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

[hopecanruinyou]

[thom slows a bit when sam fails to answer him, admittedly unnerved by the way the man appears to be tracking his movement.

(he remembers them saying that motion was what got you into trouble with the... the wendigos, but he can't be afraid. that's not how a hero acts, right? and he wants so badly to be a hero). thom takes a deep breath to steady himself and keeps walking forward, hands outstretched in both a bid for harmlessness, and an honest attempt to get his hands on the man even sooner and get all of this over with.]

I can make you better, alright? It's all going to be okay.

[oh thom. no, it really isn't.]

.. i have no idea what happened to the end of that last tag, but i'm not a dodo, i swear.

[hollowly]

( oh, thom, no indeed.

there's nothing wrong with being afraid, especially when there is a legitimate, real danger right in front of you – and even though sam isn't so far gone that he can't make an attempt to sort out his trains of thought, even when they have a tendency to carry him into the fogged and restless part of his mind that can't retain any hold to logic, to the fact that there's someone trying to help him out.

his head is ducked low when thom speaks again, eyes following every tiny little movement, and for a split second the anger breaks, like the ripple of movement over the water's surface, and he blinks.

but it doesn't last long. )

You need to get away from me. ( it's a little too difficult to raise his voice enough for that, but he manages, even if the words themselves emerge as little more than a hiss of breath between his teeth. ) Now.

lmao it happens

[hopecanruinyou]

[unfortunately, the only thing sam's warning manages to do is reinforce thom's decision to help him. because obviously, if the man can still speak, he can still be reached.

and if he can still be reached, thom has to try and save him.]

You're sick, I can heal you. It's easy, I promise.