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Lumina ([personal profile] chaoticwhimsy) wrote in [community profile] 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?
zastyvshiy: (Default)

[personal profile] zastyvshiy 2014-04-27 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello! Quick question! :> Ok, you say that characters like Lightning and Sephiroth won't really feeling it; how powerful is that, exactly? I'm not really familiar with Final Fantasy, so I just wanna double check I understand. :0!

Also! Would characters who aren't human be affected? Like a robot. :>

Thanks a bunch in advance!
captain_asthmatic: (What?)

[personal profile] captain_asthmatic 2014-04-27 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Picking your brain on how you think Steve would react to it? I figure in terms of basic "power level" he's probably mid-range, maaaaaybe keyblade-wielder equivalent, but he also has no magical ability at all, so I don't know if that would drop him back into the more human range.
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[personal profile] departed_child_of_gods 2014-04-27 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Another question: How do you suppose a ghost might react to it, since she's not technically human at all anymore?
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[personal profile] zastyvshiy 2014-04-27 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Gotcha! Thanks a bunch. Labrys is a robot, but she has emotions so it's kind of like hrmmmm. She's in a weird gray zone. I suppose it's something to think about! :>
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[personal profile] captain_asthmatic 2014-04-27 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
He's definitely nowhere near Sephiroth level and his lack of magic gives him a real handicap compared to other "main character hero" types, but he is more powerful than a regular human. He is solidly beyond human capabilities, like bench pressing a car and leaping a 12 foot tall fence kind of beyond. At least, in the MCU version of him.

Sounds good :3
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[personal profile] linefacingforever 2014-04-27 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
What about the Persona users? They've got power within their souls that they can bring out, but they're still just human beings. How would they be affected?
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Re: QUESTIONS!

[personal profile] yule 2014-04-27 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
i will try to do a little damage control with yeul, this might be the event i need to push her in the next direction.
9thbest: (peeking in)

Re: QUESTIONS!

[personal profile] 9thbest 2014-04-27 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
For normal characters hit by it, would it make them do things they normally wouldn't do because they could control their emotions better? Like, if someone really, REALLY hated someone, but normally would leave them alone because they could stop themselves from doing anything stupid, would they go out and try to kill that person?

Also, would non-humans (thinking of the Homestuck trolls specifically) be affected the same way humans would?
clockworkmajyyk: (smirk)

Re: QUESTIONS!

[personal profile] clockworkmajyyk 2014-04-27 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Being lowblood scum has finally paid off.
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[personal profile] devil_fucking_dickens 2014-04-27 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
HELLO THERE!
As Jake is trying to prove himself an Ultimate Badass, he's going to spend most of this event fighting off monster as is. If he came across Lumina passed out in the middle of the mess, he would be more than happy to cart her off somewhere else! Being a God Tier Page of Hope with his powers recently 'fully' awakened, I don't think the Chaos is going to have much of an affect on him at all.
clockworkmajyyk: (majyyk? maybe.)

Re: QUESTIONS!

[personal profile] clockworkmajyyk 2014-04-27 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you might have the wrong rustblood, if you think she's going to rescue any of the highbloods.
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[personal profile] ghosttrick 2014-04-27 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh man, I have a ghost, too. Generally he lives on the west side, but. I'll try to figure something out for him.

What about a vampire, do you think?
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[personal profile] divampire 2014-04-27 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
That does make sense!

It's never confirmed in canon if this guy still has a soul or not but I'm going to say he does. He actually might be out of the way of the action, but I'll have to see.
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[personal profile] neverbeamemory 2014-04-27 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
While you/we already established that the Chaos isn't going to affect Sephiroth in much any way in terms of emotional heightening/any physical detriment I did want to ask how it might feel to him if he purposefully extended his senses out to try and understand it.

In a similar way he might attempt to physically probe at another persons mind...

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