It's like Boggarts and Dementors in one go!

[realitymods]

The results of a few choices are already going on and will continue to go out over the weeks, but this is the first effect that people get to sign up for! Anyone can sign up for these affects. They should start this Wednesday and end on the Wednesday of next week. This week's set comes in the form of negative hallucinations!

HALLUCINATIONS

Characters will hallucinate their worst fears, their worst nightmares, and their worst memories. The extent of these hallucinations are up to you – they could be visual only, or completely immersive, or visual with a flickering audio. They can hallucinate other real people into their hallucinations (seeing someone as their dead best friend, for example), they can not see those real people, or they can see them as incongruities in their hallucinations.

You can choose any combination of the three, so you don't need to limit yourself to just nightmares, nor do you have to use all of them if you don't want to. The hallucinations can be constant, but they don't have to be – certain triggers might bring them about, like familiar faces or certain phrases or certain temperatures on the fluctuating Plane. It's perfectly possible that they'll pop up at random.

These hallucinations can have physical effects. If your character is hallucinating a fire, they may get burned. The effects and the hallucinations are limited entirely to themselves – unless, of course, one of the telepaths gets themselves involved, in which case there may be some unwanted sharing of hallucinations and effects.

SIGN-UPS

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OTHER SIGN-UPS!

Sign-ups for choices and surprises are still open and will continue to be open until the end of the month. Sign up here!

(Sign-ups for the nightmare plot will end on Wednesday, however.)

DEATH

We've amended death rules for the month, just for fun. If a character dies during the plot, they will come back as some manner of undead – zombie, redead, ghost, poltergheist, Jedi spirit, whatever. They will be stuck this way for the duration of the plot, with their powers modified appropriately.

You should still fill out the normal death form, because after the plot, the effects that you put in there will start up. For example, if Jade died now, he could be brought back as a zombie with no powers. When the plot is over, however, he will be turned back into a normal human, have all his usual powers restored, and also have an allergy to redheads if that was decided to be his physical change when the death form was filled out.

Comments

[seriousmarauder]

Sirius says ".......but I just LEFT Azkaban. :|"

[semantics]

TOO BAD, SIRIUS.

[seriousmarauder]

Y SO SIRIUS

[semantics]

I FIND SIRIUS THINGS HILARIOUS.

[melissa-228.livejournal.com]

Okay! Dumb clarifying question, for death stuff.

I'm assuming they won't be mindless zombies/ghosts/redead/etc. To phrase that as a more clearly understood question: even though they're stuck as unholy abomination of your choice, dead characters will still be essentially themselves and have their own memories and personality for the most part, but they'll just be stuck as an unholy abomination?

(Hopefully that made sense.)

[realitymods]

YES AND NO. Mainly yes. Or mainly no? They should in general retain who they are - memories and personalities - but they return as twisted versions of themselves. They don't want to be alone in this, after all, and may try to drag their dear friends into the afterlife with them. And zombies will want flesh, and redeads will want to glomp onto you and suck out heart containers. Spirits generally want something - they might have a strong revenge wish, for example. So when they come back, they will come back dangerous, the darker sides of themselves, but they still should be, shall we say, identifiable as who they used to be. They won't be mindless or blank slates.

[melissa-228.livejournal.com]

Okay, sounds good to me! Thank you~

[bit_impossible]

With the modified death rules, does that mean their blood will still change to black when they come back as an undead thing and remain once the plot is over?

[realitymods]

They will not have black blood as an undead thing. Zombies might, their blood being weird, but it won't be Plane blood as long as they are the undead. Once the plot is over, though, they'll have Plane Blood (™).

[bit_impossible]

Ohhhhh all right. Thank you!

[whitelighter]

They can hallucinate other real people into their hallucinations (seeing someone as their dead best friend, for example), they can not see those real people, or they can see them as incongruities in their hallucinations.

Do you mean to say there is the option of not noticing non-hallucinogenic-people? :|a The wording is a little confusing to me here.

[realitymods]

There is, yes! There's a possible that, say, Roxas could be hallucinating things, and Axel would go, "HELLO, REALITY CHECK HERE???" and Roxas would not notice him at all. (Whether or not physical force would be enough to shake them out of it is up to you!)

[tsunderes.livejournal.com]

Question! If I were to sign Noa up for the hallucinations, would be alright if I had that manifest as Agape's memories? Noa isn't very far away from the point in canon where that will happen anyways, but I could play with it a little sooner and a little more, uh, vividly.

[realitymods]

As long as they're bad memories and Noa can remember them (eventually) they qualify!

[toastofrassilon.livejournal.com]

This might be an obvious question, but for the hallucinations, you said "They can hallucinate other real people into their hallucinations (seeing someone as their dead best friend, for example." Could they also just...hallucinate their dead best friend, as opposed to seeing someone else as their dead best friend?

[realitymods]

Yes, of course. We'd run out of people to be dead best friends otherwise, I think.