( 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

[grandpaladin]

[Somehow, the dragon's face seems to brighten up. He bobs his head, that big tail waving in the air like a dog's. Yes, yes, it's him! And he's thrilled about it. Very, very thrilled.]

[He's already flown. And actually eaten a rock or two but that's uh. Not important right now.]

[But he tilts his head. Curiously. Are you okay, angry man?]

[mylawn]

[He'd probably laugh if he wasn't so vaguely traumatized by this whole situation. It's quintessential Reinhardt, to be so thoroughly enthralled by something like this.

Then again, if those wings work, 76 might entertain the thought that it's not all bad. He imagines that Reinhardt in particular might like to fly unassisted.

The thought softens his body language--he looks a little less hostile.]

It's fine. Don't worry about it.

[grandpaladin]

[He's not sure if he can offer the vigilante any more assistance. If this were someone from Overwatch, he could probably somehow communicate trying to find Angela relatively easily. But scratching a giant A into the ground probably won't help anything here.]

[But he shifts to one side. The poor man had been incredibly uncomfortable being blocked in, so... if he can't do anything to restore his humanity, the least Reinhardt can do is stop inadvertently menacing him.]

[His expression somehow apologetic. Who knows how a rock dragon can even make expressions.]

[mylawn]

[Reinhardt’s sudden discomfort is fairly obvious, given how big he is and also the fact that, well. He’s Reinhardt. If 76 weren’t so unsettled in a new body of his own, he might even find it funny, how well the familiar body language translates into this new form.]

I said it’s fine.

[His voice is a little less gruff this time, apparently not wanting Reinhardt to feel too badly, or something. It’s not his fault.]

[grandpaladin]

[Yes, all right. It might be fine, but... this is Reinhardt. He has to make an effort to make everyone feel welcome. Or at least, like he's not going to launch at their faces and smash them.]

[He bobs his head once, nods to the space along the road -- open now, should the vigilante decide to take it. And does the closest thing he can do to a shrug.]

[Yes, it's fine, but still, here is a way past for you, sir.]

[mylawn]

[He doesn’t move for a moment, as if suspicious of being given the out, but that’s just his natural paranoia at the wheel. It doesn’t take him long to come back to himself, realizing that if he wants to get a move on, now is his chance.

Which he’ll take, of course, because he’s still pretty bad at this.]