Event log: Who What Where Wendigo

[hadrielmods]

Who: Everyone participating in the wendigo event!
What: The accidental-cannibalism-turned-horrifying-monster event that is the Who What Where Wendigo event!
Where: All around the city
When: Feb 14th-March 1st
Warnings: Cannibalism, body horror, evil monsters lurking around.

Don't forget to check up on the Wendigo Guide that Ami posted!

On February 14th, Rage and Fear decide to give Hope a little bit of help taking care of the residents of Hadriel - they'll provide some food for awhile. How nice! Except, of course, that there's an extra ingredient in this food. A can of beef stew? Yeah... that might not be beef. But hey, it still tastes pretty good! Unfortunately, some spirits slipped through the Door last time it opened, and they're ready to possess anyone who participates in cannibalism - even if they don't know it.

Anyone who eats the provided meat will be possessed by a wendigo spirit. Over the course of twelve days, they will transform into a monster that feels little but rage and hunger. While at first it can be explained away easily enough (people are super annoying, and isn't everyone a little hungry most of the time?), by February 18th, wendigo transformations are impossible to ignore. A few days after, on February 22nd, the anger and cravings of the wendigo spirit will overcome all other emotions, and possessed characters may begin hunting.

The physical and mental transformation will be complete by February 26th. The possessed characters will have lost themselves completely at that point. While physical healing (done by a character with Hope's blessing or another healing ability) can turn back the physical and some mental effects, they will remain possessed until death or until Hope removes the wendigo spirit - which can only be done on the altar of Hope's temple. So have fun dragging your angry, possessed friends there!

On March 1st, Rage does Hope a solid (because she feels sort of bad) and kills all remaining wendigos. Upon revival, the spirit will be gone and the character will be fully recovered. Hopefully no one holds what they did while possessed against them!

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Comments

19th

[casperdisaster]

A knife is all Noah's got, so he's happy to have someone consideribly better armed in this time of danger. Also almost certainly better skilled. It's hard to be worse skilled than Noah.

"Yeah." Noah says agreeibly with a laugh that's a little too strained and nervous to be entirely casual. He's also jumping at shadows.

"Do you know anyone who... you know?"

19th

[amos_moses]

"Mmmhmm, unfortunately. Ain't that big of a town here." Amos's grin slides wry, and he starts walking again. Though he rarely makes much noise when walking even regularly now he's cat-quiet even in his heavy boots, feet placed steadily and square. He moves at a steady pace, watching, listening, and asking the occasional jabberjay ahead what the street looks like.

A bird's eye-view is a helpful thing to have. "You need anythin' to carry home, Noah? Food, water, extra blankets..."

Hey, you can never have too many blankets.

[casperdisaster]

"Blankets." Noah answers quickly, keeping close to Amos' side, trusting he knows where he's going and what he's doing. He seems to, and Noah's other option is to take some kind of lead himself, and that is absolutely not going to happen. "I don't like being cold."

[amos_moses]

Amos nods. "Amen, brother. The store just around the corner here should have some." And hopefully food as well, so they can make a quick trip and run right back home. Well, maybe for once things will go nicely? Amos can always hope.

[casperdisaster]

Noah certainly hopes too. He's still getting used to being alive again. He was afraid of everything as a ghost, but he was able to comfort himself with the knowledge that most of the things here couldn't actually hurt him. Now he has no such shield, and every little sound has him jumping and edging closer to Amos, eyes wide with fright.

"Did you hear that?" Noah whispers, alarmed, as they approach the store. It's entirely possible that it's nothing, or just a person on another street. Noah's jumpy.

[amos_moses]

"Bird," Amos answers, smiling a little at Noah's nerves. His hand brushes Noah's and he notices the warmth immediately. "You alive again?" he asks as they round the corner.

If it's a bit absent, it's because he's also talking to the bird overhead, the one that swoops down onto the roof of the store and sings out a cheerful litany of curses and abuse towards the birds. Amos snorts a little as he pulls the shop door open. Apparently his feathered friends have not endeared themselves to all of the city's residents.

[casperdisaster]

Noah startles at the curses that come out of the birds' beaks, the words scared right out of him for a few moments before he looks to Amos again.

"Wha-? Oh, um. Yes. Alive again, thanks to Hope. Recently. ... A day or so."

Noah eyes the birds warily until they are safely inside. There is little that does not scare Noah.

[amos_moses]

"Hey, hey, the birds're okay. They're helpin' me," Amos explains, as he heads directly for the shelves.

He loops his fingers around Noah's wrist to simply tow him along, too, because Amos has no concept of personal space and has always been very tactile. It's an automatic thing, to try to use touch to ease his companion.

"That's pretty neat. Izzit weird? Being, uh, embodied again?"

[casperdisaster]

Noah doesn't mind being touched - not when he's alive anyway. He still gives the birds a wary look before he trots along with Amos, diverting his full attention back to the other guy.

"... It's super weird." Noah says with a big long-suffering sigh. "Not as weird as the first time but... still really weird."

[amos_moses]

"Yeah, it seems like it'd be weird. I'm glad you're handling it pretty well, then." Amos grins at Noah, and pauses at a shelf that looks to hold food items. Maybe? Oh, yes, that's definitely bread. Or what passes for it here. Amos starts plucking things off the shelves and poking them into his backpack.

[casperdisaster]

Noah looks about until he spots what looks like cloth, which could be blankets. Not that he can carry much since he's walking, and good ones are nice and fluffy.

"I kinda knew it was coming? A little? This time. So... it didn't take me as much by surprise either." Noah makes a face, though he's faced away from Amos as he says it. "Now I can be hurt though."

[amos_moses]

"Well, there's downsides to every state of existence," Amos replies, pragmatic. "You're younger than I am, I bet you can use my tactic of 'run like hell' to better effect." He turns and tosses a grin at Noah.

"After you hit thirty your knees ain't what they used to be." Though thanks to his heritage, Amos doesn't usually get pinned for being in his early thirties. He's more often mistaken for a decade younger.

[casperdisaster]

"You're thirty?" Noah asks incredulously. It isn't even just looks, Amos certainly doesn't act like the teachers at Aglionby, which was most of Noah's interaction with adults that he can remember.

[amos_moses]

"Mmmhmm! Thirty-two." Amos laughs cheerfully at Noah's expression. He fetches a blanket and adds it to his pack, then offers Noah a little packet of gummy-candy-looking things.

"Here, these're sweet. Taste kinda like molasses." Only chewy instead of crunchy, as Amos was used to molasses candy being.

[casperdisaster]

"Oh! I don't think I've ever had molasses candy," Noah says, though he's not about to turn down the chance to try new delicious things. He takes one of the offered candies, popping it in his mouth, previous worry all but entirely gone.

He's safe, there's someone else here to keep him that way, and he's got sweets. That's all Noah really needs to elevate his mood significantly.

"It's really sweet!"

[amos_moses]

Chuckling, Amos says, "I said so, didn't I? I'm not a liar."

He does lie, but he prefers to tell the truth. Easier that way, and he was raised honest, despite his day job. "It's pretty tasty. Some stuff tastes decent, but honestly there's only so much I'm willing to taste-test myself. Especially with this whole...situation."

[casperdisaster]

Noah makes a face. The whole 'situation', yes, Noah's kind of been going as vegan as one can given the situation thanks to that.

"People have different tastes, you never know." He didn't think Amos was lying, just that maybe they had different perceptions of 'sweet'. Like that one time he told Whelk a burrito was totally not all that spicy.

Well, for Czerny it hadn't been.

[amos_moses]

"Ah, I guess that's true." Amos chuckles and looks around the store. "You want anything else here? Or should we hit up somewhere else?"

He's got what he came for, but does Noah?

[casperdisaster]

Noah holds up a blanket he managed to find that looks like it'll fit his bed well enough.

"Got it. Do you have other errands you need to run...?"

'Are you too busy to walk me home?', actually.

[amos_moses]

"Nope. Got lucky and got all I wanted on the first run." Amos beams cheerfully. He likes it when things fall in line like that. "You don't stay in the towers, do you?" No, he's pretty sure he's seen Noah off towards the smaller housing units.

It's not hard to notice, if you're prone to exploring or snooping but Amos waits for Noah to confirm it himself. It's politer that way, makes it seem like Amos hasn't been nosing about and spying on his neighbor's affairs.

[casperdisaster]

"Oh, no. Since I live with my friends we have one of the four-person houses." Noah said. Which are thankfully a little closer to the current shops they're in than the spiral towers.

[amos_moses]

"Ah, I see! Want me to walk you over there? Or send a bird with you?" Amos asks, because he shouldn't be the only one with an advanced warning system. There is a bird near that will do as he asks if he feeds it first. Not all of them will, but some will help him out. Amos doesn't really think twice about volunteering to help: you keep your allies safe and help out everyone you can. It's just how Amos does.

[casperdisaster]

"If it isn't too far out of your way... I'd really like to not walk alone." The bird would be better than nothing, but Noah's not confidant in his ability to keep a cool head under a situation that would normally cause a person to panic.

Like, it's gotta happen someday, but statistically he's batting zero with that.

[amos_moses]

"Sure. Safety in numbers an' all that jazz," Amos answers easily, and shrugs to settle his backpack into place. "Let's strike out, then! Bird across the way says it's clear."

Not so much said as simply isn't alarmed or excited: merely bored and watching for something interesting to happen. Some animals like trouble more than others. Amos heads for the door, because the way might not stay clear for long, and the less time they spend out, the less likely they are to get caught.

[casperdisaster]

Noah follows, trusting Amos and trusting his birds. Once Noah's trust is obtained it is an easily kept thing, difficult to lose.

"Thank you," He says quietly while they walk. He wouldn't want to make this alone.