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]

[There really is something to that thing about your life coming into focus when you're about to die.

In Emily's case, she's not sure she's going to get killed, but she knows something is coming as soon as Chris moves. Whether that's because the wendigo senses it or the human does, the result is the same. As she feels the creature shriek in her bones, she focuses on the moving body in front of her that is Chris, and relaxes.

She thinks of how anyone else might have already killed her by now, or at the very least not have taken the risk of letting her out of her room in her state. She thinks of how she's yelled at every one of her friends who's here so far, even Sam, though that Emily can chalk up to the wendigo's rage. She thinks about Jessica and what she'd say if she could see her former best friend now. She thinks of Matt, who might just let her kill him if it came down to it. God knows she almost got them both killed on the tower.

It's stupid -- she has enough clarity to realize that -- because for all that Chris was ready to send her to her death on the mountain, she doesn't see him killing her. But maybe she's wrong. She's a monster, for fuck's sake. She just tried to kill him. Hell, maybe dying is the best way. Then he and the others will be safe, and she won't have ho fight this anymore.

Even though she can't truly see him anymore, she glances up at him as he raises an arm. She can't talk, but maybe he can read her anyway, how she isn't angry with him for his choice, just angry in general at this shit.

Then she holds still against the violent rage of the wendigo, and Chris's attack connects, and her world goes black.]

[thechoiceisyours]

[He's half expecting to miss--he's not really a fighter, at least not physically--or for her to dodge, or to lose an arm to her claws or any other horrible outcome, but instead the blow connects and she collapses. Chris is stunned for a few moments, not quite processing that as soon as the fight had started it's ended, and he just drops back to sit on the ground. He's alive, and--

He moves again, suddenly, struck with the need to check for a pulse or something to make sure Emily's still alive too, that he hadn't killed her accidentally. But she is and he sits back down again, wrapping his arms around his stomach and trying to breathe, starting to shake again. They're both alive. It's okay.

Chris doesn't know how long he has before she wakes back up, but probably not enough to get her to the Temple even if he could carry her that far. He doubts he could anyway; just getting her back to the house will be a struggle with his screwed up leg, but he can manage it. Just get her back to the house and her room, and it'll all be okay and they can figure out a way to try again. Everything's alright.

It takes about a minute before he can will himself to move again, still trying to catch his breath keep from just breaking down into tears; if he starts he won't stop, and there's no time for that right now. Later, once they're both back inside, but not now.

It's awkward, trying to figure out how to carry her, for so many reasons, but eventually he manages it, and the next several minutes pass in a blur until he's laying her back on her bed in her room and then retreating out the door, shoving the barricade back into place.

Back to square one, but at least they're both safe again. At least for now.]