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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:

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kaneki ken | tokyo ghoul :re

[personal profile] dearkafka 2019-10-23 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Vee!
Contact: [plurk.com profile] lycanthropic / sharisper#0002 / PM!

Character: Kaneki Ken | [personal profile] dearkafka
Moonblessing: Sanguis
Smut Preferences: Probably won't be very relevant yet, tbh! If things do manage to get that way, I'm happy to talk things out.
Log Plans: I'm excited so possibly... all of the things. For graveyard smash, I definitely want to play around with Kaneki getting dragged into the fountain, because it's so much like one scene of the only chapters I enjoyed from the second half of :re that I would like to play around with! I am also not averse to doing something with the paranoia from the statues, but Kaneki is somewhat paranoid on the reg, so... shrug emoji. As for death becomes you, I WANNA GO GHOST!! It's going to be a pretty difficult position for him to be in, seeing as though he doesn't really know anyone very well yet, so he will probably get kinda despondent and lost in there for a while! It would be a fun way to force him into some aspects of moonlacing if it meant getting him back in a physical form... please help.

He might also accidentally spawn a monster or two... oops. But he'll help you kill it? That's what we're doing with these, right? Problem solved. (:0

Also, for anyone wanting to opt out of the prompts or just interested in something a little more sol, I'm down for that too! Come @ me for anything... I want it all.
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[personal profile] purport 2019-10-23 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
/SLAMS IN HERE LIKE A WINGED FREIGHT TRAIN
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[personal profile] dearkafka 2019-10-23 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
WAHH... HELP HIM SANDALPHON ;~;

man... he would probably go to the cafe if he were a ghost... just bc he's sad and nostalgic... now I DEFINITELY want this
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[personal profile] purport 2019-10-23 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
HE'S HERE FOR YOU, COFFEEMATE...

Write him a message with coffee beans or something, ghostneki.

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Re: kaneki ken | tokyo ghoul :re

[personal profile] adorned 2019-10-23 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'd be up for any of these! Nina is very used to death and isn't afraid of spirits, so she could yank him out of the spring or help him while he's a ghost? OR if you want hand holding paranoia stuff that would be awesome, too!
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[personal profile] dearkafka 2019-10-23 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
HMMMMM maybe we could make a combo out of her fishing him out of the fountain and then they have to deal with the issues from that and also the paranoia from the statues after? that could certainly be interesting :3c
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[personal profile] adorned 2019-10-23 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
oooh that would be fun! i'm definitely down! are you putting up a toplevel? i could tag into that or write one for us, whatever's easiest!

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[personal profile] bust 2019-10-23 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Hi ///

What would you be interested to do with fellow self-loather—
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[personal profile] dearkafka 2019-10-23 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
HMMMMMMMM THERE ARE SO MANY OPTIONS

1) is ayer going to be a ghost? can the ghosts interact with other ghosts in ghostzone?

2) that or we can just find something cute to do outside & before the event... they can meet in the cafe and kaneki can recommend him some books or something....... books that probably don't even fkcing exist here bc they're in space bro...............
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[personal profile] bust 2019-10-23 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
NO I LAUGHED AT THE SECOND SUGGESTION

Poor Kaneki… It's okay, maybe he can regain some in the future using those dimensional orbs!? Ayer brought in some books with him from the Sky Realm, so he'll be happy to let Kaneki borrow those once they're closer! They're his treasures so he'll only be lending those to trusted friends.

For now, there's always other books they can read together! Let's do it. Cute bonding. \o/

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[personal profile] skyfaring 2019-10-23 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
kanek... im tryna die for you y/y
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[personal profile] dearkafka 2019-10-23 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
DJEETA-SAN PLEASE STOP TRYING TO DIE FOR ME!!!!!!!!! NOT BEFORE I DIE FOR YOU, FIRST!!!!
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[personal profile] skyfaring 2019-10-23 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
NO THATS NOT ALLOWED!! LISTEN WE BOTH MAY BE PROTAGONISTS BUT I HAVE TO DIE.. YOU DONT UNDERSTAND.. LOOK AT ME.. LOOKA T YOU.. YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR?

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[personal profile] bellyoftheborg 2019-10-23 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
okay look vee i KNOW it reflects poorly on me to immediately hit up cannibaby like "hey you wanna get some weird ghost touching going on"

but like

if he needs a willing partner for moonlacing, kaitos is more than happy to help out... even if it's just awkward touching/"wow this is weird, you can touch a ghost's face"
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[personal profile] dearkafka 2019-10-23 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
how dare you........ reflecting poorly... pshah.... this is what I secretly have wanted, all along

WE SHOULD TOTALLY DO THIS... tbh I am happy for an ic reason to force kaneki into these kinds of situations, but come on, boy, if u wanna stop being a ghost at some point, you GOTTA become okay with someone touching your face and holding ur hands or smth!!!!!
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[personal profile] bellyoftheborg 2019-10-23 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
oh hell YES. it's okay kaneki, kaitos will be gentle... with ur very first face paps...

(paps his ghost face gently)

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[personal profile] thedarkbond 2019-10-23 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
ren can probably help fight a monster if kaneki spawns one...and then teasingly chide him for spawning one because wow
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[personal profile] dearkafka 2019-10-23 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
ren!!!!! mean!!!!!! he couldn't help it! it tricked him! ): he's so easy to trick
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[personal profile] thedarkbond 2019-10-23 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
ren will train him to be harder to trick by tricking him in future, it's important life skills to learn!!

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[personal profile] shotgunyuukon 2019-10-23 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi, Vee. You want some Not!FromSoft character fun? Ouse is hella attuned to ghost-types, and perfectly willing to help, even if it's just

oh you're stuck there. Do you need me to like... fish you out?
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[personal profile] dearkafka 2019-10-23 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
hello!! funny seeing you here! and yes, we can finally shed our fromsoft yokes for a time

honestly this sounds.... really good. kaneki just low-key be like "... yeah i guess"
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[personal profile] shotgunyuukon 2019-10-23 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it seems that simple, but she has An Ability that's kinda... yeah. It complicates things a bit.

She can still see/talk to ghosts without any issues, though, and likes to help out because she likes making friends? She's v lonely so anyone who is in her presence is Good. \o\ She will happily still fish him out of the crystal ether tho.

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[personal profile] chichichi 2019-10-24 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
I'm just gonna move on over and settle in right here.

So, I had two thoughts reading your log plans! Fighting spoopy preternatural monsters is Setsura's jam as a preternatural mercenary, so that'd be an easy in if we'd like them to meet and forge a battle bond off a monster... Kaneki spawns. OR we can always establish a funny, "Remember how we met?" story with Setsura moonlacing Kaneki back into the physical with idk powerful, determined hugs or something? Intense handholding. Look, I'm open. She's definitely going to be attempting to hunt down Moonblessed ghosts and restore them; HOWEVER, she's also... likely... to charge them, which brings me to another thought I had.

Ngl, I paused like, "What if she charged him and the price wound up being reading to her or cooking her a meal?" Because she would absolutely accept either of those, too.

If any of these sound good, lemme know? If not, I can brainstorm some more. I'm open to any ideas you may have, too. Fire away! I am prepared for everything. I brought snacks.
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[personal profile] dearkafka 2019-10-24 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
honestly... both of these are really good ideas. i think she could charge him for either thing?? whether it's cutting down a monster or helping him back into the physical world with really powerful hand-holding/hugs. he would agree to it... cooking someone a meal is a cheap price to pay for such things (esp if he doesn't have to use his ghoul abilities, which he's usually kind of secretive about!)

i have a top-level up here for whatever u think would be more fun! ^^
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[personal profile] chichichi 2019-10-24 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, first off, your starters are beautiful and I'll be dialing in if not today, then tomorrow. I'm currently leaning towards power hand-holding/hugs, but I remembered something kind of important when I got to brainstorming a tag in my tired state.

Sets can sense and read spiritual energy and normally see spiritual entities (spirits, gods, youkai, etc.) back home. She's seen spirits as regularly as they normally appear since she arrived in game in September. The original prompt by the mods suggested some variation in the ability to actually readily see Moonblessed ghosts even if your spiritually sensitive character can sense 'em and I was thinking of playing with that since the Moonblessed ghosts have been described as pretty low energy with manifesting issues?

I didn't want to surprise you, though, so I wanted to hit you up here first before I tagged for a quick check. Tl;dr: your prompt is great and I'm thinking she's likely to have trouble seeing him plainly initially, concentrate on sensing/feeling his energy out, then attempt physical contact. Lemme know if that sounds good and I'll get on things!

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