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hadriel_ooc2017-10-11 08:49 am
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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
merle highchurch (with adventure zone spoilers)
delight 1: join merle doing what delights him most! well i mean. he's a guy who delights in pretty much anything as a personal choice, but this is one of them: ADVENTURING, SONNN. and it's pretty straightforward! merle and his group of choice out traveling on the road, just a stone's throw away from a coastline. just. nice peaceful weather, changing scenery. people in this dream party will probably swap in and out as the dream goes on, nothing super consistent bc it's Merle. the most likely candidates showing up will be his two kids, mavis and mookie, who people can pseudo-meet in both this dream and the love dream below, and pretty much anyone from that ol' IPRE crew. who doesn't wanna hang with dream davenport??
delight 2: MEMORY TIME?? it's definitely in one of the most spoilery parts of canon, but it's a good'un. i guess the basic gist is merle's hangin with the avatar embodiment of a Big Evil Thing for the umpteenth time and he gets to give a very heartfelt good little speech about what brings him joy. it doesn't end like super great but he does get in a badass line that he's still proud of, so.
sorrow: get your ass down to Goldcliff's city center, we got a sendup to the end of the Petals to the Metal arc from merle's fresh and very guilty perspective on the entire affair. we got a big beautiful cherry blossom tree raining petals! we got genuine gotdang regret that... merle probably wont talk about tbh, but come hang with him anyway. ill provide a link to background music for a mood setter.
hope: its straight-up memory time dawg. in the adventure zone there's an arc called "the suffering game" and in that arc there's a scene titled "arms outstretched", which you can experience firsthand from the merle perspective! i'm gonna write it as emotionally as i can and i'm gonna provide a link to mood music for this one too. plus maybe a link to an animatic to give a full perspective? idk.
fear: man hey you know whats great to dream about? basically the bad ending that that one mirror showed you in that one event where the world where your kids live gets got and you're left truckin' like you never even lived there. Love That. merle could actually show some actual genuine bad emotions and be really not about this? sounds fake but ok
love: CHANCE 2 TO MEET MERLE'S KIDS IN DREAM FORM STEP RIGHT UP. because this dream is deadass just hanging out on the beach with people from his life that he loves and/or likes. a big long steady stream that basically adds up to a huge beach party that people are wandering in and out of! merle could in fact make some shitty beach jewelry to give away. mavis and mookie (his kids that he is a dad of) will probably be the most consistently present throughout the entire dream. the IPRE crew (which does include taako and lup and magnus, yes) will also probably feature a lot! as for the rest, It Is A Mystery. im still figuring it out. merle has a lot of love ok
confusion: once upon a time merle got like 100 years of memories wiped the heck out of existence, which included even vaguely recognizing the kickass found family he made over all those years. they all got flipped turned upside-down and forgot each other. which was like super awkward bc it happened while merle was hanging out with his good bud. this is gonna be a weird, hazy kind of dream shenaniganry. half-memory, half-static, half-merle not making any dang sense, all confusion, and also on a ship hundreds of feet in the air.
Re: merle highchurch (with adventure zone spoilers)
Re: merle highchurch (with adventure zone spoilers)
merles lack of telling his friends about his children vexes me. Gotta force his hand
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merle hammers up a disclaimer sign and it says "any similar energies my children bear to my crew/THB children is purely coincidental and keep your mouth SHUT"
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