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Prismatic Mods ([personal profile] prismods) wrote in [community profile] prismaticaooc2019-10-23 01:08 am
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▶ PLOTTING.006


CW: Contains body horror and unsettling images.


Bright autumn stars shine across the harvest sky, constellations of rabbits and maidens signaling the coming of Geistnacht, bringing with it tidings from the great beyond all month long. Celebrations increase towards the end of the month with everyone being encouraged to host their own masquerades, bonfires, and communal seances to honor the dead. Young and old don elaborate costumes of all colors and shapes during the celebrations. Excitable children rush for the countdown on their A-FEAST app for Ainfeil’s Feast. At every doorstep, they carol a familiar tune:

“Ainfeil wants,
Ainfeil eats,
Ainfeil blesses
Ainfeil’s treats~♫”



It Was a Graveyard Smash
10/25 - 10/26 | Outside Lunatia, Solemn Grounds | top

Many Prismals across the planet take the time to visit the treasured Solemn Grounds located quite a distance away from Lunatia. Every year, access to this holy site is granted to the public, and the Prismals make the trip to pay homage to their relatives and ancestors. Known as the nexus between life and the dead, the Solemn Grounds is a popular destination for large processions and pilgrimage stops every year. Votive items such as flowers, candles, and crystal spheres that project the likeness of the dead can be seen lining beautiful sepulchers, filled with fully crystallized bodies posed in restful slumber. These items, as well as food, drinks and Geistnacht costumes, are sold at the several seasonal mobile stalls outside the Grounds.

During this time, any curious Moonblessed are allowed to venture past the cemetery gates before the Grounds close for the year. It’s a rare opportunity to peer into a gravity-defying emerald water stream that swirls around the cemetery, known as the Spring of the Ascended.

 A  As you leave a few offerings of your own for the deceased, you overhear the warnings of a Prismal: don't blink. Nearby, you may notice the eyes of disturbing statues following you, their limbs moving slightly from where they were last. A few statues may appear to step away from where they were last standing, yet every time your head whips back, the statue remains still. And yet each time you look away, their presence feels even closer and more unsettling than before. Soon, a strange sensation prickles your back, as if crystals have begun to form down your spine…

There is nothing on your back, of course, but it does make you wonder. Although you may discover that moonlacing staves off the paranoia, you can’t hold a Moonblessed’s hand forever, at least not here. It’s best not to stay in one place for too long; there’s a reason they close the Grounds to the public.

 B  After wandering the Grounds long enough, you begin to hear a faint melody echoing from the Spring. Locals speak of beautiful merpeople that swim in its waters, responsible for ferrying the souls of the dead to the afterlife. As you approach in the hopes of seeing one, a pair of lovely eyes peers up at you from beneath the emerald stream, with hair like blue ink spilling across the surface. Lean in too close, and their slender arms will tug you inside. Open your eyes in the water and you will see images of deceased loved ones from your world and this one, aimlessly floating in the depths and always out of reach.

Nothing in the Spring compels you to swim toward them, but the longer you stay in the water, the more Chroma it drains from you until you are nothing but a crystal husk. It isn’t rare for grieving Prismals to meet their end here, so hope that you can be snapped out of it in time. Once you leave and look back, the only thing that remains is silence.





Death Becomes You
10/27 - 10/29 | City of Lunatia | top

As the days barrel close to the month’s end, perhaps a few items in your apartment surreptitiously shift themselves around. You think you hear a strange howling that comes and goes in the evenings. Sudden drops in temperature bite your skin with a frost that vanishes all too quickly. But maybe it’s just the wind. Everything is fine.

Then, you see it.

An eye etched in crimson.

It is on the walls. It is on the ground. It is here. It is there. It never moves. It never blinks.

It only watches.

The Prismals don’t know what you’re talking about. They don’t see anything.

Everything is fine.

 A  On the 29th, an app will appear on your phone. Try as you may, it is impossible to delete. Upon opening the app, your device’s screen goes black. A large distorted eye appears.

Your device emits a strange white noise you can’t mute — especially when a strange song starts to play in a language you can’t understand. However, the slow and eerie melody is familiar... Sped up, it is the song of Ainfeil’s Feast, backwards.

What Ainfeil wants, Ainfeil eats.

The song stops. The screen shows a video feed of another Moonblessed. They seem to have opened the app, just like you. Something flashes on the screen — a question about something no one else should know: an embarrassing story, a dark secret, a painful truth. Although the question is for you to read, it is not for you to answer.

As you end your last sentence, hands spring from the nearest surface and seize your limbs.

The Moonblessed the app has connected you to must answer the question truthfully. The longer they refuse to cooperate, the deeper you are pulled into the floor or walls. Once the Moonblessed has answered, the hands will disappear.

It's your turn to answer.

Cooperate to escape, and a final giggle from the app signals the end of Ainfell's game. The threat is gone. Your device goes back to normal.

But the app remains.



 B  Those who failed to escape and are caught by the hands grow colder and colder as they get drawn into the darkness. You feel your arms about to freeze off. You look down.

You can’t see them.

The hands are gone, you are back where you were, but the damage has been done. Your other body parts continue to vanish until you are nothing but a soul, but you can sense traces of your essence — the last vestiges of your Chroma — where everything used to be.

You won’t be able to physically hold your device, but you will be able to possess your phone to use it. If you try to audibly speak to other solid Moonblessed, they may only hear you faintly, if at all. However, a solid Moonblessed may be able to feel your touch if they are relaxed and willing. Attempting to possess other items or other Moonblessed will not work.

Your voice grows fainter against the ambiance of your surroundings. Soon, only silence comes out of what you think is your mouth. However, your new form has granted you access to another plane. You can see now see the planet’s spirits of the damned. Ghosts from all eras and places gather in Lunatia every Geistnacht, from the ancients of Queen Tempeste’s time to the deaths in today's newspaper. Some jeer at you, play tricks, and tease, while others are possessed by their own anger, sorrow, or madness.

“You murderer! It’s all your fault! Give me back my son!”

“I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you! A thousand curses on your family!”

“Mommy, I’m so hungry...”

“Those loans…”

The wailing and lamentations do not stop, and the voices soon overlap, words turning into noise as they drown you in their endless agony.





Unchained Melody Plays
10/30 - 10/31 | City of Lunatia | top

Those lucky enough to avoid death’s touch will notice the growing number of disappearances among the Moonblessed. They’ve left their belongings behind, it isn’t all that strange. Moonblessed come and go all the time. Maybe you can rest knowing that they’ve finally returned to their world.

But at night, you swear you hear their whispers in your sleep. You can even feel their cold fingers across your cheeks and bones...

Desperate to return to the world of the living, the affected Moonblessed are doing everything in their power to reach anybody who will listen. They leave text messages on the device, write words in fogged glass, tamper with the music player, urge you to get a haircut like young Patrick Swayze’s—okay, maybe that last one won’t happen. Unless...?

 A  For the brave or sensitive to the paranormal, if you can follow the presence of a determined Moonblessed ghosts or somehow sense their scant traces of Chroma, try reaching out to them. You may notice vestiges of their skin becoming all the more visible. You might even feel their eyelashes against your fingers or their lips against your cheek. The more you moonlace with these Moonblessed on the other side, the more they will start to materialize. The deeper and more passionate your embrace, the faster their bodies of the Moonblessed will be restored.

 B  It’s not only your friends and other ghost Moonblessed that will seek to make contact. The damned will also be doing what they can to seduce you into their embrace. They may mimic a loved or trusted one’s habits: a song they used to sing, a phrase they used to say, or little things like leaving flowers on your desk or unwashed dishes in the sink. If you help them materialize with your Chroma, you may find yourself unwittingly giving form to great horrors. Until the end of Geistnacht, they will creep into the world of the living to try and terrorize both Prismals and Moonblessed.

The damned, the app, and the crimson eye will not go away until the end of the 31st, so be prepared to endure long evenings with ghouls, criminals and creatures such as one of those angry cerberus beasts, or masked fox cultists that were felled several months ago, or even a mutant parasitic plant making its home on your bed. They are not happy to see you, and they’re going to do more than just chew up your slippers and eat your socks!


REMINDERS
As always, all content is optional. You do not have to be affected by any of the prompts if you wish to opt out.

Please ask for player permission before bringing up potentially sensitive subjects or triggers.

The graveyard statues will not do anything but cause an intense feeling of paranoia.

The mermaids will not physically harm Moonblessed. They will disappear as soon as the Moonblessed enter the stream.

You are free to come up with any kind of haunting that can affect your character.

Refer to the FAQ (Setting) before asking about communicating with the dead. Anything that isn’t covered on this log will be mentioned on the FAQ. You are free to assume interactions with the paranormal as long as the context is in line with the FAQ and this log.

Attempting to hack, redownload to another device, back up, or save the unknown app will all completely fail. The app has no name. The file size will always display as 0 KB.

Ghost Moonblessed can only possess their own communication device. They can attempt voice calls but it will be difficult to understand each other (and may either sound eerie and/or distorted). Leaving text messages or handwritten messages will be clearer.

Ghost Moonblessed can attempt to warn others about prompt III-B.

You are free to assume any other previously encountered hostile entities for prompt III-B.

This post is for plotting purposes only. A directory post will go up sometime on the 24th, GMT. What you see on this post will be the contents of the log. No changes will be made to the prompts, so feel free to plot to your heart’s content! You are free to use the template below for your OOC plotting needs:

hoasen: (echo)

[personal profile] hoasen 2019-10-23 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Player: amu
Contact: [plurk.com profile] tsuikai feel free to add.

Character: Vietnam (Sen Linh Đoàn) | [personal profile] hoasen
Moonblessing: Sanguis
Smut Preferences: if it makes sense in the thread with the CR, then i'm down. info/permissions | kinks
Log Plans:
- She will visit the Solemn grounds, since being that it's not always open, this is a chance to look in. As a guest in this place, she'll leave offerings. So basically, willing to do some moonlacing stuff here for staving off paranoia.
--- I'm still contemplating the water one only cos an immortal seeing those who left them HA HA HA...

- App: I'm open to anyone who would like to be her partner in this one for them to figure out a way out! Not sure what questions yet, but we can also discuss this. She is cautious about these apps, so if she had to be honest in order to help the other person, she will.

- Ghost scenario: Also open for moonlacing to save. Right now I'm pretty open to ghost or not, just leaning towards not right now only cos preliminary thinking. Can always wing this one according to the above prompt!

- THE OTHER GHOST SCENARIO: in the case of NPC ghosties, she'll help fight them off with your people (or protect them). She hardly feels fear so if you need someone to talk to your person through it too, she's your girl.

I THINK I probably will be making a top level this time round (cos I haven't in a while): if you would like some customs, i'm happy to get some up in a catch-all! I can also tag out to people's toplevels as well. (I may have missed something but we'll figure it out as we go!)
champagnetower: (092)

[personal profile] champagnetower 2019-10-23 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
LET'S BE PARTNERS WITH THE APP THING
hoasen: (Taiwan: NOOOOOOOO)

[personal profile] hoasen 2019-10-23 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
LET'S DO IT!!!! HIFUMI!!!!!! she'll keep all of his info a secret after.
champagnetower: (113)

[personal profile] champagnetower 2019-10-23 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Whatever happens just know I already love it ok
hoasen: the drink was originally green now it's coffee cos why not! (sips furiously)

[personal profile] hoasen 2019-10-23 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
same, she'll HELP HIM I SWEAR. hifumi you're gonna be Awwwwriiiight.
vassalize: (011。)

[personal profile] vassalize 2019-10-23 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Tag-team ghost busting???
hoasen: (pocky or pretz? you decide)

[personal profile] hoasen 2019-10-23 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
PLEASE WE GOTTA, let her cover his back. Heh his back.
vassalize: (006。)

[personal profile] vassalize 2019-10-23 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
good, good he'll try and keep them off of her. here's a dramatic reenactment of their epic battle:

hoasen: (decisions)

[personal profile] hoasen 2019-10-23 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
why is he the best lord.

Also if he does that, you can bet she's going to be swooning. Hot. bonus points if it's an NZ accent.
erranthero: (Default)

[personal profile] erranthero 2019-10-23 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Help unghost Kerra, Viet. She'll need your immense power.
hoasen: (seek)

[personal profile] hoasen 2019-10-23 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
IT'S TIME, KERRA, she'll bring on the earth Force. OPENS ARMS.
erranthero: (Shoulder Look)

[personal profile] erranthero 2019-10-23 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
save her with smooches, she will be waiting...alone and ghostly.

(I'll definitely hit you up)
hoasen: (decisions)

[personal profile] hoasen 2019-10-23 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
healing smooches is gonna happen, she needs to save this girl okok. it's the fastest way.

(omg please, i'll chip at it so can be prepped for event opening heh)
jailbirds: (it's romantic if they mean it)

[personal profile] jailbirds 2019-10-23 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
AMYYYY if you wanna have viet go diving, or even just lean in close. minatsuki can drag her back out and yell at her. she's Helpful
hoasen: (ever clear)

[personal profile] hoasen 2019-10-23 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
ISAAAA whispers yes so loudly. a scolding works cos it's the Best, LIKE SHE SAVED HER IT'S LEGIT.
thedarkbond: (Default)

[personal profile] thedarkbond 2019-10-23 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
i don't think we've had ren and sen (rhymes...) fite anything yet so maybe they can fight an escaped npc ghost-monster-thing?
hoasen: (Taiwan: NOOOOOOOO)

[personal profile] hoasen 2019-10-23 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
holy shit it does rhyme. LOL OOPS AND THAT WORKS FOR ME. lets do it. she wanna see some mad skills.
thedarkbond: (undead angel)

[personal profile] thedarkbond 2019-10-23 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
does dragging the beastie's mind into his own mind and tormenting it count as mad skills because that's usually how he handles this sort of thing...

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bellyoftheborg: (10-1)

[personal profile] bellyoftheborg 2019-10-23 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
so... app partners? because that sounds like a great way to break the ice

as long as vietnam isn't too upset that this green-haired idiot has been playing the app game all day
hoasen: (wonder)

[personal profile] hoasen 2019-10-23 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. and also she'll just fret at them lbr. i mean it's not the full viet experience with her fretting and worrying over them ONCE.
bellyoftheborg: (10-3)

[personal profile] bellyoftheborg 2019-10-23 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
i wouldn't feel truly at home if vietnam weren't fretting over me... it's everything i could ask for for my character. i am blessed thanks to u
accurately: (pic#12995064)

[personal profile] accurately 2019-10-23 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
hmu with your top level i will tag /o/
hoasen: the drink was originally green now it's coffee cos why not! (sips furiously)

[personal profile] hoasen 2019-10-23 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I'LL DO IT big chuu
unsea: (Default)

[personal profile] unsea 2019-10-24 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
i want Super Old Folks at the springs oh my god i NEED IT

this guy is basically immortal too so i hope they can find some common ground while paying their respects to those that died before them,,,
hoasen: (netflix and what??)

[personal profile] hoasen 2019-10-24 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
PLEAAAAASEE i actually added that prompt in in the end, so he can get it. or we can tailor one IT STILL WORKS.

LET'S DO IT she would be able to talk to him about this, THEY'D GET IT.