Event: Lavender's Blue; Part One

[snowblindmods]

LAVENDER'S BLUE

As day 180 cracks open its eyes, the snow and wind crash against the doors and windows, which shiver and rattle as they fight back the storm. You could open the doors if you wanted and venture outside, but you wouldn't last long. It seems like it's going to be a long day. In the morning, those who drew eyes on their bodies go blind. It lasts for ten minutes, and then sight returns. However, in a mirror and to anyone else, a change will be obvious: their eyes more closely resemble the symbols that are scattered around the town than they do real eyes, though they seem to work just fine. Those with programs sensitive to the symbols will find these eyes glow just like the others do. In the afternoon, those who removed the eyes will be subject to sharp pain starting in their stomachs and radiating outward. It lasts for ten minutes, and then the pain recedes. They will find their eyes glow now without the use of any sort of program to look through--they luminesce faintly in the eye color of the person sporting them. Those who were not there to draw or remove eyes may have either effect happen to them, though someone more sympathetic to the prophet is more likely to have the first effect and someone less sympathetic more likely to have the second effect. This choice will decide certain situations in other events. It doesn't seem like these strange eye enhancements are going away. It does, however, seem to be growing colder. You can't shake the feeling, as the cold crawls into your bones, that there's something that must be done soon... Part two will be posted on the day the event begins.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[snowblindmods]

[coyoteking]

This is me being overly specific, but for Charles's blind eye, does it just glow white or not at all? (Like is it the iris or the whole eye, I guess.)

[snowblindmods]

It can either glow the color it was before he went blind or glow white, your choice.

Re: QUESTIONS

[circumsutus]

Yet another highly specific question but what if Stein (being the mad scientist that he is) cut open the eyes of someone in the "drew eyes" group? What sort of differences from "normal" would he find?

[snowblindmods]

It seems the same inside as a normal eye, but the shape is warped to accommodate the weird drawn eye look. It probably shouldn't logically allow for sight considering how usually changing the shape of the eyeball would alter that, but it wouldn't have any detrimental effects on anyone who has it.

(Until he removes it from someone's eye socket, I guess.)

[jumpthegun]

Would it still glow once outside the socket under the influence of the eye app?

[snowblindmods]

Yes as long as the symbol was intact.

[circumsutus]

Fantastic!

[hangfire]

MORE NITPICKY QUESTIONS

- For those who removed eyes, is the pain they feel something constant as soon as it starts, just radiating further into their bodies? Or is it more like coming in waves?
- Is it just the iris that glows, or the entire eye?

[snowblindmods]

1) It's constant.
2) The iris is the part that's actually glowing, though it's kind of hard to tell.

[phaseshifter]

If one of the remove eyes group already had glowing eyes, do they now glow more intensely? If so, how much? What I'm saying is does Angel have ridic flashlight eyes now

[snowblindmods]

They would glow more intensely, yes. Not enough to light up a whole room, but it would work as an extremely dim flashlight.

[phaseshifter]

UGLYLAUGHING THIS IS THE BEST

[phaseshifter]

AND on behalf of zae: rhys took the iris out of his robotic eye when he got rid of holojack. He drew eyes - is the remaining irisless eye affected? Is the iris, which he's wearing as a stylish bracelet?

[snowblindmods]

Both his irisless eye and the robot eye would be affected. He would have a temporary new doodle iris for the duration of the event.

Re: QUESTIONS

[ninjainviolet]

Sheena is still having trouble with her depth perception. Will glowing eyes affect that in any way?

[snowblindmods]

There won't be any positive or negative effects in that regard.

[0thingsonmymind]

how strong is the glow? if, say, someone covered their eyes with a cloth of some sort would it be visible through the cloth?

[snowblindmods]

A cloth no, but a sheet yes.

EDIT: Just realized Brian's special situation here--his mask would glow where his eyes are as well.

[0thingsonmymind]

ha-ha, my attempt at being coy worked!

good to know, i'm sure that won't seem creepy at all

[snowblindmods]

I'm pretty sure Brian never seems creepy.

[0thingsonmymind]

would the mask's eyes glow red--the color they are--or the color of brian's actual eyes?

[snowblindmods]

The color of Brian's actual eyes.

Re: QUESTIONS

[0thingsonmymind]

also, ah...
what does the eye symbol look like, anyway?

[snowblindmods]

This! The pupil may be more or less filled in depending on the drawing, since they're made by people and not uniform.

[0thingsonmymind]

thankees!