event: new and improved

[mayfield_mods]

Beginning in the morning on January 29, those who died since the destruction of the revival machine will start returning to Mayfield. However, this won't be the waking up whole and in bed sort of revival Mayfield residents are used to.

Revived characters will appear on the street outside the Mayfield hospital. Aside from the cause of their death, they will still be in the same state they were when they died. So, for example, the bulletwound to the head may be gone, but their head will still be covered in blood. There will also be side effects coming along with revival. Some of the following symptoms will be present, although their severity is up to the player. You can combine elements in any way you wish.



Incomplete revival - Symptoms may indicate a character is only partially alive; in extreme cases they will physically appear to be a reanimated corpse.
- Weak pulse and low blood pressure
- No pulse, heartbeat or blood movement
- Wounds are still present, but blood has congealed
- Extremely low body temperature
- Inability to eat or drink
- Inability to breathe
Incomplete healing - Characters have been revived, but the cause of death has not been removed. In extreme cases, characters may die again immediately after revival.
- Wounds and physical effects (i.e. poison, illness) are present but reduced to non-fatal levels
- Wounds and physical effects are present and fatal
- Characters retain a pre-death emotional state: heightened adrenaline levels, fear and anxiety, shock, etc.
- Wounds and physical effects may gradually reappear and worsen
- Immediate revival; characters will die and revive instantly many times in a row.
Emotional changes - Characters experience emotional changes from the process. In extreme cases, characters may be brought back, but without their memories, personality, or ability to feel emotions.
- Dimished capacity to feel emotion
- Loss of the ability to feel emotion entirely
- Heightened feelings of anger, violence, and despair
- Short term memory loss, particularly relating to the character's death or of Mayfield
- Full or partial amnesia
Nightmare state - Characters will experience disturbing hallucinations, visions, and nightmares. In extreme cases, they will be in a constant state of terror.
- Memory of death; characters will feel as though they were conscious for the entire time they were dead, and were trapped in an empty void for what seemed like an endless amount of time.
- Hallucinations; characters will hallucinate disturbing and terrifying visions.
- Nightmares; characters will have incredibly disturbing and terrifying visions that may occur whenever they attempt to sleep, or every time they close their eyes.
- False reality; characters will feel as though they are still dead, the reality they've returned to is false, and everyone around them is to be distrusted.
Droning
- Characters may return as drones for a period of time
- 'Drone' emotional state; character is not droned, but will only experience artificially positive emotions.
- 'Glitching'; character will only be able to cycle through a few stock drone phrases.

Additionally, the corpses of revived characters will not disappear upon revival, so they may come home to a little surprise waiting for them.



These effects will last until the end of the event, although the player can decide if they fade, increase, or stay the same over time. You can now revive a dead character at any time during the event (although their revival will have to be 24 hours or more after their death), but you must do one of these complications. If you signed a dead character up for surgery, you may choose to have them revived directly on the operating table. All characters will be revived at the end of the event.

Please direct all questions to the thread below.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[mayfield_mods]

They go here.

Re: QUESTIONS

[answerer_sword]

If a character returns as a drone, will they still retain their regains?

Also, quick questions about the surgeries--can the results of the surgery be reverted via surgical means? Like if a character knows another character who is good at non-magical surgery, can they replace a malfunctioning prosthetic given to them by Mrs. Johnson with a better functioning one? What if they tried to transplant another character's healthy organs into the place of their now messed up ones?

[crusthatecean]

Yes.

It will work, but there will be infection and bleeding complications.

[answerer_sword]

Is it possible for a character who comes back with diminished wounds to get infections?

And as for infection and bleeding complications from either receiving the surgery or reverting it, can they be treated with medicines and non-magical means?

[crusthatecean]

Yes to the first question.

For surgery, the pain can be reduced but not healed completely. Anything else is up to you.

Re: QUESTIONS

[answerer_sword]

Another question--if a character dies due to complications of the surgery, or if they are mercy killed due to getting a surgery, then will they come back with their surgical result intact?

Re: QUESTIONS

[crusthatecean]

Yes.

Re: QUESTIONS

[commentboxtroll]

If a character was signed up for the surgeries but answered 'yes, they would be dead before the surgeries', is it safe to expect I'm free to revive him without worrying about him getting taken? Especially if one of the other characters I signed up already went into the factory?

Re: QUESTIONS

[miraculls]

Yes, if the character wasn't your priority, he won't be at risk for being taken until the last day.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

... Okay, uh. I kinda put this same question on the last event posty thing yesterday, as I figured it probably related more to that stage than this one. Then the questions over here have been answered and that one hasn't, so I guess this might be a better place to get noticed. And I'll just copy paste everything 'cause I'm a lazy ass:

So apparently the factory has turned up on the edge of town and administers painful electric shocks to anyone who tries to cross the fence, from either the inside or outside... Right?

Which would mean it would be plausible for Kyon to attempt (and obviously fail) to break in and simply get the hell shocked out of him, correct?

Exactly how lethal are the electric shocks? Are they merely just painful and repelling? Will you die if you expose yourself too long or too many times?

Re: QUESTIONS

[bleuflag]

Late question! But similar to what's asked above me: If a character has lightning-manipulating powers, I presume these (a: will still work after the surgeries/inside the hospital, and) will have no effect on the electric fence around the hospital such as shorting it out?

And additional question: there's no sharp items in the hospital but are there any pole or staff-like objects in the hospital that a character could find and wield? Stands for IV bags or mops/brooms?

Thanks!