Event. | 6/14/18

[awashmods]

This Hairy Creature
[ 6/16 - 6/23 ]
When night falls on 6/15, characters will notice that the sky is particularly bright -- the source of which is the moon. It seems to loom over the town more than usual, unnaturally big and bright as if it would take nothing for it to just... fall right down. (Wait, does that mean the moon has color now...? Seems like it does -- at least for this week.) When sunrise comes the next morning, the moon is gone as ever, but when night falls... it's a full moon again.

That's when they'll see the quest on the quest forum post.

Quest 15:
Protect the Town.
Requirements: Everyone.

That night is when everything will begin to go wrong. A giant wolf can be seen in the edges of the Woods, circling the Town with quiet, low snarling. There are a multitude of eyes in the Woods, gleaming from the darkness. They seem capable of shifting from wolf to something a bit more bipedal at will, and their main goal seems to tear into the Town and eat who they can find.

That's right! The Town is under siege by werewolves.

The werewolves are fast, fierce and tough. They're very resilient, but they can be cut or beaten, and they can be killed. They are particularly weak to fire magic (or just sticking some fire in their face in general), though they are alarmingly intelligent, so watch out for that. They seem inexhaustible, too; it doesn't seem to matter how many are killed, as they just keep coming.

But most importantly, if your character is bitten by the werewolf, they will start to change into one themselves. They will feel perfectly normal at first -- but the next evening, when the full moon is back once more, they will transform... part of the way. It seems as though something about the player characters' biology is messing with the transformation process; characters will only transform a maximum of half the way to werewolf. What this means is up to you! They might just literally have half a werewolf body. Perhaps only their head changes, and a tail. Maybe they just grow a snout and sharp claws.

Either way, these characters will find themselves craving bloody meat and quick to anger, and while they can control themselves at first, they will be torn between their original self and the wolf possessing them. And it will get harder and harder to control that urge to hunt the others in return. Naturally, please get permission if your character is going to bite another after having started to turn! If your character is bitten by another character, they will turn into a partial werewolf as well. The characters who have not been bitten, in the meantime, will start to feel a very strong sense of paranoia and fear towards all of the werewolves, even the ones that they know are their friends or CR; they'll have to fight off an ever-strengthening mob mentality throughout the week.

There is one bright point in the midst of all of this -- the werewolves only show up at night, and the player characters will turn back to normal during the daytime. But the moon comes back every single night, and so do the werewolves, both in and out of the Town. Better do something about that, right...?

Maybe a cure could be found? It's going to have to be a group effort, though; if you'd like to have your character try to find a cure, please respond to this comment here! We'll give you guys more information then, and toss you all together to work on the cure!

If a cure is not found by the end of the event, the player characters' bodies will start to painfully purge the werewolf contamination themselves, but it will be an agonizing process that will last upwards of four days. Depending on the outcome of attempts at a cure, we'll let everyone know at the end of the event what they can expect for their bitten characters!

As ever, please ask us here if you have any questions, and feel free to use this post to coordinate and plot if need be. Thank you, everyone!

Comments

QUESTIONS

[awashmods]

[withwisdom]

Would Zelda's sealing power be effective on the werewolves? Or alternatively, could it help suppress someone who has been bitten?

[awashmods]

Her sealing powers will be entirely effective! They won't last forever, naturally, but they can seal werewolves in place for a reasonable amount of time. Please just plot with the other players involved when binding player characters; otherwise, we'll leave it up to your best judgement!

[batsuits]

Hi, mods! I went through the old mod posts but I didn't see it so I wanted to double check -- have the characters restored silver as a color yet?

If they haven't, does this mean there's no... silver... to kill the werewolves? Oh boy.

[awashmods]

Silver has not been restored....yet. But this event might help out with that, so keep your eyes peeled on what your fellow players accomplish!

Re: QUESTIONS

[satanslash]

Wrong account but uh
What happens if a Pokemon gets bitten?

[awashmods]

Pokemon, pets and animals can be bitten and harmed, but won't transform! They just don't have the right biology for it, it seems.

[passio]

would dextera’s purification have any effect? he can’t purge it entirely because that would be no fun, but could he assuage symptoms at all?

his powers are basically like cleansing a wound/purging disease, so...!!

[awashmods]

Yes, that would be fine! Dextera can use them on normal werewolves to turn them back into normal wolves, though it will take a lot of effort. For player characters it will only alleviate the symptoms, but please feel free to plot with other players to decide just how much!

Re: QUESTIONS

[queenofminiskirts]

How sharp are the werewolves' teeth? Like, if Kaoru's wearing her uniform which canonly has protected her from being shot with tranquilizer darts and is designed to be knife-proof, can it protect her from being bitten?

Re: QUESTIONS

[awashmods]

That's up to you! They naturally have very sharp teeth, but please feel free to go with whatever is the most fun to play with.

[ifionlyhadthecourage]

In reference to the part about paranoia/fear and mob mentalities: Would Caramia's courage feasibly be able to stave the feeling off, if it's able to overwhelm his natural anxieties and fear?

[awashmods]

That would be fine! For all character influencing effects like the fear and paranoia, it's always up to you guys how far you want to play with them. Considering Caramia's pendant, it's entirely fine to assume he can shake off those effects easily.

[shotlocking]

Aqua has a binding ability; would this be effective against the werewolves, even for just a short time?

[awashmods]

That would be fine! It'll work just fine on player characters and NPC werewolves alike. Please plot with your fellow players to decide how effective it is on their characters!

[totheno1]

I LOVE WEREWOLVES BLESS YOU MODS

Would a Refresh Ring (Recovers a character's condition) spell work against those who are caught in the werewolf's spell? (I am okay if it only works partway and/or only works for a short time).

Additionally, is it okay that if Kei gets bitten for example, that his Persona also takes on more animistic characteristics (aka look more primal and dangerous)?

[awashmods]

The refresh ring will have no effect on the werewolf condition sans possibly making them feel a bit better. How unfortunate! It's less a condition that needs to be fixed and more an infection, so it'll make them feel better but won't revert the condition itself.

But yes, it's fine for his Personas to take on animalistic traits; please feel free to play with it as you wish!

[theshowsover]

SO HYPOTHETICALLY if a character dies after being turned into a werewolf, would that purge them of the contamination after they come back or will it still have be purged?

[awashmods]

If a character is killed during the event, they will have the normal death penalties and will no longer be contaminated! So that's one way to get rid of the werewolf problem.

[hydrokinetics]

Can't believe I didn't think to ask this sooner and sorry if it's dumb but! How would a werewolf react to another very large canine creature that would fight back? I read that pets can be bitten and unaffected but with Mrs. O'Leary's nature as a hellhound would that change anything about the wolves' behavior? Thank you in advance!

[awashmods]

The werewolves will act much like any other intelligent, feral creature would act; they'll try to take out whatever seems like the greatest threat to them first. With that in mind, it's very plausible that they'd go after Mrs. O'Leary first, since she seems like such a large and dangerous threat to them.

That said, it's up to you how far you want to play with that! It is just as possible that without a larger number of the werewolves present, they'll be wary of taking her on as well. It's mostly up to you and whatever will be the most fun for you to play with!

[explodosafe]

I can't believe I'm asking this, but what happens if a character bites a werewolf? Will they also get infected? Do werewolves taste like chicken?

[awashmods]

That was not something we even remotely thought about, thank you. But you know... if a character bites a werewolf they won't get infected, they'll just get a mouthful of werewolf. But nobody restored color to wolves this month so they're going to taste pretty disgusting!

Re: QUESTIONS

[heartsteals]

When characters turn back to normal during the day, do they remember what they did while they were werewolves?

[good_ideas]

I ask this question a thousand years late but what will Shiho see if she touches a newly infected person vs a late-stage werewolf? Will she be able to see what specifically is causing the change in behaviour and appearance? And as for the werewolves, if Shiho tried to locate them in the forest after the event (like where they came from, traces of the paths they took to get to town) would she be able to do that?