OOC PLANNING FOR HARROGATE 2.0 SHOWDOWN

[powersthatbe]

ALL RIGHT, GHOSTS AND LIVING. IT'S TIME TO PLAN FOR A CONFRONTATION.

So. We now know that Bernkastel--or rather, the thing that is now possessing Bernkastel--has set herself up inside the poltergeist shield in the dry lakebed and is huffing ghosts. Both Malik and Armin have had confrontations with her, one after the other. Malik had the element of surprise and got away, in the process losing both his legs to the knee. Armin did not have the element of surprise and Bad Stuff happened. He's now Double Dead and existing as a disembodied mind on the text Network until the end of Jaunt. On the other hand, he was able to identify who Bern's possessor is in the process and he'll be making a psychic log to talk about it pretty soon now.

Part of the planning will no doubt be done ICly and I believe people will be getting together at Dr. Durante's cottage for that, but in the interest of streamlining things, we also have this post for people to volunteer OOCly. Without spoiling too much, we are going to need:

1) A ghost with Teleportation who will either (a) let Armin take over their body to do some ritual stuff or (b) get taught by Armin which ritual stuff to do, according to preference.
2) Living and dead people to distract "Bernkastel" long enough so said ghost can do their thing. Teleportation is definitely a plus although not all of them need it as long as some of them do.

If you think your characters can help with that, please comment here!

Comments

[capital_risk]

It's area-based rather than target-based; when he activates it, everything with a given radius besides Raidou and whoever might be in contact with him (or in contact with someone in contact with him) will be frozen. The length of time he can maintain it decreases as the size of the affected area increases, and while it doesn't wear off immediately once he stops actively maintaining it, the amount of time that takes also depends on the size of the area.

[neverfeltthatway]

Hmm, how useful this is depends on whether time being frozen would prevent the ritual from proceeding, I suppose - since even if it's Armin working the ritual, its effect is taking place within Bern. But at the very least, they might be able to use this to freeze Bern and Narly long enough to get everyone in place and set up.