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rubycity_ooc2014-04-27 04:18 pm
chaoticwhimsy) wrote in rubycity_ooc2014-04-27 04:18 pm
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You guys like Storms of Chaos right?
Well, hopefully, because that's what's coming in the beginning of May! Basically, in Lightning Returns, Lumina is a weird little chaos child. Everywhere she goes, she leaks out this black cloud of the same stuff that is basically the deus ex machina evil cloud stuff of the Final Fantasy 13 universe. It tends to destroy everything.
SO, since she arrived, because she's not actually evil, just a little troll, she's been doing her best to hold all that chaos in. For months now. It leaks out of her when she isn't paying attention, but not enough to be dangerous. So she's been keeping it all safe to try and prevent it from doing damage. On top of that, when Yeul had her little mini-chaos cloud a few weeks ago, Lumina cleaned that up by absorbing it all into her! And Yeul's chaos is the high quality top shelf Chaos.
So, needless to say, Lumina is about to pop. And on May 4th, she is going to do just that, releasing a chaos cloud that will cover half of Ruby City, and then promptly pass out in the street for four days.
So here's how it'll go down: Sometime mid-morning on the fourth, Lumina will be on the street outside of the park when all the chaos she's been holding in (rather badly) is going to come out at once. She'll have a network post at the time, which will be the warning for this, and then she'll collapse. The chaos will do its thing, expanding and expanding, until it covers pretty much everything in the city east of the Obelisk, including the entire park and sections of the land outside of the city proper.
While this Chaos is not quite the world-ending chaos that Lumina has been talking about from back home, it is very unpleasant for people caught in it, especially anyone without any kind of magical or superior abilities. If you're a baseline human, this stuff is bad for you. It's hard to see in, hard to breath, and most importantly, causes an extremely heightened emotional reaction, depending on what the person might have been feeling lately. If they're angry, they'll get furious, if they're sad, they'll be miserable, if they're ridiculously happy, well...they're gonna be manic.
Now, the more powerful a person is, the less they're going to feel these effects, and the more easily they'll be able to move through the chaos. So someone on the power scale of Lightning or Sephiroth really won't be bothered much by it at all, they'll be able to move through it like normal, while someone like a keyblade wielder can probably function in it, but long-term exposure will begin to effect them. And someone like a normal human is going to be stumbling around, feeling horrible and needing to be rescued.
The effects wear off in about a day, once a person has been removed from the chaos.
But that's not all! Because the chaos, on top of being ridiculously unpleasant, also contains a bunch of monsters! Specifically, the six monsters on this list here. On the first day, as the cloud expands, only the small monsters will be encountered, by the end of the second day, the Cyclops and Zaltys will be running about too. And they will be hesitant to leave the chaos, but they can do so if people want to fight them in the 'safe' part of the city.
Additionally, the chaos has a different effect on the local monster population. Native monsters caught within the cloud will be stronger, faster, and more aggressive, though otherwise will behave exactly like they normally do. As the days go on, monsters from the areas outside the city will be attracted by the cloud itself, so people are welcome to encounter stronger, faster versions of the monsters from the RC bestiary, excluding the ones that require mod permission and the ones that are sentient, those will feel the effects the same way people do and will stay away.
During the course of the event, Lumina will be unconscious, and people will have to come up with ways to try and get rid of the chaos cloud! Which is possible! Caius will be absorbing some of it as the event goes on, and others may use powers to try and banish the chaos, or blow it out of the city, or whatever they are capable of! Just throw it down in the plotting idea and we can probably make it work!
Whatever chaos is left by the fourth day, Lumina will absorb when she wakes up, and teleport up into the mountains to release it. And then things will be back to normal!
TL:DR
- Starting May 4th, there will be a cloud of chaos covering the eastern half of the city and the park that will adversely effect people that enter it.
- It will also contain monsters included in the list above and local bestiary monsters, getting stronger as time passes. The strongest monsters will be out in force on May 7th.
- People will need to find ways to get rid of some of it, rescue people trapped inside it, and generally try to keep away from it.
- May 8th, in the evening, the last of the cloud will be gone!
- By the end of May 9th, anyone who had been caught in the cloud will be back to normal.
Lasting effects:
- The monsters on Lumina's list will be added to the bestiary, whoops!
- Clouds of chaos will occasionally be encountered beyond the forest and up to the mountains. These can be used for people that want to fight stronger monsters, or avoided as they like. They will not be drawn into the city itself.
- ???
- Profit!
You guys can use this post to plot, of course! Now that I remembered to turn off notifications. Whew.
EDIT: OH RIGHT! And someone needs to go and get Lumina since she'll be passed out on the ground in the middle of a cloud of evil darkness.
So. Volunteers?
SO, since she arrived, because she's not actually evil, just a little troll, she's been doing her best to hold all that chaos in. For months now. It leaks out of her when she isn't paying attention, but not enough to be dangerous. So she's been keeping it all safe to try and prevent it from doing damage. On top of that, when Yeul had her little mini-chaos cloud a few weeks ago, Lumina cleaned that up by absorbing it all into her! And Yeul's chaos is the high quality top shelf Chaos.
So, needless to say, Lumina is about to pop. And on May 4th, she is going to do just that, releasing a chaos cloud that will cover half of Ruby City, and then promptly pass out in the street for four days.
So here's how it'll go down: Sometime mid-morning on the fourth, Lumina will be on the street outside of the park when all the chaos she's been holding in (rather badly) is going to come out at once. She'll have a network post at the time, which will be the warning for this, and then she'll collapse. The chaos will do its thing, expanding and expanding, until it covers pretty much everything in the city east of the Obelisk, including the entire park and sections of the land outside of the city proper.
While this Chaos is not quite the world-ending chaos that Lumina has been talking about from back home, it is very unpleasant for people caught in it, especially anyone without any kind of magical or superior abilities. If you're a baseline human, this stuff is bad for you. It's hard to see in, hard to breath, and most importantly, causes an extremely heightened emotional reaction, depending on what the person might have been feeling lately. If they're angry, they'll get furious, if they're sad, they'll be miserable, if they're ridiculously happy, well...they're gonna be manic.
Now, the more powerful a person is, the less they're going to feel these effects, and the more easily they'll be able to move through the chaos. So someone on the power scale of Lightning or Sephiroth really won't be bothered much by it at all, they'll be able to move through it like normal, while someone like a keyblade wielder can probably function in it, but long-term exposure will begin to effect them. And someone like a normal human is going to be stumbling around, feeling horrible and needing to be rescued.
The effects wear off in about a day, once a person has been removed from the chaos.
But that's not all! Because the chaos, on top of being ridiculously unpleasant, also contains a bunch of monsters! Specifically, the six monsters on this list here. On the first day, as the cloud expands, only the small monsters will be encountered, by the end of the second day, the Cyclops and Zaltys will be running about too. And they will be hesitant to leave the chaos, but they can do so if people want to fight them in the 'safe' part of the city.
Additionally, the chaos has a different effect on the local monster population. Native monsters caught within the cloud will be stronger, faster, and more aggressive, though otherwise will behave exactly like they normally do. As the days go on, monsters from the areas outside the city will be attracted by the cloud itself, so people are welcome to encounter stronger, faster versions of the monsters from the RC bestiary, excluding the ones that require mod permission and the ones that are sentient, those will feel the effects the same way people do and will stay away.
During the course of the event, Lumina will be unconscious, and people will have to come up with ways to try and get rid of the chaos cloud! Which is possible! Caius will be absorbing some of it as the event goes on, and others may use powers to try and banish the chaos, or blow it out of the city, or whatever they are capable of! Just throw it down in the plotting idea and we can probably make it work!
Whatever chaos is left by the fourth day, Lumina will absorb when she wakes up, and teleport up into the mountains to release it. And then things will be back to normal!
TL:DR
- Starting May 4th, there will be a cloud of chaos covering the eastern half of the city and the park that will adversely effect people that enter it.
- It will also contain monsters included in the list above and local bestiary monsters, getting stronger as time passes. The strongest monsters will be out in force on May 7th.
- People will need to find ways to get rid of some of it, rescue people trapped inside it, and generally try to keep away from it.
- May 8th, in the evening, the last of the cloud will be gone!
- By the end of May 9th, anyone who had been caught in the cloud will be back to normal.
Lasting effects:
- The monsters on Lumina's list will be added to the bestiary, whoops!
- Clouds of chaos will occasionally be encountered beyond the forest and up to the mountains. These can be used for people that want to fight stronger monsters, or avoided as they like. They will not be drawn into the city itself.
- ???
- Profit!
You guys can use this post to plot, of course! Now that I remembered to turn off notifications. Whew.
EDIT: OH RIGHT! And someone needs to go and get Lumina since she'll be passed out on the ground in the middle of a cloud of evil darkness.
So. Volunteers?
Re: Sephiroth shenans here!
Finally a case to solve!
Being who and what he is he'll be largely unaffected by the cloud itself.
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Though bear in mind that monster clean-up is certainly not Sephiroth's agenda. He'd pull his
punchesstrikes to make fights longer if it means he learned more about what the new monsters are/can do before dispatching them. He's not going to be able to pull tentative strings on these like he's able to with the Heartless but certainly he'll be paying attention to how they are incorporated within the Chaos rather than just quickly offing everything.I don't need to remind everyone that should anyone take issue with his methods, it might not end too well :p
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I don't think he'd really give a damn how Seph's going about killing monsters. If they're dying that's the only important bit really.
/late late late
hey I'm always late don't feel bad <3
Mostly the fun. I mean hunting increasingly powerful monsters while trying to find the cause of a mysterious malaise falls right under his jurisdiction!
I hate weekdays so much for the lack of online time I can get!
Anyway back on topic, Sephiroth will be interested to learn via a light mind-probe that Dante isn't effected (if that floats your boat) and if you'd like him to find out about the connected sense of duty there, that way, that'd work also? Sephiroth had a phase of pitting himself against the general populace of monsters to start with though he's got rather bored of it of late.
I've rarely enough brain after work anymore sob
ANYWAY that's okay, I'm only familiar with Sephiroth up through Advent Children then I kind of stopped paying attention. So, you know. Not a whole lot anymore.
That is perfectly fine by me! He's even welcome to notice the almost manic sort of glee Dante gets while fighting difficult opponents, because demons are crazy like that. Dante got bored of doing the same thing tbh, but now that they've picked up he'll pick off the ones in the city to keep from being completely bored out of his mind.
He does reckless destructive things when he's too bored you see.
Being an adult sucks
HAHA I know these feels very well. Sephiroth battles with the logic behind these urges all too often as well. Should prove interesting battling the Chaos monsters.
Man doesn't it just?
Interesting and all the fun |D. Be warned Dante may notice prodding if he's at it too long, he's fairly sensitive to things like that. Devils function on a bit of a higher level of awareness than humans. Well a lot higher level but Dante tries to suppress as much as he can of that generally speaking.
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If Dante intrigues him though, (which I can see happening given his nature) he'll probably push it a little deeper. Conversely, Sephiroth would more likely react not-too-favourably at an attempt at a poke back.
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Fortunately he doesn't have the practice and ability to poke back, but he does have the ability to sort of acknowledge. More of a general "I see you there" sense.
I'm getting more and more excited for this :3c.
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