Event

[havenmods]

Hello Havenites!

Hopefully everyone is enjoying their new waterside residences, because things are about to get a little hairy. As this IC post shows, the water is beginning to form into spiralling whirlpools. At first it might seem like they form in random places, but they are significantly more likely to form near people who fit certain criteria - the more criteria they fill, the more,and larger, whirlpools will form around them. These are the criteria:

-> The length of time in Haven - the longer the residency, the more likely the whirlpools.
-> If the character ever met Philip Kite directly.
-> If the character has ever been experimented on by Kite.
-> If the character had any involvement in Kite's death.
-> If the character saw/disturbed Kite's body after he was dead.

In addition to this, any character who fulfils either of the last two criteria may experience brief flashes of rage, random French speech, and a sense of being followed very closely. And for Tony Chu, who took a large chunk out of the body and thought it would be a good idea to eat it, partial possession by the spirit of Philip Kite. This has been discussed prior to the event with the player, who has full understanding that death will be required to remove the spirit, which at this current time means a drop of the character from the game or a soft reset (the player has chosen to drop, so please plot with them accordingly on this).

There are also other effects that can be experienced and felt as the whirlpools begin to appear, and these are open to anyone regardless of their involvement with Kite or the length of time they were in Haven.

-> Nausea (including sickness/diarrhoea)
-> Fever
-> Sudden and unexplained lesions
-> Skin turning scaly
-> Temporary blindness, with the eyes taking on a milky colour
-> Blinding headaches and flashing mental images of a great horror stirring after a long sleep

All of the above effects will be significantly stronger the nearer to the flooded well anyone gets, and can range in time from lasting a few minutes to a few hours.

If you have any questions, please ask them here. Otherwise, you are free to use the rest of this post for plotting purposes. Thank you!

Comments

QUESTIONS

[havenmods]

[braavado]

Sooooo by involvement in his death, do you mean killing him directly or something totally not suspicious and indirect like taking out the stones in the revival machine....

[havenmods]

Taking out his method of revival definitely counts, you fiends.

[oneirism]

Sooo, considering what's going on, would anybody with a strong sixth sense be able to pick up on anything?

[havenmods]

Anyone with a strong sixth sense may be able to sense Kite's presence focusing around Tony Chu, and an incredibly strong psychic presence somewhere beneath the well.

[hermitpurple]

What would happen if two (or more) whirlpools formed around two (or more) characters? Would they merge into one big one as long as they were near each other or stay separate whirlpools?

I'm also guessing that characters will have to suss out the criteria themselves ICly?

[havenmods]

I'll leave that up to you to decide on a case by case basis, I'm fine with them merging into a super whirlpool or staying separate.

And yes, it would have to be figured out ICly.

[monarchical]

i assume that watching cecil feed kite to plants counts as seeing him after he was dead

damnit cecil

Re: QUESTIONS

[browbeater]

So do the sacrifices count as an experiment or do we just have bad luck?

[sunflowering]

How high are the water levels now? Are they still about the same, or significantly higher than before? I know on the first post they were up to character's knees.

Re: QUESTIONS

[bardromh]

If someone refuses to step into the water and have been on top of the roofs ever since the flooding started, will tge effects happen to them too? If they've been in or out of the rain.

Re: QUESTIONS

[havearaft]

This is massively belated but it just came up in a thread. Can you describe the mental images that a person would have on the great horror waking up?

Would it be super cryptic like just a sense of something horrible or is there actual visual description that can be shared?

KITE/TONY PLOTTING

[cibopath]

Diego Brando will be ultimately killing Tony, but if anybody would like to have a postmortem run-in with Kite or Tony, hit me up here!! I'm also available on Plurk at reenact if you would prefer to chat there.

Also, Kite's a jerk who would absolutely use Tony's cibopathy to the fullest. Permissions for that are here, and I would love to enact some Kite-ly damage on characters if anyone is willing. 8)

[weaselshot]

I want Dante to witness the actual moment either a second too late to see it happen or incapacitated by whirlpools to do anything if it's okay because it's a good end to "ew i touched Kite's body" saga and he's losing a friend ;___;

[monarchical]

i want one last tony thread...SONIA WILL MISS HIM...

[backwordscompatible]

Nothing deadly, because soft resets = no, thank you, but I wouldn't mind Zee getting pretty injured, since she and Kite have a history.

Just don't bite off her tongue, or she'll bite back. >.>

[sullenstallion]

You promised that I could punch Tony in the face...goodbye, sweet Tony...

[ishotyouuu]

I would love a Kite/Tony thread! Remember not to bite him this time, though. XD

[diosauria]

bats eyelashes

Re: KITE/TONY PLOTTING

[cutlery]

but who will sebastian feed his plot clues to???

Or more seriously, I'd love to do something with Kite the Fuckin Rude Ghost! Obviously I'd like Sebastian to live, but he's a demon that can take a lot of damage so you can basically go to town.

[braavado]

I would also like a thread! Farewell budding cr...

Korra should be able to sense Kite's presence around him, but not sure what you'd want to do with that! She probably wouldn't jump to killing him right away, just fyi!

[bloomnobly]

strange bitey hand man noooooo

but no it would be kind of morbidly hilarious so i'm all for bitey shenanigans

Re: KITE/TONY PLOTTING

[for_redemption]

Oh man, Tony nooooo...

On a side note, Richter would like a chance to talk to Kite, even just a little. He was experimented on once, and that one event pretty much set him on a dark road.

[afflictive]

SO APPARENTLY WE'RE HAVING A "BITE THE REVIVAL MACHINE WRECKERS" PARTY—

But yes since Fujimaru's had previous experience with Kite and KAMILAH AND MARION TOTALLY PRESSURED ME uh Tony is free to take a bite or two out of Fujimaru! Fujimaru not dying will probably require Tony regaining control before things escalate, though, because I assume shooting Tony would be a bad thing......

[stealstolestolen]

When Izumo gets wind of Kite possessing him he's going to go and try to do something about it. SO, Tony is free to take a bite or two out of Izumo if Kite wants him to. Kite-ly damage is a go too. As long as he doesn't die I'm good.