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Alrighty folks, lets get this shit started. Before we begin: OH MY GOD THANK YOU HEDGE for the idea. We were so boned for a good one until you came along.

So that you all know, in exchange for John repairing the damage to the barrier the Malnosso released Jacob into his custody, along with some supplies.

In this entry John gives Svala her requested thirty minutes of honesty and has her look after Jacob as payment. She puts him up for the night, but the following morning Jacob has disappeared and is currently following instructions provided for him via John. ...he's not allowed back behind the barrier in the tunnels until he fulfills his duty. Because John is a bastard.

What are these instructions, you may ask? Well, all Jacob has to do is to take a box full of POV guns and test them, as well as hand them out. For those of you unaware, the Point of View Gun is a device from The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy that, when fired at someone, gives the victim the point-of-view of the person who fired the gun. For example:

Sephiroth: I'm just saying, there is nothing wrong with slaughtering innocent villagers when you find out your mom is an alien bitch.

Cloud: You're crazy and I think I'll behead you now.

Sephiroth: /acquires POV gun

Sephiroth: /fires at Cloud

Cloud: /gets hit

Cloud: ...you know what though, Nibelheim honestly deserved a good razing. I wasn't that fond of it to begin with. Thus the whole running away to join the army thing.

Understand? Awesome!

There is an action log set up for Jacob, in which your characters can freely jump on board no matter what kind of interaction you, the player, would prefer. If they'd like to ask him who the hell he is, if they'd like to recognize his voice and demand some answers, if you'd like for them to be shot by the POV gun by Jacob (in which I would take the liberty to describe in the tag prior to them being affected exactly how they'd feel, viewing the world as a Malnosso and a traitor) or if you'd like for them to take their own POV gun and terrorize their enemies/allies with it. There are a hell of a lot of ways you can go with this, so have fun with it!

The effects of the POV gun are, of course, temporary; while I don't believe that the movie sets a time frame for it (it says a minute or a few minutes, IIRC), we're giving the effects twenty-four hours max. If they are shot by a POV gun while under the influence of another person's POV, then they'll switch to the POV of the new shooter and a new twenty-four-hour frame will begin.

The guns'll be around until we say so. B| But they won't just disappear, so keep your eyes open for what'll happen next.

Any questions, concerns? You know what to do. ♥

EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION PURPOSES: The effects of the guns last 24 hours MAX, but that doesn't mean you can't end it sooner. Heck, you can end it twenty minutes after it's fired if you want, it's up to you.

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So does everything for this one need to be inside the Jacob-log, just curious?

Nope! Once a character has a gun they can go do their own entry if they want, and others can respond to that. They can even have their gun stolen and go from there. Be free and crazy!

Thaaat's what I thought, thank you!

...This is an amazing event. AWESOME IDEA.

Err, odd question but to clarify:

Jacob does have wings, right? What color?

Plain, boring old gray.

By the way, is Jacob ever going to get added to the friends add list? He wasn't in there so if you hadn't linked the action post here I would have missed it on this journal.

But yeah, this sounds like fun :)

Ah, right! I forgot /goes to do

Haha, Meowzy and I were speculating earlier that the Svala log had something to do with the event. CLEARLY WE ARE AWESOME.

I've been reading through the action post. May I ask what Jacob's POV is? Just so I'd know if I want Rosalie to be shot by him.

Well...he's a sympathizer for the captured people, but he's got his own reasons for supporting the Malnosso, too. Since the POV gun doesn't transfer actual memories or information, the person affected would just find themselves giving the Malnosso a little credit.

I'll be able to give more detail in the tags.

All right. Thank you!

So do they just see the other person's POV, or do they automatically agree as well?

They agree on their own terms. Opinions can be finicky things, after all. The POV gun really just plays on the fact that nothing is black and white.

Huhn. Interesting, thanks.

...Is anyone allowed to shoot Jacob, given their POV wouldn't interfere with him carrying out his job?

/is just amused at the thought of him going "ofux" five milliseconds before he gets shot, really

you can, yeah. he'll be pissed about it though xD

For the whole POV thing, does that "understand someone's POV" mean about a specific event only, or in general?

And does it make them understand the reasons why such-and-such was done, or just "I see that you are content with the way things have gone." Or is that all up to us?

In general, unless you wanna concentrate on one particular thing.

It doesn't transfer knowledge, so unless someone understands what's going on it'll probably just give a general "well I can see what you're saying and you must have just reasons. :| "

1: What happens if you shoot a Malnosso?

2: What happens if you snipe someone and they are unaware of the source of the 'fire'?

3: If you physically forced a POV gun into another person's hand and forced them to shoot you, would you then understand their POV?

1: The only one available is Jacob, and he'd be affected.

2: It'd still work! John's tweaked them quite a bit.

3: Yup!

Bit of an odd question...do you remember Alby from waaaay back at Christmas? I know John handled him, since he said he got bitten, but would Jacob have been around him enough for the dog to recognize his scent?

Jacob wasn't with John at Christmas.