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Animus Moderators ([personal profile] animusmods) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-10-25 11:02 pm

If You Don't

Characters: All who are signed up for the If You Don't event!
Setting: Everywhere
Format: Anything
Summary: The shadow children come out to play, hungry for their candy...
Warnings: Psychological horror, possible character death.

As those who are participating in the event wake up on the morning of the 26th, they'll see clawing hands at the edges of their vision that dart away as soon as they're fully awake. Maybe it was just a lingering dream? But there's another note left for them to find:

trick or treat
smell my feet
give me something good to eat


i f y o u d o n ' t



There is a drawing of a heart at the bottom of the paper, as usual for notes received during Ruana's games, though it's wet and red and appears to be fresh blood.

Still nothing, will happen until the sun begins to set. Once it does, skittering, shifting shadow children will come out to play, tracking down one of the characters participating in the game. They will request a specific kind of candy--not with a normal voice, but with a penetrating, tearing sort of mental intrusion.

You will have until 11:59 PM to figure out what they want, and woe betide you if you get it wrong and give them something they don't like...

Reply to the subthread for each night to receive your character's riddle for that night. Note: While you can request riddles in advance, you will not receive the riddles for nights 2 and on until your character has solved or failed to solve the riddle preceding it and received their consequences, if applicable.

Riddle Subthreads:
October 26th
October 27th
October 28th
October 29th
October 30th
October 31st

Feel free to create your own top-levels for IC mingling during these days - to have your character trying to puzzle out their riddles, search for/negotiate with people who have the candies they need, make attempts to steal candies, and deal with any consequences they get later on for not giving their shadow children the correct candies - but be sure you indicate which night it is in the subject header.

Some other things to note:
- Now that all the remaining candy in the Tower has been put into bowls, it can be perceived and interacted with by everyone, even those who are not signed up for the event.
- Candy that is removed from a bowl will remain in existence so long as it is in a character's hand, but will vanish if set down, put into a bag, etc. If it is transferred from one bowl to another, that is okay. If it is taken from a bowl and handed to a shadow child, that is okay.
- Only the character being asked for candy will be able to hear the shadow child that is doing the asking, though others will be able to see it.
- The shadow child will follow your character until they fetch the candy from their room and will repeat the riddle at any time, when asked; this can be handwaved without a mod response.
- The shadow children will not take any notice of characters that are not the ones they are asking for candy from.

Mod replies will only occur in the riddle subthreads, to 1. give out the riddle and 2. respond with any consequences once a character has given (or not given) a shadow child their candy.
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[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-10-30 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Of course.....

[Of course he had to catch her in the middle of a breathing spell. Of which it was probably responsible for.

Made a mess... slurp slurp slurp.... Sounded almost like Gavril when she made a "mess". Body parts don't make slurping noise though....

She grabs the packet of blood candy from the bowl and offers it to the shadow.
]

Blood is a pretty hard thing to clean up... Trust me, I know....
Edited 2013-10-30 02:53 (UTC)
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[personal profile] animusnpcs 2013-10-30 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[The shadow takes the packet of blood and seems to drain it in one gulp. It looks up at Veronica and bares its teeth in a low growl, the red staining the white.

slurp... slurp... i made a mess when they attacked, and now i have to clean it all up...]
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[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-10-30 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
[....oh....

Veronica thinks again. Maybe it's an entire mess?

She searches through her bowl and finds the severed foot made of sugar which she offers him as well.
]

Uh... body parts too?
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[personal profile] animusnpcs 2013-10-30 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[It snarls and throws the foot away; that's not what it's looking for.

slurp... slurp...

Veronica has one chance left to give the proper candy.]
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[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-10-30 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Uh....Uh....

[She searches through the bowl one more time. Was there anything she could do?

Panicking she pulls out two gummy worms she found on floor 17, both soaked in blood from a handprint.
]
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[personal profile] animusnpcs 2013-10-30 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
[The shadow shakes its head violently and slaps the gummy worms away; they vanish upon hitting the ground.

TRICK!

The shadow vanishes; Veronica will, in addition to her problems with breathing, feel as though two-thirds of her blood has been drained out of her body - but it will still be there, so while she will suffer the effects of such blood loss up until death, she will not actually die.]