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[havenmods]

Hello Havenites, I hope you're ready for some intro mingle and event details!

The intro log is now up, so come and help welcome our lovely new batch of players! From a suggestion made after the last one, there is now also a general network option, as well as the other options. Apartments getting new members are:

1.003 | 1.008 | 2.005 | 2.007 | 2.008
3.001 | 4.001 | 4.003 | 4.005 | 4.006
4.007 | 5.002 | 5.003 | 5.004 | 5.007 | 5.008

But even if you don't have a new character rooming with one of your characters, come on over and welcome the newbies in the public sections.

-> INTRO MINGLE HERE <-

Now onto the event...!

Both this event, and the May event, will deal primary with playing with the psyche of the characters trapped in Haven in different ways. This event is a blanket psychological effect for the whole of Haven, the May event will deal with personalized fears for each character (which is why the May event is longer). This doesn't mean that injuries and death won't occur, but the events won't be primary geared that way. If death does occur, characters will remain dead until the end of the event. This event changes the setting and psyche of the characters on a blanket scale. All posts will be made at 7PM EST where required, and the event runs from 15th - 20th April.

Monday 15th April
An IC post will be made to set the scene. The electricity in the apartment block will suddenly cut out, and the characters will wake up outside with the doors and windows blocked for getting back in. The tunnels to Haven North and The Haven will close, and any character will powers will find themselves stripped of them completely. A dense fog will roll in and characters may hear skittering noises or see brief silhouettes of monsters. During this time water may still be drawn from the well but no food supplies can be scavenged in any location.

Wednesday 17th April
An OOC post will be made to fully explain the next stage of the event. Any character who is usually powered will begin to believe that the non-powereds are responsible for stripping away their abilities to 'subjugate the naturally superior'. Any usually non-powered character will begin to feel the usually powered characters deserve to be stripped of their powers to 'level the field for once', and that the non-powered characters are superior by being able to survive without special abilities. Any character who is naturally inclined to violence or ego will begin to feel changes to their thought processes, and any character who is naturally inclined to insanity will begin to hear suggestive whispers (both of these effects will be detailed in the OOC post).

Friday 19th April
An OOC and an IC post will be made. The OOC post will explain the final escalation of the psychological effects, and the IC post will be a mingle for both 'factions'.

Saturday 20th April
An OOC post will be made to complete the event. At the end of the event, all setting changes will not return to reset normal, and psychological effects may take some time to fade.

If there are any questions or comments, please ask here, PM the mod account, or ping the mod at yoohoohoo. You may also use this post for plotting purposes.

Comments

[madamemoiselle]

my event has come

seriously though! I am all over this event and would love to do some heavy plotting with Diva, with the caveat that I might be a bit slow since I have finals at the end of the month. But I also love this event so we'll see HAHAHA

Diva @ madamemoiselle

Okay, this event is basically made for Diva, so she's my focus of my two girls, haha. For the first part of the event, she'll probably be sticking to her very close CR, since losing her powers = becoming human, which would be a source of great anxiety and paranoia for her. She'd be actively avoiding people she doesn't know well, so in general, she'll be scarce!

However, part two of the event is when things will get real because Diva is prone to...all of the above. So this is where the plotting potential comes in! Diva will certainly be murdering people, but how many and how is the purpose of this comment! She could range from only a person or two to a small massacre, depending. She'd be extremely brutal with how she'd kill people, if that's up your alley! She doesn't have much fighting technique, but she makes up for it for really not having any qualms with like. Literally ripping out someone's throat with her teeth or pulling out an eyeball. And that's unarmed!! She'd seek out a weapon like day one of the event.

If possible, I'd like to have her live until Friday to see what's up with that and not close off the possibility of doing something then, but at the same time, Diva will have to be extremely restrained or killed to get her to stop her murderous tendencies, since she's not exactly emotionally stable at the best of times. Obviously, Diva is up for getting hurt/killed, and if you're interested in having her hurt/kill your character (or restrain/kill her, if you're a more justice-y type, cough, ciel) let me know! I'd love to accommodate as many people as would be interested in interacting with her during this event, so just pop in a comment for interest and I'll see what I can work out.

Shinku @ rubin

Since I'm going to be focusing on Diva, Shinku is not going to be involved in such a big way, but I would love for her to chill with some other non-human characters. The easiest way into her heart is proving you're not a total fuck-up, so this is a good chance for her to make friends/to get out there more. If your character is going to be more on the sidelines and would be willing/would like to chill with Shinku, let's do it...

[expiatrice]

Excuse you she's only ace at FAKING white knight templar, get your rumors straight!!




But you can definitely count on her to get a solid hit in at Diva's nape and knock her unconscious if you don't have plans with anyone else! You know I'm always down, o7 Let me know what you do with her?

Question!

[godofthearena]

Will characters that normally sleep with their weapons on them wake up outside with them or will everyone be weaponless?

Re: Question!

[havenmods]

Characters with weapons will keep their weapons. Though any special properties of that weapon would not be gone (a magical sword is just a sword, etc).

Any food or drink usually carried will be gone.

[flugel]

AAAAA shit...! Well, Rivaille is humanity's strongest soldier in his world, and he doesn't have any powers, so..! He's already blunt about things, not that he actually believes there's anything wrong with magical powers (he just doesn't need them), BUT IF ANYONE WANTS TO BUTT HEADS...! He won't be too adamant because he's a pretty 'you do you' kind of guy when it comes to ego (not that he doesn't have one, holy shit), he'd probably still rub people the wrong way because that's kind of his default, WHOOPS

[tamer]

omg yes pls plot with me this event is basically made for my characters since a lot of their issues right now deal with powers/usefulness AHHH

MIYAMURA
okay so since miyamura's arrival and his subsequent dealings with certain people (ciel, kousuke, and all others who'd gone with him and/or spoken to him about haven north), he's been starting to feel a little lost and uncertain. he WANTS to help people, being the shojo heroine that he is, but he's also about as normal and normal gets, and so he's slowly started to come to the realization that his usefulness is zilch. his big Issue in canon is being afraid of being a hindrance, and that's essentially all he's been thus far. SO THE DEAL WITH THE WHOLE POWERS THING is definitely going to get to him omg. he'll definitely be much more inclined to succumb to the psychological changes. i'd love for him to get into any kind of verbal or physical scuffle with people over this ahhhh. ALSO ALSO since he hadn't been eating properly since the zombie event, he'll be at something of a disadvantage with the lack of food. so he'll be pretty weak to begin with. 8);;;

IZUMO
GIRL'S BEEN DEALING A LOT RE: HER POWERS LATELY. she's personally suffered a backlash from writing her magic circles too often which resulted in her summoned demons attacking people she (reluctantly) cares about, and has been getting somewhat-nagged on by a certain nun (COUGH CIEL COUGH) to try practicing with them again but as of yet she still hadn't been able to muster up the courage to do it. so with her powers suddenly stripped, she'll start to feel very lost and useless because even more so she has nothing going for her. she pretty much defines herself on her skills because they're what she has and needs to get her Goal accomplished (whatever that goal is GDU CANON...!!) so hey she'll be even grumpier than usual, weeps. i'd also love for her to get into any kind of scuffle, to remind her to continue her combat training because that's why she started in the first place (bc her powers weren't enough), BUT ALSO her usual trust issues will escalate like thrice-fold and she'll be even more suspicious of all you normal people... so let's play with that too. :>

unfortunately, since both characters had died re: zombie event, i'd like to keep them both alive till the end at this point! XD;; but i'm pretty flexible with that too, so.

[ishikawa]

meowmura ...

toru will cling to him the whole time. and share his food ... which might be cardboard

[fourtune]

ahh this is exciting!!

clover here will be especially affected; she does have a power, yes, which is sort of telekinesis, but she doesn't really have access to it here anyway since it typically requires another person who can access the morphogenetic field as well. Either way, though, Clover is a person naturally inclined to paranoia and jumping to conclusions, and with the loss of food as well as the creepy whispers, there is a very good chance she will lose it and go mildly insane. If she does this you probably shouldn't take her hand.

In canon, in the ending where Clover does go insane from paranoia, she's very strategic about it and becomes very charming; in fact, the main character describes her as 'looking like a goddess'. If you'd like your character to fall for her ruse and get hurt/killed/what have you, I'd be very interested in playing that out. This goes for any CR she is at least sort of close to or even just gullible people she hasn't met yet! She'll probably feign needing help or something, we'll cross that bridge when it comes.


As for Kairi.. She'll also be losing her not-really-accessible powers, meaning she could turn into a heartless or something here but that's not really possible unfortunately. I think she'll just end up kind of panicking and sticking close to Sora since she's new! But I'm definitely up for whatever you'd like to do with her as well. *^*

[lastorders]

Ohhh this sounds really neat and I want to thread with Amelia, maybe we can do something uwu

If Clover's going to pretend to need help or something to lure someone in, Piers could totally fall for that. He wouldn't really attack anyone who used to have powers unless he's attacked first, but even then, he wouldn't try to kill her or anything. I don't know anything about Clover but you mentioned she'd get strategic, so I figured that might mean she could get creative about attacking someone like him!

If that doesn't work, though, let me know if you find another potential victim, maybe, and I can roll with that?! He can (try to) play hero or something, haha.

QUESTION

[swordedpast]

No food can be scavenged, I got that; what about materials to make rudimentary weapons? (Scrap metal to sharpen into rough swords or knives, wood to carve into bows and arrows, mostly)

Re: QUESTION

[havenmods]

Those things are all fine to scavenge. Not to mention the large amount of rubble in a ruined city perfect for bludgeoning with.

QUESTION

[eatsmeat]

Alice thinks she has powers but she doesn't really have them. Would she have the psychological effects of something who has powers or someone who doesn't?

Re: QUESTION

[havenmods]

Some one who doesn't.

[careware]

aah this is kind of my first event since i was busy during the last one ...!! i'd love to do some plotting!

chihiro is unpowered of course and will feel especially useless with no electricity at all ahaha alkwjejfj he would be very easy to bully if someone wanted to OAO or else finding someone to sort of team up with for food or other minor helpful things would be good!

toru (ishikawa) is also unpowered and he's completely useless. like probably more than chihiro. but he's far more prone to getting angry so he could get into a tiff with someone at least LMAO. he'll also be hanging around miyamura a lot, so. I KNOW I HAVE LITTLE TO OFFER but hit me up if you like!

[miyamura]

(p.s. toru is a stinkface)

[swordedpast]

Well, Archer's kind of going to be a mess with this event!

For the first phase, he's already going to be a bundle of nerves because it's obvious that Bad Shit is about to go down and he's powerless to protect Rin! Within a day he'll have put together a stockpile of basic scavenged weapons and heavy things to beat the crap out of people with, but he's still used to fighting with powers and Rin herself will still be a mess, so he'll continue to be defensive and nervous, and he may even seek to form alliances with others who can help protect her--especially people used to fighting without powers.

...which will backfire on him when the next stage starts, of course...

Anyone who has CR with Rin or who would get involved with some guy scavenging piles of makeshift weapons can let me know if they'd like to do something with him for this plot!

[godofthearena]

Yes, yes, Archer can go scavenge for stuff while Gannicus protects Rin and helps take her mind off things. *eyebrow waggle*

[inquisitions]

Petros has no powers and is going to attempt to bear grylls everything without the electricity. However, he will gladly help people should they need it!!

[expiatrice]

CIEL

Haven already laid some heavy stacks on her and she's still in the process of recalibrating her priorities since the last store raid, but despite being naturally of the powered fraction side, she never asked for her powers and having them essentially ruined her life. Hence she won't be super affected by accusatory impulses. THAT SAID, she's still highly trained in martial arts and can use practically anything as a makeshift weapon (i.e.: use a rusty pole as an effective lance). She's a lot less trigger happy than she used to be, and will probably busybody all over trying to "mediate", AKA get people to calm their tits and not kill each other. ...With force IF necessary, but she'll focus on knocking out the unhinged ones and try to minimize injury unless absolutely necessary. I'm up for her running into anyone! She's reactionary and how she acts will depend on how quickly things deteriorate around her, but she'll definitely be up and about actively keeping watch and possibly meddling.

CYNTHIA galeforcer

This is her first event! ...Magic/non-magic is tricky in the Awakening universe with them second seals and stuff... but HMM. She's likely to stick to the FE: A cast, but due to her unwavering beliefs of justice and only lamented on not being strong enough herself in the past, Iiii don't think the mental repercussions will affect her that badly? But a hero helps everyone, so if nothing buttmassive happens to the FE:A side, she'll definitely be around too trying to do what little she can help so no one gets hurt. ;; She's still relatively new, but if any ongoing CR/new people are interested to do something with her, I'd be more than up for it!

[godofthearena]

I think Gannicus is going to have to remind Ciel that real men are better than noodly powered priest-things.

Question!

[thebeastwithout]

Beast Boy's powers are tied to his appearance - his DNA was scrambled or something and the idea was that it's super unstable and so his normal form doesn't look totally human anymore. Will losing his powers change him back to looking like a normal person?

Re: Question!

[havenmods]

I will leave that to your discretion. He won't be able to change into animals any more, obviously, but I don't mind if he's green and normal or looks normal too!

how did i delete part of my comment haha failure

[pimpcoat]

Naturally inclined to violence, you say

Micheletto doesn't have any powers... he's just built like a brick shithouse and is a trained murderer :T His preferred methods are strangulation, either with his big-ass hands or his garrote, but really he could kill you in any number of ways if he felt like it

So yeah, hit me up if you fancy a big Renaissance man putting his hands all over your character's throats and then carting the bodies off to make an example out of them, he's definitely likely to do it to people who lost their powers because he'll figure he's making the point that they're all useless without their sorcery :|

I'm up for him getting hurt obviously, or killed if it comes to that! Probably would be easy enough with a gun or something

[backwordscompatible]

Well.

This is a great way to enter Haven.

Only not.

Zatanna, of course, is one of the powered. She's been doing magic her entire life, so not having her powers is going to suck. And she comes from a world where metas and humans get along just fine, so suddenly arguing with Robin over something that never mattered much until now is going to suck even more.

[asterbatics]

oh no zee why

Question

[divineheart]

Sorry for another question! Will Raising Heart's AI be affected?

Re: Question

[havenmods]

As Raising Heart is used for Nanoha's power, it will not be present at all during the event.

[bluntforce]

aaaaaa dis event!!

Shinjiro has Persona-summoning powers in canon and he's already on edge about it in Haven that he's not able to summon Castor, so he'll definitely be very susceptible to those urges and whatnot. and while he's not generally violent, he's really quick-tempered, so! i'd be interested in him getting into scuffles with other characters, either some that end up just in a few bruises or some that are more intense/cause serious damage.

i'm not too keen on having him killed off at the moment, but if anyone wants to volunteer to be killed by him to mess with his head and his complex about the subject (literally he will feel so bad he will be your butler/slave/minion forever after the event), that'd be great uvu

[pedokinesis]

Oh good lord power stripping.

Hyobu has dealt with power sealing before in a sense, since canon has machines which block esper powers, but they don't work on him well... Yet taking them entirely from him will be different and frustrate him greatly.

He will also be very eager to raise the banner for those who will be depowered as he already carries a VERY strong hatred of all normals. It's basically his thing, after all. So he would have little to no restraint when it comes to the idea of killing people who are normally powerless. Despite his reliance on powers though, Hyobu is actually decently skilled in defending himself without them. He's had military training, is skilled with a gun, knows how to use a pipe as a katana, so if anyone comes at him he'll be able to dance well enough... And by dance I pretty much mean break bones and cave in skulls and choke people bare handed! :D!

So if anyone wants to deal with him being hyper hating on normals during this, let me know! He'd be the ideal person to help someone go that extra mile toward getting their paranoia over the limit or get those violent urges to peak by berating the 'normals' if your character would need a push. ... and if someone wants to have him get violent on them with a smile on his face as he enjoys it, that's always an option!

Totori on the other hand... will likely be sparse and hiding for a lot of this, the scariest stuff for her would be seeing people lash out at each other, so she's going to try and hide in a abandoned building as much as she can. But if someone wants to try and attack her only for her to throw a bomb at them in self-defense, I'd probably be open for that as well.......

[keystroke]

Totori.... )8 oh poor not!moogle.

[mellowyellow]

Masaomi is utterly powerless. 100% normal human teenager with a side of gang violence.

He tends to get really upset and take it out on all the wrong people, so it's probably the people who should be beyond blame whom he will get up close and personal with. Come to my arms close cr and/or people trying to help him, only to have him scream in your faces.

Also, if he's spurred on enough by people around his age or given reason to act (i.e. betrayal, revenge), he can get rather caught up in the grittier, darker aspects of conflict. If anyone would be interested, it could be cool to have him playing the cocky little gang leader guarding his turf and protecting all his would-be buddies from those powered guys who think they're soooo great.

They should be taught a lesson, right?

[tamer]

hello izumo has/had powers but more than that she has a dumptruck of Trust Issues 8))))

[eeek]

coolio event...!

Garry has no powers, but he is naturally nervous anyway, so he'll probably be hearing things even if he's not "prone to insanity," per se... He's been at the end of his rope after the last event, so his mindset is a bit fragile. I could see him getting nutty this stage of the event in the vein of powered people being scary / not human / monstrous. 8( even though he is usually so nice...

First stage, though, he'll definitely be panicking and trying to take care of people!! Ib and Azmaria, looking at you especially... and he'll also be super terrified of the fog and monsters, so he'll probably not be looking for food much anyway LMAO cries. anyone want to huddle in a corner with him.

[madamemoiselle]

So without plurk character limits, I would definitely like for Garry and Diva to run into each other early in the event because I realized it would be interesting, since her anxiety then would stem from being "human." Of course, it's not for the like, normal, sensible reasons of being afraid of dying or getting hurt, but you can only go so far with her...

Still, I think that would be an interesting side to show?? Though it's best if Garry stays the hell away from her after the first phase, lmfao...

[detangler]

RAPUNZEL is mostly tied to her magical healing powers that her weird glowing hair causes when she sings. With this, she's more of a passive healer in terms of powers.

She's only told around four or five people about her hair in fear that someone would cut it/try and take it. She's been conditioned by Mother Gothel her entire life that she should be kept in secret because of how precious her hair is, so for the past four months, she's been extremely cautious.

I think with what she's learned in Haven, she's going to be more open to telling people about her powers now -- because she is going to be worried she can't heal people when things start getting heated.

Because of the conditioning she was put through and the psychological events going on, she's going to be extremely paranoid and worried. This may cause blaming, lashing out, and even altercation if the time comes for it. Rapunzel is extremely childish at times, going onto blow things insanely out of proportion and be very pessimistic at times. Mood swings!

But, because this is amplified, she will most likely be extremely emotional and insecure over the loss of her magic healing powers. She won't necessarily try and kill or hurt anyone, but she will be more mentally invested than physically.

[kissfromarose]

Rosalina; kissfromarose
Gosh, what a time to be brand new! Rose won't appear to act any different originally since faking being fine is her forte. As the event continues though she'll act a bit more out of character. Like trying too hard to stay happy to the point that it's creepy.

Basically, Rose appears and acts completely human but... she's not. She's a demon from another world! What a twist! Her biggest fear is being discovered too so that's just wonderful. So, since Rosie is actually powered... she's going to side with the powered people. But have anyone that may have met her (since she's super new) be confused since she looks/acts like a completely normal person. Rose also has PTSD that involves certain triggers that she'll be a lot more sensitive to and night terrors that will be way more intense.

Toothiana; mamatooth
Since her powers of flight and memory-seeing are tied to her biological make-up (being half Sister of Flight), Tooth is going to appear human for this event. So if you see a very confused/frightened looking unfamiliar teenage girl that's her. For this event, I see her sticking extremely close to Jack Frost and the other handful of people she trusts.

For the second part of the event, her inner warrior will definitely flare up a lot more. She'll be fierce and cruel to the non-powered people of Haven. It's not in her to kill anyone, honestly, but she will probably definitely injure people if things get too bad!

[theboywiththebook]

Oh noooooo...this spells disaster for henry and tooth's cr.

[nosentimentalist]

OH MAN WE ARE DOING THIS WE ARE MAKING THIS HAPPEN

Cheriour (clockeyes)
Those clocks he has for eyes? Yeah, he put them here to keep himself from going insane over the fact that he kills people as part of his holy duty. So, he'll be getting the double whammy of violence AND insanity, so really, just stay out of his way, because the guy is really very good with a sword. At first, he'll just be really upset, but as everything starts to kick in...just don't even try to negotiate with him. He'll probably drown himself in sorrow and grief when this is all over. I'm totally up for him getting hurt/killed if you want to plot with me on something like that!

Keats (nosentimentalist)
IS THE NEWEST OF THE NEW and oh god he has to come to this. He DOES have powers, though he only recently got them in canon so at first he'll be pretty nonchalant about losing them, if a bit annoyed, but when the second part kicks in, he might react very angrily to the people around him. But not going as far as killing them, don't worry. He's violent in battle but not a violent person necessarily, so barely any of those added effects at all (sill maybe leaning towards violence, we will see). Man, is this the best welcoming or what. :,)

[btooom]

... can Kousuke hurt Cheriour? :x

[thebeastwithout]

Plotting for Beast Boy!

So as evidenced from the question above, Beast Boy is going to be turning back to a normal kid for this event! I am swinging towards making him a Scottish red-head based on evidence from Young Justice but since Teen Titans's Beast Boy has a totally different background, I'm open to him looking like whatever! (hint: as dorky as possible)

Beast Boy will be a little lost without his powers at first since he's been using them practically as long as he can remember. He might do such stupid things like jumping off a building expecting to turn into a pterodactyl except whoops. Otherwise, he's going to be taking it pretty well emotionally since although he loves being a superhero, there's a part of him that's always wanted to not look like a freak. Let me know if you're open to doing something!

I realize I've been absent lately, but I'm going to do my best to ease out of my super-slowatus since the worst of my exam period is over.

[terrakinetic]

ooo I can't wait to see how terra reacts to nerdy lil boy bb! we should do something with our chars for sure

[compliant]

Anri is demon possessed, which gives her not only a badass mind control sword to use, but also makes her very proficient in combat with unnaturally high strength, agility and resilience. She also uses possession as an emotional crutch and will not react well to losing it, especially if she thinks someone is taking it from her — she can understand people wanting to level the playing field from faraway, but taking her Saika away will get you MESSED UP. Especially when blanket mind control is no longer her "kindest" option.

Anyone want to subject themselves to suspicion? Saika can't be destroyed as far as I know, it can only be passed from host to host, so her immediate thought is going to be someone stole it. (Ah, to explain: Saika is the name of the spirit possessing her; inside her body it's an incorporeal entity, but outside her body it takes the form of an ancient katana and is very much steal-able! I am willing to provide more information for anyone who asks, but I don't wan to spew tl;dr unnecessarily!) Otherwise, being powered down in general will unnerve her, especially if she has to rely on people she doesn't want to rely on. So doing something like that could be really fun! (IZAYA.)

Or, conversely, she is going to break her no longer invulnerable fist on Kida's face! That will probably get a post if all goes well.

(I realize I am on a stupid hiatus because of my stupid RL responsibilities as part of my stupid adult life BUT I WANT TO PLAY. So... there.)

[knifedances]

Izaya playing around with that is certainly a thing we could do...

[consacrer]

this event aaa

Charles is on the powered side! Toward the beginning of the event he'll likely just be ambling around, sticking to close CR, generally not being too affected by the fog and such. After the influence of the powered vs non-powered stuff kicks in though, I'm totally open for any type of physical or verbal scuffle! He's an arrogant little brat regardless of whether or not he has his abilities, and he'll be flaunting his assumed superiority like a butt.

Gilbert is also on the powered side! He'll be sticking with Oz and Alice toward the beginning of the event and I won't have much hashed out for the later parts until more information is put up, but I'm down for plotting with him, too. Fire any ideas you have my way!

[expiatrice]

babby bat


you're on notice