Event: Shadows and Side Effects Start

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SHADOWS AND SIDE EFFECTS

As day thirty-six arrives, the event begins. Over the course of the day, as various people arrive in certain buildings, the possessions will take place: as the traveler draws close, either by accident or intention, the shadow will stop still. It will turn to look at the person in question and begin to scream. Then it will move forward very rapidly--too rapidly to avoid, almost too rapidly to react to while it's happening--and push itself into the traveler. The possessions are as follows: Building Two - Stephanie Brown ↔ Sparrow Langley Your name is Sparrow--like the bird! You're a six year old girl and you live with your parents and your bird, Sisi. Sisi is a sparrow like you, except your parents say Sisi isn't exactly like a real sparrow. You don't really get it. You love birds and any opportunity to talk about birds. Really, birds are your main interest. You're six, though, so weird obsessions are probably normal. When you grow up, you want to be a bird or a pilot or an astronaut. You post under the username @sparrowlangley. Building Twenty-six - Quark ↔ Shelley Derricks Your name is Shelley Derricks. You're an eighty-six year old woman and a retired computer programmer. You can remember basic programming knowledge, more or less, but the complexities elude you. A lot of things elude you, unfortunately--even with all of today's modern medicine, your memory has been failing you more and more lately. You were active as a protester before, but not anymore, because your children worry so much. You're not sure if they're worried for you or themselves at this point, but you do want the best for your children. That's why you started protesting in the first place. If only you could remember what you were protesting... You post under the username @shelleyderricks. Building One Hundred - England ↔ Andromeda ??? Your name is Andromeda. You can't remember your history or how old you are, but you know you're a woman and you do remember your infatuation with the stars. Stars are one of your earliest memories, after all: the first time you remember being outside, it was staring up at an ocean of stars and a brilliant aurora. You prefer to keep yourself under control at all times--you try to keep calm, collected, and serene, and most of the time you do a good job of that. You can get a bit over-excited about any discussion of stars, though, and have an encyclopedic knowledge of them. You post under the user name @andromeda. Building One Hundred One - Ellana Lavellan ↔ Riley Sung Your name is Riley Sung. You're a nineteen year old boy. You study journalism in university, but you're home for summer break at the moment. Not that you're slacking off, of course! Journalism is your passion, and you want the inside scoop on everything. Any little bit of information that crosses your mind as important is something you want to doggedly pursue. Unfortunately, you have a tendency to see connections that aren't there at all... You post under the username @rileysung. Building One Hundred Seventeen - Alex Kralie ↔ Jia Xú Your name is Jia Xú. You're a thirty-six year old female nurse--not because you weren't good enough to be a doctor, as you've heard some people suggest, but because you prefer nursing as a career. And you're very good at your job, if a bit stern and unforgiving toward those who waste time and adults who come to you for health advice or enter the hospital and then don't follow your directions seriously. You're much kinder to children, especially very young ones. If you get the idea that a child's health is being compromised by their parents having strange opinions, you'll do your best to sneak them proper treatments. You tend to assume a lot of parents do that, actually. How strange. You post under the user name @jiaxú. Building One Thirty-One - Jay Merrick ↔ Hospital Patient You're a patient at Norfinbury's hospital. A recent patient. An emergency patient. Something went wrong. Something... Your leg got torn to pieces, you're blind in one eye. It was a horrible accident. Really horrible. It's all so busy here, and people keep telling you to stay still, but you feel strangely restless and unbalanced. You keep wandering around, following people around, sneaking up on them, biting them... You just want their help. Why won't they help? You post under your normal username. Building One Thirty-One - Clementine ↔ Hospital Patient You're a patient at Norfinbury's hospital. An emergency patient, although you don't know what's wrong. You're a very young child, after all. You're five years old, although you'll be six in two months. Ever since the Emergency, you haven't spoken. There's nothing wrong with your vocal cords, but you won't speak. You won't. No one can make you. If someone asks if you can speak, you're fine just shaking your head no, but if someone pushes you about it, you'll stop them, you'll attack them, you'll rip out their throat if you can, so they can't speak either. There was an Emergency and then everything in your body got all twisted around. It's twisting around all wrong in your blood. You won't speak. You won't let any of it out. You post under your normal username. These possessions will go on until the morning of day 038. All PMs have been sent out; let us know if you signed up and didn't receive yours.

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oh my god so uh

since Tim was trying to text Jia Xú's ID the night before this happens, does that mean Possessed!Alex will get that message? IS THAT A THING?

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Yup!