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

[casperdisaster]

"Oh, sure!" Noah says, a little surprised at how unsure Scout is being. Well, maybe he's shy too, or food isn't something easy to come by where he's from. Both of those things actually make Noah braver as a possibility. It's easy to talk to other shy people, knowing they have the same fears you do, and if he can do something simple like give another person food to make their life easier he's pleased to be able to do that.

Noah's got about six rolls in his bag, so he takes two out to hold out to Scout. That still leaves one for each of the boys.

[bring_the_beatdown]

Scout jumps on them, putting one in his ball bag slung over his back and starting to eat the other.

"Oh man, thanks so much." He's talking with his mouth full and spraying crumbs all over the place.

"Where'd you get 'em? I've got like... fourty bucks I think. I can get a ton of tacos if I can find a place."

[casperdisaster]

Noah gives a sigh full of wistful longing.

"Oh, tacos. I haven't had tacos in forever. I miss tacos..."

So many fond memories, trying to sober up in the Taco Bell parking lot with Whelk, tossing bits of lettuce back and forth over ley line notes.

"They're in the shop right around the corner there, the one that has the stained glass window that looks kinda like a glowing cat? They show up every week or so. I hope Hope keeps it up. Gosh, that sounds weird to say aloud..."

[bring_the_beatdown]

"What? You saying there's no tacos in this place? No way, that should be like... illegal or sumthin'." He licks his fingers clean, wanting to eat the second one, but knowing he should hold onto it. He's always hungry, but this was way worse than normal. Was he putting on muscle? Getting max gains or something? It's not like he ever goes to gym, for all that flexing.

"Hope hope? I don't get it."

[casperdisaster]

"Hope, the..." Noah makes a sort of vague hand gesture as he looks at Scout while the realization sets in.

"Oh. You're, um. You're new, huh?"

[bring_the_beatdown]

"Yea. I mean.. I guess. I don't really know where here is." Scout shrugged like it's no big deal. Except it is a very big deal.

"I was gonna leave, 'cept I can't find the door."

[casperdisaster]

"Um, it only works one way... uh..." Noah wasn't prepared to give the 'welcome to the murdercave' speech today, so he was floundering a bit to start.

"... Welcome to the murdercave. Um. We're... someplace underground. Not sure where. Nowhere near home. Unless your home is some strange alien city run by weird gods that don't understand how humans work."

[bring_the_beatdown]

"Well I mean, aliens wouldn't be the weirdest thing to happen. One of the guys on my team is roommates with a freakin' wizard who keeps coming back from the dead." Scout gave and exaggerated shudder.

"And no one likes wizards man."

He was taking the news of being permanently stuck in a cave rather well. Mostly because he was so busy thinking about himself and talking about himself that it hadn't caught up to his brain yet.