Description: This experiment was essentially twofold: involving the appearance of personality and ability-altering masks, as well as the false apocalypse on the 30th/31st.
These masks came in a variety of shapes and forms. The affected were compelled to pick them up even if this might normally be against their will. When worn these masks could potentially alter a person's mental state, causing them to behave in some manner that the mask willed them to. A person may have believed they were a monster, for instance, or their emotions may have been altered to the extreme. Another potential effect was the gaining of unusual properties or powers, again linked to the nature of the mask: invisibility, ghost-like forms, cursing people with illness, and so on. Once the mask was removed, the affected returned to normal.
The Moon began to look strange beginning on the 22nd, enlarging to twice its size and becoming visible by day by the 25th. Tides were understandably affected on the ocean as the moon continued to swell up. There was also a distinct "profile", a face in the moon (man on the moon!?). On the 30th, the moon coming closer caused earthquakes and other disturbances. Power fluctuations were common in the villagers who have superhuman abilities. A collision with the moon seemed inevitable. The last I can remember, the moon was bearing down... and then very suddenly, all was well again. Halloween began as if nothing had ever happened.
Commentary: Talk about spooky. I never thought we'd be witnessing and living through an APOCALYPSE of all things. There's no way of knowing what happened in that time when we blanked out. Did the Malnosso hit some kind of reset button and stop the moon? Did they shift it away? Or, perhaps more disturbingly, DID the moon actually collide with us and kill us all, only for the Malnosso to take the liberty of reviving us along with reconstructing the entire village? Are we even alive now? Are we really US, or just replacements for our former selves, simulations or programs made to think and act like the ones destroyed in the collision? If we died, where are our penalties?
X-20071017H-2011102231- Masks and False Lunar Apocalypse
Duration: Nine Days
Description: This experiment was essentially twofold: involving the appearance of personality and ability-altering masks, as well as the false apocalypse on the 30th/31st.
These masks came in a variety of shapes and forms. The affected were compelled to pick them up even if this might normally be against their will. When worn these masks could potentially alter a person's mental state, causing them to behave in some manner that the mask willed them to. A person may have believed they were a monster, for instance, or their emotions may have been altered to the extreme. Another potential effect was the gaining of unusual properties or powers, again linked to the nature of the mask: invisibility, ghost-like forms, cursing people with illness, and so on. Once the mask was removed, the affected returned to normal.
The Moon began to look strange beginning on the 22nd, enlarging to twice its size and becoming visible by day by the 25th. Tides were understandably affected on the ocean as the moon continued to swell up. There was also a distinct "profile", a face in the moon (man on the moon!?). On the 30th, the moon coming closer caused earthquakes and other disturbances. Power fluctuations were common in the villagers who have superhuman abilities. A collision with the moon seemed inevitable. The last I can remember, the moon was bearing down... and then very suddenly, all was well again. Halloween began as if nothing had ever happened.
Commentary: Talk about spooky. I never thought we'd be witnessing and living through an APOCALYPSE of all things. There's no way of knowing what happened in that time when we blanked out. Did the Malnosso hit some kind of reset button and stop the moon? Did they shift it away? Or, perhaps more disturbingly, DID the moon actually collide with us and kill us all, only for the Malnosso to take the liberty of reviving us along with reconstructing the entire village? Are we even alive now? Are we really US, or just replacements for our former selves, simulations or programs made to think and act like the ones destroyed in the collision? If we died, where are our penalties?
...I... think I need to get outside.