hotelcaelum | Event Log #002

EVENT LOG
number 002

The hotel humbly hopes that you're settling in well and are taking advantage of the various pleasures on offer for your stay. In Mr Bennet's opinion, things have been going quite well and he doesn't think that the guests are unhappy at all. New guests have arrived, some have left, it's all going along perfectly. So, of course, this is when the next troublesome thing pops up.

SHADOWS

One morning, characters will find the hotel to be a little dimmer than usual, a little more shadowy. Yet if anyone asks Mr Bennet about it, he will claim to not have noticed anything different than usual. Either way, as the characters move on with their day, they'll start to notice a few odd things start to happen.

PHASE ONE: Initially, characters will notice their shadow beginning to move a little out of sync with them. Discreetly at first until eventually, their shadow takes on a life of its own, mischievously playing with characters and enjoying their newfound freedom. Very Peter Pan, and completely harmless.

PHASE TWO: Now, shadows might disappear entirely, roaming the hotel to their own discretion and ignoring the characters they belong to. As the shadow takes on this free will, characters will begin to feel slightly off balance and have a hard time feeling whole without their shadow around. The shadow may become slightly aggressive as well if told they should return to their characters, fighting back in their own way from knocking things over to outright attacking other characters. It's a little hard to fight back though when your opponent is a shadow, isn't it?

PHASE THREE: The shadows have become fully aggressive now, fighting anyone who tries to get them to return to their original person. Characters will find themselves feeling weak and low energy as a result of losing their shadow. Eventually, the shadows will come back to their owners but the characters will find themselves sinking into their shadow, eventually changing places entirely with their shadow. The only way to rescue a character from this fate is for another character to pull them out of their shadow forcibly. The bright side is once a character is pulled out of their shadow, it all returns to normal and their shadow is no longer sentient.

These phases will last over the course of the week and it is quite alright to stay in phase one/two/three. Not all shadows will become aggressive, not all shadows will be playful. Feel free to manipulate your character's shadow in the way that's most fun for you.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ The moment the shadow dives for Sumina, all other thoughts seems to fly from his mind — in some backwards way, by focusing on attacking someone other than himself, the shadow has freed him from the mental hold it had on him by using the ghosts of his past against him. All that matters now is that the shadow is attacking someone to get back at him. Someone else might stand to get hurt because of him —

A shield rises to protect her before he can intervene, the glow of a soft light at her chest as its source. Later, much later, he'll definitely be asking for that, but once is more than enough. He's been such an idiot, just lying here in a stupor, unable to so much as lift a finger to protect her when she had been trying to help him —

It won't happen again. Sumina might catch its blow more easily than he expected, and that gives him all the time that he needs, while the shadow is distracted by Sumina's countermeasures. It should have been so obvious before, how to solve this problem, but preoccupied as he was with his own emptiness without his shadow beneath him, he hadn't realized it until this moment.

But maybe he's just the desperate to make sure Sumina doesn't get hurt. Especially not on his behalf.

Keeping a firm grasp on her hand with one of his own, he lifts the other, his index finger and middle finger interwoven. Where can't a shadow follow them? ]

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