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Event Post: Dreamwalker

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!

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So I'm thinking of two dreams each for Arya and Johanna, but none of these dreams are super set in stone. If you're interested in something else, let me know and we can absolutely hash something out!

Arya will have a hope dream and a rage dream. Her hope dream will be Arya possessing her direwolf, running through an idyllic snowy forest with a large pack. Most of the pack are she-wolves, but there will be five other wolves, one for each of her siblings. She'll be in the form she enjoys the most, with her favorite wolves/people in the world. Arya's rage dream will feature her slaughtering several people who have wronged her in some way -- the people who murdered her family, her friends, etc. These executions will be violent, bloody, and all-around horrifying. Arya, consumed by intense rage, will cause excessive pain for the people she's killing. Fun times!

Johanna will have a delight dream and a fear dream. Her delight dream will be her strolling through a beautiful, sunny pine forest with a teenage boy (her deceased brother). She won't talk too much, because the boy is pretty talkative, but she'll be happy and healthy. Her fear dream will begin with Johanna stepping into a thunderstorm, but will turn into disjointed snippets of her torture -- solitary confinement, screams from next door, government questioning, men in surgical masks, being doused in water, being electrocuted. This is a pretty intense dream, but will definitely give your character a VIP-pass into Johanna's trauma and baggage that she usually wouldn't share under ordinary circumstances.

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Alrighty, I have a few general questions for a variety of things that might come up. c:

Will characters know whose dreams they're in somehow or will they need to figure it out? This sort of ties in with the next question, which is if the host character needs to actually be in the dream themselves or if parts/all of the dreams can be solo adventures (in this case I'd guess the host would experience the dream through the visitor's eyes/actions.) Similarly, if both the visitor and host are present, can they work together/influence things as a team?

Edited (y so srz icon) 2016-05-13 20:01 (UTC)

How much can a dream visitor affect the dream they've landed in? Like could they help defend the dreamer from their nightmares, have conversations with other dream figures, etc, or are they only spectating?

Okay, so as usual with dreamscape events I imagine dreams will change depending on the characters visiting and how things go in the dreams themselves, but in general here's some stuff for plotting purposes~

Chris will probably only have fear dreams, mostly because although I can think of a few things to do for the others they'd... Mostly be boring because Chris is a dweeby loser whose idea of a delightful time is studying in the library with his girlfriend. So fear it is, and there will be a few of these~

One will be mostly wendigo-based, taking place on the mountain from Until Dawn, which is very ominous, cold, and dark. Also full of monsters, abandoned mines, and really unstable cliffs and general other hazards that make surviving, especially in a nightmare, kind of a challenge.

The next will have to do with the other events of the night in Until Dawn, so hope you like Saw movies! Lots of awful choices, potential gory deaths, and elaborate setups. This dream will probably be kind of a mishmash of lots of canon things together rather than a clear replay of any one specific event, and I imagine it'll be the most changeable depending on the visitor and what (and who) matters to them most.

And the last will be kind of a combo of Hadriel-event stuff with canon things~ Missed the buried alive event and want to be awful to your character? Want to turn into a wendigo? Wanna be attacked by a wendigo in a snowstorm underground? SURE WHY NOT.

So yeah these should be lots of fun and if anyone wants to plot specific stuff (especially for the second dream setting which would probably change a bit depending on visitor) I am down for it~ Additionally I want Chris to visit other dreams, so I'd love to plot that stuff too. 8D

Ruby is new and I don't want to out her powers and history and such just yet, so she'll only be visiting. She's super nosy and the more info she can learn about other characters the better, so she'll actually enjoy this event a lot even if she ends up in awful dreams.

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Edited 2016-05-13 20:13 (UTC)

No worries! I'm going to break these down a bit so it's easier:

1. Characters would not immediately know whose dream they're in and would likely have to figure out who their Host is from context clues, or seeing the Host themselves. If the Host character is not present in the dream and there aren't enough clues to figure it out, the Visitor can eventually get an idea for the "feel" of a dream which they may be able to identify with the Host. Hopefully that makes sense!

2. Dreams can be structured in basically any way you choose- the Host character can either be physically present with the Visitor character, or the Visitor character can go it alone with the Host's player essentially GMing the dream. The Host character can also be another facet of the dream, coming and going and acting as the dream requires. It doesn't necessarily have to correspond to the physical presence of the Host.

3. As far as actual influence goes, the Host (and, at player discretion, the Visitor) can alter or influence their dreams (such as by killing monsters, escaping the situation, moving somewhere else), but the dream itself will always be influenced by the god. For example, if you have a Fear dream and you're running from a monster and your Visitor kills the monster for you, it doesn't mean that the dream will suddenly get better. If you don't wake up, then there may be a second monster in the shadows, or you'll find that the monster was actually the Host all along... etc etc.

I hope that helped!

That all makes perfect sense and answers everything I was wondering, so awesome! And thanks. 8D

That would pretty much be up to player choice! There are no hard rules on how much or how little the Visitor can influence the dreams that they're in, though everything about the dream could be interactive for both Host and Visitor!

Noah's going to have three nights off visiting other dreams, and two nights each of Fear and Delight.

The fear one will be the same both nights, the most obvious fear. For those familiar with his canon the short answer is the day he was murdered. It won't start off all that frightening as it covers scattered memories of the few hours leading up to his death as well as the actual murder - which involves searching through a forest only to have his former best friend coming up behind him and beating his face in with a skateboard. It takes him eleven minutes to die. As soon as he does the dream will start repeating back at the beginning like an awful broken record.

The delight dreams will be two different ones. Again, for those familiar with canon it's basically the memory of when Blue came to visit while Gansey and Adam are away. Blue and him in the apartment that was remade out of an old warehouse office section - just doing kid things, jumping on beds, playing truly awful games of pool, having fun really. Oh, and, uh, making out on Gansey's bed. That will be in particular detail and take much longer in the dream than it did in real life. Hey, it's Noah's nice dream, he can focus on what he wants. The second one will be even more fragmented than the Fear dreams, but it has the same cast! Basically just an indeterminable season of hanging out by his car with Whelk and listening to music and shooting the shit, more or less. While everything else (including Noah) is vague, Whelk, the car, and the music will be in sharp detail.

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Krieg's dreams are going to be totally and completely open to the public to peruse at their leisure. He will have at least two open dreams but maybe a few more.

There will be at least one fear dream (focusing on the experimentation he suffered at the hands of Hyperion) and one rage dream (focusing on the aftermath of said experimentation). There might be more - I'm still on the fence about it. The important thing is that he used to be a fairly ordinary guy before Hyperion got its hands on him, and his dreams are going to be dredging up all the subconscious memories he uses violence and bloodshed to tamp down.

Naturally both dreams will include a lot of awful violence and bloodshed, so if that's not your thing you might want to skip 'em. His character comes with a general content warning anyhow, but you get the idea.

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I’m interested in Hux being both Host and Visitor so let me know which you would be interested in.

Mostly, his own personal dreams are going to be fear driven because of the headspace that he’s in right now. He left home terrified he’s facing execution/disgrace thanks to the loss of Starkiller.

Maketh will be the dubious spectator in one of his Fear driven nightmares about his academy days. There will be TW for implied child abuse and all the horrible stuff a fascist society can do to break a young man’s soul and mind.

I could be up for doing another Fear influenced dream if someone has an idea they want to run past me. He has enough fears and hangups to fill up the entire event chokablock full of bad juju.

He will also be a Rage fueled dream where he strikes down every person whom he thinks he has ever slighted him. ~~coughcoughKyloRencoughcough~~ TW for bloody retribution and other heinous things because yeah he’s got a lot of hate suppressed and this will be a cathartic outlet for him.

I also might like to see him have a Delight driven dream cataloging the culmination of all of his personal aspirations where he manages to depose the Supreme Leader, destroy the New Republic and crown himself the leader of a unified and orderly universe. I can’t see so much in the way of TW here aside from the whole “Bad Guys Win” self-indulgent dreams of being a space tyrant. Not that he thinks of himself as one of course but instead as a ruler who will bring peace and order to a galaxy in chaos.

Please note: I’m not going to be bringing in anything really about Starkiller base mainly because it’s kinda a touchy subject for him. And also keep in mind that Hux has bought waaaaaaaaaay into the party line and so his dreams will have a very First Order and Hux skewed angle. He genuinely thinks what he is doing is for the betterment of the galaxy and it will show up in his dreams.

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Edited 2016-05-13 21:20 (UTC)

Still doing some thinking for both of my ladies, and I'm open to plotting!

Maketh is going to have at least two fear dreams concerning her time at the Academy and one influenced by delight. Her fear dreams are going to concern two specific events: the graduation "exam" - a holo simulation where she's ordered to execute unarmed prisoners who turn out to be her parents - and a nightmare concerning her former girlfriend's defection from the Empire. The latter is going to be extremely violent, with Maketh essentially living through all the horrible fates could possibly have been dealt out to defectors. None of them are pretty and most of them involve a firing squad. Maketh may be the execution or she might be up against the wall with them - or both! She has lots of confused, guilty feelings about this.

The Inquisitor will probably show up in both dreams in some capacity.

Her delight-inspired dream will be dancing in a club surrounded by a bunch of suddenly not dead TIE pilots, as well as some of her Hadriel friends. There will be lots of alcohol and pretty lights.

The plotting for Miriam is pretty vague at the moment, but she's going to have at least one fear dream concerning the Sons of Plunder and an event she witnessed before coming to Hadriel: watching them torture one of her friends to death and then injecting him with what's essentially a zombie plague virus. Her friend, Gilly, will then chase her and Barnaby through the burning ruins of her home - passing a lot of other nastiness along the way.

She may have a dream involving something fun with Barnaby - sitting in a cart while he pulls her insanely fast through Hadriel, perhaps.

Alrighty, this is going to be interesting. Mechanics first. Would you prefer Maketh be a passive observer, interact with dream!Hux, something in between the two?

Also, let me know if you want Hux to visit any of Maketh's dreams.

How aware will hosts be that visitors are in fact other people and not just part of their dreams?

Likewise, how aware will visitors be that they're in someone else's dreams?

I know their waking selves will have a warning, but how does that warning translate into actual dreamtime knowledge?

Yessss let's iron out the details. Uhhh I feel like it's kinda unfair for you if Maketh is just relegated to passive observer. How many freaked out reaction tags can you do before it gets repetitive? I figured I'd definitely set up the scene and we could always do a morphing of the two where maybe she watches for a bit and then draws attention to herself somehow which is when she becomes an active participant in this nightmare scenario?

And sure thing! Maybe the next night he gets to tip toe through one of her fun fun Academy days dreams?

Good point. Would you prefer her to be the current Maketh, or flash back to her cadet days so they're the same age in the dream, if that makes sense? I have an image in my head of these two bonding as freaked out cadets that would really piss Maketh off when she wakes up, since she's trying really hard to hate everything about Hux.

Turnabout is fair play :D Wanna do one of the dreams I wrote out, or more general academy nastiness? Might be easier if it doesn't involve people he doesn't know. And I do have an idea concerning an exercise in assembling a blaster and the sort of "motivation" an instructor could apply. Liiiiiike, say, shooting the slowest participants with blanks. Or the blaster equivalent of blanks.

Edited 2016-05-13 21:47 (UTC)

Emily is going to be hosting four dreams, one of each, because she's cool like that.

Hope dream: basically her mirror from the hopeful futures event come to life. Visitors will probably wind up in her office as she stares at the cover with Jessica on it and says something about how badass they are.

Fear dream: visitors will be treated to a really fucked up version of Emily's adventure in the mines (tm). There will be more fire, more wendigo (featuring a butterfly tattoo on her right upper arm, to remind Emily of the part she played in the birth of this particular wendigo), more Matt (he will appear a lot, doing one of three things: blaming her for everything and telling her she sucks, abandoning her to her doom, or dying -- she will be helpless every time and these will happen over and over in true nightmare fashion), and probably more falling. Visitors can help her out or shove her or whatever tbh, have fun.

Rage dream: Emily will be beating the shit out of Mike for all he did to her. (In her mind, he betrayed her by dumping her for Jess. Also, and this is a fact, he pointed a gun out her and threatened to kill her if she didn't basically give herself to the wendigos as an appetizer.) Possibly she'll grab the gun from him and shoot him. She will also slap Jess repeatedly because how the hell does your best friend date your ex not one week after your ex dumped you.

Delight dream: a shopping spree with no spending limit in a mall with stores that carry only the best of the best of everything. Come shop with her or let her give you a makeover or whatever!

I'm happy to handwave anything if you want, both in terms of Em visiting your character's dreams or your character visiting hers, because the sad truth is I want to do more than I can handle for this event wahaha.

Since Em now knows about Itani leaving, I think that would be a good (lol "good") dream to send her into. As much of a selfish jerk as she is, Emily doesn't want to be at fault for anyone dying, especially if they're a friend (n-not that Maketh is her friend or anything...), so she'd try to help Maketh out. Or deter her from killing someone. Whatever happens :D

This is just what I have in mind so far! If you would like cr with either of them and what I have planned doesn't ping you, please come and talk to me anyway and we can hash something out! I am interested in having them both host and visit.

Gansey will host primarily fear based dreams, since that's the main influence he hasn't felt here yet! He will have a few different dreams, but essentially they will all be focused around his major fear of death. Gansey has a deathly allergy of wasp and bee stings. At least one of his dreams will prominently feature swarms of monstrous, aggressive ground hornets which will chase, catch, smother and generally terrorise both dream!Gansey and his visitor. This one will involve CW for body horror. Another dream will focus on darkness and depth, and will involve mainly psychological horror.

Damen will host a hope dream, which will be based on his fantasy of what would have happened if he had managed to meet Laurent without their countries being at war. This dream will be gross and romantic. Dream!Damen will not be aware that he's dreaming. If you're visiting, your character will be able to influence this dream; they could take the place of another character within it or they could meet dream!Damen as themselves. Either way, this dream will feature the best possible version of his world that Damen can imagine. Then, to directly contrast that, he will also host a fear dream, in which he will see his worst possible future. In this dream he will watch everyone he cares about die, witness his army fail, and eventually die himself - unless your intervention can help him, of course.

I'm planning for all of these to be open prompts, but if anyone would like a closed prompt for something in particular, please let me know!

Lilith's dreams will be super open! I have no plans re: who she's visiting yet, but as I don't plan to have 10 dreams lol she'll be around for sure.

In her Fear dream, Lilith will be appearing as she was at her weakest and most confused: immediately after her Siren abilities manifested as a young girl! She'll only have the relative strength of a 10 or 11-year-old (and considering she's a newly-orphaned vagrant, not an especially well-nourished or rested one, either), and she'll have extremely limited control over her powers to match. I've got two options, and I can go with one or both depending on interest-- she'll be trying to hitchhike her way off a planet alone in one, and in the other she'll relive Hadriel's wendigo event, but as a bitty thing. Too bad her survival through that event was based on very precise control over her phasewalking... Whoops.

Her Rage dream will be the final boss of Borderlands: the Destroyer! And it will take forever to die. It'll be a cool fight for sure though. Come watch Lilith (and dream versions of Brick, Mordecai + Bloodwing, and Roland) doin' what they do best.

Finally, her Delight dream will be of her (and her boys again, but appearing much less actively) looting the Atlas armory! Essentially: four grownass adults running around a weapons stockpile like a bunch of kids in a candy store. This time, though, there won't be a time limit-- so basically we're playing that "stay in the armory forever" weapon farming glitch, lmfao.

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I would love for Damen to visit Miriam's fear dream and try to help her against the Sons! He's been wanting to see her world, this might be the perfect opportunity.

Oh, that delight dream...

So, if Gansey saw that makeout scene, he'd be all kinds of awkward. Especially if he worked out that it was real, but probably to an extent even if he didn't know it was real, because he would know it meant Noah was interested in Blue. This is not a thing he has really considered before. He thought Adam was the one he had to worry about >>

Would you be up for this? I realise it's not exactly the happy ending one should typically get from a Delight dream!

parks butt here.

Soooooo you know how sometimes when you have a dream it starts in media res. What if Lilith were a visitor in the second fear dream, but... immediately alongside the defectors about to get executed. :D

Not at all what she meant when she said she wished she could've met Itani but HEEEeeyyyy careful what you wish for?

h...hi lilith...............

he's totally gonna butt in on her dreams tho, jsyk

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Event Post: Dreamwalker

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