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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Kyrii falls under the synth category of 'doesn't need sleep' though he can enter a stasis for healing purposes. I'll be using this event to break him out of his shell and introduce him to ~feelings~ n' shit for the first time here in Hadriel!

sorrow (+hope?) If you ever felt like abandoned buildings were lonely and creepy, with a little hint of danger knowing you might need a tetanus shot afterward, then welcome to the City! Kyrii's first dream is going to explore the emptiness of his homeworld and the realization that being alone in it is pretty freaking depressing. This may be an opportunity to explore some Hope, if anyone wants that particular CR with him.

rage While traveling the City, Kyrii comes across some dangerous synths known as Exterminators. These quick spidery dudes can easily slay a normal person and they give Kyrii a good run for his money (just kidding, money isn't a thing in the city). In this part of the dream, Kyrii's going to be pretty irritated at how many Exterminators are after his ass. He'll be blasting the crap out of them with his gravitational beam emitter and destroying a lot of crap. He may even lose the GBE at one point and resort to punching things.

confusion Kyrii's dumb idea of punching stuff to death likely got him into a bad situation and now he'll be in a recovery stasis— probably with missing limbs. He'll be falling to the bottom of some dirty-water reservoir while contemplating things like where he went wrong and how long it'll take him to get back into the fight, or why he was even sent on this mission in the first place. This will be a "we're breathing underwater for some reason" kind of dream.

tranquility is last on the list. Nature is a foreign concept to Kyrii, clear water and green plants are not on the list of things he sees every day. But one level of the City can be completely different from the last. In some facility, Kyrii will enter a perfectly preserved biome to represent some Eden that would never really exist. This dream may be for more calm encounters for CR, but definitely a chance for him to learn about what life was once like on Earth and what that means to humans.