In the deep Midwinter...

[rubycitymods]

The previous plotting post made mention of ghosts and spirits appearing as evening falls on December the 21st. This is a separate post for some more focused plotting, if anyone wants to do it!

The ghosts that will appear will vary in age, gender, time period, even universe of origin. Some of them will be peaceful, simply unrestful and may even engage in polite, pleasant conversation. Some may be playful or mischievous, either benevolently or with far more malevolent intentions and some may even be violent. Particularly strong spirits are able to affect the world around them with limited effect, or even take possession of weaker-minded people.

Spirits may also have the ability to take on the appearance of someone that the person they come across knows from home. However, they will only be able to look as the person remembers and will know nothing more than the person they have attached to knows. No deep dark secrets from home, sorry!

As dawn breaks on the 22nd of December the spirits will disappear from whence they came. Feel free to have as much fun with this as you like!

This post is for the purpose of questions and plotting, should you have any specific ideas. Also, it would be appreciated if you could answer the following question in the Questions comment, should you have a moment! - Would you find it useful to have a mod-posted log for the evening/night of the 21st, to save on community flooding?

Thank you! :3

Comments

QUESTIONS

[rubycitymods]

 

[neverbeamemory]

+1 for the mod-posted log for mingling!

[sayslittle]

First thoughts: Rude should have a kid-ghost latch onto him. Because clearly the big guy needs the spirit of a dead kid following him around like a duckling that saw him first and called him Mom.

[thedarkheir]

One of Soma's spanking new abilities is to temporarily leave his body in the form of a ghost, and I think it might be fun to do something with it during this time, any suggestions?

[neverfirstclass]

Edit: Was told the Nibelheim thing was cool, but a bit much, so scaling back. Cloud will be seeing some "Ghosts" from his past. Particularly his mother, and possibly a few sightings of Zack, despite him being in the city.

The point will be to shake some of his buried memories loose, though not nearly as dramatically as I was threatening before. Still, fun times.

Anyone who wants to help him work through his issues once and for all is welcome to attend.

For reference: Cloud's canon point is from the beginning of Disc 2, BEFORE he's dealt with this stuff in game.

[raindownthesky]

[Cracks knuckles]

Get ready for some Yun slappin'.

[goldeneyeball]

JW IS GOING TO TRY TO EAT PEOPLE. He will be possessed by an angry, cannibalistic spirit. It won't give him any powers, so it's not like your character is in trouble unless they can't run away from a worn out stick man. HE DOES have a knife though.

[wildmare]

...Hi JW, you are welcome to attempt to eat your greatest admirer here

[all_onis_are_true]

Various Spirit Things:

Soga no Tojiko will be kicking the asses of spirits who are jerks and smacking upside the head the ones who are just being mopey and annoying. If anybody wants her to help out dealing with some ghosts, she's available.

Phoenix is going to have his hands full watching over not one, not two, but THREE spirit mediums of varying ability who are going to be affected by all of this. Good times.

Hiroshi will probably, at first sight of ghosts, immediately seek out someone with the capacity to exorcise. I would also, however, like a situation where he has to help deal with and get rid of a ghost himself, if anybody wants to help him on that front.

[gordianknots]

Pst. If Waver gets involved with experimenting with spirit removal, would getting in touch with Tojiko be an option?

[swapswithjonathan]

Spirit stuff:

Trucy probably will try to make friends with any spirits she encounters, fun stuff like that. Maybe even catch a quick glimpse of her REAL father, Zak. People should come bother her probably. or she should go bother people...

Charlotte however is going to be affected differently. The spirits are going to be making her magic go haywire; she's going to be extremely frustrated and grumpy because no doubt one of those ~spirits~ will be that of Brauner, one of the vampires she helped defeat at home.

[fairbrook]

Integra: I haven't quite made a decision on what to do with her as of yet. She is prone to being harassed by various spirits, some of whom may decide to take on the forms of those from her home, and make her relive the events which lead to the razing of London. Granted, I still need to sort out the details.

Otherwise, she'll be looking after her housemates and those who took refuge with her during the storm, but she's not going to be in the best of spirits by any means.

[victoriantype]

Alice: Will be followed by a spirit posing as Kai from The Snow Queen. He won't be doing anything bad, he'll just bug her about exploring/playing together. (Maybe seeing her as a substitute for Gerda?). She's not going to be very amused after the first few hours, lbr. :(

Morrigan: Will be nopeing away from the spirits but keeping an eye out in case anything happens.

[goldeneyeball]

Maurice will probably stick close to his landlord and try to help her out.

[gordianknots]

Waver won't be affected by spirits, but he'll be extremely game for trying to figure out what to do about everything. Since he's now set up in the labs, an option might be to take in someone who's possessed and try and bring in other people who are trying to exorcise or else deal with the problem and test what does/doesn't work in order to arrive at a solution!

Obviously Waver's still living on the library's third floor, so if you're interested in shenanigans there, let me know.

[chiabrows]

Lamont maaaay be getting possessed, possibly? >_>

Manaka Sajou

[beastofasister]

destroy all ghost. every ghosts.

BY WHICH I MEAN one of the ghosts is going to mimic her ~*~Saber's~*~ appearance, and Manaka is going to be predictably unhappy about this as soon as she realizes it's not who it appears to be. Since yanderes gotta yan, "unhappy" means she's going to be going around magically tearing ghosts up. She probably can't (or won't?) do anything about possessions, but if she happens to stumble across any spectral harassment, she will virtuously come to the victim's rescue!

So, yeah, basically I'd love to have her be inappropriately helpful. If you have anyone that needs to be protected let me know.

[all_onis_are_true]

Hiroshi does not know if want.

[alwaysinlove]

I'm in! Let's plot for this lonely boy!

[justavideogame]

Zacharie is going to be haunted by a few ghosts, one of which will look like Sucre. The rest will be random, mischievous ghost who will keep trying to steal his stuff. He'll also be selling baseball bats during this because beating the hell out of ghosts totally counts as purifying them. Buy one and get the second free!

Smile is going to be haunted by the ghost of his sister which will actually make him very happy for a bit. If you ever wanted CR with him with less crazy, now might be the chance.

That's all I have for now but come and plot with me! :]

[petral]

petra will be possessed by a young confused ghost and just be out of it and weird and also at some point she'll leave her apartment spontaneously and wander outside in the cold. which is a bad thing, so!! levi will find her but like if you want to encounter her or something or get in on this i can think something up???

mikasa has no plans just now, she'll probably look out for her shingeki housemates and help where it's needed but like no big plans as of now?? ?? ? feel free to plot!!! you wanna get your ass kicked attack her or need her help let me knoooow

mikoshiba is getting his real first encounter with ghosts!!!! supernatural things don't exist in his boring real life canon so he'll be quite jumpy. and probably scared, but if you're in need he's stupidly heroic. might want something done to him too, so he'll know that yooo this is a big deal and this place is not safe and he should probably train some fighting techniques after this

sorry for my slowness/lack of tags!!!! things have come up and then i got dual destinies whoops but hopefully i can bring up my activity for thisss

[aristocratic_assassin]

Okay I have so many things I can do. And I am going to do them. :| I am on vacation watch me do the thing.

America: Nnnnothing as of now, because I don't know what to do with that little butt. Very willing to tag out with him though and do the interacting!

Discord: He's not going to be affected by the ghosts, though I am debating on whether one will be following him around to either prick his conscience about causing chaos, or making him wanna cause it all the more. We'll see.

Ryou/Yami Bakura: Both are spiritually inclined, and Yami Bakura will EXPEL any negative spirit that tries to overcome Ryou. Plus kid's still a little vulnerable from his Ring escapades, so they're staying in the Coffee Joint..unless Yami Bakura chooses to explore with his landlord well-suppressed and out of harm's way.

Sesshoumaru: Ahaha...:3c Sesshoumaru's Tenseiga is able to slay anything not of this world/from the land of the dead, etc., and he's going to learn that here, because his canon point doesn't allow for him to have learned it yet. So he can ward evil spirits with Tenseiga since he's a fast study at when his sword is beseeching him.

That said, this is gon' be baby's first big event. He is going to be haunted by a ghost taking the appearance of his father and verbalizing Sesshoumaru's own insecurities. Which clearly he has none right? Pffh. Eventually despite not displaying such outwardly, the idea is that he is going to become entirely possessed by this apparition and follow his instinct to assert himself as the most powerful being in the land. Aka shamelessly slice people apart with his claws or something to that effect.

[victoriantype]

So what if Sesshoumaru and Morrigan got into a fight? ('Cause she'd side eye his "I'M THE MOST POWERFUL!" song and dance, lbr.) What if that? X3

Also Alice should drag America out to play with her and Kai. :V You know before she's like ":| really, we've played for hours, stop asking me to play.".

[antecedence]

I haven't made a decision yet because wow big thing while he's still settling in but I want Leon to come face-to-face with a spirit in Sara or Walter's form. Or Joachim's form while he's being crazy I guess OR ALL 3 THAT WOULD KIND OF SUCK FOR LEON

Simon and Jean

[honestguy]

Simon will likely be seeing the spirit of Metis Cykes. Won't that be lovely.

Jean will not be seeing any spirits because his adorable fiancee is alive and well and he's SUPER HAPPY ABOUT IT. If he's stressing about anything, it'll be the fact that he isn't sure whether Marco will like his present or not. Unless he starts seeing ghosts of what could have been(aka zombie!Marco or eyepatch!Marco) but otherwise he'll have none of that!

Iiiiif you have any ideas for them, let me know!

[chiabrows]

Ib currently doesn't have much going on this event, save anything tangentially related to her through CR. If anyone has ideas of things to include her in, feel free to tell me so we can plot! Otherwise, she'll be having a relatively quiet night.

Lamont, on the other hand, is going to be very susceptible to spirits, given his currently weak constitution (he's been Morrigan's personal battery bank for the last week). Manaka will be saving him from one ghost, but I'm pretty sure he'll end up getting possessed by another, in which case he'll end up in Waver's (and Tojiko's??) care. Misa, I know we were talking something for Lamont and Morrigan regarding spirits, but I can't remember if we decided on anything specific?

So, he's more or less full up, but if anyone else wants him for something, definitely speak up! We can totally work something out. \o/

[victoriantype]

I don't think we decided anything specific? :|a /tries to think of an idea.

[halfsalute]

Ishimaru will be possessed by a lazy ghost. He'll be on a no-effort routine which may potentially freak his acquaintances out.

Marco will be visited by his own ghost! That's always fun. Though it won't be boo hoo angst drama crying, having already come to terms with it he'll actually look into trying to communicate with it, though, since the ghost's knowledge stems from his own it won't go very far.

Setsuna F. Seiei

[jesus_is_gundam]

Setsuna will not be possessed by the spirits, but he'll be able to sense them everywhere, which might put him on the more irritable side of things because he's still kind of new to this whole having special nootiep Innovator powers thing..

Also, his eyes will be glowing. A lot. People are free to notice and remark upon it.

He might be up for trying to exorcise people who are possessed, through love, understanding and nudity. Or bullets and knives. Whichever one works.

[queenofwinter]

Elsa will probably be getting possessed by a poor ghost that has no idea what it is getting into by grabbing her, and the end result is going to be a completely iced-over building somewhere. Possibly with grumpy snow golems stalking about outside!

If anyone would like to come bop some sense into her and get the ghost out of her, that'd be awesome.

As an aside: EEEEEEEE first event here! exciiiiiited.

[victoriantype]

Someone call for sense bopping? (Omg the mental image of that actually happening. XDDD)

[raindownthesky]

Fang will be haunted by a total of two ghosts.
One will be Vanille. This will initiate a guilt inside of Fang for having woken up without her sister. As well, she will have a conversation with this spirit about her feelings for Lightning. Essentially, she will be talking to herself, since this Vanille will only react the way she knows she would.

The second spirit will be faceless. This ghost is going to represent Fang's mother (Hence faceless), whom she lost in the War of Transgressions as a child. It will not speak, nor really do much other than to float around in Fang's presence. The aura it gives off, however, is familiar, but she just can't quite place it correctly.
[If this one is not okay, please let me know.]

Maya, Saber, Conrad, and Katherine!

[missleadingquestions]

First and foremost, Katherine will be fortifying the toy shop with Adam. Both of their 'magic' and powers rely on belief, so they're going to be creating a haven for children and soft reindeer like Rudolph. If you have a young character and want a soft way out of things, they might be able to help. Mother Goose in the house.

Maya will be a little irritated and sad during this part, because she'll keep seeing the ghost of Morgan and possibly a certain possessed mother. However, she and Pearl will be performing exorcisms. She and Pearl still aren't fully trained, though! So, to decide if an exorcism will work, I'll be using the following method: using RNG, if the random number generated is between 1-5 (out of 10), the exorcism will be successful. If the exorcism is particularly easy, it'll be a 1-6 chance. If the situation is really stressful, the likelihood drops to a 1-3 roll.
If you want a Fey to perform an exorcism, just call on Maya or Pearl.

At some point, Maya will be taking a moment to herself away from the crowd so she can have time to be upset, as she doesn't like to do so in front of Pearl. Seras will likely be tagging along with her, but if you wanna cause trouble or have fun or something, let me know.

Saber will likely be least affected.

Conrad will be being tailed around by Adelaide. He'll be hungry as hell considering, and probably more likely to trade favours for blood. He's also going to be very quietly trying to make sure Lamont and Hanna are provided for.

[bifroster]

I've already planned for Jane to donate blood at the clinic, so he is welcome to hers!

[bifroster]

Jane is going to be haunted by various ghosts, like Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Neil Armstrong, and more. Basically all the cool scientists and space people of all time! Of course, it will be a friendly haunting, and if anything, she'll be fainting like anyone else who just met their hero and idol.

[gallifreytotrenzalore]

This is really cool. Go, Jane! ♥

[greatrage]

Eren will be visited by the spirit of his mother, Carla Jaeger. She'll be nothing but benevolent, and will spend the day hanging out with Eren and catching up and generally being hideously heartbreaking SORRY ABOUT ME

actually sorry about pam

it's her fault

[petral]