Event Post: Dreamwalker

[hadrielmods]

THE RUNDOWN

Hey, you know who hasn't shown his face in awhile? That silly rascal, Fear! And since it's been a few months since he's stared you all down, he figures that it's time to get back in the game and dish out some truly scary events... namely, he thinks that as long as you guys are having nightmares, he might as well put you in one another's dreams and benefit from it. Double nightmares! But don't worry, the other gods will try to stop him and have your back.

On May 16th, Fear will make a network post, in which he will basically taunt you guys and talk about how he's going to make you experience one another's nightmares. Rude! Luckily, the other gods will see this and intervene, making the event something of a free-for-all.

From May 16th-May 26th, characters will find an immeasurable wave of exhaustion descend upon them at roughly the same time each night- yes, even you weirdos who don't sleep at all! Upon falling asleep, will either be a Host or a Visitor. Hosts will be 'touched' by one of the four gods: Fear, Hope, Rage, or Delight, and have corresponding dreams. Visitors will enter into the dreams of a Host and the two of them will experience the dream together.

Have fun as you traverse one another's deepest nightmares or happiest dreams. Watch out for the angry dreams, and do try to enjoy the hopeful ones.

On May 27th, the gods will declare a stalemate and everyone's sleep schedule and dreams will return to normal.

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 ten nights. This means you can be a Visitor for seven nights and a Host for three, or a Host for all ten 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!

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

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!
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.
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. Hey, maybe it's a dream of Fear's face on a punching bag!
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?

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 10 nights worth of threads; both handwaving and opting out on certain nights is just fine! The gods are definitely capable of overlooking a few characters.

THE OVERVIEW

► May 16th: Fear posts to the network and is rudely interrupted by the other gods
► May 16th-26th: Welcome to snoozeville, population: you and that weird guy you met at the store last week.
► May 27th: Finally, a decent night of sleep!

Comments

[werewolfing]

Honestly either of Maketh's fear dreams play right into Peter's big fears, so whichever you feel like playing out. Family is huge to him and he's also pretty afraid of people who abuse their positions of power.

[notjustinthemirror]

He'll avenge you buddy. Of course it'll be too late and then he just gets to watch Noah die for 11 minutes....

But he'll try!

OH this is gonna be tragic.

[notjustinthemirror]

Gnaw on this guy as a pup.

[thechoiceisyours]

Aaaaah there's so much good stuff here. 8D I'm totally torn between the two fear dreams but I'm thinking the exam one might be really interesting.

[thechoiceisyours]

Both it is then~ And ooooooh yes sounds good Chris will be so WHY AM I HERE AND WHY IS THIS A THING but it'll be great. 8D

[foundafamily]

Excellent! :D Take care of those arms, Carlisle. Do you have a preference? I can write up a new one for you if there's something specific you'd like. Though the first fear one on there would likely work great for getaways.

[foundafamily]

If you'd be up for a random visitor, either the Delight dream (/shudder) or the Fear one sound like great ways for people to make first impressions on each other.

[tongueamok]

I've got nothing specific in mind, so let's just go with the first one there! Just start running, Firo. You know he'll follow because he does not want to be left in a pinch by his lonesome.

[foundafamily]

Poor dude. :( Okey dokey! I'll put up a comment in the log, and I'll ping you when I do. I'm excited for this. :D

Adam Parrish

[unknowable]

Adam will be having primarily Fear and Delight dreams. I'm also totally down for him to visit anyone's dreams, regardless of the content.

His fear dream will mostly feature his father, and what could have happened if Ronan didn't step in and Adam didn't press charges and get out of there. As such, there'll be a strong content warning for physical and emotional abuse. It'll also probably feature Gansey dying horribly, probably at Adam's hands, Adam losing control of himself, all his other friends also dying (and it being his fault) and general failure. Also, scary dark forests and ghosts and seeing things that shouldn't be there, which is kind of Adam's daily life - so it's stuff he's not scared of when he's awake, but with the influence of Fear it could get bad. Also, depending on how the dreams go, they might involve being buried alive.

His delight dream will be pretty disjointed since Adam canonically has a hard time recognizing his own happiness, but it'll involve a beautiful and kind of weird forest, trees speaking Latin, sunny days, nice cars, academic success, doing magic, and being with his friends. Not necessarily in that order and not necessarily including all of those things, though if there's something specific you'd like to show up for your character to see, I can totally make it happen.

I'm always super up for plotting, either here or on plurk at sidereal.

Josh Washington

[pighead]

Josh is gonna serve up some Fear and Rage dreams, because frankly there's not a whole lot of Delight and Hope in him. Don't be fooled by his penchant for drinking and acting like a stupid young adult, this kid has some problems he is totally avoiding working through.

His fear dream will involve his sisters dying, over and over, and being unable to stop it. It'll also probably involve turning into a wendigo, and being abandoned over and over again. So that's nice. Let it go far enough and there's a small chance it'll also involve Josh finally becoming so mentally unstable that he's forced to spend the rest of his life locked up somewhere.

His rage dream will involve horror movie scenarios that your characters will have to deal with because uh... that's how Josh works out his anger...?? It also might involve wendigos and his residual anger at both himself and his friends for what happened to his sisters. But mostly weird horror movie shit. It sure looks like a fear dream! It sure isn't.

As usual, hit me here or on plurk at sidereal for plotting!

[hadrielmods]

Hmm, good question! I think that there will definitely be a general awareness on both sides that Something Is Not Right, but whether you'd want to make the characters figure out what's going on or not is up to you!

After the first day or so though, it would probably be pretty clear what was going on, and that knowledge would translate into the dreams as well.

[hadrielmods]

As long as he's affected by the Dreamwalker event, Peter would be blocked from his normal prophetic dreams due to the god influences. However, if he's not affected (or after the event takes place) he's free to dream about the future!

In his dream, Peter will see several wisps of smoke- one pink, one blue, one orange. The wisps will tangle in on themselves, tying into knots in places, evening out in places. While the smoke is fighting (or is it working together?) he may hear the distant sound of a large bell tolling. Creepy!

Ronan Lynch

[greywaren]

When he's hosting, Ronan is going to have some Hope and Fear dreams!

His Hope night is likely going to be extremely bittersweet and will take place at the Barns, his childhood home. Expect lots of fluffy, affectionate cows, tiny mice, a couple of chickens, giant hay bales to jump off of, with potential guest appearances by Ronan's father (It's Complicated), his brothers (It's Also Complicated), or his mother (It's... you get the picture). Ronan himself could be one of two possibilities- 1. the Real Ronan, who will likely be aware that this is a god-influenced dream because he doesn't allow himself to dream of this place, and will likely extremely wary and potentially violent. Or 2. the Ronan that fits in with the dream, ie: Ronan before his father was killed. If you wanna do his Hope dream then we might need to talk a bit just to hash out some details of how we want to roll with it!

His Fear dream will generally consist of running through the woods at night. It's likely that both Ronan and his dream visitor will be chased by bird-raptor-demon things, dragons made of fire, and/or other monsters. Expect to find corpses as well- his father's (which has happened), his brother's (which has not), or his own (which is a gray area). These corpses can be dead or ambling about and generally blaming people for things, like the rude corpses they are.

Both dreams are a pretty decent opportunity to pry behind Ronan's fortified front, and would be an excellent opportunity to get a good chunk of CR with him!

I'm also 100% game for Ronan to hop into other dreams as well. He will retain his ability to take objects from dreams, and can potentially (likely accidentally) take something from your character's dream. A keepsake, a monster, a body part, a diary- anything within reason! It will have to be an object that your character would naturally have in that dream, as Ronan would not be able to shape your character's dreams. I'd really like to explore this as well, so hit me up!

My plurk is raelet for further plotting stuff! c:

Re: Emily

[dedikated]

Kind of want to get into emily's fears tbh... Because TRAUMA WHY NOT

[blowyoudown]

He will try SO HARD to eat his ankle

[unfollowing]

Both is good >:3 we can handwave one and thread the other if you want! Or we can thread them both tbh sobs it'll be great

[unfollowing]

No yes it'll be great. All of you losers need fashion help jfc

[unfollowing]

Do it, come experience hell :3

[unfollowing]

Oh dear. I'm not really sure which one to throw Emily into. On the one hand, seeing just how afraid of his own illness Josh is would maybe, idk, help them?? But then, Emily didn't get to undergo Josh's horror movie shit in the game, so it could be interesting to see what he would've done to her.

Sobs indecision

[mismanagement]

We can definitely do that one! And I'd like to toss Maketh into one of Chris's dreams as well. I'm partial to the saw-themed one, but did you have any preferences?

Mitsuhide Akechi

[wavesoakedlegs]

This one will only be having fear dreams... without the influence of those fireflies, he's still stuck on very fresh memories and getting some nasty nightmares from them.

Most prominent of all will be dreams of an endless sea of flames burning up medieval Japanese buildings. This will be potentially very violent and disturbing, filled with the screams and sight of dying/burning men everywhere at the very least. At its heart, within the one building that isn't burning, you will find Oda Nobunaga, who will openly challenge the dreamer with the question 'what is it you desire?' How things unfold after this will depend hugely on how the person answers, or doesn't.

Mitsuhide himself in this dream will attempt to face off against Nobunaga but struggle, ridden by guilt. His own responses to the dreamer will depend on what they say to him, so it can get better, or, uh, worse. Or a lot worse. I'm really interested in seeing either course but the latter would be particularly fascinating considering it veers directly against canon and would be really painful for Mitsuhide to go through. 8')

Can be discussed here or on plurk, feel free to add me there.

mello + nick.

[torrefied]

BOY HOWDY I AM HYPE FOR THIS.

Mello just got here and what is breaking in newbies gently. He'll have at least one dream apiece for Fear, Rage, and (oddly enough) Hope. Fear will be an aftermath of the raid on his hideout, with lots of weird dream logic thrown in. Rage will feature Near, obviously; one dream of that time he pulled a gun on the back of his head, except this time he'll actually shoot him, and the other a rehash of the day he left the orphanage, probably with a sharper underscore on him being a big failure (his view of himself). Hope will be the worst dream of all, something about actually solving the Kira case instead of Near, which will be awful because Mello knows it's kind of impossible, and given his canon point, he's pretty much resigned himself to the fact that he's not going to win this one ... or, you know, anything. :c No Delight dream for him because hollow laughs what is happiness.

Nick will have corresponding dreams for each of the four gods. Fear will get two; one of being stalked/chased by another really gross Nightbane in Stanley Park, and for the other, kind of a replay of the assassin event, where she goes full-on monster and just hurts/kills people with her powers. :c Rage will have to do with her awful mother being abusive and awful to her. Delight will feature tiny babby Nick and her father driving in his truck down gravel roads and singing along to music, which is gonna be super painful for her because her dad died when she was a kid and it was basically the worst thing that ever happened to her. ;~; Hope will be stargazing out in the countryside and talking about the future.

There will be a lot of likely upsetting material for both of these jerks but I will mark cws where needed! I'm planning to have them both visit around, too. If you wanna plot specific things, hit me up here or on ventose!

[unfollowing]

Where do you want Em most for Nick. I'm thinking either Rage or Fear 1.

[torrefied]

OH THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION, um. you could always have both? or what do you think would be more conducive for getting them to understand each other, fear trauma from being chased or seeing her awful home life :c