Event: No Light, No Light; Part One

[snowblindmods]

NO LIGHT, NO LIGHT

On the morning of day 242, you begin to turn into a monster. Well, not all of you, and not suddenly. Those of you who had your light stolen and those of you who once turned into a monster, those are the ones who are undergoing the slow change. And it is slow: no one will fully become a monster, but over the course of the day various things will change. Maybe their jaws will extend and warp, maybe claws will grow and grow and tear through their hard-earned gloves, maybe they'll slowly start thinking of those around them differently... Those who were monsters before are turning into the same sorts of monsters again, while those who had their light stolen get to experience this new: it may not be only associated with their fears, now. They can be a monster like that, but they may also be something related to the worst parts of themselves--or the worst parts of their friends. It's a frightening and inevitable march toward a loss of control, and you can feel yourself losing your grip on who you are the more you transform. As for those who still had their light, those who didn't become monsters, for now it seems they get off easy. There's only the vague sound of whirring, like an electronic saw far in the distance. It's probably nothing to worry about. As before, if your character is turning into a monster for the first time, you can either create it yourself or request that a moderator create your monster.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[snowblindmods]

[swatsflies]

Would touching anyone who is in the process of turning into a monster do anything to someone who isn't?

[snowblindmods]

It causes dizziness and nosebleeds, but doesn't render anyone unconscious.

[holmesice]

For characters who've just arrived, do they have their light?

[snowblindmods]

Yes.

[harlequinofhate]

Will monsters have any interest in eachother/fighting eachother (if there were two growing out of a traveling group, say) or just light?

[snowblindmods]

They wouldn't have interest in each other or fighting each other because of turning into a monster. Because they're still mostly in control of themselves and aware, though, they could always just attack other monsters because they as characters wanted to.

[rubikscomplex]

Is there any pain associated with these apparent physical changes?

[snowblindmods]

There can be! It's up to you.

Re: QUESTIONS

[0thingsonmymind]

are the monsters still after lights?

[snowblindmods]

That urge can be returned to them if you want.

Re: QUESTIONS

[fanboyascended]

Could characters in the process of turning into monsters be knocked out or restrained?

[snowblindmods]

Yes.

[harlequinofhate]

Are monsters still movement-locked (same squares per day as they were normally)?

[snowblindmods]

Yes.

[0thingsonmymind]

also do the monsters keep the effects they had before? for instance brianomaly brought colder air and possibly slight dulling of senses, would that remain?

[snowblindmods]

They can! It's up to you.

MONSTER CREATION

[snowblindmods]

If you would like the moderators to design your monster, please fill out the following form:

<b>Character:</b> NAME (<user name="JOURNAL">) <b>What should we take into account?</b> List fears, list things your character is associated with, list things your characters' friends associate with them... Whatever! <b>Anything else:</b> Link your squick post if necessary, tell us things you'd like to focus on/things you want to avoid, whatever!

this is disjointed af and i'm sorry

[quadrangle]

Character: Karkat Vantas (quadrangle)
What should we take into account?
Fears
- Clowns
- Failure
- Getting his friends/people he cares about killed
- Death/being culled/people finding out he's a mutant and shunning him/ANY OTHER NEGATIVE REPERCUSSIONS, WHICH IS WHY DEATH IS ON THIS LIST BUT LIKE. Otherwise also generally death? goddammit I tried to make this somewhat orderly and it exploded
- Being alone/unwanted, also tangentially related to the above, god I don't even know he is scared of many things to do with these subjects I'm just

I suppose you could say that what Karkat fears ultimately has to do with being unseen or unheard, metaphorically as well as literally, but being seen and heard also terrifies him if it's for the wrong reasons (see also mutant, fear of failure). Also he's an enormous fucking sap who loves his friends and hates seeing them in pain/dying (unless they've significantly betrayed him) and then there's that thing where a psychotic clown hunted/honked at him through darkened corridors and ultimately murdered him in an entirely different setting and whatnot and yeah.

Associations
- Crabs???
- Blood? his blood is a Thing AND ON THAT NOTE RED, HE IS RED, RED IS A THING, BRIGHT FUCKING RED LIKE FF0000 HOLY SHIT THAT IS SOEM CRIMSON UP IN THIS BITCH
- Idk he's angry and shouts a lot and has sickles and made a universe if I knew what I wanted I wouldn't be here.

Anything else: No squick whatsits but I'm terrible and was hoping signature Homestuck blanky white ghost eyes might somehow be a thing he gets because a lot of his anxieties to do with home at the moment have to do with him being from [S] Game Over and therefore a doomed timeline version of himself? I'M JUST MAKING THIS MORE COMPLICATED BY TYPING SO MUCH AND I'M SORRY

[snowblindmods]

Karkat's eyes turn white and his skin grows paler and paler until it's translucent. His veins are prominent over his arms, legs, torso, face--bright red on display to anyone who so much as glances at him. The veins on his wrists bulge and break out of his skin, wrapping around his wrists like shackles and making him trail blood wherever he goes, though he doesn't seem to have to worry about blood loss.

Karkat hallucinates the presence of his friends and less-than-friends from home, alive and dead in various ways. Usually dead. He hallucinates his friends here dead and dying, as well, in a thousand different ways.

[quadrangle]

THIS IS SO MUCH WORSE THAN EVERYTHING I WAS IMAGINING AND I'M SO HAPPY i love you okay bye

Re: MONSTER CREATION

[rattlingthestars]

Character: Jim Hawkins (rattlingthestars)
What should we take into account?

Fears
Not living up to his potential
Being abandoned
Dying again
Being blinded

Associations
stars & space
pirates
sailing
being a cadet

Anything else: Nothing I can think of! Squick post is here.

[snowblindmods]

Jim's eyes melt out of his head. It doesn't hurt, but his vision vanishes suddenly as his eyes turn to liquid stardust and leave permanent, stardusted tracks down his cheeks. His hearing, at least, intensifies to compensate, allowing him to pinpoint the smallest of movements at the cost of loud noises being painful. A sail grows little by little out of his back, ripping through clothes if they're not removed first. It reacts to what sun gets through, making him move slightly faster during the day and slower at night.

At night, when he's sluggish, he tends to lose track of people more easily and tends to assume they have left him behind. He'll react with a great deal of agitation, which may manifest as sadness or anger. It's more likely to be anger the further along the transformation is.

(frozen comment)

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