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Event: Phase 1 - Madness in the City
Event Post!
This event will begin on January 31 in-game.
One of the Witches’ cronies has sneaked into the city and dumped a load of black blood into the water reservoir of the city (the blue ring around the inner city in the location map). This waterway is where everyone in Death City gets their drinking and washing water, and thus will affect anyone who ingests the water then. If your character doesn’t drink water and doesn’t take baths, then they won’t be affected.
What is Black Blood and what are its effects?
The Black Blood is literally pitch black blood that induces insanity in the person who is infected by it. An extremely potent form has been used in the black sphere events in Europe last December in-game, but for the purposes of this event a more diluted formula will be dumped into Death City's waterways.
This madness erases or amplifies fear, which prevents hesitation or makes the weakness of will crippling, depending on the character. Someone who's normally well-behaved might find themselves acting demented and inebriated. Violent characters could become even more bloodthirsty. People who have good control over themselves are likely to keep hearing a little voice telling them to give in to the power of madness.
Madness brought about by the black blood can be disrupted by wavelength-based abilities, and anti-madness wavelengths such as the Calming Wavelength and Soul Apathy can help mitigate the effects. Soul resonance can momentarily ground partners against the madness, but black blood can infect people through resonance, so if one or both of a pair do not have strong enough willpower to resist it, it’s possible for them to end up infecting each other and actually aggravate the contamination the longer they resonate. Strength of will also comes into play when resisting the madness.
Because this is a diluted dose (else it would be obvious where it came from!), the effects will not be instantaneous. At least one to two days will pass before characters will start feeling the madness and showing visibly altered behavior. The effects will also not be permanent, and should fade completely after a week.
Black blood can also enhance speed and strength in battle, but the trace amounts that each character will be ingesting will just be enough to give each user a good adrenaline boost. Keep in mind, though, that the more someone uses the boost granted by the black blood, the more the madness will take hold. This might be interesting to use for the witch invasion, if you’re getting your characters to fight in that, and usually-weak characters may find themselves with mad, convulsive strength in short bursts of time.
Calling last Halloween’s Vector victims!
Last Halloween in-game, a number of guests were inserted with vector snakes that made them go wild in Death City. During this new madness event, these vector victims from that time will be able to detect the source of the madness and eventually pinpoint where it’s concentrated (re: the waterways). It will come as a faint, nagging feeling that heightens as more and more people become affected by madness and the closer they come to a water source (like the faucet, from the toilet, etc).
You can opt to have your character not notice this -- perhaps they are too busy to notice, or they have other things to worry about -- that's perfectly fine with us!
Though it won’t be fast enough to completely flush the madness from the city for Feb 2 in-game, this information will help Shibusen figure out how the madness got into the city despite Death the Kid’s shields still being up, and will hasten the investigation.
Logs and network posts!
The communicators will still work during the event, since the madness isn’t actually in the air but within each person. We will be putting up open logs for the event.
It’s up to you how affected you want your characters to be, for flexibility in plot. You can use this post to coordinate with each other.
For questions, please comment here or email us at soulcampaign@gmail.com.
This event will begin on January 31 in-game.
One of the Witches’ cronies has sneaked into the city and dumped a load of black blood into the water reservoir of the city (the blue ring around the inner city in the location map). This waterway is where everyone in Death City gets their drinking and washing water, and thus will affect anyone who ingests the water then. If your character doesn’t drink water and doesn’t take baths, then they won’t be affected.
What is Black Blood and what are its effects?
The Black Blood is literally pitch black blood that induces insanity in the person who is infected by it. An extremely potent form has been used in the black sphere events in Europe last December in-game, but for the purposes of this event a more diluted formula will be dumped into Death City's waterways.
This madness erases or amplifies fear, which prevents hesitation or makes the weakness of will crippling, depending on the character. Someone who's normally well-behaved might find themselves acting demented and inebriated. Violent characters could become even more bloodthirsty. People who have good control over themselves are likely to keep hearing a little voice telling them to give in to the power of madness.
Madness brought about by the black blood can be disrupted by wavelength-based abilities, and anti-madness wavelengths such as the Calming Wavelength and Soul Apathy can help mitigate the effects. Soul resonance can momentarily ground partners against the madness, but black blood can infect people through resonance, so if one or both of a pair do not have strong enough willpower to resist it, it’s possible for them to end up infecting each other and actually aggravate the contamination the longer they resonate. Strength of will also comes into play when resisting the madness.
Because this is a diluted dose (else it would be obvious where it came from!), the effects will not be instantaneous. At least one to two days will pass before characters will start feeling the madness and showing visibly altered behavior. The effects will also not be permanent, and should fade completely after a week.
Black blood can also enhance speed and strength in battle, but the trace amounts that each character will be ingesting will just be enough to give each user a good adrenaline boost. Keep in mind, though, that the more someone uses the boost granted by the black blood, the more the madness will take hold. This might be interesting to use for the witch invasion, if you’re getting your characters to fight in that, and usually-weak characters may find themselves with mad, convulsive strength in short bursts of time.
Calling last Halloween’s Vector victims!
Last Halloween in-game, a number of guests were inserted with vector snakes that made them go wild in Death City. During this new madness event, these vector victims from that time will be able to detect the source of the madness and eventually pinpoint where it’s concentrated (re: the waterways). It will come as a faint, nagging feeling that heightens as more and more people become affected by madness and the closer they come to a water source (like the faucet, from the toilet, etc).
You can opt to have your character not notice this -- perhaps they are too busy to notice, or they have other things to worry about -- that's perfectly fine with us!
Though it won’t be fast enough to completely flush the madness from the city for Feb 2 in-game, this information will help Shibusen figure out how the madness got into the city despite Death the Kid’s shields still being up, and will hasten the investigation.
Logs and network posts!
The communicators will still work during the event, since the madness isn’t actually in the air but within each person. We will be putting up open logs for the event.
It’s up to you how affected you want your characters to be, for flexibility in plot. You can use this post to coordinate with each other.
For questions, please comment here or email us at soulcampaign@gmail.com.
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