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

[zinthosmantra]

Raven is trying to get some answers out of a group of kedan who seem both absentminded and not terribly interested in helping find the missing Foreigners. The Titan has gotten part of a story and is trying to piece together whether it's the equivalent of an urban legend, a terribly timed holiday prank, or something that really happened.

"So what was written on the wall afterward?"

[cantbewalled]

Prussia has spent the next two days not being able to talk to anyone, trapped intangible and invisible as he is. At first it freaked him out, then it pissed him off, and now he's bored out of his mind and half-crazy from it all. But he did realize that sometimes things happened when he walked through a room or stayed in one place long enough. Lights flicked, people got chills.

...Like if he was a ghost.

He comes to a stop when he sees a small group of kedan on the street, speaking to some kid who dressed in clothes so dark, he wondered if she was in mourning.

And then he realized that she was asking about missing people--people who had visited the museum just like he had. Not that the kedan seemed to care much about helping her. He stands by and almost leans against a window, except he almost falls through it and has to stop him. The window still fogs up, as if someone was blowing hot air onto it.

"I obviously meant to do that!"

[zinthosmantra]

The kedan being supremely unhelpful, Raven eventually had to discontinue her line of questioning and turn away, determined to find more evidence on her own. But she stopped when she noticed that suddenly fogging window, approaching it with a suspicious look.

[cantbewalled]

Prussia straightens himself up and looks around as if someone could have seen what he had just done, only obviously they can't because he's still invisible. Talk about being saved by misfortune.

But that little girl is looking his way. He freezes in place, looking right back at her.

"Hey, girlie, can you see me?"

[zinthosmantra]

It's probably a good thing that Raven cannot hear either his thoughts in this state or hear him. She does however, raise a palm and chant something under her breath, bathing the immediate area by the window in a blueish light as though someone had turned a giant ultraviolet light on the spot.

"... I can see you-- sort of."

[cantbewalled]

At first he's surprised and then confused by the weird light. Then he waves his hands wildly and grins. "Great, now someone can figure out what the hell happened! I'm like a ghost here."