hadriel_ooc | Event Post: Dreamwalker the Second

THE RUNDOWN

Things have been pretty wild lately, both for the gods and for all you poor residents of Hadriel. So it should be no surprise that the gods have decided to put on an event that gives them all a chance for a little power - and it helps that when they did it before, it worked pretty well. No one was even that mad! Just the usual mad levels. That means it's time for the second Dreamwalker event.

How does this work? Well, a lot like the first one, only split in two so all the gods can get in on it. From October 14th-20th, your dreams will be influenced by Delight, Rage, Sorrow, and Hope. After that, you get a couple days to rest, and then Fear, Love, Confusion, and Tranquility take over and invade your dreams from October 23rd-29th. It doesn't matter if you try to stay up, or even if you normally don't sleep at all - at the same time late each evening, a wave of exhaustion will come over you and you'll fall fast asleep.

Once you've fallen asleep, you will either be a Host or a Visitor. Hosts will be 'touched' by one of the gods and have corresponding dreams. Visitors will enter into the dreams of a Host and the two of them will experience the dream together. Hosts can be influenced by a maximum of one god each night.

THE DETAILS

Each character can be a Host or a Visitor as many times as you like, but they can only be one each night, for a total of seven nights in each week. This means you can be a Visitor for five nights and a Host for two, or a Host for all seven nights, with no visiting. Whichever you like! Visitors may visit multiple dreams per night, while Hosts can have multiple visitors per night. It's up to you guys to decide if you want your characters to be aware of repeating dreams or not.

Likewise, each Host can be touched by a single god as many times as they like, with a rule of one dream per hosting night. Five hosting nights, with five Delight dreams? Go ahead! Seven hosting nights with three Fear dreams and four Rage dreams? Have at it! And during the day, everyone goes about their lives as normal - unless they really need to talk about these dreams with someone.

As far as the dreams themselves are concerned, here are a few ideas of the types of dreams that each god would influence:

Delight: What pleases you? Sunny days, picnics in meadows, your favorite food made exactly how you like it... where will you be happiest? What are your favorite things?
Rage: What makes you angry? It could be a dream about someone winning something you wanted more than anything, something completely unfair, or that person whose lights you want to punch out.
Sorrow: What makes you sad? The death of someone you love, a great regret, a missed opportunity? It could be all the miseries of the world, or just very personal miseries.
Hope: What do you want? Even if it's not possible- a dead friend or family member to return to you, winning endless riches, or succeeding in a long quest.
Fear: What are you afraid of? Typical nightmares of monsters chasing you, falling forever, running from something? Worst fears and most terrifying memories are all applicable as well. Dreams of Fear's previous events are also possibilities!
Love: What, or who, do you love? This doesn't need to be romantic love, but it can be. Your parents, your best friend, your boyfriend - maybe even your ex. Or something more ephemeral: a hobby, a feeling, a time in your life.
Confusion: What you fucks you up? An answer you've never gotten, something that might linger in the back of your mind still. Something that twists your thoughts into tangles. Losing something (maybe yourself), getting tricked, being manipulated.
Tranquility: What calms you down? Your home, the quiet presence of a friend, finally getting to rest. When was the most content you've ever felt, and what caused it? Calmer than happiness, more subtle than love.

These aren't hard guidelines or anything, either- they're just suggestions, if you're having trouble coming up with something!

As a final note, opting out of the dream event is A-ok! Your character does not have to be affected by the exhaustion waves and/or dreamsharing. You also don't need to have threads every night; both handwaving and opting out on certain nights is just fine! The gods are definitely capable of overlooking a few characters.

THE OVERVIEW

► October 14th: The first set of dreams begin: Delight, Rage, Sorrow, and Hope
► October 20th: The first set of dreams end
► October 23rd: The second set of dreams begin: Fear, Love, Confusion, and Tranquility
► October 29th: The second set of dreams end

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AT LAST!!! A DREAMWALKER EVENT I CAN PARTICIPATE IN!!! YELLS!!!

Anyway.

MICHAEL

Rage/Delight: (Heads up this dream is gonna be a lot of violence.) This will be a joint dream between Michael and the Visitor (not the dream-walking visitor, Michael's unwanted head-guest). In the first part of the dream (you're welcome to come in late), the Visitor will be hunting and attacking someone Michael knows, prime candidates being anyone who has admitted to murder in his presence, or anyone who has pissed him off. Feel free to have your character see themselves get eaten, so long as Michael has met them, but otherwise it'll probably be the last person the Visitor killed.

Second part of this dream will go one way on certain nights, and another way on others. Version 1 (Delight): you get to have fun experiencing the joy of murder, as the Visitor triumphantly devours its prey and Michael gets that long-awaited temporary silence after a kill. Version 2 (Rage): Michael attempts in vain to control the Visitor and stop it from attacking its target. They have a spat. Things get nasty. I mean, either way, things get nasty.

Tranquility: In this dream, Michael is at work, but, even though it makes no sense, he's working alone. Unfortunately(?) for everyone visiting, his job is working as an autopsy technician. Your character can find this interesting, creepy, or maybe they'll Get It. Either way, yeah this one'll also be gross. Sigh I can't have nice things apparently.

TUCKER

Fear: Time to give a demonstration of the difference between werewolves and shapeshifters in Tucker's canon! He'll be dreaming of a time when he was 12 or so, and he stumbled upon a transformed werewolf with a fresh human victim. The lycanthrope invited him to join in, mistaking him for one of its own kind, and things got Scary when he admitted to not being a werewolf after all. There will probably be a chase or a fight involved. Again, this one'll be a lil bit nasty.

Delight: Tucker will be in wolf form for this dream, roaming around in the woods, doing wolf things, being all free and nature-y and shit. I think it'd be fun to play around with characters experiencing the world with his animal senses, or even experiencing this dream as an animal themselves (if they can shapeshift too, or even if not).

Both of them will be visiting others' dreams as well, and I am open to additional ideas if you've got any!

INTENSELY STARES AT THE RAGE/DELIGHT DREAM.

Oh nooooooooo (do it though). If you're worried about cr-destruction, it's entirely possible to pass this off as "just a scary nightmare" and not, you know, representative of actual events.

Let's go the Rage ending. Because i think the Delight ending will be more difficult for Delmar to process, even if we do the 'its just a nightmare' route.

But lets do this. LETS BE HORRIBLE!

...i have literally no good icons for delmar being horrible. but i don't think they exist.

It's okay I can make up for your lack with my many "being terrible" icons. But yes, LET'S GO FOR IT, RIP!!!

This is going to be a bad week for delmar. He's getting outed AND his friend is a murderer (potentially only in nightmares *cough*)

I feel like it's a good time for Law to learn about the Visitor...at least partially. haha good thing he's never mentioned the killing he's done.

Yeah probably a good idea to keep a lid on that for now lmfao

but yes! by all means come get it!

Give me the visitor dream pls. I'm down for the rage or delight version, whichever you think would be more fun to play with

I MEAN that depends on how much you want to torture Kyna tbh. Do you want her to know what it's like to enjoy murdering people, or would you rather her be in danger from it? In the case of the second one Michael would feel super bad jjfdsl and probably wonder if this changes her mind about her not being afraid of him.

god I'M SO TORN but I think the "enjoying murdering people" thing would fuck her up more and also give her cr with Michael and Harlan kind of a new, interesting slant?

ykw that's a good point. LET'S DO IT.

/signs up for fun with corpses

Yes good

hello yes i'd like one order of m&m tranquility with a side of jt fear pls.

also newt will join the delight party but only if he gets to be a bug.

let him be a bug.

yes to both

and the dream with newt is very short, newt is a fly and tucker eats him

wtf

i mean that's ic but hdu

Event Post: Dreamwalker the Second

Michael Munroe & Tucker (cws for violence ahoy)

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