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

[imaginate]

He's about to argue that it was a mix of magics, and hardly Zatanna's fault, when something else occurs to him: 'She'd have confessed, if she was trying something and it went wrong again.'

He pauses, at the question, and paces, adding cheerily, 'I should be disturbed. I - don't know how to be, right now.' He can manage the words. The tone, however, he can't force into an emotion he no longer has the ability to feel.

[demon_brat]

Yeah, it totally was Zatara's fault. For insufficient caution, if nothing else. "How? If she has no access to the consoles or to her research to verify if anything happened?"

But he shakes his head and tries to push past that.

"Anything else that is not right?"

He's keeping mental notes. Of course he is.

[imaginate]

'She'd have told me.' And that's that. He folds his arms and sniffs. 'Apart from that, nothing I've noticed.'

[demon_brat]

Damian rolls his eyes. Trusting somebody who messes up like that? He doesn't get it. AT all.

But he's willing to move on.

"I was not supposed to hear you, was I. When I just... did."

[imaginate]

Kyle, on the other hand, has a strict demarcation between people with the capacity for change, and those who don't. He befriends the former only, and thus, stubbornly sticks to his judgement, because otherwise it would mean admitting a mistake, and he has his pride.

'Yeah. Must be thinner here or something.'

[demon_brat]

Ah, that one. Pride.

Damian's way too familiar. Not that he'd admit it.

"Perhaps you can bring somebody else, here. Find out if they also become... visible."

Scientific methods? Maybe?

[imaginate]

'That's an id--' He begins to fade out of view, and doesn't realise, because he's ecstatic at being perceived at all.

[demon_brat]

Damian can practically see the Lantern fading in front of his eyes, the voice going fainter until he can't hear it at all, mid-word.

His voice is quiet, just a little, "Rayner?" It's no use shouting, he doesn't think. The man wasn't going anywhere - and yet he's not here, either.

The boy still takes out the crystal - only to see it hovering around the same spot where it had been minutes ago, by his friend's arm. Now, there was only empty air.

[imaginate]

'--idea,' he finishes, waving his hands, and wondering why Damian is responding.

Oh.

Oh.

He paces around, waving, whistling, putting his hand on the kid's shoulder. Nothing works.

'Fantastic,' he says, fatigued. 'Okay kiddo, it's all on your shoulders now. Make me proud.'

[demon_brat]

Just for a moment, Damian hunches down a bit. They had things to discuss.

Then he straightens up, shouldering the disappearance once more. He lets out a long breath, then turns to head back. To his suite. He has - some examination of what's out on the network to do. And plans to make, this - is not going to be easy.

But Rayner's not gone, and that's...

That helps.