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

[notjustinthemirror]

The Demon is missing one himself, though not because he owes anyone money, but because Ethan is a dumbass that let himself get caught by a serial killer. And what happens to Ethan, is replicated on the Demon.

"That's a shame, everyone could use a few disposable people between them and danger." He tilts his head, trying to imagine the kid wielding a sword. "Soon it'll all be internet attacks and identity theft. And then what will you do?"

[amos_moses]

"Retire!" Amos laughs brightly. "I'm thirty-two anyway. All this fighting business is better left to the young and stupid. And the expendable. My knees are getting cranky."

No sword for Amos: he fights with knives and fists and his reputation...and a nicely-sighted gun. But here he has no reputation, no fear of the boss's wrath to carry with him, and ammo for his gun is very limited. Smarts it is...and a bow and arrow.

[notjustinthemirror]

"Mid-life crisis already?"

The Demon on the other hand is going to brazenly stalk up to one of the wendigos and hit it in the face with a bat.

Sometimes blunt is the way to go.

[amos_moses]

"Nope. Just being realistic. Once you've fought with demons and made agreements with gods, you get a pretty damn clear idea of your own mortality," Amos answers, with a cheerful grin again. "And I? Am definitely not immortal."

[notjustinthemirror]

"Being immortal isn't the greatest either. You could be tortured forever. Imprisoned and forgotten. And just live for eternity in the boredom." Doesn't he have the most cheerful outlook on life.

[amos_moses]

"Hey, I never said it was better. Just that I know I ain't." Amos rolls a shrug: it's all the more important a point because of the current dangers stalking them. "You sound like you're speaking from experience, though." Is the Alcohol Demon immortal? Amos had presumed so, given his body was not exactly flesh-and-blood.

[notjustinthemirror]

"Yes and no." He tosses a bottle up into the air, catching it with a flourish before throwing it at something that moved in the shadows.

"Honestly I'm not sure exactly how that's gonna work here. The reason for me even existing isn't here." He shrugs, acting like it didn't matter. But he's a little worried about the whole not being able to be killed because Ethan was still alive. Ethan isn't here, there's no reason for him to keep on existing. In fact he doesn't even know how he was put together, he might just fall apart at some point.