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

[werewolfing]

Sure you weren't, Newt.

[peter keeps his tone light because the wounds on thom's ribs are pretty bad and the ones on his back, when peter gently pulls him forward by the back of the neck, aren't looking any better. he presses towels to them, putting pressure on the wounds regardless of how thom may or may not feel about that.]

Hey, Newt, let's get this poor bastard lying down and his feet up. Thom, your back is all torn up, so let us do the lifting.

[they're actually petty gentle about this, or at least as gentle as they can be while putting someone down right on their injuries so that gravity can help staunch them. a chair from the kitchen table does well enough to get thom's feet above his heart so newt can continue his ankle cleansing. the pressure of peter's hand seems to concentrate on thom's ribs now.]

There, that might help you help yourself. Not gonna faint on us either, are you?

[hopecanruinyou]

No, I. [thom takes a deep shaky breath mostly to stop himself from screaming or crying or.... whatever, he doesn't even know right now.

his whole body feels like it's in the middle of a high grade fever with how hard his powers are working regardless he can't quite help the strangled cry of pain when they lay him on his back, clenching his eyes tight on a few stray tears.

under newt and peter's hands, his skin slowly, slowly begins to knit together and heal.]

If my powers overload again... I might have a seizure or. [another shaky breath.] I'm gonna try really hard. Not to overload my powers.

[krangke]

(Newt glances up when Thom begins to speak just in time to see how bothered Thom actually was. The kid looks wretched and not just physically. Newt holsters his protective frustrations and lets that natural, gut bubbling of concern take over.

He quickly finishes up what he can of cleaning up Thom's ankle and then rushes back off to the kitchen. He returns a moment later with a fresh washcloth and bowl of water and kneels next to Thom's head. He takes the soaked cloth and sets it against the back of Thom's neck. It's for sheer comfort at this point.)

Shhh.

(He hushes quietly, his voice having lost the concerned rage from before. All that was left over was a special sort of gentleness that came to Newt naturally.)

You'll be fine. No need to use your powers again anytime soon. Peter and I are taking care of you and it'll be okay. You're doing bloody fantastic, okay? You won't have a seizure. If you do, you're not alone. So it's okay.

(He glances up over at Peter, his eyes a little wet because nope. He's perfectly talented at being strong for other people but this- this is all scraping the surface of barely healed wounds for himself. First Cashmere and now Thom.)

[werewolfing]

Sorry, Thom.

[peter does sound apologetic about having to move him, but it still seems like a better idea to have his blood flowing to the parts of his body that need it most.]

Just take your time. You aren't gonna die of any of this, so there's no rush. Nothing some time and sleep won't fix.

[anymore, at least, but peter's hardly going to say that.]

Once you're knit up we'll get you to bed and Newt will mother you until you get better just to be able to shoo him off.

[he takes one of his hands off of thom's ribs and puts it on the back of newt's neck, because the other boy is clearly starting to lose it.]

Come do your fussing from over here, Newt.

[peter can handle a lot of things, but newt having a panic attack while thom is bleeding on the floor isn't one of them.]

[hopecanruinyou]

[the problem with telling thom to stop using his powers was the fact that, to a point, he didn't actually know how to stop them. it wasn't as if he usually made an active point of healing people in the first place, unless choosing to touch them in the first place counted for that sort of thing.

so keeping his powers from overloading now that he was injured, and the choice of touching was entirely taken away from him? mostly consists of closing his eyes and quietly asking his powers very nicely to go easy on him and hope that they heard.

or listened.]

Not dying. [thom confirms weakly, at least, because if he hadn't died yet it wasn't going to happen. probably.] Just. If I tell you to leave. You need to do it. [breathe.] I already knocked out... one person today.

[the person that had been attacking him, which was honestly the only reason he was still alive at this point, but sending newt and peter into seizures would more or less have an opposite effect.]