EVENT | ALL HALLOWED | Oct 27 - Nov 2

[cherrywood]

Hello lovely Tushies! I bring you the end of month / spooky times / haunting redux except not exactly plot to suit the season. Last year the Haunting Event had Foreigners dealing with ghosts in the city but this year, things are going to be a little more shady. (Okay, I'll stop with the terrible punny things now.)

There are actually two aspects to the festivities this year. The first is a lot lighter and intended to be fun so here we go:

GIVE A LITTLE, GET A LITTLE!

The kedan have observed the Foreigners for over a year and this season, they want to bring a little bit of home to Keeliai. As such, they've decided to adopt a well-known custom in many worlds: trick or treating! Kedan shops in all Sectors will be handing out surprise baggies along with their thanks for keeping Tu Vishan safe. Unfortunately the information they've perused on the holiday got a little muddled and so in addition to small trinkets (simple jewelry, small toys, etc) and food items in the bags, characters may also find odd things like still-squirming squid arms, pieces of knotted string and pickled fish eyeballs.

But hey, they tried!

In addition to these gift bags, some shops will be handing out pretty glass beads with colours that are reminiscent of that Sector. The beads are about the size of a large marble and if asked about them, the kedan will smile and nonchalantly say that they've heard a rumor about the Palace giving out a special surprise to anyone who collects a bead from every Sector. Players can decide what kind of discoveries they find in their goodie bags and there will be a thread starter for those visiting the Palace to claim their bonus surprise gift.

This part of the event is open to everyone, including those participating in the second part of the plot (presuming it happens before the second part, because...)

SHADOWS AND SHADES

Characters will receive a simple written invitation to "experience the Keeliai of ages past" with directions to an address in central Keeliai. Upon visiting characters will discover that an elderly kedan couple have put together a museum in a spacious building with each room laid out as a "snapshot" of life at that decade; basically a life-size panorama to wander through at your leisure. There are some interactive things to do like try "old-fashioned" games, samples of questionable food that there's probably a good reason no one eats anymore (sea prune cake anyone?) and clothing that would put the Swinging Sixties to shame. Most notably the more recent room show a clear improvement in artistic influence whereas the older vistas (particularly ones older than 100 years) are very simplified, spartan and subdued. Most of the tour is vaguely educational and seemingly benign, and the elderly couple are happy to answer any general questions about various rooms.

However not everyone who enters the museum will leave it untouched. Within 24 hours of visiting the museum, some characters will be knocked "out of phase"... essentially making them into ghosts! It can happen anywhere, regardless of what they're doing at the time. To any observer, they will simply seem to disappear suddenly if eyes are taken off of them for even a second; there one moment, gone the next. Characters who are affected will find themselves unable to communicate or affect anyone or anything they try to. Shouting at the top of their lungs attracts no attention at all and trying to touch something only results in their hands going right through the object-- even people. Those will magical abilities will find they seem to work as normal to their own perception, only that they have no impact on anything. It will be as though they're now in a sub-layer of Keeliai... not having left the Life plane, just out of sync with it.

However they will be able to interact normally with any other phased out characters and they will find with a little bit of experimenting an interesting discovery: strange things happen wherever they go! Doors bang, pipes rattle, floors creak and mirrors fog up for no reason. They might not be able to precisely control these classic haunting signs but they can be persistent with them! Most importantly, those who keep their museum invitations will find written on it an additional line that had not previously been visible, which can only be seen by phased out characters.

"In five days, you too will have become part of history."
As these phased out characters explore the city, they will discover that certain random landmarks (a fire fountain, a water sculpture, a particular street intersection, the side of a building, someone's kitchen sink, etc) have some unusual effects on them.

Sense of Loss: Characters interacting with spots will feel themselves losing something of themselves. It could be a sense like hearing or touch, or it could be a memory, or it could be the loss the ability to feel a specific emotion. It could be partial or full and the effect will be strongest when they're in the immediate vicinity of the landmark. There appears to be no rhyme or reason to what constitutes a landmark, so players are welcome to write them as anything they'd like! Depending on player preference, the changes can persist for a few minutes or hours. Unless otherwise noted (see: Bonus Plot) these effects will all be removed at the conclusion of the plot.

Clarification! Characters can be ghosted and not experience their Loss until later, the two events are not simultaneous.

Touch of Memory: Some spots will act like time capsules and interacting with them will drop an unfamiliar memory into the character's mind, vivid and detailed from the mind of a random citizen from an earlier time. This could be anything from what they had for breakfast to watching an important event, it will be randomly generated and written as an NPC response to characters. These memories will remain fully accessible after the end of the plot.

Shift of Perception: These landmark spots will push characters partially back into sync with regular Keeliai so that they'll appear as transparent images to other people. While kedan who witness this will just shake their heads and move on, characters will now be able to communicate with their fellow Foreigners, albeit they will sound like they're being heard over a terribly static radio connection. This effect lasts approximately ~5 minutes and then can't be triggered again for a few hours.

FOR NON-PHASED CHARACTERS
As noted, the remaining Foreigners will not be able to detect the phased out characters through physical means except where their presence causes "haunted" occurrences. Those with extrasensory capability (either tech OR magic/powers) will be able to detect abnormalities so long as they're located within close proximity (something like ~30 meters).

Investigating the disappearances will prompt vague confusion from the kedan, who will liken it to a folktale they've heard that tells of a group of kedan who mysteriously disappeared decades ago. While no one seems precisely certain when it happened, the general consensus is around ~100 years ago and that they were never seen again although some will say that shortly thereafter there appeared strange, glowing messages written on walls: accusations by the lost against those who didn't save them in time. It is definitely implied that whatever has happened to these unfortunate Foreigners, there is a time limit in place before it becomes permanent.

When the connection is made that affected characters were all visitors to the museum, the elderly kedan couple will seem quite distraught. They will assure anyone who asks that they know nothing of what happened, offer to let investigators go over their museum with a fine tooth comb, and reveal no falsities to those who can detect such things.

The way to rephase these characters back to Keeliai
will be discovered through IC threading!

SIGN UPS

We are looking for up to 30 characters who will be affected by this part of the plot and become "ghosted". For fairness sake, we will ask that players with multiple characters only submit one from their roster. If we have more than 30 sign ups, I'll use RNG to choose and if we get less than 30, then everyone who signed up will be affected.

Bonus Plot! We are also looking for volunteers for some Loss affected characters to have these changes (a diminished sense, missing memories, etc) become long term. While it may not be permanent, at this time there is no confirmed regain point for them. So please only volunteer your character for an on-going effect if you're willing to stick with it!

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character / Canon:</b> <b>Will your character experience a Loss?:</b> If yes, what is being lost? <b>Would you be willing to have this Loss to be long term?:</b>

Signups close on Thursday, October 24th @ 9:00PM EST and results will be posted shortly thereafter to give people a couple days to plan. That said, this is officially the plotting post so feel free to hash out details in comments.

SIGN UPS ARE CLOSED!

ETA: There is now a short term Loss option!

When signups close, I will RNG the characters who will be ghosted AND RNG a number of days (between 1-15) during which that character's Loss will stick with them after the end of the plot, after which point they will wear off by themselves. This allows some extra flexibility for plotting and for people to play around with the effects. (Of course if anyone wants the Loss to still end immediately at the conclusion of the plot, that's fine as well, just let me know!)

If this changes your sign up preferences, please go ahead and edit your comment! Many apologies for not having this is place ahead of time. ;~; Hopefully this will be good middle ground!

Comments

QUESTIONS

[cherrywood]

If you have any questions about anything for this plot, please ask them here!

PLOT SIGN UPS GO HERE

[cherrywood]

What it says on the tin.

[asouthron]

Player Name: Claire
Character / Canon: Leonard McCoy / Star Trek AOS
Will your character experience a Loss?: Yes! His voice 8D
Would you be willing to have this Loss to be long term?: No, sorry /)_(\ But I will totes go SHORT TERM yis >)

Re: PLOT SIGN UPS GO HERE

[strategisch]

Player Name: Otter
Character / Canon: Armin Arlert / Attack on Titan
Will your character experience a Loss?: I was thinking blindness?
Would you be willing to have this Loss to be long term?: Sure, go for it EDIT: actually, please do, he might make some CR out of it :|

DOUBLE EDIT SUPER COMBO: Long term loss is still okay with me, thanks for the PM!

Re: PLOT SIGN UPS GO HERE

[virginprice]

Player Name: Chloe
Character / Canon: Alcuin nó Delaunay
Will your character experience a Loss?: Yes, one of his memories of Delaunay
Would you be willing to have this Loss to be long term?: Sure!

Re: PLOT SIGN UPS GO HERE

[backwordscompatible]

Player Name: Hina
Character / Canon: Zatanna Zatara / Young Justice
Will your character experience a Loss?: No After talking with Ellie, I think I'm going to have her temporarily lose her memories of Dick. Because yay more drama.
Would you be willing to have this Loss to be long term?: Not super long term, but long enough for it to have a genuine impact on events.

[grigio]

Player Name: Mouse
Character / Canon: Julie Grigio/Warm Bodies.
Will your character experience a Loss?: Yes. Sight.
Would you be willing to have this Loss to be long term?: Because I'm a hideous person. Yes.

[dunhaming]

Player Name: Em
Character / Canon: Olivia Dunham (alt) / Fringe
Will your character experience a Loss?: Nope!
Would you be willing to have this Loss to be long term?: n/a

Re: PLOT SIGN UPS GO HERE

[starcharter]

Player Name: Ellie
Character / Canon: Pavel Chekov / Star Trek AOS
Will your character experience a Loss?: Yep. Partial loss of his memories of the Enterprise and its crew.
Would you be willing to have this Loss to be long term?: No, but a short-term loss would be 100% fine.

[manofiron]

Player Name: Brandy
Character / Canon: Tony Stark/MCU
Will your character experience a Loss?: Yes. The ability to get intoxicated.
Would you be willing to have this Loss to be long term?: Yes.

Re: PLOT SIGN UPS GO HERE

[parallels]

Player Name: Ru
Character / Canon: Clara Oswald // Doctor Who
Will your character experience a Loss?: Yes! The loss of her ability to remember who she, the original Clara Oswald is, and will instead have patched in memories of her various echoes (think like clones).
Would you be willing to have this Loss to be long term?: Short term.

Re: QUESTIONS

[doc_holi]

I have got a question!

I was wanting to sign up Holiday to become a ghost and I was wondering what the consensus was on losing her active Nanites rather than a sense. Pros: She doesn't get to turn into a monster and she won't infect anyone. Cons: Her skin will be pale, hair will turn white, eyes will turn grey, and her immune system will be fairly weak.

The only reason I ask was in the case she lost this for long term. If it's not cool with the general rule of thumb here, no problem! There's plenty of other horrible things I can do to her in this plot. >:D

[imaginate]

Kyle has a few green crystals that can be used to track him; how will this work when he's a ghost?

QUESTIONS

[demon_brat]

So. TWO questions.

One: For external damage, like blindness, will magic healing have any effect on the back-to-phase characters?

Two: Will there be any clues as to who might be involved that can be found? Say, in the invitations to the phased characters, or anything out of the museum?

TRICK OR TREAT-- what is that in the bag!?

[cherrywood]

For plotting things related to the Sector goodie bags and fun things.

[asouthron]

JACK! We're takin' the kids trick-or-treating (nottalking) Bones will go as the disgruntled doctor from that one super popular sci-fi series.

And clearly Jack needs to borrow Jim's Captain outfit for his costume :/a obvs

[starcharter]

Dick is totally going trick-or-treating and he'll be dressed up in a Superman costume. Deal with it, Bruce.

Chekov will mostly observe but if someone wants him to go with them, he'll dress up as a mad scientist and accompany them.

Re: TRICK OR TREAT-- what is that in the bag!?

[corage]

Hal will just be abusing his Lantern powers to whiz around and get ALL THE THINGS because he's a jerk like that. Also because its fun and its free stuff (mostly). People are just free to disapprove of him and stuff and all that jazz.

Rory on the other hand will prolly be dragged by the Doctor... or he'll end up getting involved somehow because that is his life. And then start to panic and try to help when the ghosting things happen.

[justlittle]

I want someone to drag Bean trick or treating, because the poor kid won't go on his own.

Miles, on the other hand, is totally too old for trick or treating, and will be patrolling as Spidey to make sure nobody messes things up for the kedan kids.

[survival_isnt_living]

/sneaks in from hiatusland

I will be back just in time for the end of this, plus backdating is joy. Can someone please take Septimus trick-or-treating, because he has no idea what that is.

OH MY, I'M FEELING A LITTLE FAINT?

[cherrywood]

For plotting things relating to characters who will be / plan to be "ghosted out" because of the plot.

[strategisch]

Armin will certainly be attracted to the mansion for learning about the history of Keeliai! I'd love it if he could interact with people there, or later as a "ghost", he still needs more CR.

He's generally very agreeable, so if there's a group he could join during the event or even just one person to pair up with, I'd appreciate it!

[starcharter]

Chekov will lose partial memory of the Enterprise and the crew if he gets ghosted (i.e. he'll remember vague impressions and occasionally have bouts of deja vu but no details). He's a legitimately nice guy who will stick with people who don't have anyone else. He's also a problem-solver so you'd better believe he'll be investigating this all from the ~ghostly~ side.

HELP, MY FRIEND'S GONE GHOST!

[cherrywood]

For plotting things relating to characters who are going to be investigating and trying to solve the disappearances.

[starcharter]

Dick will be scooby-dooing it up both as Dick Grayson and (more frequently) as Robin. So if you want a tiny masked kid all intense about solving mysteries, he's your guy.

(Chekov will investigate too if he doesn't get ghosted.)