How Many Feelings
[ 4/19 - 4/26 ]

The woods encroach so, so slowly, so minuscule a movement forward that it's basically unnoticeable.

But the effects on the characters? That's not minuscule at all. Because bit by bit, characters will start to notice that there's something weird afoot. Only this time, instead of being a threat from the Town, or a threat from afar... it's something happening within.

Characters will find that starting on 4/19, they will start to lose the ability to feel at least one emotion. This emotion can be anything you'd like -- fear, anger, happiness, disgust... the possibilities are endless. But slowly, that emotion will start to be deadened, until they just can't feel it at all. Eventually, they won't even be able to remember what it felt like to have that emotion. They'll be aware that it's something they were able to feel before, but what it felt like will be completely gone.

This can happen to multiple emotions, depending on how badly you would like your character to be affected! The progression rate of how quickly the emotion is deadened is also up to you. However... there are a few caveats:

• Characters who have been in Awash for a very long time will find that their emotions fade much faster than characters who are new to the Town.
  
• Characters who have cut down/burned/destroyed or otherwise harmed any of the trees in the woods at any time will be impacted even more strongly by these effects. They might have more emotions impacted, or lose their emotions faster.
  
• Characters who do not have any or have very few strong bonds with other characters (whether positive or negative!) will also be impacted more strongly by this event.

So what's to be done about this? How will characters get their emotions back?

Well... they don't.

There are ways to mitigate the damage a bit. If characters spend time around their most precious bonds (again, positive or negative -- a character they love and a character who is their most hated rival are both candidates for the same level of impact), they will have that emotion back to a certain extent, as if the effects are wearing off.

But when they part again, it will fade away quickly, as if that brief relapse never happened. All the characters can really do is wait, and hope their feelings come back to them. At least those who lost the ability to feel concern won't have a hard time with that.

Thank you! If you have any questions, please ask them here. The event log for this event will be up on 4/19.