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

[closerift]

[ "If he's lying"... But, she isn't going to be the one to find out. She already knows, as sure as anything else, that she will not be going to the temple. It's strange, this acceptance, because it feels more factual, logical, and unavoidable than anything. It doesn't upset her to recognize the conflict that will arise, either, and the potential for violence has her pulse quickening- ]

You may have to fight some others off for that; you aren't the only one not fond of him. [ Talk, talk while you have the words, because her thoughts are getting too dangerous and terrifying, when she stops to think about them. The Inquisitor swallows hard; they haven't caught sight of the god's temple yet, she still has time to figure something out. Is there any way she can distract him? Change his mind? Even as each occurs to her, she knows as well as she knows Cullen that there isn't a chance. ]

... He could be trying to lure us all there. [ She says, aware, somewhere, of how feeble it sounds. ] This may have been his doing all along, if he changed our food and then blamed it on the others-

[smited]

[ pup recognizes something's wrong before cullen does. by the time she says 'this may have been his doing,' the dog is standing, growling low in his throat. cullen looks between his mabari and cecily, his heart sinking. he should have seen this coming. should have guessed that her--passenger would not want to be evicted. ]

Down, pup. [ it's said quietly, but the mabari does hunker down a little. it's clear the dog doesn't like it, isn't fond of being told not to protect his master, but--cullen's not going to risk the dog taking a bite out of cecily and something going terribly wrong.

after a moment's hesitation, cullen amends his command. ] Go home, pup. [ the dog whines. ] I know. I'll make sure she's alright. Go.

[ once the dog trots off, cullen turns back to his wife. no, what was once his wife. he can't think of her--it--in those terms if he wants to keep himself sane. he can't hesitate. not here. not with this. ]

Did you actually try the cure before? Or was that a lie?

[closerift]

[ Templars, her memory tells her, feeling more separate from her body by the minute, hunt abominations. Track down dangerous creatures. He was a templar, he knows when there is a duty to be done, no matter how unpleasant. The dog growls dangerously and her skin prickles, fingers twitching. She almost growls back.

He addresses the animal and she has a hard time understanding why he's separating himself from a potential ally. Another weapon, a resource, in the impending fight against Cecily. He sends the dog off and she sucks distantly at the inside of her cheek, missing the taste of blood and raw. ]

A man who claimed to be a healer removed all the symptoms. [ She's angry at the insinuation; although he's being rational, her rage spikes wildly, making her lip twitch into scowl, betraying flashes of sharpening teeth. ] I felt normal again. But, it wasn't permanent.

[ Obviously. ]

He offered a solution and I accepted. Am I to blame that it didn't hold? That I put my trust in another person before a god?

[ Why is there so much conversation? It's so difficult. Needless. They'll never see eye to eye; they're only postponing the inevitable. ]