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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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Hanapi

[personal profile] antichivalry 2019-10-23 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Hanapi
Contact: [plurk.com profile] taroutachi ; hanapi#9508

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felix hugo fraldarius | fire emblem 3 houses

[personal profile] antichivalry 2019-10-23 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Character: Felix | [personal profile] antichivalry
Moonblessing: Iris 8(
Smut Preferences: ota — he's prickly and prefers people he knows for the more intimate moonlacing but he'll hold your hand if he must. He is 23 years old. Slightly underage is fine but not too young!
Log Plans:
- He will see some people in the water but will try his damnedest not to react to them and will want to exit the water as quickly as possible. If you need him to help pull your character out and/or give them healing chroma in the aftermath, he's your man.
- super interested in app shenanigans! I'm open to taking multiple match-ups for that. Felix doesn't have a lot of secrets but he has some painful truths and embarrassing stories in his repertoire.
- he might moonlace with a ~ghost~ if he knows them already but he may also be the victim of attempted seduction. Attempted being the keyword since he's hard mode.
- totally open to many spooky shenanigans in general. Castmates already know I welcome each and every one of them but also looking to get some cross-canon CR since I've not topleveled with him yet!
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[personal profile] byleth 2019-10-23 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
hm should I continue the trend of getting felix to awkwardly moonlace with prof to help him?
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[personal profile] antichivalry 2019-10-23 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
yes you should
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[personal profile] byleth 2019-10-23 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
time to teach felix how to sensually make pottery I guess
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[personal profile] antichivalry 2019-10-23 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
so you joke but i'm into it tbh
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[personal profile] teasip 2019-10-23 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
felix have you ever held tiddy before
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[personal profile] antichivalry 2019-10-23 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
no but he would hold sensei's tiddy
baitless: a very subtle smile. (ah yes st. cethleann.)

[personal profile] baitless 2019-10-23 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
HI FELIX ARE YOU MAKING FRIENDS? HAVING A GOOD TIME?
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[personal profile] antichivalry 2019-10-23 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
no it's awful and he hates everyone
baitless: he looks a bit tired, but less intensely so. (how vaguely and unhelpfully can i put it)

[personal profile] baitless 2019-10-23 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
YEAH THAT'S FAIR IT KIND OF SUCKS BUT YOU SHOULD REALLY MAKE FRIENDS MAYBE IT'LL SUCK LESS
baitless: an expression that can serve as either deep frustration or, perhaps, some level of grief. who can say. (i am so tired all of the time.)

[personal profile] baitless 2019-10-25 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
sigh. kids.
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[personal profile] locktouching 2019-10-23 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Share your secrets with me. /blows kiss
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[personal profile] antichivalry 2019-10-25 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
only if you share yours first
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nihongou | touken ranbu

[personal profile] nihongou 2019-10-23 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Character: Nihongou | [personal profile] nihongou
Moonblessing: Sanguis — he was a wolf but I may change him to one of the new ones
Smut Preferences: ota — he is an ojisan keep that in mind, but he's down to clown all the ladies and lads and everything else.
Log Plans:
- He may see former masters/his smith in the water but I'm not sure what I want to do with that yet!
- Down for some paranoid moonlacing on the Grounds
- App match-ups are good! Nihongou does have an infamous story that he is pretty embarrassed about. It's no great secret but he hasn't brought it up a lot here. He's a fairly open book though so he may be able to rescue him and his partner from certain death.
- Also up for him and his app partner to fail and become ghosties...and for anyone to interact with ghost Nihongou trying to communicate and/or suffering without sake lmao
- Alternatively, let him help you get your body back because he's dtf.
- Anything else, I'm all ears!
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[personal profile] chichichi 2019-10-24 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, hello, I would like to sign up to start this CR with your ojisan spear tsukumogami haunting my half human, half night sparrow youkai who is also a preternatural mercenary lady over his inability to drink sake as a ghost maybe? Bonus points if she's drinking sake while it's happening bc if you think she's going out in this mess to sleuth and save ghosts acquire clients without a flask of the good stuff, you're wrong. Maybe she can help him with the whole ghost thing??

I'm spitballing, but I read, I wondered, I laughed. Let's do a thing?
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[personal profile] nihongou 2019-10-25 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Hahaha yes, I'm down! He will be trying so hard for the sake. And would be much obliged for her help!!! Once she notices he's there of course.
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[personal profile] chichichi 2019-10-25 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
The good news is she can sense spiritual and read energy, so she won't be flying as blind (haha, I'm so sorry for my humor) as a lot of the populace. She's seen spirits from day one in Prisma, but with how the mods described the Moonblessed's energy (reaaaal low, it sounds like?) and manifesting issues, she'll have difficulty with seeing initially and concentrate on sensing, then making physical contact once she's sure she's being haunted if that sounds good to you. Lemme know!

Honestly, she might share her flask and tell him he owes her two drinks once it's all over. General service fee. I'm sorry she's like this?

Were you going to do a TL or would you like me to set something up in mine once I get it rolling?
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[personal profile] nihongou 2019-10-26 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
yeah that sounds about right! and look, he will definitely buy her drinks to thank her because it's the least he can do.

i was thinking about a TL but i haven't gotten around to it yet either so if you want to set something up i'm down with that. or i can whip myself into shape and get it up X)
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[personal profile] chichichi 2019-10-26 09:21 am (UTC)(link)
Perfect save, client, and gentleman. /chef kiss

I'm gonna be working on getting my TL up hopefully today (and it may take a second, but the goal is Sunday afternoon at the latest), so if you'd like, I can put something closed in there just for you! Do you have a particular setting or place you think Nihongou'd be more likely to be haunting or would a pause in the streets (maybe near a favorite drinking establishment?) work for you? Let me know!
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[personal profile] nihongou 2019-10-27 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Alright sorry for the delay, just got off work. But yes! I think probably near a drinking establishment would work best! If there's alcohol served at it, he likely knows about it at this point, so wherever she might like to go...
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[personal profile] chichichi 2019-10-27 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
You are A-OK and I am on it! I'll drop you a link here as soon as I get it up. Expect me. /fingers to eyes

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Tristan | Fate/Grand Order

[personal profile] offtuned 2019-10-23 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Character: Tristan (Archer) | [personal profile] offtuned
Moonblessing: Cordis — he's been a fox but I may change!
Smut Preferences: ota but leans toward the ladies. will only "bottom" to male CR that's been established but otherwise open lmao
Log Plans:
- He will be mesmerized by the ghosts of the pasts in the water and will definitely need to be saved from that. Iseult and his uncle/father-figure Mark, as well as Lancelot and Arthur will definitely be some ghosts he's visited by there.
- App match-ups! Like my other characters I'm down for some pairings! Tristan has many sorrowful tales to tell. Not a lot of secrets since he's very well known in earth-type worlds (and he is aware he's well known). But we can make it work. I'm ok with them either passing or failing!
- Pretty open for everything else in the event too. Tristan literally is a Spirit with no corporeal form most of the time (or he was before being summoned and/or coming to Prisma) so he's kind of used to that. Let him help you cope....
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Ranmaru Mori | Ikemen Sengoku

[personal profile] haraguroi 2019-10-23 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Character: Ranmaru Mori | [personal profile] haraguroi
Moonblessing: Cordis
Smut Preferences: OTA and he is over 18 but I don't mind underage
Log Plans:
- In general I'd just like some more CR for him? So if you're willing, let's do something!

- He may see some faces in the water but will pretend otherwise and thus be trying to get away from it as quickly as possible.
- Ranmaru is two-faced and thus has MANY secrets/painful truths that he isn't spilling. Also he's a ninja and a spy so secrets are kind of his thing. So I can definitely pair up with people on the app! He will not be cooperative though. Especially depending on how he gets along with the person he's paired up with.
- He'll probably thus become a ghostie so if you want to be pestered by him in that form, here he comes.
- Open to moonlacing of all kinds, just hit me up c: