Event Log: Dreamwalker the Second

[hadrielmods]

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for the Dreamwalker part 2 event
Where: In your dreams
When: October 14th-20th (the second log will go up on Oct 23rd, please keep the two weeks of the event separate!)
Warnings: All different kinds of dreams falling under the umbrella of Delight, Rage, Sorrow, and Hope.

This time, the weird stuff doesn't happen when you're awake- as a matter of fact, your waking hours are the normal ones. That's because you're forced to sleep by some unknown entity, getting more and more exhausted by the moment as night falls. Better make sure you're always around a soft pillow.

Once asleep, it doesn't get any less weird- your dreams will be influenced by one of the four gods that make up the first week. Something to make you smile, something to make you angry- or something that reminds you of your deepest regret or most vulnerable hope, they're all things that you're dreaming about now for some reason, no matter how hard you may try to pull away from them.

To make matters more complicated, there are others intruding on your dreams who definitely don't belong there, and while they may seem like manifestations at first, it becomes clear that these others are actually the consciousness of other members of Hadriel, getting some top quality exposure to your angriest, happiest, most sorrowful moments. Hope it doesn't get awkward when you see them tomorrow...

► This log covers October 14th-20th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well
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► If you die in dreams you don't die in real life, but if you somehow die in real life anyway, please let us know here.

Comments

[unknowable]

I'll keep you in mind, for sure.

[It's a dream, they're in school, so Adam is sure he has somewhere to be. He always had somewhere to be - work, class, studying.]

I'll see you around.

[completelycrazy]

Oh.

[Well, truth be told, he's seen crazier things at this point. He was pretty sure alien invasions and portals to new dimensions weren't a thing either, but then Trespasser popped up out of the ocean and challenged everything humanity knew about the universe. It happens. So, fine, he'll accept this crazy science he is unfamiliar with. Why not?

He grimaces as she brushes the dust from her coat. That's... Dark.]

Um. Get out of what? [...] For the record, that doesn't sound like a bad thing to me. You, uh, want to save your people, right? Sometimes that's worth doing some unorthodox stuff.

[He can relate... He thinks?]

[unknowable]

Well, I'm one of those, so I guess I can't really help. But there are a lot of people here - you never know who you might meet.

[toiletseat_girl]

I guess. And there are new people all the time. Maybe one of 'em will talk to me and, I don't know. Be interested? Maybe?

[lemontree]

It's possible he could never have seen them born, if he'd kept them.

[ Only Dany. Only a true Targaryen.

Only blood magic, maybe. ]

They are. [ Awe-inspiring, anyway. ] But they are not pets. They are dangerous to my enemies, and symbols to my allies.

[ Her children, her dragons. The symbol of her House. ]

[leashed]

Yes.

[That's about the long and short of it.]

You disagree?

[leashed]

We were ordered.

[Plain and simple. Rome shakes his head.]

We're soldiers. We listen to orders.

[greywaren]

[He smirks at the suggestion- Ronan is a scholarship student here too, but somehow he's too self assured to even consider losing it. It's a thread that doesn't make sense, something that will fray if you think too much on it, but he doesn't. Instead, he thinks about Adam, hunched over a book in the library, studying in all of his spare time with his unkempt hair and his nimble fingers sliding across the words in his texts.

It's a satisfying image and he's not sure why, not yet.]

I make an appearance when I want to.

[He shrugs.]

It's all just- pointless bullshit, though. They think they know enough about this shithole to be cynical. [Ronan shakes his head.] They don't know anything.

[sciencelizard]

[Alphys doesn't know what they're going to do here as they approach, but in the end, it doesn't matter. Her legs shook as they approached, tail low and dragging in the dirt. It's funny, in some sick way, how fluidly fire moves. How it reminds her of Waterfall now.

At least this time, she isn't walking to the inevitable alone, either.

But the column of fire goes up, and she tries to brace herself, and-- it's over, just like that. She's awake in her room, breaths heavy, but alive. It's over.

She doesn't go immediately back to sleep. She's never been good at doing that, after nightmares, and she stays for a while curled around herself, tail tucked in as she surrounds her phone like a large scaley cat. It takes her hours to send it, and when she does she just tosses her phone like a hot potato and throws herself under the covers, refusing to check it for hours.

But she does send it. Just one text to Lup, as the fake dawn breaks outside.]

its ok
<3

[sciencelizard]

[She listens, quiet, letting his words wash over her. Some people don't ever feel guilty. They keep hurting and hurting and never once do better.

Isn't that what she said to Frisk? That after it all, at least they were trying?

She pulls herself to her feet, and the water that could be heard in the background seems to fade and disappear.]

I thought dying for this would make it better. But it didn't. No... no one even knew t-they were here.

[She wants to reach out and take his hand, take something small and physical, but she's too shy. So she grabs her own hands instead, looking down at her closed palms.]

I wanted to pretend it hadn't happened either. But I... guess I can't. Not if I really want to... I d-dunno. Do good. Be good.

[sciencelizard]

[Lup can feel that Alphys is shaking, tears falling from her cheek and hitting the water below. It's hard to hear Lup over the roar of the current, at least to her. Drawing her back. Reminding her of the natural conclusion of this scene.]

Nobody should need me. I've never done anything right! F-For anyone, or-- I've never helped anything! I only made it worse.

[The scene is opening up, the roof of the lab rising into a large, damp cave. The water isn't just confined to the hall, but all around, sweeping down in falls from higher peaks and ledges. It never goes higher than a few inches, just enough to cover their feet, but there's a push. A pull, really.

Towards the dark abyss, suddenly ahead. But when Alphys speaks, it's choked, and quiet.]

They starved. I wasn't there. I left and I'm n-never coming back.

[greywaren]

[It's Ronan, of course- who else would it be? He's laying facedown, but the shape of him gives it away as soon as Adam draws near. The scene is recreated from memory, like a painter with a self portrait, and that's the end of the barn, blood soaking into the ground from a fatal wound to the head, drenching his jacket, his shirt, his long, dark curls.

There's no monster who did this, not even a man, it's just there, held inside of this barn like a macabre museum of all the horrors in his memory, kept in pristine condition and ripe for revisiting whenever his mind decides to rebel against him.

But he knows this place now. It has a place in his mind, like everything else does, and when Ronan steps out of the shadows of the barn, he's not angry or struggling or even particularly upset. He's calm, accepting of the scene before him because it's a part of him now, just like the good things, just like Adam or Opal in his arms.]

Sorry it took me so long.

[He finally murmurs, stepping in a little closer and reaching his arms out for Opal.]

I didn't know if it was really you at first.

[puzzlingly]

「For a brief moment, Atem turns back at her with something else in his eyes, wariness maybe. He's heard those words before, he's been on the end of them. But maybe it is because he wants to see her as a friend that the buries the feeling, besides, if that throne belonged to her in the first place, it is not the same as wanting mere retribution.」

Justice is in the name of the Gods...

「He remembers his father's words, the key to victory back then, not that they might mean anything to her.」

Have faith, Daenerys. If your cause is true, you have nothing to fear.

「He turns back, giving more attention to his new dragon friend.」

How did that happen... how did you lose it?

「He cannot say he's not curious.」

[restinglichface]

[Lup's a flirtatious woman by nature, so being this close to a beautiful lady? Oh hell yeah, she's gonna flirt for sure.]

I'll have to keep an eye out for you, then. Gotta keep all of Hadriel's finest in my circle. [Collecting friends is a good way to keep from letting the boredom of the place get to her.] So, we got dragons hidin' around in Hadriel too? Or did you pop in alone?

[toiletseat_girl]

Yeah? Why's that?

[George gives Drogon a last pat and then walks back up the stairs to sit next to Dany]

Nah, of course they're not pets. But do you have any enemies left? It looked like everyone was plenty happy to have you.

[aroundthecoroner]

[Listen he doesn't know how magic works. (Clearly.)]

Hey, don't do that! [Michael holds his hand out for his glasses back.] You'll mess up your eyes and then you'll need glasses.

[That seems true anyway. He's gonna go with yes.]

And I can't see without them. They're really important. [He can't even see the dumb face Harlan is making, to be honest.]

[unknowable]

It'll happen. Luckily there's plenty of other stuff to do here - it's not like dating is really a priority for anyone, I think.

[toiletseat_girl]

I guess not, but here's the thing. I've never had a boyfriend before. Or a girlfriend. So that's kind of depressing.

[nowherewolf]

Yeah, see you around.

[Tucker's not sure what he's supposed to be doing, or where he's supposed to be, but eh, that doesn't bother him much. He just gives a little half-wave and kind of wanders off.]

[puzzlingly]

「Real man are human too.」

I do...

「Little time did he had to dwell on the passing of his father, too busy suddenly becoming King and god on earth that very same day. He remembers being told that he shouldn't be sad even if it completely crushed him, that his father's soul would reach the Field of Reeds and that they would be reunited once more when the time came.

It hasn't... It is not quite his death what Atem laments, it's the long wait.

Atem observes at Kain's display of love and guilt for his father, then he looks away, it seems too personal to him.」

[claritatis]

It is possible to move into the dreams of others.

[How he got here, though that had been mostly accidental.]

Or, to wake up.

[leashed]

[He's quiet at that, turning away for a moment. What Tucker is asking from him is something that he's not quite willing to look for- if there's a semblance of humanity inside of him, if it's just as real and just as valid as everyone around him, then his handlers were wrong about him. About them. If he gets to decide how he feels about something, then a fundamental rule is broken, and then-

And then? What else were they wrong about? What other rules can be broken? It's a step from a very high precipice and Rome isn't willing to trust that there's a bottom to it, or that it won't somehow swallow him whole. He isn't ready to jump, he isn't there yet, and the idea of ever being there is more terrifying than anything else.

He doesn't know a lot of things, he doesn't feel a lot of things, but that sudden strike of fear is something he feels- that Tucker is picking at a thread interwoven in the fabric that makes up the core of his entire life, and that he's frightened of what would happen it if unwound.

Still, Rome barely lets on that he's struggling at all. The pause is longer than normal, he stares off for a moment or two as he recollects himself, and then he nods slowly.]

Maybe.

[That's all he'll grant him. Rome opens his mouth to speak again, but before he can, a piercing, terrified shriek echoes over the campground- not close, but amplified by the dream, the kind of sound that can't ever really be forgotten once you've heard it.

He tenses at the sound, recognizing it, and looks back toward Tucker.]

...it's over. You're going to wake up now.

[He swallows hard. Just as loud, as if it's happening right next to them, comes the sound of a single shot. The world starts going black at the edges.]

You're only dreaming.

[foundafamily]

He lets them clatter to the ground and kicks them aside: out of sight, out of mind. "Thanks."

"All right, so where're we going?"

He has to get that out of the way first. Once they have their plan, then he can wonder why Rey's here (and why he's here) and what the hell this place even is.

[circumitus]

Being forcefully confined and bound in chains is an unpleasant experience for most people, so freeing Firo was on Rey's first order of business.

Next, it's their escape. It's obvious that none of this is real, but that doesn't mean it will just end upon that revelation. There's something they have to do. Breaking out might be it.

"This place is all connected by a series of complexes and shuttles. Our best chances is probably the hangar below or admin above."

So what'll it be? The high road or the low road?

[dragonsgrasp]

[Kain also feels that odd wavering feeling, although it's only slight, just enough to get him to look around curiously, and then dismiss it. He shakes his head.]

But it was still me who was responsible. It was my actions, even if someone else was controlling them. They... they exploited my worst feelings, such as my jealousy and stirred up my inner darkness. So while this force was controlling me, the worst side of me was also at the surface... I did and said many regrettable things. I don't deserve forgiveness for any of it.