( october event log pt. 2 )

[hohnkai]

Who: Everyone
When: October 19th into the beginning of November.
Where: The Mini Colony of the Runoff & the Moira.
What: The Moira stops to resupply at the closest planet and things get weird.
Warnings: Physical transformations, phobias - please label if needed.

E V E N T L O G

Between the Perspectives "but in your future, the you i see is exactly the person you always wanted to be." Supplies have been loaded onto the ship, and the captains have encouraged all crew members to explore with the added notice that this will be the last planetary stop (hopefully) until the Moira reaches the Midway Hub. While seemingly uneventful on the Moira, the mini colony has been thrumming with adventure and has offered its visitors the opportunity to explore. To those who have indulged, some experienced great changes and others discovered enlightening information about the Ingress and the very ship some have called home for over a year. Later in the month, the Lamaria hold the closing ceremony of the Desiderium Festival (which was noted on the prior event log) . The burgundy and lime colors of the celebration slowly fade into black and vermillion, and small fires are now in place for visitors to throw their written notes into. Everyone who participates will be blessed by one of the Lamaria (they will visit the ship as well), and the MID will be able to only translate bits and pieces of what this blessing means. "Experienced loss — every story is different — and saying goodbye — not to know — understanding lies in the mingling of holding on and letting go." ☄ TRANSFORMATION CENTRAL For some, it might be due to a touch or a look. For others, it might not be any of those things at all, and something that just happens. Either way, shortly after the blessing occurs, you will find yourself changing. Your character’s body will slowly transform into the physical likeness of another being on the Mini Colony. The effects of this change may last as short as a day or as long as a week, but each come with their own stipulations—advantages and disadvantages. This is limited to one as the blessing itself only allows for “a little understanding”. Linked below are some of the possible transformations that your character can go through. Players can choose either one of the mod-supplied suggestions or choose the form of another already living on the Moira. ☄ THE FEAR MACHINE Paranoia writes the checks, we're dangling here like a marionette. Here we go again, the world is coming to an end. Engage the fear machine and collect the dividends. While the festival is beautiful, and some have found enlightenment and understanding here, there are those on the mini colony who don't enjoy the festivities. In a secluded room on the fifth floor in one of the buildings in the Science District, there is one such person who finds the religious festival to be a nuisance—one who should be stopped. Thinking that disrupting the blessings and celebration will somehow "get back" at the Lamaria for impeding their work (some of those who have transformed got into the building a few years ago and destroyed this person's property). Pettiness thrives, and they create something they dub The Fear Machine. Yet, while the science is sound, the technology itself is not. In the middle of the mini colony, the machine is set off, and bolts of transparent energy erupt and spark out around it, stretching as far as the docked ships. Since the technology wasn't created properly to sustain the energy, it doesn't spread out evenly like they had hoped. Some are hit. Some are not. Those who are will develop a sudden and overwhelming phobia that will last well into the beginning of November. The machine might be turned off and left behind, but the obsessive fear has only just begun. ( ooc; For questions, go here. This log will run into the beginning of November; any threads here can be claimed for bonus activity the following activity check as well. )

Comments

[curiousnotmalicious]

[ Chocolate. It clicks in her mind what he's thinking and she shakes her head. ]

No, no, that's not it.

[ She lifts her lip to show her new fangs, pointing at one of them, then explaining. ]

I didn't have these yesterday. My eyes weren't this color yesterday, either. It's just...

[ Dutch shakes her head and sniffles. Maybe she should have just taken him up on the offer for the hankie. It seems she could use one. ]

[brokeassgoing]

[ok he lied about the hankie, that's the bad news on top of bad news. BUT but he has a napkin that's mostly clean!! Badou offers her up that instead and, despite vampires being scary as fuq, this one doesn't...seem that hungry]

Here, take this. And hey, maybe its just one of those alien flus going around! I bet with a little vitamin C you'll be alright. Did you get bit by a bug or something? Drink something?

[curiousnotmalicious]

[ Dutch takes the napkin and dabs at her eyes with the clean parts. She's never looked so pathetic. Even considering that she looks like a monster straight out of a young adult fantasy novel she looks like less of a threat and more of a mess. ]

I hope so. The only thing that happened to me was the blessing at the festival. That couldn't have been it.

[ She sighs. ]

Maybe I got bit and didn't realize it.

[ Worst. Day. Ever. If it is a case of her being bitten, she wonders if there's a way back to humanity. ]

[brokeassgoing]

[just
pats her on the shoulder and nods.]

I hear weird shit happens when this thing touches down on a planet. Haven't met any other vamps that were like that before this so...maybe it is temporary. Coulda told you not to mess with the locals, though. [he smiles a little, though, to show he's teasing


in the worst possible situation but thats Him]

[curiousnotmalicious]

Always with the weird shit...

[ She mutters, shaking her head. Winding up in a slaver's pen is almost preferable to winding up as a glorified leech. A lot of crap has happened over the year or so Dutch has spent on the Moira, but this takes the cake. ]

Next time I'll know better.

[ Dutch smiles a little, unintentionally showing off her fangs, but the smile is short lived as the hunger pangs strike again. Her eyes flit to and from the comforting stranger's neck, never staying there long. ]

Anyway, thank you for the napkin...

[brokeassgoing]

Well I just got here so this is the first I've heard of it. [of course there was the can of worms that is the Weird Shit from home but]

No problem. [if he notices it he doesn't say anything; he's truly hard boiled] Care to tell me about other weird shit that's happened?

[curiousnotmalicious]

[ She sighs. Dutch really doesn't want to talk about it, but she figures she owes it to the newcomer. ]

Well, there was the time everything turned to glass. I got some glass shards in my lungs and my hair turned to glass fibers. Then...

[ A pause. She shakes her head. ]

Then there was the time some of us wound up in the hands of slavers on some colony. We were to be sold for whatever purpose.

[brokeassgoing]

Slavers? Barbaric as fuck up here in space.

[he whistles. it isn't too insane but still]

Thought this was supposed to be high tech. Its just fucked up. And things returned to normal? You don't exactly look shatterable right now.