EVENT | GUIDING LIGHT | June 1-5, 2014

[alderwood]

June 1st-5th | MOVING DAYS;

Evandau is coming clean about a big reveal regarding character's souls and the way they are currently being anchored to the Life plane and to Keeliai, which is going to majorly affect them going forward. This is based on the quad housing option that won in the Suite Change Poll where further information on the new housing is given.

Here are the key points:

The glowing lanterns are actually soul vessels??

Turns out that Eshai was using character's souls in a weird art-deco design motif around the Palace! Eva has removed the souls from the lanterns using her magic and reinstalled them in new lanterns, which look something like this and will be hanging them in the character's new housings where they can't be removed from, at least not for the time being.

Speaking of that new housing...

Evandau was planning on upgrading everyone's housing to group penthouses before, but Malicant's palace party crash sped up his timetable. These new digs have magic protections included in their making to keep Mally from creeping on people while they're sleeping and such. She's using something like magical feng shui to help assign people to these new addresses, which accounts for a lot of the randomized placements. Eva will be sending each character a private message with a time and address to meet her; each of their housemates will have been given the same times, so they should all meet around the same time. These new housings are approximately 15-20% larger overall than their previous living spaces, while the level of relative wealth between all the Sectors remains unchanged and equal. (In other words, no one got crappy accommodations while others got swanky ones!)

For characters who are frequent houseguests:

The soul lanterns are constantly "charged" by the presence of the physical vessel near them. Since they can't be removed from the new housing (yet), people will have to spend time there to keep the bond strong. People will be able to spend two days away from their lanterns before feeling any negative effects. On the third day they will feel lethargic and disoriented, on the fourth day they will experience flashes of the Death plane whenever they close their eyes. If they have not returned to a close proximity to their soul lantern by the end of the fifth day, their soul will detach from their bodies and be fair game for Malicant. Reversing the effects takes approximately the same amount of time (3-5 days, depending on the severity). All of this will be covered in Eva's explanation to the characters (though the actual time frames have to be discovered ICly) while she's at their buildings in the log.

Have any questions? Please refer to the QUESTIONS section of the comments and ask away! We will answer them in as timely a method as possible. Otherwise, feel free to use this post to plot what your character(s) may be up to during this event!

Evandau's Radio Announcement | Moving Day Log | OOC Questions | New Housing Chart
EXTRA: Remember we now have an active game plurk @ tushan if you want to follow that for reminder links, etc.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[alderwood]

Re: QUESTIONS

[peacefullywreathed]

What would happen if Sol investigated his lantern and/or tried to, say, put his soul back in his body? Canonically having your soul removed is a Necromantic punishment they outlawed a long time ago so he is ... Really unhappy right now. /chinhands

Re: QUESTIONS

[ironwood]

Eva's magic isn't compatible with anyone else's on the turtle right now (or anyone else living, for that matter) so at best it would have no effect and at worst, perhaps some flashes of those symptoms as listed above.

Re: QUESTIONS

[peacefullywreathed]

I'm going to go with flashes of symptoms. /:3 cheers.

[backwordscompatible]

If Zee wanted to put up and additional Wards of her own, totally separate from and not intended to mess with Eva's in any way, would they work or would the pre-existing Wards negate her magic?

[denyamenti]

That would be fine! Characters are free to extra fortify their new houses however they want (magically, technologically or straight up physically), which is actually a great icebreaker for new roomies, so long as they don't try to undo the existing magic or drastically alter the structure.

[i_speak_softly]

"Couldn't rightly explain some of these set-downs," Eva says as she goes about hanging the lamps up in the central part of the house. ... "Don't be moving these anywhere."

Could a lantern be moved to, say, its owner's bedroom? Or do they need to stay right exactly where Eva put them?

Is it safe to assume these are sturdier than normal lanterns, and would not be destroyed if a rowdy housemate accidentally hit them with something?

[ironwood]

They couldn't be moved to individual rooms because of how they're anchored magically, but yes they're sturdier than regular paper lanterns so they can take some banging.

[ixis]

Naugus' beloved research is pretty entrenched into his suite, employing a lot of terraforming and ward installation on his part. What will be the case if he puts up a fuss about moving? Because he most likely will, especially after being holed up as long as he has due to my hiatus.

I do not object to it OOCly, mind! It's just he'll be beyond angry over the thought of having to either abandon or move his project. Would he be able to maintain his old suite as a lab of sorts, maybe? Or will he be forced to uproot and reinstall? (Again, anything is fine. Just wondering what I should go with.)

[ironwood]

He won't be be able to keep his lab because the old housing is being given to kedan whose houses were destroyed in the bombings. As far as the wards go, he can place his overtop of the ones that Eva cast so long as they don't try to cancel out or change hers and they'll work fine. She'll tell him not to terraform the new building though since her wards are built into the actual construction of the units.