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 doesn't answer her right away. his eyes are closed tight and his fingers are spread wide and pressed hard into the ground in an attempt to quell the tremors, muttering a string of strange names under his breath.

after a moment he lifts his head up and cracks his eyes open with a grimace.] It's. Like an overload or... [his hands are shaking now despite the pressure he's putting on them, and the sparks and tingles are quickly spreading up his arms and thom's pretty sure he's not going to count himself out of this attack.

not this time.]

'm gonna have... a seizure. [he warns cecily, because he knows it can be a kind of scary thing to witness for the first time.] I'll be fine just... just wait for the. shaking to stop okay?

[one breath and another and then the shaking consumes his whole body, and sorry about all this cecily, he's gonna be a little while.]

[closerift]

[ It is scary. She can't help but hold her breath as he seizes, mind racing - what can I possibly do? And she knows nothing about healing, let alone seizures, so she merely crouches down next to him and watches closely, wide-eyed, mentally debating if any course of action would be better or worse than the other. She comes up short, uncertain of it all, and so Cecily instead bites her lip and observes the man who'd healed her with sharp intensity. ]

You're all right. [ She mutters, hoping it's true. ] I won't leave.

[ It's likely no consolation, since he doesn't know her at all, but she plans to stay there at his side until it ends, as he's said. It's the least she can do. ]