hadriel_ooc | Event Post: Dreamwalker the Second

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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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

As an initial note for everyone who he will be visiting and for anyone who may visit Atem's dreams, he will not look like he currently does in game right now, in most of his dreams (not all, maybe), he will look like his ancient self, just because it is who he truly is. I'm sorry these are the gayest examples I could find, yep they are the same person, so you can see the differences.

Rage
Gonna have Atem doing some Pharaoh stuff, judging bandits, general "evil" people. Look, Atem isn't exactly prone to rage (unless your name is Bakura and you're breaking the damn rules!), but I couldn't fit this anywhere else. He'll get serious, he'll get a little mad because these people trying to mess with the peace they have fought so hard to obtain, and he ultimately decides who lives and who dies... So, Rage. Either the visitor will be the judged one (by his Priests while he just observes), or they can play part in deciding if Atem lets the judged live or die. Your call. Thing here is that, his Priests are able to see the darkness in people's souls, so YEAH! FUN TIMES HADRIEL!

Delight.
Gonna have Atem dreaming of home, and that's ancient Egypt. Reminiscing old times when he was just a young prince and was a terrible child (and by terrible I mean adorable). Happy days.

Confusion.
Whoever enters this dream may deal with dark stuff as they will basically enter to what used to be Atem's soul room before he found out his name. If you watched Labyrinth, that's pretty much what you're getting. An endless labyrinth of staircases, doors and deadly traps. Inside are many other rooms that no one knows what they might lead to, not even Atem himself. This room is the physical representation of Atem's soul and the turmoil he went through when trying to find out who he was. And no, there is was no Nintendo... In this dream he will not remember his name and he will have his modern looks.

These might change, truth to be told, but it's a general idea.

Feel free to send me a PM or hit me at

h_o_r_a_k_h_t_y if you wanna plot anything~

Edited 2017-10-12 18:01 (UTC)

Rage has the potential of Fucking This Kid Up, and the whole thing can happen in ancient Egyptian if you want!

oh? how bad? and yes! it shall~

Evan's major thematic thrust is basically "am I destined for villainy?" since he was cloned from an ancient Egyptian supervillain. Which apparently is enough to make him fluent in the language(s) as well, so! I'm on my phone, so I can't really give you all the deets, but when I get home, you can get the full-blast version re: who knows what evil lurks in the heart of man

DSFSDLF you're kidding me, that's awesome!! EGYPTIAN BUDDY (sorry i am canonblind <3)

lmao Egyptian supervillian i'm giggling but yes!!! give it to meeee... poor child, this really has the potential to go all kinds of wrong

lmao it's okay! Evan's a relatively recent comics-only character, and the dude he's clone from has only appeared in one of the movies, so.

ANYWAY basically: en sabah nur, aka apocalypse, was an ancient egyptian mutant who wanted to take over the world in the name of mutantkind and subjugate all humans. NOT VERY NICE. this one time, he was cloned by mutants and raised from birth to eventually do the taking over the world thing. so anyway, the x-men's SERIOUS GRIMDARK SUPERHERO TEAM X-FORCE went to deal with this cloned apocalypse and found a literal fuckin child. while most of their team was busy arguing over whether they should kill a gradeschooler who technically hadn't done anything supervillain-y yet, one of them just straight-up shot the kid in the face. no more apocalypse, no more problem, end of story, right?

except everyone ended up kind of fucked up over killing a kid, and the guy who shot that other clone decided to try cloning apocalypse again to see what'd happen if he was raised to be a hero. AND THAT YOUNG MAN GREW UP TO BE ~~ALBERT EINSTEIN~~ EVAN SABAHNUR, who was Really Not Pleased when he found out that when all his classmates looked at him and saw a fuckin supervillain, there was a really good reason for it. accidentally taking over new york city this one time when he wasn't really in control of himself didn't help, and neither did going back in time to ancient egypt and finding out that en sabah nur actually used to be a really nice guy (because if a guy that nice can turn out evil, he's probably screwed, right). the possibility that he's not actually a good guy in the story of the world is a p. frequent concern for him.

anyway, all convoluted backstory aside, judging evan good or evil could be really interesting for that reason. i know nothing about yugioh, so if you don't mind telling me a little more about how the priests' abilities work, i can tell you what exactly they'd see re:evan.

oh hey i actually just posted it! but basically, these six priests and the pharaoh, have a magical item that allows them to do a lot of shit... one of them can see the monster inside the person, another can suck it out and another can seal it, that's kind of basically what they do.

also wow lol in my rush to post that i didnt say

HOLY STORY THIS POOR GUY is the second clone poor thing... geez

anyways take a look at it, because it depends on you, i would say evan is pretty chill and hasnt done anything wrong, but well, this apocalypse guy... seems like the big shot of evil

Edited 2017-10-14 17:20 (UTC)

DANG YOU'RE FAST. so yeah that is totally doable, and once i've written up some top-level stuff and done The Day's Chores i'll defs hit you up ♥

eta: aND I GUESS I AM TOO BECAUSE I POSTED THIS BEFORE I SAW YOUR EDIT LMAO but yeah, evan is fuckin ridiculous and kind of a sad baby, haha. i'll take a look and see what'd make the most sense.

Edited 2017-10-14 17:25 (UTC)

Are you looking for more people for the Rage dream? I could have Curufin turn up as a bandit who unfortunately got himself arrested. He's got plenty of darkness in his soul. XD

Sure I don't mind at all! It'd be an interesting start for these two

Edited (Rofl phone pls) 2017-10-12 23:43 (UTC)

Bring that delight to meeeee

kk!

OH GOD I NEED LAW TO BE JUDGED

I mean hi

HE GONNA BE DRAWN AND QUARTERED FOR THE PHARAOH'S AMUSEMENT

heeeeeeeeey

wow excuse you Atem we stab people where I come from

I mean I could also easily do room of the soul shenanigans but I feel like seeing this whole scenario might help Law grasp that whole stick up the pharaoh's ass.

stabbing is what punny thieves do obvs

i don't mind you choosing both? i mean if that's not too much for you and you don't get super bored of this guy and my lousy writing and etc /is clingy and annoying lol

they are gonna have to talk about either anyway... lol talk... sure.