I’ll Follow You
[ 4/17/2018 - 4/25/2018 ]

It’s been a peaceful month, dealing with Quests and delving into the mysteries of the forest. Unfortunately, it seems as though the characters stirred something up a bit through their repeated forays into the depths of those woods.

Starting 4/17, characters are going to start having some major issues...with their shadows. It’s easy to think little of them, since they’re always there, always following your character around, the usual black of a typical shadow. But it seems as though whatever the characters woke up or met up with in the woods?

It’s had a bit of an impact on those shadows. Early in the week, the shadows will gain just enough tangibility to be a bit of trouble. They’ll try to play little pranks on the character they’re following around: they’ll try to steal things that the characters have been working with, making them disappear as if they were never there when the character isn’t looking. They’ll try to trip them when they’re not paying attention, tugging at their heels or sticking out a suddenly solid tendril-y foot. They may even wait until the character’s back is turned, and say something mean or nasty about their CR -- in their voice, of course.

Still, it’s mostly harmless, right? Weird, but harmless, and the shadows are mostly focused on not being seen over performing their mischief.

At first, at least. About halfway through the week, though, it’s going to change from minor trouble to… Trouble.

At that point, the shadows will try to legitimately sabotage characters. They’ll try to knock them out via knocking over shingles or pots, whatever they can get their shadow-y, sometimes tangible hands on, and then try to drag the characters into the woods. They may try to dump them into the well by pushing them when they’re least expecting, or try to trip them into a knife. They’ll try to snag important belongings, or start legitimate fights between CR. The possibities are endless.

And most importantly? The more of these things the shadows succeed at the more tangible the character’s shadow will get, and the paler the character will get, as if their color is slowly being washed out. How do the shadows succeed? The more characters nearly die (or do die, even worse) from their tricks, the more fights between CR are caused, the more frustration exists in the town, the more a shadow is “succeeding”. Shadows will get darker, fuller, with tangible features (your character’s features), and be able to cause even greater mischief.

It will take a great deal of effort by the shadow, but if a shadow does manage to steal the majority of your character’s color and energy? They will eat them whole. This will naturally be left up to player discretion!

At that point, the character will disappear for the remainder of the event, returning as if perfectly fine when the event is over, remembering nothing but darkness -- though one of the colors they have returned to the town will be gone. At this point, that could be the food item they brought back, their text having color on the forum, or their house having color. If they live with other people, only the portion of the home they live in will be lacking in color again. Please let us know here if that happens, and what aspect will be disappearing as consequence.

A mingle log will be posted for the event, though you are more than welcome to have your characters make their own posts or logs for the event as well as soon as it begins on 4/17. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them below. You're more than welcome to use the rest of this post for plotting amongst yourselves, or the CR meme. Thank you, everyone!