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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:

schmisse: (✧ general)

weiss schnee | rwby

[personal profile] schmisse 2019-10-23 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Character: Weiss Schnee | [personal profile] schmisse
Moonblessing: Cordis
Smut Preferences: More into M/F, but definitely open to smut with others, no big deal! Kink list is here.
Log Plans:
100% top levelling... wheezes I MIGHT TAKE SOME TIME TO DO IT BUT I WILL GET ONE UP!!!!
- Weiss has already encountered dead people still sleeping in their beds and that sure as hell scared the shit out of her, so why not have her get """followed""" by the Weeping Angels disturbing statues!! She's honestly not good with jumpscares and can get paranoid pretty easily, so please hold her hand... don't leave her or she'll yell at you. . .
- Very interested in Weiss turning into a ghost, tbh!! So if there's somebody who could end up opening the app with her and failing, that'd be cool :|a Being able to find other ghosts who could help each other in finding a solution would be ace, too!
- of course the ideal would be to have someone try to find her. I'm cool with a bunch of people doing so, but I'd maybe limit the number to 2, with another one of them being the person who actually gets her to finally materialise! Especially since... Weiss doesn't moonlace with a lot of people to begin with. This particular prompt is likely better as a closed prompt than an open one!
- oooother than that, I'll definitely be tagging out. If you'd like to do anything specific with Weiss, please let me know! 👀
Edited 2019-10-23 01:07 (UTC)
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[personal profile] unevoke 2019-10-23 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
i almost replied to this comment under ~cotillions, i just want you to know

anyway what if.....what if they have to work together as ghosts, i say this but there is a 90% chance they will just bicker and float off so idk why i'm even suggesting this
schmisse: (✧ come back)

[personal profile] schmisse 2019-10-23 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
they hadn't seen each other in a while so weiss will have cooled down some at least!!!
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[personal profile] unevoke 2019-10-23 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
my only regret is that i cannot bring the dog into this

unless we pretend that the dog is Very Smart (which he technically is) so they can go on wild adventures trying to get other people's attention. two ghosts and a dog.
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[personal profile] schmisse 2019-10-23 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
The dog will have its time
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[personal profile] badluckblues 2019-10-23 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
torn between both pretending to be cool and not terrified by the statues @ each other, or awful stuck-as-ghosts shenanigans
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[personal profile] schmisse 2019-10-23 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
the latter is more feasible. weiss is super salty wrt qrow rn... thnx for banging her sis
badluckblues: (don't go letting me down)

[personal profile] badluckblues 2019-10-23 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
b-but... weiss's sis has got it going on~ 🎶
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[personal profile] nailed_it 2019-10-23 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
HEY THERE FELLOW TEAMMATE THAT FOUND A BUNCH OF DECOMPOSING DEAD PEOPLE IN BED. 8'D

I'm up for spooky jumpscare shenanigans with these two if you are? Yang's probably one of those people that's prone to punching the people that jump out in haunted houses though rofl.
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[personal profile] schmisse 2019-10-23 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
HULLO!!!

And jumpscares sound super fine!! yang don'T PUNCH WEISS SHE MIGHT DIE
nailed_it: (Wait no not in the face)

[personal profile] nailed_it 2019-10-23 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
fjksdjsk NOT WEISS NO but she might punch a statue or some really unfortunate passing Prismal i'm sorry you can't take her anywhere orz
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[personal profile] schmisse 2019-10-23 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
embarrassing...
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[personal profile] thedarkbond 2019-10-23 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
since ren has his vague psychic powers he'd probably be able to pick up ghost weiss' presence, i'd be cool with either having him encounter her or getting her to materialise depending on your preference
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[personal profile] schmisse 2019-10-23 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
He can encounter her!! Except she can't talk to him so he can talk out loud & she can text him
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[personal profile] thedarkbond 2019-10-23 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
the conveniences of modern technology...but yes that works for me! he will probably gently tease about the texting and also maybe sneakily try to find out who got her ghosted for entirely benign and not overprotective-of-friends reasons
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[personal profile] schmisse 2019-10-23 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
Not overprotective of friends, huh!!!!

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[personal profile] zunge 2019-10-23 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
Hiiii if you don't already have someone lined up for being the other party doing the app thing I can volunteer Noiz for this. There are plenty of questions he'd refuse to answer, so as long as it's one Weiss would answer, I'm game for it.
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[personal profile] schmisse 2019-10-23 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
There's already someone who'd assist in turning her into a ghost, but I'm totally open to others things if there's anything else you're interested in? Whether it's what I plan or what you plan in general!
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[personal profile] zunge 2019-10-23 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm well there's always app stuff does results in neither of them being ghosted. Otherwise what about Ghost Weiss coming across him somewhere and trying to interact with him.
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[personal profile] schmisse 2019-10-23 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Ghost Weiss haunting him sounds good to me!! She doesn't know his name so she has no idea how to text him lajflakf
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[personal profile] pyrrhic_paladin 2019-10-23 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd be down for Weiss seeing Jaune after Qrow pulls his ass out of the spring. Soaking wet and looking pretty awful emotionally.

Otherwise maybe forced opening up via the app?
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[personal profile] schmisse 2019-10-23 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
The former sounds like a good idea! And I know you suggested Jaune being the one to help materialise Weiss but I've made plans with someone else already for that, so I think this works just fine! They can talk about stuff :)
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[personal profile] unhappy 2019-10-23 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
im being lazy and not logging in and out bc im at work (WHICH IS WHY SUCH A LONG GAP BETWEEN THIS COMMENT AND THE LAST ONE..) but

ok we wanted to have weiss contact midorima for help. he iiiis going to tell winter that weiss is at least still in the world once he figures it out, then we have to figure out how he's going to save her bc asjdghaksdg moonlacing isnt his first thought so they're probably going to have to have some dumb back and forth in which midorima Doesn't Get It but tries his best.
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[personal profile] schmisse 2019-10-23 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
By the time Weiss contacts Midorima, she'll probably be already translucent and stuff!! So extra creepy I guess... like at first I guess Weiss would text Midorima if she can go to him because she wants his help. And then she'd explain what happened and what to do and she'd text him rather than verbally respond unless he's calm and relaxed!! Does that work?
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[personal profile] accurately 2019-10-24 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Oh totally!! Sorry I must've misunderstood last night asjghkasdg god, i told you i was tired.. my brain was just no goo

yes come to him

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