Event Post: Patron Gods

[hadrielmods]

THE RUNDOWN

On the morning of March 15th, you will find a letter resting in a place you're unable to miss. Maybe on your bedside table, maybe taped to your mirror, maybe even inside the pair of socks you were about to put on. Each envelope is a gentle pastel color, corresponding to the god who's chosen you - Hope is purple, Fear is green, Rage is red, Delight is yellow, Sorrow is blue, Confusion is orange, and Tranquility is gray.

Each letter reads:

Congratulations! You have been chosen! [God name] thinks you're a great fit for their team! All you have to do is spread their emotion, and you'll get a blessing - and if your team wins, you get the grand prize: one (1) request for each member of the team, no payment required! Or you can band together and request one big thing, it's all up to you! So find your allies, get started, and let's win this thing!

As you're wondering why whoever wrote this doesn't seem to know any punctuation besides exclamation points exists, you may feel a mild sense of competitiveness creeping over you. You kind of want to win, and if you're naturally competitive, that desire will be even stronger. You'll also discover that when you meet someone else on the same team as you, you feel a sense of camaraderie - maybe you should help each other out? Either impulse can be easily ignored, but that's no fun! Wouldn't it be way cooler to work together and beat those other, crappier teams? Yeah, we thought so too.

After reading the letter, a friendship bracelet in the color of your patron god will appear on your wrist. It can be removed easily enough, if you want to hide your team affiliation or just hate friendship bracelets, but with or without it you'll still feel inclined toward friendship and teamwork with your teammates! (Screw all those other guys, though.)

THE DETAILS
What your characters can do to help their team win is pretty much up to you - the sky's the limit, as long as it induces the emotion of their team. Scattered in shops around the city are items that might help with this: hopeful greeting cards, scary fake spiders, jars of glitter, and other assorted small things. But you don't need props to get a reaction out of someone, right? It can be as big or small as your character wants - you could insult someone to make them mad, tell them a sad story, pretend you're your own identical twin and confuse the hell out of them. Or, for the more extreme folks... well, terrifying attempted murder and spiking someone's drink so they'll have a good time isn't out of the question. All that matters is inducing the correct emotion. Have fun!

Any character that participates will receive a blessing from their patron god. Please read the page carefully if you have any questions about how these work! One good thing to keep in mind is that if your character has a similar power already, or simply doesn't want that particular power, they can give it away or trade it. Your characters will receive the blessing spheres on March 21st, the day after the event ends. We'll be keeping an eye on participation, but it would be very helpful if you let us know, in plotting posts, on the CR meme, or anywhere else, if your character is not participating, so we know to leave them off the list of who gets a blessing.

Finally, the grand prize is - as stated in the letters - one request for each person on the team. If requested individually, these would be a smallish reward. For example, a kind of food they've wanted, immunity from another event, healing of a wound, or a special weapon. However, if most of the people on the team band together and agree on one thing, the reward can be much bigger - for example, an entirely new building in the city. Maybe you really wanted that cafe! Now's your chance. Smaller groups of people on the same team could also join together to request a slightly bigger reward to share, if they wished.

Ready for team assignments? Check below for your character's patron god:

Fear Alphys Armand Armitage Hux Beth Washington Carlisle Longinmouth Emily Jack Benjamin Marian Tenebris Mewtwo Richie Gecko Sharon da Silva Shuuya Kano Ulaume har Colurastes Ushahin Dreamspinner Will Graham Yu Kanda

Hope Amos Kamiya Cecily Trevelyan Cole Ellie Emily Kaldwin Frisk Glacius Gladiolus Amicitia Kara Zor-El Katherine Galloway Lunafreya Nox Fleuret Matt Murdock Pellaz Cevarro Rydia Steve Rogers

Rage AM Anakin Skywalker Andrea Quill Ardyn Izunia Bucky Barnes Calanthe Cashmere Dylan Blake Firo Prochainezo Gren Jill Valentine Mello Mikoto Suoh Ragnar Lothbrok Ronan Lynch Shadow the Hedgehog

Delight Connor Walsh Duck Faith Carr Hannibal Lecter Jacob Frye Jo Harvelle Johnny Storm Junkrat Mettaton Morgan Walker Papika Prompto Argentum Prussia Sans Turing Webber Undyne

Sorrow Adam Parrish Asgore Dreemurr Celebrimbor Curufin Feanorion Hanako Nurumi Hannah Washington Jade Ellsworth Leliana Maketh Tua Nagato Napstablook Noctis Lucis Caelum Regis Lucis Caelum CXII Rey The Doctor

Confusion Asriel Dreemurr Bianca Chara Kain Highwind Kylo Ren Maedhros Natasha Romanoff Ray Shin Fang Russia Sato Sherlock Holmes The Outsider Tiny Tina Tyki Mikk Wade Wilson Yukari Mishakuji

Tranquility Ahsoka Tano Allison Argent Anne of Austria Chris Hartley Dr. Lee Rosen Flick Henry Percy Ikaruga John Watson L Lawliet Near Ned Wynert Nick Valentine Paladin Danse Ravine Romulus Hart

Please let us know if we missed anyone.

THE OVERVIEW

► March 15th: Letters appear, the event begins
► March 20th: The event ends, a winner is chosen
► March 21st: God blessings appear for all participants

Comments

QUESTIONS

[hadrielmods]

[beanstalk]

I don't see Kanda anywhere on the lists?

[hearthebell]

Aw, L got overlooked. :(

[hadrielmods]

Sorry about that! We did have him on the list, but somehow between moving things and people around he must have gotten removed. He is on team Fear.

[hadrielmods]

Sorry about that! Just like Kanda, we did have him on the list, but somehow in the process of evening out teams he was removed. He is on team Tranquility.

[hearthebell]

Cool, thanks! Haha I was like "no one wants him" ;;

Re: QUESTIONS

[survivethis]

What if Jill were to inspire rage by making people angry at the gods. Would this be considered mutiny? lol.

[hadrielmods]

Nope! Regardless of what they're angry about, it still counts.

[survivethis]

Totally gonna organize a mob to TP some temples.

TEAM CONFUSION

[wormintheglass]

Bianca is ragingly butthurt that her favourite god didn't pick her, which means she'll be bringing out every dirty trick in the book to win.

SHE'LL SHOW YOU, RAGE.

Anyone care to get hypnotised?

Emily and Faith things, for your handwaving convenience!

[unfollowing]

Emily will settle for people being scared of Wolfie if they see her walking around with him. She may or may not be teaching him to growl on command anway haha. Def feel free to handwave having come across them during the event.

Faith will want to throw a rager, p much. She'll be like "hey team let's throw a party and invite everyone! If we serve booze, they will come!!" Teammates can absolutely feel free to handwave this conversation, and if it happens, wherever in the city, everyone can pls feel free to handwave Faith being... her usual self, lmao.

And then on the day after the event, she'll chat with Delight about how she didn't do a good enough job, find out about the fun new hiatus option, and go comatose for a while. :)

[kittycaterer]

LMAO THE MODS DID THIS ON PURPOSE

TEAM FEAR

[deceiving_is_believing]

Okay, after Shuuya gets over the fact that he's on this Team, he'll be pretty willing to help anyone out on Team Fear. So, if you're the man with the plan, Shuuya will be super willing to help you out!

Shuuya's ability, Deceiving Eyes, allows him to copy another person's appearance. But he has to know how they look, smell, and sound before he can do that (so, sorry, pictures won't work. You're free to get creative, though.) He can use this against some people to strike them into a Fearful mood. (Just don't expect him to do this for Ned. He doesn't want to get shot.)

If you want to abuse him for your Team, just talk to him long enough to become friends, then pretend to be annoyed with him or hate him, and that'll spike his Fear right up as he begs your character to hit him to make it better.

If you would like to plot for either of these to happen with your teammates, please feel free to inquire! I'm game for all the CR this will bring!

[kingslight]

Well, Regis is going to be a hot mess right along with his son.

[kingslight]

Regis and Noctis are so screwed! They have legit sads already, so magnify that by twenty.

Actual plotting post

[kittycaterer]

Anyway...

There's really no need for me to detail things too much other than the general THERE WILL BE FFXV SPOILERS IN NOCT'S TAGS. It's almost sad how this is going to so perfectly play into how competitive Noctis already is. And his life is a hot mess. But he'll be pretty casual with his negativity. Almost blasé about it to the point of it maybe coming off as passive-aggressive. He mopes, but not openly in front of strangers lol.

So yeah. Sorrow for this guy. Let's have some fun with the sad Caelums.

[tongueamok]

Carlisle is vehemently opposed to the gods and doing anything for them to the point where he won't event vote in resurrection polls, so he wouldn't choose to actively participate in this. However, he's on team Fear, and his own paranoia gets him riled up and afraid of stuff all the dang time. Does that count?

(And him getting a blessing would make him furious, so it's like two gods win if it does. Sob.)

[kittycaterer]

;3;

DAD.........

[kittycaterer]

I'm still laughing at how blatant this decision must have been

Henry Percy

[hotspurred]

Henry's on Team Tranquility!

Despite not knowing the meaning of chill, you can count on Hotspur to be ultra competitive. So aside from his normal efforts trying to keep the peace as a guardsman, he'll be making the most of the only skill he possesses that might spread some tranquility: massage!

Yep, you read that right.

Someone with such an intensely physical way of life is no stranger to it, and he is in fact pretty good. So for a week he'll be available for teasing out those painful knots and relaxing your muscles with his strong, skillful hands. And for throttling the filthy-minded.

If anyone on team tranq wants to assist, let me know! We must have musicians, etc. He can probably dredge some poetry (and prayers for the catholic squad) from memory too, if we're looking for more ideas.

He'll be willing to humour positive emotion seekers, since the last thing he wants is the negative emotion gods overpowering everything in the near future, but also he's pretty susceptible to rage (his temper runs hot) and confusion (because over a year on and you future people are still ???).

Feel free to bother me here or at my plurk (himewakako) for plotting!

[fracturedbeauty]

This would be the opportune time for Yukari to admit he has a boyfriend to Percy xD

[hotspurred]

100%

I'm laughing at the thought of how it'll go down already

[fracturedbeauty]

Delightful! We'll have to have them run into each other for Yukari to tease him relentlessly.

dylan and kate

[dylinquent]

Kate is on team Hope and - sorry, bro - but completely uninterested in this contest. So she'll be on autopilot/handwaved for the majority and working at the clinic as usual because what is having a life or fun? Although I would be interested in having her meet some new CR - so if you're on team Hope and want to take advantage of the teamwork/friendliness boost, or if you're on another team and maybe want to poke at her and see if you can get her to feel competitive enough to try and inspire hope in people (ha... ha... how do you do that...), or if you just want to have a random unrelated thread, let me know!

Dylan, meanwhile, is on team Rage and once she gets over the "wtf I am chill all of the time" lies, she'll be all about this because it sounds sort of fun. She'll definitely want to organise things with fellow Rage squad people and be into the whole Team aspect of the thing. Outside of that, she'll be going to annoy people in various ways because sure, let's get into the spirit of the thing.

Chat to me here or hit me up at forethought!

[dylinquent]

Bro your massages suck. js.