Event post: Who What Where Wendigo

[hadrielmods]

THE RUNDOWN

Hope is still pretty exhausted and he needs a little help running things. Luckily, Fear and Rage are able to step up to the plate and give him a break by providing food for the people in the city!

Except, of course, some of the food they provide is a little too close to home. This would be nightmare fuel enough, but it's taken a step further by the new secret monsters that managed to sneak their way in through the Door when nobody was looking: wendigo spirits.

Wendigo are monsters featured in the video game Until Dawn. Their spirits are relatively harmless and they won't hurt anyone... until someone resorts to cannibalism and consumes human flesh. After this happens, the spirit descends upon the person with a curse, possessing them and forcing a horrific transformation.

Characters possessed by a wendigo will find themselves transforming into a monster over a period of twelve days. During the early days, the character will retain some humanity, but slowly lose their higher thought as the transformation progresses. Their skin will turn a mottled white, their limbs will elongate, and they will be gifted with superhuman strength, speed, and resilience. By February 26th, they will be full wendigo (if they're not dead yet).

Fully-transformed monsters have little desire beyond killing. While their eyesight has faded somewhat, they are highly capable of tracking their prey by sound and movement. They can also mimic other character's voices to lure their prey into compromising positions, and they're intelligent enough to not fall easily into traps. Lastly, it's rare that they keep any semblance of the people they were before the transformation, but strong emotional connections with people may still resonate with them. Or not- it's up to you.

THE CURE

The main cure to the wendigo possession will be death, as it will be far easier for Hope to separate the souls of the wendigo from the character's body after the character is dead. However, characters who possess Hope's Blessing (Rey and Big Boss), as well as other characters with healing-focused powers, will be able to halt and potentially reverse the transformation, though they will not be able to cleanse the character of the spirit entirely.

Hope will eventually make a post on February 18th and agree to cleanse the victims of their curse and their possessing spirits, but only if the character is on the altar in his temple. As one might imagine, this would be far easier to do if the wendigo were A) more human, or B) captured and forced into place somehow. We'll leave that part up to you.

Otherwise, upon death, the spirits will be freed from the character's bodies and they will be resurrected as they were before the event started, curse-free.

THE AFTERMATH

Any wendigo not dealt with by the 1st of March will be killed by Rage as a personal favor and slight apology to Hope.

The wendigo spirits may not be possessing people anymore, but that doesn't mean that they can just disappear. Hope will force the spirits into the tunnels, as he has for the other monsters that show up, and there they'll reside, completely harmless- unless some unfortunate tunnel explorers get lost and hungry someday in the future...

Additionally, Hope will yell at Fear and Rage for messing up the food supply and then replace all the infected food. No more accidental cannibalism!

THE OVERVIEW

► February 14th: The food supply is tampered with and characters who eat infected food will be possessed by wendigo. They'll start feeling bursts of uncontrollable anger and a deep-seated hunger.
► February 18th: Hope post! The transformation is impossible to ignore at this point.
► February 22nd: Transformation is nearly complete and characters may begin hunting at this point, as hunger and rage overcomes other emotions.
► February 26th: Transformation is complete. Wendigo time!
► March 1st: All wendigos still alive will be killed by Rage.

Edit: Ami made an awesome and helpful writeup of the effects of the wendigo powers and transformation for reference here!

Comments

Questions!

[hadrielmods]

Re: Questions!

[faithfulwolf]

If a character is normally immortal, would wendigo possession keep them immortal or would they become temporarily mortal?

also there is that question; is it still cannibalistm if a character isn't human?

[thebigredog]

how would the wendigo transformation apply to cliff's wolf form as well? mentally he has the same consciousness and thought pattern in either body, but his wolf and human side are two distinct different bodies.

Volunteers for wendigo possession

[hadrielmods]

[unfollowing]

/volunteers Emily for Emdigo

/loves to suffer

I'd be down for any form of cure (or death). Let's go for the most possible chaos and sadness, though, that sounds like it'll be fun!

She will most definitely be attacking literally anyone who wants her to. :3 Let's do this~~

Ruh, Healing, and You

[circumitus]

Like the post says, as one of the two characters with Hope's blessing, Rey will be able to help stop/reverse the wendigo transformation. If anyone who's wendigo'ing their character but don't want them to end in death, hit me up and I can have Rey lend them a healing hand!

Additionally, she's been stockpiling on leftover bear meat from the extinction of some of the monsters because she doesn't trust the "generosity" of the gods. She's paranoid like that. Any other fellow paranoids who have desperately hungry characters are free to hit her up because she's not going to be able to eat three whole bears by herself.

So those are a few options!

Also Rey can generate and manipulate fire, so she should also be pretty useful in combating the wendigo spirits. But she'll definitely want to save the afflicted before she resorts to actually killing anyone, provided that they're not beyond all help.

[vendetta]

Please to be sharing some of that bear meat. c:

[sparkler]

Volunteering Dorian here for wendigo-fighting in general! He has fire magic, which should be useful, and definitely has no real problem mercy-killing people if there's no easy way to fix them, or if he thinks they're going to kill him or someone else. So if you want the Final Solution (tm) he's your guy!

[isacrowd]

Z is willing to drum up some replicas to act as decoys in the fight against any wendigos. Also, she can morph and use her blasters to do extra damage.

[wormintheglass]

Bianca is not, I think, going to be affected for this one, which allows me to dodge the "does it count as cannibalism if you aren't human to start with" question and also potentially allows her to demonstrate how efficient she can be at mercy killing.

...which is not really a thing she wants her new friends to see, but that's tough.

chie + nick

[recinerate]

both my girls will be unaffected by wendigo. chie is available to punt anyone who needs punting. nick is going to not-so-quietly lose her shit about yet more monsters.

[thebigredog]

team bear meat, high five

[cashlin]

Lilith's down to kill some wendigos! She's got no issue with taking anybody out, especially if they're attacking her/other people, which could be a potential conflict with anybody who's going to be trying to save them first. I'm also open to having her injured to any level of severity, so long as she's not killed just yet.

She'll also (grudgingly) lend a gun out in a pinch, but note that she'll probably yell at you if you use up too much ammo. That's hers to waste, thanks.

Kylar Stern

[mercurialize]

ARE YOU TURNING WENDIGO AND CAN'T STAND IT?

Is a cure just NOT coming your way?

WELL look no further. This guy can help! Professionally trained and adequately strong Kylar Stern can do away with all your Wendigo needs. With a quick stab in the heart or simple head-from-shoulder removal, Kylar Stern can end your Hunger and Rage desires in a jiffy!

(Offer only available for a limited time. Mercy sold separately.)

[camouflage]

big boss will choose to kill you over healing you, because that's just the smart thing to do. you can try to make a really convincing argument, tho???

[cashlin]

[bangs fists on table] MURDER MURDER MURDER MURDER

Cecily Trevelyan

[closerift]

By unfortunate coincidence, Cecily, who has been bad-mouthing the local government to anyone who will listen, is going to find out firsthand that Soylent Green is people. Not at first, of course, because she won't realize she's been enjoying some Humanburger Helper until after it's a little too late.

Once she realizes something is Wrong, she's going to consult her housemates in a quiet panic. Once she figures out/hears the details from someone else about what's actually happening, she's going to get as far away from the center of town as possible to keep from hurting people, or worse. Before that, if she's made aware of how best to kill a wendigo, she'll be asking Dorian to do the deed, if it comes to that, because of fire magic reasons. If she doesn't know that fire is the best offense, she'll just be leaving her housemates with Rage's blessing that she'd been given for them to use if the worst should happen.

As far as I'm concerned, the worst will happen, because if she's still herself, she won't allow one of Hope's blessings to be used to heal herself when it could save other people. She wouldn't object to healing magic, though, if there's someone around with that available.

When she's completely lost her mind, so to speak, Inquisitor Lecter is going to be running right back toward town for a snack. If you want your character to be attacked or killed, she can do that. If your character would try and help get her to Hope's temple, they're welcome to try! Dorian and his fire magic are how she'll go down if she's not healed beforehand, but I'm up for all kinds of plotting throughout the event period in the meantime!

[thebigredog]

thom can definitely help with the healing magic, once he's dealt with his own infection!

[whichend]

a general plotting comment for both my girls!

Johanna will be turning into a wendigo. She's already not exactly the nicest person in Hadriel, so if your character already knows Johanna, it might take them a little longer than normal to realize that something is wrong. On the flipside, if your character meets Johanna during the event and then encounters her afterward, they might be surprised at how snarly she remains. Both situations should be a good time. Feel free to kill her or try to hurt her in her wendigo state, she probably won't take it personally. Probably.

Arya will be remaining human. I'm offering up her and her sword for wendigo-extermination duty. (finally, that stabbing is going to be put to good use.) She's got experience with the whole killing thing, but it's not experience she particularly enjoyed, so if she knows your character and has to kill them, some complicated feelings will ensue. If she doesn't know your character, she still won't feel great about it, and will probably have a hard time justifying the killing and possibly try to apologize to your character once it's all over.

Feel free to plot with me here or hit me up at canofspams.

[camouflage]

johanna how would u like to be killed by big boss and lilith.......... we really wanna get some explosions going

[baths]

sam won't be affected by the curse, so she'll be doing her best to channel the flamethrower dude and share what she knows in order to hopefully help keep people alive. as of right now, two of her friends are transforming so she will probably be out and about running, hiding or smacking wendigos with shovels. any combination of the three, really. i'm cool with injuries happening but not for her to be outright killed atm. on the other hand, she will kill a wendigo if it comes down to it, at least until she knows that hope can help reverse the curse. she'll be willing to help bait wendigos into the temple after that.

you can hit me up at yoink to plot, too!

[unfollowing]

I kind of want to do something where Emdigo has a moment of "let this one go ... for now" with Sam? Kind of like how Hannah doesn't kill Josh if Sam has told him about Hannah's fate. Idk, just a thought~

[thechoiceisyours]

Chris is one of the resident wendigo experts here and will not be transforming. So, like Sam he'll be mostly focusing on sharing information and dealing with his friends possibly transforming and generally pretending he has a handle on things. Which he doesn't, btw.

He'll be super torn about killing wendigo that are/were people he knows, for a variety of reasons, but he also knows that as far as canon goes there's no cure and if pushed to it he will kill them. Still, it's a last resort to do so and once he finds out there's a potential cure here he'll be trying to wrangle people to the Temple. I'm good with plotting anything and everything!

[bekommen]

can nick come over and freak out at him :c

[synthedick]

Though Nick Valentine can eat, he's been forgoing it in favor of saving food for people who actually need it because WHAT KIND OF GOD TAKES FOOD AWAY FROM PEOPLE, REALLY. >:( Therefore, he's going to be unaffected!

He is, however, going to be looking for a way to help the people without killing them, because they used to be people. People going all feral ghoul on him reminds him a little too much of home. He'll put down anyone who outright attacks him, but until then, he'll be trying to find some way to contain them in the hopes that there is a cure.

[thebigredog]

this would be the perfect time to have cliff and nick meet in the game right, what with cliff getting infected

[fierycharm]

Mike will be joining his two pals in the 'not a wendigo, so let me help' camp. In canon, he faced down like thirty of these things with the help of a gun and a wolf. Now he's got two guns...and no wolf. Maybe he'll get lucky again and not die somehow.

During the event, he's likely to go around trying to help people who haven't been turned into wendigos and helping spread the wendigo know-how. He's not likely to hunt down any wendigos because let's face it that shit was terrifying enough the first time no thanks but if he has the opportunity to injure or kill one, he'll likely take it, even if it's someone he knew :c

So hit me up for anything and everything you might want Mike for!

[thechoiceisyours]

He's taking one of your guns, bro. 8|

Lloyd + Cliff + Thom

[thebigredog]

Lloyd will be free and clear of the infection because he's got a hideous stock of bear and snake meat to keep him going. He's actually got more than enough to go around and it more than willing to share too, so if anyone wants access to slightly less dubious meat just let me know!

he can also help with any physical handling infected people might require to get them to hope's alter later or whatever (he'd be hesitant to kill any infected people unless it came down to saving the life of someone else though)

Cliff will be getting infected and i'm kind of equally up for him getting killed or cured, but i'm definitely aiming for him to go a bit animalistic before then either way because i love to prey on my character's insecurities.

Thom will also be getting infected initially, but thanks to his insane immune system he'll manage to notice something is seriously wrong early enough to fix himself up, more or less.

he'll also be available for anyone else's healing needs, though considering the severity of the "infection" he'll be limited on how many people he can fix in a certain amount of time and might even get hit with a power overload, which has the potential to send him into seizures or, if it's bad enough, cause a small power outage within a given radius and send everyone else in that radius into a seizure too (he'll seriously try to avoid that though)

[foundafamily]

Firo isn't a huge fan of killing if he doesn't have to, so he's available to help any partial wendigos get to Hope's altar after the post! After the complete transformation, he's less likely to be nice, so he's up for killing and/or fighting.

This also seems like an excellent opportunity to meet some neighbors if any unaffected people would like to team up.

[hopecanruinyou]

lloyd will be unaffected and prefer not to kill the wendigos if he has the option, and he definitely wouldn't be adverse to teaming up with someone!

ciri & hope

[ichaer]

plotting for the two of mine!

CIRI will not be getting infected because she's still highly suspicious of everything about this place. once the wendigo festival kicks off, she'll be using her skills as a professional monster hunter to do her thing and keep them from hurting others. obviously, a sword alone won't do much damage so she'll be trying to construct bombs as well. if any wendigo want to attack someone and get a fight out of it then here's your girl.

HOPE is also not being affected and has a few things to offer. firstly, he has healing magic so he'll be able to help with halting and/or reversing the transformation for a time. he also has fire magic and an enchantment spell to literally set people's weapons on fire for a short while. got a gun and want to shoot fire bullets? he's got you. how about flaming swords. bam! basically, he's here for healing and support.

Plottins!

[bring_the_beatdown]

BLU SCOUT: He will be Wendigo'd. Nick Valentine has already agreed to kill him, but I'm down for others to try or for him to eat/kill them. Because why not make his very first event as traumatizing as possible.

THE ALCOHOL DEMON: He can't eat so he's immune. BUT he's been cursed with bad luck from the wraiths so hes not gonna want to do much of anything. He'll definitely be able to be coaxed out of his apathy with the promise of bludgeoning things to death though.

[synthedick]

Nothing sets up for positive CR like shooting a kid in his first month in town.

Sera

[buttsbuttsbutts]

SO Sera is brand spanking new (and I am too) and won't be getting wendigo'd because I feel that'd be a touch too traumatic right off the bat but she's definitely here for all your mercy killing needs.

Except it'll be less mercy kill and more "ew gross monster /kills it."

So if you're into that, I'm ur gal.

Amos Kamiya

[amos_moses]

After a lot of debate I've decided Amos will stay human, mainly because he's got some dire-bear-jerky and some giant-snake-steaks stockpiled. He is familiar with the wendigo legend, and will be available for mercy-killings if your character wants any from him! .....oooor even if they don't, because if he sees you trying to chow down on someone, expect to be shot full of arrows.

His best friend in his home world was a magically-induced cannibal. He knows what that looks like, even if he can't sense it.

Wolf + Vaiz + Jinbee

[faithfulwolf]

Wolf will be possessed! Because a person already traumatized by having eaten people obviously needs to eat more people. He was raised as a human so he will be easily possessed. He'll go back to not eating at all again after this.

Jinbee and Vaiz won't be possessed though. Jinbee will help protecting people and Vaiz will only fight if he absolutely have to but I'm also up for mercy killings. Or being killed and eaten, for that matter.