EVENT | ALL HALLOWED

[cherrywood]

Characters: Everyone!
Date: Oct 27th - Nov 2nd
Location: The City of Keeliai
Situation: The kedan have decided to participate in an Earth tradition: Hallowe'en! But there are other mysterious things afoot this holiday and when people start disappearing they'll have to find a way to reverse the effect... though all of their selves might not make it back.
Warnings/Rating: Please indicate content warnings in subject headers as applicable.

As the weather turns crisper, the nights and mornings carry with them a hint of chill promising cooler days to come, the month starts drawing to a close. This is a pleasant time, soon to be the season of harvest even on such a nomad as Tu Vishan. Yet the relations with the kedan have been good lately and even the Emperor's latest warning has not dampened the resilience of her people (both willing citizens and not) and so today marks a new tradition to Keeliai and it starts with receiving a simple, handwritten invitation.

"Come and celebrate the Keeliai of ages past..."

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OOC: See the OOC plotting post for event details and this post for assorted subheaders outlining various parts of the plot. Feel free to start your own thread header if none suit, or make your own logs for various threadings... this is just for a central post for the event. Any questions can be directed HERE. Thank you!

NOTE: NPC tagging will be mostly in the Palace Rewards and Touch of Memory threads unless specifically requested elsewhere! Normal rules for players writing NPC interactions remains the same as always.

MID PLOT UPDATE!
Through the course of investigations will be discovered that every Foreigner who went trick or treating has acquired themselves at least one pot of what appears to be iridescent paint, sometimes more than one. Experimenting with these pots (because lbr who doesn't want a few randomly shimmery possessions) oddly enough lets ghosted characters interact with them completely solidly. Which, if you've inadvertently been ignoring someone, might mean you get your new shiny lamp thrown at your head.

Now if people get the smart idea to the paint the paint, that would let ghosted characters get hold of this stuff themselves...

TL;DR - Ghosted characters can paint themselves back into phase. Eating the stuff is also acceptable.

I. GIVE A LITTLE, GET A LITTLE!
Trick or Treating (All Sectors) | Palace Rewards

II. SHADOWS AND SHADES
Tangible: Kedan Museum | Disappearances | Investigations
Ghosted: Sense of Loss | Touch of Memory | Shift of Perception | Poltergeisting

Comments

[unetrustworthy]

If that's the next sector, then sure.

[She casually strolls along, passing by the occasional group of kedan children also weiding buckets and bags and strange costumes. Her map is out again, and she follows an invisible line up to a certain area that looked like it fit on the pattern they'd figured out.]

Which one? Here or here?

[justlittle]

Water, then Wood. Or Wood, then Water. Whichever order you want to do it in. [He doesn't particularly care, going in whichever direction fits the pattern on the map.]

[unetrustworthy]

Water then Wood makes the most sense.

[justlittle]

Water then Wood it is. [He leads the way over to the next area on the map that should give out beads, according to the pattern.]

[unetrustworthy]

[The further away they traveled, though, the trickier it was to accurately deduce which houses fell into the pattern. They weren't perfect shapes, after all, subjected to the whims of the original city layout.]

[The first house, in fact, turned out to be a bust; it was the place next door that produced the bead they were looking for. And a handful of candy as well, which she discreetly passed off to Bean...except for a few cups of what looked like peanut butter and chocolate. Those, she kept for herself.]

[justlittle]

[After the second house, Bean strung the Water bead onto his wire and consulted the map as to where to go to find the Wood bead. It looked as if they were headed for some of the tree-style houses of Wood sector, and though the first house they tried gave out only candy, Bean was not discouraged.]

[unetrustworthy]

[Nor was Midii, because they had come so far so quickly, and had a system aside from seemingly random visitations. The second place they went to...oddly enough, claimed they were supposed to give out candy, but had already run out. Apparently, it was a popular place.]

We might have gone too far. I think we passed the places that handed out beads.

[justlittle]

Maybe. It can't be too far back, though, it has to be somewhere in the Wood Sector.

[He considers their map, then puts forth an idea.]

Maybe, since we're so close to the end, we should split up. Cover more ground. Then, when one of us finds a bead, we tell the other one where it is.

[unetrustworthy]

We have two sectors left. I'll take one, you take the other, and we meet at the border in...say, an hour?

[That should give her enough time to walk all the way to Water, knock on the necessary doors, and find her bead before making it make in time to meet with Bean.]

[justlittle]

Fine by me. [He continues on his way to the other Wood Sector buildings indicated on the map, and goes in search of the beads.]

[unetrustworthy]

[She, too, headed off to the adjacent sector to fulfill her part of the deal. Feeling oddly far more satisfied by the Bead Hunt process as a whole than she thought a simple game would have allotted her.]