lifeaftr | October Event: Feeling Like a Ghost (Part I)

OCTOBER EVENT: FEELING LIKE A GHOST

Who: Anyone and everyone
What: Your past returns to haunt you
When: October 10th and onward
Where: All over!
Warnings: Character death, as well as potential for discussion of trauma and suicide ideation - please mark as you go!

Try and Hear Me, Then I'm Done

You can find most of the information you need in the OOC info post! In the meantime, feel free to use this log as a catch-all for the duration of the event. While this log will focus on the past portion, you're free to use it for the future portion. As always, you can also make your own logs if that's your preference! Come the 21st, however, we'll likely get an additional log up for those who want to play around with their future echoes as well. Remember also that the present portion will be played out in Mu, during this month's Storytelling.

Remember to let us know if your character dies during this event. Bear in mind, however: death penalties will NOT be reduced for this event.

Event Timeline

[ ♆ ] October 10th: The ghosts of the past appear.
[ ♆ ] October 20th: The warped Storytelling occurs, the Storyteller returns, and those who have died are revived.
[ ♆ ] October 21st: Future echoes replace the ghosts of the past.
[ ♆ ] October 25th: With equilibrium restored, all visions vanish, and life returns to how it was.

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A.

[He saw her flickering in an out of existence at first, and Dogo found himself chasing after visions of his mother, whether she went. Sometimes she'd call back to him, and it was her voice and she was here-!]

Mom, mom! Don't leave! I'm right here!

[She looks back at him, as if expecting him to follow. So he does, not caring if he accidentally ends up tripping over anyone in the process.]

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[At some point, he does catch up with her. And she seems more solid than ever. She finally found him! He wasn't going to be alone anymore! He feels a weird sense of anxiety, like she's going to disappear or flicker out of existence again. But she wouldn't leave him alone again, right...?

She gives him a little nuzzle, and then pushes him towards a black hole, hovering a few feet in the air. Dogo's never seen anything like it before, and he's a little afraid of it. His mother gives a sigh of relief.

"Here we are, Dogo! The way back home!"]

Can we really get home this way? It looks... dark...

["Of course we can, Dogo! Just one little leap and we'll be back in the Outlands! Don't you trust me, Dogo? I came all this way just for you."

Dogo shakes off his fear. He's gonna go home, he's gonna be safe. He just has to go through that strange black circle.]

I trust you, mom!

[The needling buzz-blaze of their shadow's not-words still prickle at the posterior of their brain, but the Drifter ignores them just as easily as they did the images of Judgment carding through their head. Their steady refusal to acknowledge them has its pitfalls, however.]

[In attempting to flee from their dark, ethereal twin, they've tramped up a slope, and it's only when the invisible pull starts to catch at the edges of their cloak and slide their boots through the dirt that they realize they've come frightfully close to the Center of Gravity.]

[They're mere minutes from turning away and heading back the way they came when they hear it: a thin, piping, child's voice. Peering through the haze of the black hole's swarming murk, they see the source of it. Recognize it as a jackal, and some part of them still parses that as a holy animal. A jackal, and a child.]

[The Drifter does not hesitate.]

[They stream outward, unraveling like a banner cloaked in scarlet, their blue skin stark against the red and gray of their drifter's apparel.]

[And if Dogo doesn't stop them, they're going to try bowl him back from the Center of Gravity entirely.]

[There are moments when Jules doesn't understand the feelings he gets thanks to his Trisani abilities. He doesn't have enough control of his foresight to truly understand most of the time really. This time the feeling of danger is incredibly unspecific. The more he tries to ignore it though, the worse the feeling gets. Eventually he decides to just follow his gut.

He reaches Dogo just in time to catch the tail end of that one-sided conversation. Good thing too. He steps between Dogo and the portal and readies himself to use his mental abilities to hold the kid back if need be.]

Yeah, well, you shouldn't. Whatever you're seeing isn't your mom, chizzi.

October Event: Feeling Like a Ghost (Part I)

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