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]

I'm not sure? [thom offers with a very small shrug, because he wasn't joking about not being able to answer many questions about his powers, he knows almost nothing about them.]

I only realized I had powers about a month ago or so, but after I did I noticed that I'd never really gotten sick as a kid, aside from the seizures anyway. And the seizures were a side effect of me not knowing how to use my powers in the first place, because they're not really a problem anymore.

... mostly. [he adds with a faint wince.]

[zen_en_vert]

What does 'mostly' look like? We're going to be colleagues- let me know the worst case scenario of what to watch out for, and how to take care of you if you do go down.

[hopecanruinyou]

Well... [thom scratches distractedly at a patch of slightly newer looking pink skin on his elbow from one of his numerous falls around town while he was suffering from the wraith curse.]

Just before I got here I wound up overloading my powers in a burn ward and kind of. Wound up causing a half mile power outage and sending everyone nearby into a seizure with me? [yeah that's definitely never going to get any easier or less embarrassing to admit to people.]

But that's the only time that's happened. I'm pretty good on figuring out my limits these days.

[zen_en_vert]

Okay, well, we're going to have to do some kind of testing or safety procedure thing to figure out how to avoid that. We can put some thought into what that looks like- you having patient limitations or a check in system or something, just as an absolutely safeguard-

I mean, I'm taking what you're saying to heart about you knowing your limits, because I have similar... phenomena around me. But that's just why I know all the more that sometimes you need checks, balances, and redundancies, just in case.

[hopecanruinyou]

Oh yeah, of course! [thom is quick to nod and agree with bruce, because seriously if he can avoid that sort of thing happening again, he'd really like it.]

That's honestly not even the first warning sign that I'm using my powers too much, and I've gotten pretty good at recognizing the signs of a seizure so I can stop. [which didn't necessarily mean he has been stopping when those signs pop up, but those were all pretty serious situations where he figured helping the person was a little more important than maybe embarrassing himself in front of a stranger.

he's not going to mention that little detail to bruce just yet though.]

[zen_en_vert]

Perfect. Then let me give you the grand tour of the place.

[He says, getting easily to his feet.]

How long have you been in Hadriel? Have you explored these houses?