ateratooc | event; a change of...something

THE WINDS ARE CHANGING - PART 2

The State of Things

Nightmares are only getting worse, not better. Those who are experiencing nightmares will find it difficult to wake from them and find themselves disoriented when they do, unable to separate dream from reality for a certain time. They will also awaken far more exhausted than when they went to sleep and no amount of caffeine seems to reinvigorate them.

Note: Nightmares and the resulting lethargy will persist until the source is eliminated.

Beginning on the 10th, people both around areas of the city that are abandoned and outside the city on hunts will begin to spread the word of sightings of a massive brown bear with glowing yellow eyes. At times, in the dead of night, people will hear a malicious bestial roar echoing among the buildings that fills them with dread.

All Things Escalate

Captain Khannar will be making a broadcast alert in regards to a mauling reported by one of his deputies. It seems a very large animal is loose in the area, both inside and beyond the city walls. He will urge the citizens to stay indoors, particularly at night.

It isn't a singular incident, though. There aren't enough guards to assure people stay indoors, and those who are caught unawares could end up mauled or worse. You CAN have your character cross paths with a massive, and I mean MASSIVE brown bear with glowing yellow eyes. If you should happen upon it, keep in mind the following:

» The bear is demonic in nature.
» It feeds off of negative emotions (fear, despair, rage, etc)
» It's presence does inspire the above emotions in its victims
» It possesses superhuman speed, durability, agility, and is capable of teleportation over a limited range
» It will aim to kill you, but in order to feed on you properly, it will make this death long and agonizing
» It may be wisest to avoid in you're alone

Should you choose to have your character killed by the demon bear, due to their being occupied by other things (which will be revealed in time) the Aspects will be unable to resurrected characters and they WILL remain deceased until the demon bear is defeated.

Speaking of Defeating the Demon Bear...

Use the thread below to volunteer to be a part of the group to take down the Demon Bear. You can volunteer 1 character per player. We will need a total of five. They need to be heavy-hitters and capable of fighting off a major demonic entity that is capable of using their fears and anguish against them.

The Defeat Party
» Ignis Scientia
» Aragibal Kha
» Sam Winchester
» Yuna
» Nida

This battle will be logged with NPC interaction (in the form of a giant demonic fear-eating bear) so please keep that in mind as you're volunteering!

In Closing

Please submit all general questions about the event here.

Volunteer for the bear's defeat here.

Use this post for plotting purposes in relation to possibly encountering the bear before it's defeat, dealing with nightmares, etc! Enjoy the Halloweeny Event (I hope it's scary enough for you)!

NAVIGATION

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Can one volunteer as a 'backup'? As in 'here is Nida but only if we don't get a full team of five?'

Ignis has your back Nida.

Sure! I'll keep him on reserve.

Signing Ignis up!

Noted!

would someone with a very sunny disposition be able to help defeat the bear?

Sign Ara up the dark knight is literally built upon suffering what can possibly go wrong

The bear may find feeding on her is more difficult, but everyone fears something. Her general positive outlook wouldn't cause it to be weakened, though, no.

So noted!

So Caelan’s gonna be spending a lot of time making sure a certain twelve-year-old vampire is good, will probably try to move her into his apartment more permanently when he finds out there’s a demon bear on the loose. She’s already been spending a lot of nights there because of the nightmares.

~~She bought pillow-fort property in his living room for a whole stick of gum!~~

That said, Caelan goes out a lot at night. He goes down to the docks/beach area about three times a week to take a dip in the sea as a seal and to catch fish to eat. He has to do this, he will try to cut it back a little bit once the warning goes out, but he literally needs to spend time in the ocean otherwise he’ll start to get really twitchy because the sea literally calls him. It’s safer for him to do this at night since there are less people around to spot him. This is amusingly (to me anyway) not about him making stupid decisions so much as he’s stuck between two specific kinds of risks and trying to avoid one bear sounds easier than daytime people traffic. So he’ll be risking the bear.

(Also, he may or may not have a fully functional tell-phone right now. Because I actually already had him drop it in the ocean by mistake this month... so he wouldn’t be able to call anyone for a hand. Oops??)

So yeah, he’s probably going to die pre-bear being defeated if anyone wants in on that!

Holly is uh...not really going to be able to do much this month, at least where the bear is concerned. Where she's only been able to go out and feed on people at night, she's going to have to risk doing so while it's still light out.

When she's not doing that, she's not going to really have the energy to do much of anything. Between not eating enough, being scared about the giant bear, and the nightmares/not sleeping much, she's going to be pretty miserable and kinda sickly this month.

So! I'm here for more character-based plotting, more conversations instead of bear-defeating actiony stuff or text-based threads!

If the little vampire would like an older vampire escort, Thomas is available.

She definitely wouldn't say no to that!

Thomas can be a pretty stellar older brother figure when he needs to be, I'm just sayin' :)

And she is very accustomed to having older brother's in her life, so I'd say that works wonderfully!

I'll be putting up a log for her hopefully early next week, so I can definitely personalise a prompt for Thomas? Or leave one vague enough for him to jump in, either/or c:

Sign Sam up this is totally his wheel house.

Ohhhh this is going to be interesting.

Sam has some pretty nasty nightmares so getting stuck in them could be badddd. I also volunteered him to go kick demon bear booty so that could end up being interesting too.

I'm down for just about anything so please let me know if you would like something.

Excellent! I'll throw him at her :)

Signing Yuna up!!!

I have a different idea for each of these and it actually fits them very well.

YUNA; will be trying to corner this Bear and helping those who might need to avoid it on the street. She's pretty badass and even if she can't defeat the bear alone, she can likely help people get away. She'll also ask the Friendly Neighborhood Gullwings to assist the Guard, even if determining any patterns the bear might show.

SYEIRA; is going to have a hard time. She's currently working on the streets doing various performances and tarot card readings. The nightmares will likely make that impossible. She'll get sick and since she also see's the future, she'll likely become more than a little delirious through this. I'd love for someone to help take care of her/check on her. This can also be handwaved if it might be too intense.

JACOB; I AM A HORRIBLE PERSON. I want Jacob to be killed by the bear. He is literally a ball of sad... which I think only Nida knows by this point. Anyone interested in either finding his body or being there as he dies? I'm game for anything really.

OKAY CAELEN! So Syeira is also going to have a hard time with nightmares and mistaking reality with the various futures. I would be so game to have her try and find Cealan before he dies but fail and just find his body or something. She'd be so sad. But that could also give her a reason to talk to Holly which could be fun.

So I am making these plotting plans here and I was thinking, assuming everyone is okay with it. That Syeira could witness this and then go find Holly. She'll also be having trouble with sleeping and confusing reality with different chance futures. So it might be interesting. Syeira also wouldn't care if Holly did accidentally feed on her. So it's whatever you're feeling. Also any of this can be handwaved because comfort and fun is the most important.

omg yesssss!!! If she sees the possible future of him dying, it’ll probably be him really pissed off. The bear is going to bring out his temper where it can inspire rage, so lots of yelling and cursing before the fear sets in. He almost got murdered by a kelpie in his younger years, and the idea of surviving that but not a bear is going to really annoy him XD

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