Ghost Whispering Plot

[marmoron]

Greetings fellow trashfires. It's time for another player plot.


Following the attempt to take out a necromancer in the Outlands, Keith will have gotten access to a rare crystal that can be used as an amplifier/catalyst to enhance the strength of a necromancer's magic. Kisara has previously expressed the desire to have a seance in order to talk to people from her past life, and Keith will be loaning her the crystal to hopefully establish a connection to the dead.

It works a little too well unfortunately.

What's happening:
The spell will distort the lines between the worlds of the living and the dead for anyone who chooses to opt into the event. This means characters who are affected will be extremely sensitive to the dead -- almost like they've awakened an unused sense, so to speak.

This will have a range of effects from merely hearing the dead to being able to see the dead in milder cases. In more severe cases, it may cause a character to believe they themselves have joined the other side or that others around them have.

Who your character hears or sees or what they might end up believing is entirely up to player discretion. They could be family or loved ones who want to talk to you, someone you loathed who is now aggressively haunting you, or even just the sad dead ghosts of all the soldiers who perished in Australia.... it's up to you.

The event is purely optional. If you would prefer not to deal with these shenanigans, then no worries the spell simply didn't affect your character for whatever reason.

When it's happening:
The event will take place ICly on August 5th and the effects will last one week.

Consequences:
As of right now I don't have anything specifically planned out in terms of consequences for this event, but both Kisara's player and I are down to plot out any consequences re: getting caught and so on.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[marmoron]

[heromedal]

I'm half tempted to have Rex be completely unaffected but have anyone who is see him surrounded by like. This. He's been surrounded by death and battle since literally the day he was born, he can't help it man.

keith

[marmoron]

I am admittedly half way tempted to have this big dumb believing everyone else has died, but perhaps that is a bit cruel, haha.

Another thought is perhaps having him being followed around by his ghost dad or hearing his dad in his head for a little bit. :|a

IN AN Y CASE I'm also down for people working out his involvement in this, so hit me up here if you wanna discuss it.

[yokeye]

Toki's probably more apt to be affected by this and will see/hear the dead constantly. All the ghosts. Perhaps thinking he's dead, because he already only kind of thinks he exists anyway. Followed by freaking out and maybe another breakdown. Who knows? It just won't be good.

[onebetter]

James will indeed see all those Australia soldiers just... hanging around campus. He's going to be able to largely ignore this (???) but it won't be pleasant. Hm.

[marmoron]

read this and immediately thought "oh well jolyne's gonna wanna murder keith if toki has a breakdown and she finds out who helped cause this...." Not sure if I'm laughing or crying. maybe a bit of both.

[yokeye]

That's a likely scenario. RIP Keith.

[highelves]

ana is going to attempt to talk to her parents because she believes they might be dead. other than that, ruby and rizavi will just be utterly spooked.