Post-Event Blues

[lucetimods]

Who: Everybody, everybody!
What: The battle is won. Now what?
When: The eleventh, twelfth, and onward
Where: Luceti
Summary: With Zompano dead and the cultists routed, Luceti is restored. Kind of.
Rating: F for Feels

On the eleventh, things were slowly breaking down. Memories of their true lives were breaking through. The village, scarred by the battle with the cultists, began to rebuild itself. Community buildings that had vanished were returned to their rightful places. The battle dome was uncovered from the earth that had covered it. Hundreds and hundreds of fake homes slowly faded away. Paved roads gave way to trees and grass. It was an incredible sight for anyone who was willing to sit aroun and watch it happen.

Things wouldn't be easy for the villagers, though. The memories perpetuated by the last ten days would not be easily removed. The feelings and hatreds it had created would take time to conquer and remove. Perhaps, in a way, that was Zompano's nastiest trick of all. The village itself may heal from his invasion, but it would take far more than a few Shifts to fix the people left behind.

Towards the end of the day, their wings returned. Much like some of the buildings, they seemed to just reappear, as if they had never been gone. Their barcodes became visible again as a singular reminder that they were, ultimately, just the property of another entity who as a whole were not much better than Count Zompano.

By the twelfth, the village looked as though nothing had ever happened. Sure, the contents of buildings might have been messed up or destroyed during the battles, but things were otherwise as they were supposed to be. The night before, people would have had to find their old beds to go sleep in, as they no longer possessed the old ones granted to them in another life.

The village was peaceful.

Modly Note: That wraps up the event. As noted in the prose above, you have the option to play up the after effects of the event more than in other ones. While it won't have the same impact universally, the Shift was constructed in such a way that people may have difficulty shaking off the emotions they developed during the event. In effect, it was a cruel send off to Luceti so they would have to deal with the loathing and hatred that came with the less desirable parts of it. Of course, that means the feelings of familial bonds will also persist for awhile as well. It's up to you, as players, to decide how much or little to play with it!

Comments

[windandrain]

You never told me what it did.

[She laughs faintly at the comment, glad that he's at least feeling up to that. She's really aiming to distract both of them, focusing on mundane little details.]

There's a door behind us. And stairs. I can float down, or Yuuna can come get me.

[tsunderebunny]

[He was glad to follow the thread of the distraction. He didn't want to think about it, or any of it. The conversation was already far more than he had anticipated.]

...I see. I suppose that is handy.

[windandrain]

It is what it is. I just hate not being able to move on my own. I imagine in a few days I'll have grown so blindingly bored it'll make me wish Luceti had televisions.

[Really, this...sucks.]

[tsunderebunny]

[...

He could only imagine what that must be like on anyone, nonetheless someone who has likely lived for far longer than him. It...wasn't pleasant.]

It's a pity that we don't have much anything for socializing here, unless you like dive bars. It really does limit our options.

[windandrain]

Good Spirits isn't the worst place, but it really doesn't have anything on a good bar in Fukuoka.

[Of course...]

But you're right, unless you want to deal with that dreadful teenage busybody and her SOS Brigade. A cafe or something would be very nice...

[And not one run by her ex-boyfriend's...whatever Natasha was. The woman was rude, that was all she really knew.]

[tsunderebunny]

Hm...maybe. But the people inside is what will determine if it's worth it or not.

[Because the idea of drinking coffee alongside people he didn't even want to associate with was the last thing he'd call 'fun.']

[windandrain]

Well, the people are the most important part of any home or place to relax, I would agree.

[tsunderebunny]

...To be honest, I couldn't care.

[What was loneliness to a man who only knew what it was like to be alone? Most of the time he found people to be an irritation...except for the times that they weren't.]

But plenty around here do. I'm sure there's some games around here that you can play with someone.

[Or they could 'borrow' the television from the rec center for movies. He wasn't above facilitating that at this point.]