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.