his darkness, and he knows this is nothing more than possession, but... is it really so bad? Though the spirit doesn't speak, he's soon overwhelmed with a sensation of calm. Maybe... maybe he can use this power to protect what matters. Protect them, and keep everything else away. Pull them into the dark, too. It's better that way, isn't it?

After the initial start, Riku soon ventures out into the village proper with his trusty Dream Eater fluttering close behind. Riku pays it less mind than usual-- he's got bigger fish to fry, like hunting down his friends and spreading a little darkness.

It'll be hard to miss him, really, with the way he's taking full advantage of his flight coupled with his flowmotion-- bouncing off of buildings only to swoop into the air. It's something all right. The quicker he finds others, the sooner he can share this power.

It's not that bad, right?]

[It takes Grune a probably-not-surprising amount of time to notice the way her wings have suddenly gotten significantly larger. Provided no one in House 34 points it out to her at breakfast, it'll only be as she's getting changed that she'll notice things are a little bit different. She doesn't feel any different, though--after all, she always wants to help, and she loves everyone very much.

She'll start off by trying to go about her usual routine, but no doubt keeping the peace and healing everyone she can find will derail her somewhat. She'll also be flying just about everywhere, because she absolutely adores being in the air.

...Or rather, she will as long as she has the energy to do so. At some point? She may get herself in serious trouble and will need someone to pull her back from burning herself out completely....]

[It may be odd to see the normally upbeat Ven wandering around the village and looking every which way, as if something's out to get him. He's torn because normally he likes being out in the open where he can chat it up with others, but he can't erase the feeling of dread that's wormed its way inside him.

Expect a lot of staring if you do cross his path. A dazed sort of staring, really, accompanied by initial silence. It's less prevalent around those he knows-- in those cases, he's more likely to snap into his usual, cheery attitude, albeit with a subdued and wary edge.

However, once he shakes off his initial wariness, he can be found in the plaza derping around with light. Since it's overcast, it's not quite as potent as it could be, but somehow, playing around with light eases that edge he feels otherwise. It's a nice distraction from that looming sense of darkness.]

[On a normal day, Robin would take offense to the comment. He hadn't even been openly antagonizing anyone today!

But instead of any of his usual retorts, there's only laughter. It's lighthearted and free, and may or may not hit tones that match with certain other Robins Zatanna knows. She's right: it was funny. He stops in midair, flapping his wings lazily to stay afloat.]

So what if they do?

[Yeah, it's kind of eerie. Not just because he's laughing, which is weird enough, but it does sound so much like the laugh she knows from back home. Zatanna's taken completely off guard by it, and she stops too, just kind of staring at Robin for a moment as he acts like he doesn't care.]

Uh. Are you feeling okay? [Yeah, something's definitely up here. He's smiling and everything. This is not the same Creeper Boy she put in a tutu.]

[Lee is having a struggle. He tries to go about his everyday activities - primarly engaging in energetic jogs around the village. And he is glad to have finally trained enough to make his wings grow capable of flight.

But he finds his training coming to a halt whenever he passes someone. After all, he has to make sure they're okay and do what he can to heal any wounds all that they have.

Lee will eventually take to the skies, gracefully and calmly flying over various parts of the enclosure to spot anyone else who might need assistance, ignoring any of the ways in which he is being drained through this healing process.]

[In a way, Mytho is always kind of odd and silent-seeming. But these days, it's increasingly moreso. He shows up primarily during the daytime and can be found lurking around various parts of the village, observing carefully. As if looking out for some uncertain, hidden enemy. And avoiding most people he knows. Because who can he trust? Even without any of his emotions, the spirit's influence is reminding him logically why he shouldn't trust even his friends from home.

But Mytho disappears at night - finding a place to hide and wait out the whole night, until it can be daytime. Until it's safe again.]

I feel great! [He'll even give a small somersault to emphasize his great-ness. See? Totally okay.]

It's probably got something to do with the wings. You've got them too! Everyone's been behaving oddly since the wings changed. [He notices it, but he can't really find the drive to care about it.]

Eventually, Derek will make his way out of the caverns, keeping to himself while he mulls over what happened.

When midnight comes and goes, he'll wake up with the feeling of just being scolded, and a very uncomfortable feeling of extra weight on his back. He spends the time until sunrise checking out his new, large and storm-colored wings and trying to puzzle out what it all meant, although he had an idea, uneasy as it made him.

Like many others, once the sun is up, he takes to the sky, although in his case, it's to find various high points to perch from; he's not as much a flyer as many, but he can get a better idea of what's going on with the others from a loftier point of view.

Eventually, the interactions he sees drives him to a more solitary point on the beach, where he can try and puzzle things out on his own before deciding on a course of action, if any.

Okay, so let me make sure I've got all of this. You're actually happy, and you're okay with that? Don't get me wrong, because that's awesome. It's just weird, too.

[But you know what? If he doesn't care, then neither does she. A grin spreads over her lips, because this opportunity is definitely golden.]

So, you know how to do more than just fall with those things?

Yeah, what's weird about that? I used to be happy like this all the time! It's way more fun.

[He carelessly grabs at her wrist, pulling her close.] I'll have you know I'm an excellent flier.

No kidding! [Zatanna's already having a good time, and they've only been talking for a few minutes.

And then there's another surprise. Zatanna looks shocked for a moment when she's pulled close, but that quickly fades into a grin.]

Yeah? Then prove it.

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