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

[unfollowing]

[The room is still in response to her cry, as good as empty. Her prey must have escaped. That's the only possibility. The hunger twists inside her gut, unsatisfied, demanding meat and blood.

Movement flashes in the edge of her vision. She heads for it--something on the other side of the window. Maybe a bird. Too small, not what she craves, but it's something.

Something about this one, though, who escaped, is staying with her, pulling her back from the window. Because it's a human, it's what she needs. But it's gone now, and somewhere inside, just as strong as the instinct to hunt and devour, is a strange thought that says the world outside will feed her better than the scrawny human who has slipped away from her.

Fine. Better to spend her energy on a meal she can actually have.

She smashes through the window and climbs to perch on it, turning her head back in case she can catch the slightest movement. If she does, then she'll attack. But otherwise, after a few seconds, she'll scamper out the window and hunt elsewhere.]

[cowardley]

[ The window shatters, and Ashley can hear the creature move, glass crunching beneath it's elongated feet. She can't tell when it finally leaves, not above the thumping sound of her heartbeat, but knows better than to dare risk checking.

Hell, she doesn't even dare to breathe a sigh of relief.

She remains beneath the bed, back to the wall, for as long as she physically can. She remains quiet, and still, fear in the back of her mind telling her it's best to stay put. She eventually falls asleep beneath the bed, knees curled into her chest. ]