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▶ PLOTTING.006
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 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.
▶ 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.
▶ 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...?
▶ 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:
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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But ooh, I definitely want Noiz to meet Lucy this month. I'm just unsure how at the moment. On one hand I want it to be chill and during the costume party Lucy is attending, since I was going to have Nyuu tell Noiz where she and Lucy worked by the end of our other thread (or handwave that she sent it to him in a text). Moonlacing may or may not happen, and Lucy may or may not feel more adventurous than Nyuu, depending on how the thread goes.
On the other, I saw Noiz's plotting comment and wondered: What if he let Lucy become a ghost? A lot of drama would follow after that, though. Lucy would hunt him down once she's restored and over the shock. She wouldn't kill Noiz since she doesn't want Nyuu to end up in jail, but she would fight him. That would be one way for her to find out about his lack of being able to feel pain.
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I am up for pretty much any of that. If we decide to have Noiz let Lucy become a ghost, I'd definitely want the question he refuses to answer be something dark and juicy. I already arranged to have him let someone else become a ghost over refusing to say the longest he's gone without leaving his home/residence, but there's plenty of other awful things to choose from. Maybe "Why did you get so many piercings?" and the app decides that "Because I felt like it" wasn't good enough despite being true, and it ghostifies Lucy once he keeps refusing to admit aloud that it had to do with seeking out someplace he might be able to feel pain? Another idea I just had was "Why did your parents send you to your room?"
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After giving it much thought--I'm up for Noiz letting Lucy become a ghost! Before that happens, though, I'd like Lucy have to answer at least one question herself before it happens. It doesn't have to be too many since she's going to come after Noiz once she gets her body back. I came up with a couple of ideas when I was thinking over how the confrontation might go.
What if, after Lucy realizes that Noiz can't feel pain normally, she reaches into his body with her vectors to painfully grasp at his organs? Nothing fatal, but just to try to get a reaction out of him. And how do you feel about this turning into smut if we could make it work? I had two suggestions for how that could happen: The first was, Lucy switches to Nyuu before she can do some serious damage, leaving Nyuu shocked and panicked. Then because Nyuu feels so guilty, she offers to moonlace with Noiz to help heal him (and as payment for the trouble she caused), only she's willing to go a little further. The second was, because Lucy doesn't want Nyuu to end up in jail for assault or murder (and because Lucy is trying to become a better person), she stops herself (with difficulty) before she turns Noiz into a bloody pulp. Depending on how the thread goes, she may or may not admit that, in hindsight, she can't blame Noiz for not answering, since she likely would have done the same. Since she's been made aware of how Noiz operates thanks to Nyuu's notes, Lucy offers to moonlace to heal him and in an attempt for a peace offering, but also as his payment for letting her becoming a ghost. If in terms of who I'd like it to be, I'd prefer Lucy this time, but it doesn't have to be. The smut doesn't have to happen either; they were just ideas that came to me.
On a final note, whether or not moonlacing happens, I was hoping for Lucy/Nyuu to accidentally discover their healing powers? Dunno if you're familiar with the Elfen Lied manga, but it turns out the vectors are also capable of healing, but I took Lucy/Nyuu from a canon point before she learns of it.
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And yes, regardless of whether moonlacing happens, go ahead and have them accidentally discover their healing powers. I am quite familiar with the manga, it's just been about.... eleven years since I last read it so I have some major blank spots in my memory about manga content from past the anime. That was around when the scanlations finally finished up, which I'd been following religiously at the time. I keep meaning to reread and have PDFs of the whole manga, I'm just the worst procrastinator. xD
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Ooh, nice! It's okay, I'm too lazy to even consider making PDFs of the manga XD
Will you be tagging her toplevel, or are we going to thread in Noiz's again?
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If we're going to be technical I didn't create the PDFs, I just torrented them like a filthy pirate a few years back. :P
I will tag into hers! Either before I head to work in the afternoon, or once I get home. Thankfully my Saturdays end much earlier than my other workdays. I got off work two hours ago and will be off to bed in like two minutes wheeeeeee
Also do you mind if I add you on Discord?
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And go ahead and add me~