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ᴄʜᴇʀʀʏᴡᴏᴏᴅ ʜᴇᴀʟᴇʀ ᴍɪʟʏɴ ([personal profile] cherrywood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2013-10-26 06:57 pm

EVENT | ALL HALLOWED

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..."



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
wrathfulkhan: (Surprise // chatvert)

[personal profile] wrathfulkhan 2013-10-30 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Seriously, this is getting freaky and Gene is somewhere between annoyed and concerned. Though it is kind of typical Loki, to bug him and then disappear. Hmph. If you ask Gene, he thinks the god of mischief needs to expand his repertoire.

The rattling plumbing catches his attention, and he tries to follow the noise, muttering about how he's going to kill Loki if the Asgardian blew up his toilet.]
bacondivination: (phone; call is coming from where)

[personal profile] bacondivination 2013-10-30 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's nothing worse than no one being able to see him. If he can't be acknowledged, if what he does can't affect anything, then he's a figment. This time, it's not of a young boy struggling to defy his fate.

It's of nothing.

He's nothing. Those thoughts are the first things that skitter through his mind when Gene walks away, and he tries to suppress them as he follows after the teen. (It's hard, he knows all his own worst weaknesses and never seems to hesitate to use them against himself.) He's not sure why he does it. There's no validation to be had here.
]

Come on.

[ Clever or not, he doesn't connect a door slamming with his building frustration. The rattling doesn't let up either, for that matter, and he's only tangentially aware of it in his current fit of panic. Very suddenly, he wants nothing but to lash out. He was real. And this stupid jerk should be able to see him. ]

Gene.
wrathfulkhan: (Oh my God you're an idiot // chatvert)

[personal profile] wrathfulkhan 2013-10-30 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[The door slamming makes Gene jump a little bit, and he tenses, ready to fight whoever or whatever is doing all of these mildly unnerving things in his suite. Because he knows the door only slams when there's a window open, and it's been getting chilly, so he's been keeping them closed.

It is a thing that an idiot in a horror movie would do - and he can almost hear Pepper criticizing this particular life choice - but he goes to investigate the slammed door. He opens it again with no problems, and he glares at the hinges. The pipes still haven't let up with that noise, and he follows them into the bathroom, completely oblivious to the godling's building freakout.]


What the hell is going on here...
bacondivination: http://kaimaciel.tumblr.com (horrified; no way out)

[personal profile] bacondivination 2013-10-30 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Loki isn't even chasing him down this time. He just sinks to the floor, head in his hands.

'This is kind of fitting, isn't it? You're back to being a parasitic little daydream.'

And why couldn't he have at least not kept that stupid hallucination?! Was it even one? Was it a product of his mind or was he a product of...? Of what? He's not even sure.
]

I don't exist. That's what's going on. I don't exist and you're...

[ The door creaks open, knob having turned of its own apparent will, and promptly slams shut again. Something was fucking with them. He was in the midst of having a literal panic attack spawned by sudden existential crisis, and something was fucking with them.

Great.

Another magic user? He's not sure. Maybe it is, or maybe what happened is directly connected. And it was really hard to come off of the panic binge.
]

You're stupid.

[ Weird things were happening, and Gene wasn't leaving? What was his problem? ]
Edited 2013-10-30 01:51 (UTC)
wrathfulkhan: (Gritting teeth // chatvert)

[personal profile] wrathfulkhan 2013-10-30 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Great, the incessant noise from the pipes was beginning to set his teeth on edge. All the rattling and screeching and now doors are slamming again and he's seriously going to get a headache if this keeps up.]

Cut it out, [he snaps absently at the slamming door, now officially more irritated than scared. If whatever's bothering him is anything corporeal, he can take it; he's skilled enough for that at least. And if it's not, he'll put on the rings and blast it clear off the turtle.

And if it's Loki, he'll just settle for kicking his ass later.]


If this is a prank, it's a pretty poor one, [he says, folding his arms and not looking impressed. Apparently he doesn't know the meaning of "tempting fate".]
bacondivination: (inscrutable; hair in eyes)

[personal profile] bacondivination 2013-10-30 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Don't you watch movies?!

[ The bathroom mirror shatters as it slams with a loud bang. ]

I swear on Odin's miserable parenting skills, if you waste time checking that out--!

[ His voice was already somewhat high pitched from panic, and is only getting worse as time goes on. He's not quite able to come down from the whole 'what if I'm not real' thing, and Gene was an idiot. It seemed like the more wound up he was, the worse it became because he really needed the added stress right then.

And... that was really weird, actually.
]
wrathfulkhan: (Bitchface // chatvert)

[personal profile] wrathfulkhan 2013-10-30 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[To answer Loki's question: No, not really, being the full-time Mandarin and running a criminal empire after school and then evading international justice while searching for ancient artifacts didn't leave too much time to watch horror movies.

Clearly, the best way to deal with this creepy shit was to completely ignore it. Ooh, big deal, spooky, so scary. So he rolls his eyes at the sound of the glass breaking, makes a mental note to clean up the mirror, and walks away.

He goes back to his console and sends Loki a message:]


Nice Halloween prank. If you unleashed a minor demon in my suite, I expect you to pay for the mirror it just broke.
bacondivination: (distressed; sidelong look)

[personal profile] bacondivination 2013-10-30 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gene is either an idiot, or he is self-assured enough he can handle the situation that he is just getting agitated by it. It's got to be one of those, because it damn sure couldn't be confidence that Loki would never harm him. People didn't have that for very good reason.

And Gene is not actually stupid.

It would be something to think about while he tries to figure his way through this. (Well, figure his way through, and attempted to convince himself that he isn't being unmade or somehow otherwise removed from reality-- no matter how much his brain disagreed.) This is going to be a long, loud night.

Who knew, maybe he can even drive him into making a fuss about it?
]
wrathfulkhan: (Evil studmuffin // chatvert)

[personal profile] wrathfulkhan 2013-11-01 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gene has learned never to trust anyone, ever, even if you think they are your friend, because more likely than not they are keeping secrets from you. Big, iron secrets.

He spends a little while waiting for a response, that unbeknownst to him he is not going to get for a while, before deciding that he really ought to go clean up the broken mirror, or at least get the pieces cleaned up out of the middle of the floor.

Muttering Mandarin obscenities, he goes. Loki is so going to catch hell for this.]