EVENT: The Great BREW Malfunction Coordination Post

[soul_mods]

Hello, Soul Campaign! We’ve been busy compiling lists and we’re here with more info about the upcoming event! The event will start on the morning of July 14th (this weekend’s day change) with a BREW viewing at Shibusen. During the viewing, a certain incident (brought about by a legendary guest) will cause the malfunction to start, sending characters who signed up for the swap back home for an instant. No time will pass in their home worlds but at least a few minutes will pass in Death City before they reappear, switched to the opposite designation. Characters may reappear in the same place they were before or find themselves in a completely different place.

Below are lists of all the swaps that have been approved already. We’re also including a preliminary list of all things from canon worlds that have been approved so far as well as tentative locations for their initial appearance. Of course, creatures might wander afterwards. And smaller items might be moved by characters but please check with the original requestor first in case they had plans for it. Items and creatures in Set 1 will appear on the day change of July 16th, Set 2 on July 17th, and Set 3 on July 18th. You may also refer to the calendar for an event timeline.

If you would like to swap a character or request things from your character’s world, requests are still open and may be made in the previous event info post. The lists will be updated as additional requests are approved. (EDIT: Additions made after the original posting are denoted by an asterisk.)

Any questions or concerns can be addressed in the Questions thread here. You may also let us know if you’d like a location for one of your canon requests changed or if we missed something that was approved.

Meanwhile, we encourage you to look over the lists, get ideas, and use this post for plotting! Share your plans for your characters during the event, tell us a bit about what’s showing up from their world, find people to try out resonating with, or plot encounters with creatures from other worlds!

WEAPON LIST FOR THE SWAP EVENT
ASSORTED & HOUSEHOLD ITEMS	Akiha Tohno - credit card Aleksandr "Sasha" Nikolaevich Hell - amorphous iron Amaterasu - calligraphy brush Auron - a jug of sake Chika Daimon - Digivice iC Cloud Strife - the Black Materia Hamel - conductor's baton Hiro Kageyama - cell phone Hyoubu Kyousuke - spoon Light Yagami - tome with a quill attached by a fine chain * Lily Ivory - Book of Shadows Morgan LeFlay - Blood Island Volcano Shot glass
BLADES	Miles Edgeworth - a rapier with a cravat Mondo Ooawada - pickaxe Shu Ouma - longsword
CLAWS	Hyuuga Neji - a pair of Shuko connected by a chain
CLUBS, STAFFS, RODS & CANES	Mizuno You - baseball bat
POLEARMS	Kaworu Nagisa - the Lance of Longinus
PROJECTILES & ARTILLERY	Judai Yuki - Spark Blaster Mihael 'Mello' Keehl - 9mm Sig Sauer P226 Minako Arisato - an evoker Re-l Mayer - a small compact pistol
TOYS	Clopin Trouillefou - handpuppet Karina Lyle - Super Soaker water gun Yami Bakura - Duel Disk
WARDROBE & ACCESSORIES	Eve - scarf Kanji Tatsumi - shades Raidou Kuzunoha - cloak Takuto Tsunashi - a golden mask shaped like Tauburn's face Valentine - medical pack

MEISTER ABILITIES FOR THE SWAP EVENT
Berserker Soul - When the Meister is in a state of heavy or critical injury, the ability manifests as a massive increase in strength and agility, with a drop in finesse and skill. During resonance, some injuries may also be healed while in this state at the cost of the Weapon's energy. The duration of the berserk state lasts only between 1-3 minutes, with time varying on things such as the Meister's physical state, the presence of enemies, and how practiced the ability is.	Shinji Ikari
Cuteness Proximity Soul - Similar to Feral Soul, when the Meister perceives that a cute living being is in peril (such as small animals, young children etc), their endurance, strength and agility is temporarily increased until the target is deemed safe, at a cost to self-restraint, resonance and risk assessment. Note that the ability can be fooled by, eg, toy animals or other objects that resemble cute living beings.	Josuke Higashikata
Electrifying Soul - When they're wielding a Weapon and they achieve resonance, that Weapon is able to inflict lightning-based damage.	Sheena Fujibayashi
Feral Soul - The meister takes on animalistic tendencies the more they become angry, becoming stronger, faster, and immune to damage at the cost of their self-control and resonance.	Vincent Law *
Icy Soul - When the Meister is wielding a Weapon and achieves resonance, that Weapon is able to inflict ice-based damage.	Naoto Shirogane
Infectious Soul - Sephiroth's soul wavelength can infect targets with symptoms similar to Geostigma. Short exposure to Sephiroth's wavelength, while activated, would simply leave targets feeling nauseated at first. Prolonged exposure to the wavelength, such as a long drawn out battles, would begin to result in black marks and oozing black sores appearing on the target's skin while the infection takes root. Those infected with Sephiroth's wavelength would begin to feel lethargic, nauseated, and depending on the physical and mental strength of the target, it could also cause hallucinations and seizures.	Sephiroth
Lego Soul - When attacked, the Meister's soul wavelength creates a barrier, looking very much like a wall built out of small lego pieces, which protects him from both physical and magical/elemental attacks, but not madness wavelength. The more damage the barrier endures, the more cracks will appear on the lego wall, until it shatters completely and leaves him vulnerable to future attacks. The barrier protects both the Meister and the Weapon, and allows him to use his Weapon's abilities even when it's in place.	Nate "Near" River
Manly Soul - Their soul has the power to inspire confidence and morale in comrades and allies.	Ramza Beoulve
Moe Soul - Their Soul Wavelength can calm and distract their enemies.	Yako Katsuragi *
Protective Soul - Like a mother sacrifices herself for the sake of her child, the Meister will take the damage for their Weapon, up to a critical point. This will allow the Weapon to fight for a longer period of time than they would have otherwise, but it may cause a break in resonance if the Meister sustains too much damage.	The Dolorosa
Scorching Soul - When they're wielding a Weapon and they achieve resonance, that Weapon is able to inflict fire based damage.	Genesis Rhapsodos
Shadow Soul - Similar to that of Feral Soul, the Meister can boost their endurance, stamina, and strength temporarily, but they will also enter a Shadow form in order to do so. In exchange for increased combative abilities and their body ignoring pain, this depletes their ability to resonate quickly as well as drains their sanity at the temporary cost of their humanity. Remaining in this state too long will risk a violent rejection between the Meister and their Weapon. However, without a Weapon, there's a risks of losing their mind and will require Calming Wavelength to recover.	Duo Maxwell
Soul Alchemy - They are able to affect the malleability of a Weapon when wielding it, making it softer or stronger.	Sion Eltnam Atlasia
Soul ALL EYES ON ME - Kind of like Soul Dazzle except he can only control it during resonance. Outside of that he will at random times prove to be irresistibly distracting for no apparent reason, to friends and enemies alike.	Yuugi Mutou
Soul Blood Spatter - In the thick of a fight, while resonating, any blood splattered on him, either from people or kishin eggs, will be instantly absorbed by the Meister and heal him up.	Alucard
Soul Confusion - Confuses enemies momentarily giving the Meister more time to attack, dodge or escape. The better the resonance the longer the effect lasts.	Nanami Kiryuu
Soul Determination - They are able to take a mortal blow once and withstand it. While it does not heal them, they are given the strength to continue on in battle.	Fujino Asagami Giroro
Soul Drawing - With focus, Meisters can gather strength from the willpower of nearby comrades (causing the Meister to glow both wavelength-wise and visibly) and convert it into a single powerful attack. The outlet of this attack is by pouring that energy from the Meister and through to their Weapon in order to execute the powerful blow. This ability is exhaustive to the Meister, but has no side effect on their Weapon. Not activating the strike right away can throw off resonance due to the ability progressively making it harder for the Meister to breathe.	Bakura Ryou
Soul Excitement - The meister is able to lift the spirits of their weapon! The more excited the meister is, the better the resonance.	Johan Andersen
Soul Invisibility - During resonance, the meister can render himself physically invisible to the naked eye. This does not hide his soul wavelength or any noises/movement that can mark his presence, however, so individuals that are sensitive to soul wavelength (e.g., people with Soul Perception, stronger technicians, some kishin eggs and most witches) or those with keen senses would be able to notice his presence.	Sugata Shindou
Soul Portal - Able to use up soul energy to create small portals that can deflect hostile attacks. Only two may be created at once: one to take in, one to spit out. The ability can be used only as long as the Meister's energy can last. Improving resonance allows the pair more control over the ability, and can improve its capabilities. In addition, the better the resonance and the more advanced the level of Meister, the larger and further away the portals can be made. The portals can only be created and used to randomly redirect hostile attacks through resonating with a Weapon until the Meister hits two-star. Once the Meister hits two-star, he/she can create small portals to redirect hostile or friendly attacks wherever desired, at a higher cost of his/her energy, and can begin to use this ability independent of a paired Weapon. A three-star Meister will be able to travel through the portals they've created.	Eren Jaeger
Soul Rage - When they become angered, the Meister and Weapon's offensive strength becomes tripled, but it becomes harder to maintain their resonance.	Asuka Langley Soryu
Soul Recluse - They are able to sense and seek out peaceful places in which to retreat to safety.	Keroro
Soul Serenade - The better they sing while resonating, the stronger they are.	Princess
Soul Shooshpap - Similar to Calming Wavelength, the meister's soul has the ability to comfort those around them, but in order to do so, physical contact is required. The more often the meister touches the person they are trying to calm in a certain period of time, the more the person will be affected by the ability. However, the strength of the affect is limited by the meister's abilities and how well the weapon and meister are resonating when used in battle. This ability, unlike Calming Wavelength, is not immune to the Madness Wavelength.	Karkat Vantas
Soul Telekinesis - The ability to manipulate inanimate objects by moving them or changing their shape. They need to be in line of sight--even within a few feet, until he gets some practice--and the duration and effectiveness of the manipulation will depend on strength of resonance.	The Psiioniic
Soul Teleport - They can shift through the environment, with one catch - they have to have seen the area before. They can only go short distances at first, and when resonating with a Weapon, they can teleport farther.	Lezard Valeth
Soul Trap - Their wavelength is able to cause a bout of mass confusion in the opponent, making it difficult for them to fight back and even possibly cause pain to themselves.	L Lawliet Chihiro Fujisaki
Soul Wild Card - This ability allows the Meister to have multiple abilities at their disposal; however, it is completely at random, meaning that they would not have control over what ability they will use.	Trucy Wright
Turbo Soul - When wielding a Weapon, they can move twice as fast as usual.	Rock Lee

List of canon items/creatures

Set 1 (appearing July 16):

A can of Pandra's caviar - Outside Hyoubu's apartment
Alter Ego - Shibusen City Park, on a bench
Bat Familiar - Shibusen Library
"Crazy Diamonds" Motorcycle - Inside a jewelry store at the mall
Fairies - Corpse Bros. Cinema
Gavinners' Discography - In the window of Papercut Books & Antiquities
Giroro's flying board - Shibusen City Park, in a tree
Guybrush’s Poxed Hand - Mortician's Touch
Hiro's Cellphone - Shibusen City Park
Handcuffs - Hanging from a lamppost outside Watch headquarters
Magatama - Edgeworth's pocket
Millenium Ring - Inside a claw game at the arcade
Monobear Drone - Death Robbins
Pekopon Suit, Salaryman Edition - One of the washrooms in the Agency
Plugsuit 01 - Shibusen City Park, in a fountain
Pointing Finger - all around
Pot of Greed - Outside the World Bank
Prize Pod - Guest Business Building C (Yesterday's Magic, Metokorri R and franchise and Northern Lights)
Punching Cactus - Outside various residential buildings. Also replacing a few ornamental plants in lobbies.
Raiel's Solid Gold Piano - Holocaust Mall Lobby
Soichiro Yagami's police badge - Fatality Condominiums Lobby *
Steel Samurai Doll - Lobby of the Agency
Tachigami - Shibusen City Park
Touch Me Frog - Around Shibusen
Vice President - Shibusen City Park, in a trash can


Set 2 (appearing July 17):

Akio Cars - Around Death City
Alraune - Raidou's apartment
Cactuars - Shibusen City Park
Cerberus - Raidou's apartment
Clopin's puppet cart - Casualty Communal Lobby
Firebird Summon - Shibusen Hot Springs
Jack Frost - Arcade
Kaoru's throne from the Catastrophe - Basketball court
Kasugami - Red Light Disctrict
Kuriboh - Yuugi and Takuto's apartment
Lezard's dragon familiar - Bitch’s Brew Bar *
Malboro - Red Light District
Memorial Stone - At the top of the Shibusen stairs *
Mr. Eldoon's Noodle Stand - Blocking the entrance of Dorsia
Near's L shaped tarot towers - Mello and Near’s apartment *
Obots - Shopping District
Projection Machine - Financial and Service District
Ruby Carbuncle - Death's Best Friend Pet Store
Sand Bear - Outside the Animal Shelter
Scouting Legion horses - Shibusen
Sitri - Lily's Apartment
Space Okonomiyaki FX - Keroro and Eve's apartment
Sword Familiar - Shibusen City Park, where Morning Training is held
Three-Headed Monkey - Guest Run Business Building B (SEES, Triple A and Fatal Frames)
Tonberries - Residential Areas
Winged Kuriboh - Judai's apartment


Set 3 (appearing July 18):

A chunk of Kanako's cruise ship (with alligator) - Balanced precariously on the Shibusen stairs
Battleship Condescension’s command center/psychic containment area - outside Patchwork Laboratory *
Big Marie - Blocking the entrance to the Church
Chamber of Horrors - Shibusen Lobby
Duel Roller Coaster - Inner Quarters (Inner Residential District, Shopping District, Financial and Service District, and Shopping District)
Helicopter - Roof of Guest Run Business Building D (Black Mesa)
Kame Game Shop - In the middle of a major intersection
Leliel - in the sky above Death City Heights
Mother Grub and grubs - Outside Beetle Juice *
Private theater - Fatality Condominiums basement *
The "Rabbit" - Outside the Recreational Centre
Ramiel - in the sky above the Fatality Condominium
Unit 03's entry plug - Outside the Horrorhospital
YMO-104 (aka a giant space sweet potato) - On top of Shibusen

Comments

QUESTIONS

[soul_mods]

[pishirogane]

As stated above, Naoto will be turning into a Meister with Icy Soul. However, she isn't going to change her partner. She will, however, have to proceed to learning bare knuckle brawling and other methods to fight against eggs. Yes, they're not slowing down, but will collect those remaining five souls for her later. Still, anyone want to come near her with that chilling soul and maybe help her?

Amaterasu is becoming a Weapon, specifically a calligraphy brush able to use Celestial Brush techniques. She'll be a little finicky about being wielded at first, but in the end, a few missions and a few things around the city are eall good. One last thing, two of her brush kids will be arriving. First, Tachigami in the Park. Don't mistake him for a simple rat. Second, Kasugami and her dangerous alcoholic mist. Careful around her if you're not a heavy drinker. Ammy will be taking in her kids after finding out about them, but maybe if... two people could come across each respectively?

Rosalia is unaffected, but come to the clinic if you think this can be medically corrected. She'll be completely baffled.

Finally, Valentine will become a Weapon and take on a slightly... off appearance. Kinda realized that since her game's end route, she's technically supposed to appear a little dead-ish. Nothing major so don't be scared and do try resonating with her to randomly draw dead 'bodies' from her bag.

[prosecutory]

Okay guys, one more time, the magatama permission post because the magatama will help Edgeworth see people's secrets in full lock-and-chain detail. Please comment if you're chill with this sort of thing!

Edgeworth himself...well, obviously he's going to covertly try to retrieve that Steel Samurai doll without anyone noticing, keyword being "try" and while in court I plan for him to suddenly switch to his Weapon form and freak out.

[unbreakably]

If anyone wants to do something with Josuke and his new compulsive helping cute things in trouble problem, then come at me, bro. c:

[the_great_hero]

Seriously guys, I want someone to use Hamel for nefarious purposes (of stripping down kishin eggs or friends and making them dance). Or slowmo chariots of fire action. It would be glorious.

[pishirogane]

Covertly retrieve the doll in an office full of detectives... Haha. Surprise resonation go?

[motherofthesun]

Does Josuke know how to draw?

[unbreakably]

Well, he probably can, but since it's Josuke it.. probably.. sucks.. stick figures and the like.

[motherofthesun]

Good thing the symbols aren't that complicated then.

[fujigglephysics]

Fujino is going to be a Meister with "Soul Determination", and she'll have part of her memories (specifically, the ones that confirm that she's actually crazy) taken by fairies! She'll seem a bit more brutal in fighting as a result, but other than that, she'll be trying to help out.

[unbreakably]

As long as not too much is expected out of him...

[motherofthesun]

Nope. Just circles and lines and scribbles sometimes.

[unbreakably]

Sounds perfect then!

[motherofthesun]

Mwahaha. FEAR THE GIANT CALLIGRAPHY BRUSH! And the funny Meister.

[vintage_magic]

Lily will turn into her Book of Shadows and let Meisters use spells based on her canon witchcraft, including some snake magic. And she’ll be very embarrassed when she discovers Lezard wasn’t lying about not being able to conjure clothes when transformed! But she’ll still go on the mission they were supposed to do the day the swap starts because protecting people is important.

Since Lily is much too stubborn normally about hiding that she’s a witch, I’m also going to make her have trouble controlling the transformation and dump her in public places like the park or her shop in book form so people can stumble on her and possibly wonder why she turns into a spellbook. I’ve already got a few threads planned around this but I’m open to more! And I gave her a healing spell so she might be helpful if someone gets injured with all the chaos in the city?

Sitri, a demon that Lily exorcised back home, will be showing up on the 17th. Looks like a leopard with an eagle’s wings, likes to mock women, can cause impulses to strip or make out, and can produce illusions. The effects can be resisted, much like resisting Madness. He’ll be showing up with a post at Lily’s apartment first but will escape soon after and characters are free to encounter him around the city or spot some weak-willed locals who have fallen victim to his effects.

The other thing from Lily’s world is the Chamber of Horrors exhibit from the wax museum she visits several times in canon. It’ll be appearing in the Shibusen lobby on the 18th and characters are welcome to play around with it as they wish!

More info about Sitri and the Chamber of Horrors is here.

[pirateninja]

Morgan is going to turn into a shot glass that lets Meisters breathe fire if they drink from her and have good resonance. Other than an encounter with a drunk sheep, I don’t have any plans for her yet so I’d love to find some people to try out her Weapon form! Who wants to breathe fire? :-D

Showing up from her world is Guybrush’s Poxed Hand, Guybrush’s left hand which Morgan cut off during their first meeting. It has a green tinge from being infected with the Pox of LeChuck but shouldn’t be contagious since it only affects pirates and I don’t believe we have any at the moment. Basically, it’s just a severed hand that runs around on its fingertips and hits people. It can hit pretty hard despite just being a hand so characters might be knocked over by it. There’s also the Three-Headed Monkey. Despite looking freaky since it’s about the height of a person and has three heads, it’s docile. At worst, it might take and eat any bananas left lying around.

Feel free to have your characters encounter either of those if they spark any ideas! The info for both is here.

[unbreakably]

Maybe Josuke can find her in the shop in book form? c:

[vintage_magic]

Sure! I've already got plans for Kanji and Yuugi to see her book form too so might as well make it all the employees! :-D

[unbreakably]

CAN'T LEAVE OUT THE NEW ONE.. but okay, I'm glad to hear that! Looking forward to it for sure!

[everyonesconfidant]

Hiro's Weapon form is, as stated above, going to be his cell phone. He can summon illusionary demons that can use a variety of attacks depending on which one is summoned. I'm considering making a post with him freaking out about THERE'S A SCREEN ON MY HAND OH MY GOD WHAT DO I DO, but doing something with that Jack Frost looks tempting... (I'd love to do both but I don't know if I can get away with it.)

Anyway, the first item to show up from Hiro's world will be his cell phone. Since it can't summon anything from Death City, the summoning portal will just be spinning above it harmlessly. It can either be broken or turned off to stop the portal. Hiro might find it on his own, but if you'd like your character to find it and inquire about whose it might be, let me know here!

The next "item" to show up from Hiro's world will be Jack Frost, Atlus's frosty little hee-hoing mascot. Anyone who works at the arcade is free to encounter it. Let me know if you want to find it somewhere else though (just so I know; it's not a permission thing or anything like that). I really want to make a post with the Jack Frost doing something weird in the arcade like... playing DDR, but we'll see what I can get away with (I don't know if making two posts so close to each other would be bad karma or what).

Information on the cell phone and Jack Frost can be found here.

[pure_lineage]

Sephiroth is going to initially have some trouble controlling his Meister ability. He should be able to control it to a safe degree by day 3 or 4 though, but for the first 2 or 3 days anyone who gets too close to Sephiroth will start to feel sick because of his wavelength.

So is anyone interested in having their character fall sick? :D He'll be more out and about on day 2 and 3 - with day 2 it would be before and after his mission only though. In regards to day 1 when he is returned to death city, his Meister ability will kick off right at the start while his emotions run rampant through him, and the wavelength would surround the area he's returned to for a good 3 - 5 minutes until he's calmed down. So anyone who could be walked by the area or whatnot would be affected by it.

[wearspurpleclothes]

Johan will be swapped to a Meister for this event, with the ability Soul Excitement. While he and Judai are basically partners I keep forgetting to actually make it official whoops I'd be down for having any sort of temporary partnership for him if anyone wants to try resonating with this derp. His spirit buddy Ruby Carbuncle is going to be showing up too, appearing first at the pet store and likely blowing that popsicle stand at the first opportunity, and anyone is welcome to come across him be it there or elsewhere. The second item request I put in for him is a Pot of Greed because wow it lets you draw two cards from your deck that's super useful! Go ahead. Find it. Try it. Two cards. Wow.
Also who wants to duel him on the roller coaster (ﾉ◕▽◕)ﾉ

Shinji will also be a Meister, with Berserker Soul turning him into something of an unstoppable force at the cost of roughing him up pretty thoroughly first. Anyone who takes him on a mission during the event and gets this ability active will be my best friend. His Plugsuit will be showing up, as well as a smashed up entry plug that will serve a giant eyesore and hideous memory, and will leak tang LCL all over the place. Gross. Kaworu's player also put in for a couple Angels, Ramiel and Leliel which I am totally stoked for omg Shinji will feel quite differently but who cares about that \:U/

Lastly, Mondo will be a Weapon, specifically a Pickaxe that turns things to butter. He's partnerless as of yet, so anyone who wants to give wielding him a shot will be totally welcome. His motorcycle will be showing up in the hilariously inappropriate location of the jewelry store (or maybe it's hilariously clever. Diamonds. Jewelry. Well played, mods.) and a Monobear drone will be hanging out in an ice cream shop and being a kind of frightening fixture unless someone wants to. idk. move it out and set him up somewhere else. Create shenanigans. Scare the shit out of Mondo and Chihiro. Go crazy.

[pregames]

Everyone needs to duel on the duel roller coaster just saying

[wearspurpleclothes]

A non duelist boards the roller coaster

gets punched in the face by a trap card.

[tauborn]

Ready to take one for the team.