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

[browbeater]

[the acknowledgement is a relief but there was no time to relax. He had a hunch that she was just as invisible as he was, based off the motorcycle bending. He ran towards her, passing through most of the barriers.

He'd gotten used to it since phasing out]

No one else can see you either, huh?

[lineality]

[She shakes her head, the momentary relief chased away with a rapidly deepening frown.]

I met a kid yesterday who could see me, but he was having the same problems I was. How long have you been like this?

[browbeater]

A couple of days now. And it gets better...

[he rubs the bridge of his nose, almost as if he were dealing with Bolin on a particularly bad day. If only, if only. He'd rather be dealing with Bolin than this...]

Korra's lost her memory.

[lineality]

Same. I think it started early yesterday mo--what?

[She stares at him, dumbfounded for an instant before she can pull her composure back together. Even then, her expression is one of utter disbelief, and she hesitates only briefly before barraging him with questions.]

What do you mean by that? Are you sure? How? Is she a spirit like us, too, or--?

[browbeater]

[he expected the questions. He was still trying to make sense of everything himself, but no, the one thing he'd figured out was that Korra was definitely completely without her memory.]

I'm positive. I've asked her enough questions, and it wouldn't be like Korra to lie about something like this. She actually vanished before I did [on one of their dates...], she's with me right now.

[lineality]

Spirits.

[She puts a hand to her temple for a moment, mind still spinning. Bad enough to know the Avatar has been affected the same way they have, with a five-day deadline counting down as they speak. But for her to have lost her memory--]

How severe is her memory loss? Did it occur before or after she vanished? [Turning to scan the street around them:] And did you by any chance happen to visit a museum together before this happened?

[browbeater]

[five days and counting. He was glad Lin was there, though. With Korra down for the count for the most part, having someone else who knew what was going on and could just remember was exactly what he needed for right then.

He shakes his head.]

She can't remember a thing. And as for when it happened, it was after she vanished.

... And yeah, we did. One about the kedan history, right?

[lineality]

[She can only hope the memory loss is unrelated. Wonders if maybe she shouldn't find pen and paper herself, before she can't remember who she is, either.

But they'll find some way to fix it. They have to.

Wordlessly, she pulls her invitation out of her sleeve, gesturing for Mako to do the same. If the same ominous message is on his card...]

[browbeater]

[if he even still had the invitation with him, but the ominous message was enough to give him pause, and to make him search his pockets a little more before he found it crumpled in one of them.

The same, albeit crinkled, message was there. He wasn't even sure what to make of that]

... We don't have that much time.

[lineality]

[Her frown only deepens at the sight of the same words on Mako's invitation, and she shakes her head as she puts her own away.]

We know the museum had something to do with it. It's more than we had to go on a moment ago.

[A pause.] We should retrace our steps. Get back to that museum. Could be there's something inside it that caused this.