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
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► 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

hope;

[trashmouths]

He doesn't get it.

It's annoying him, if he's honest--that he doesn't get it. Richie's loud, and can't concentrate for more than five seconds, and doesn't study like Stan, but he always somehow gets straight As on his report card for everything other than behaviour. He's the first person to know when Bill stops stuttering and the first to supply cover from Eddie's mom's questions. Richie gets things, he understands them and learns quick. So when he feels a wave of confusion at the strange sensation of hope, it bothers him. He adjusts his glasses, takes in the scene for the fourth time.

"You're smiling." He squints.

"But you're not leaving."

Re: hope;

[braveoff]

Drake turns to look at Richie, lifting the bag-laden shoulder in a tiny shrug. It's not strange that the boy is here -- everyone's here. Everyone's going somewhere, except maybe him? He's going to try, though, to hold on to Ephemera's hand and tag along with his friends. Maybe they can be alive in some world. If not, they'll just stay. Drake's found peace in that already.

"I might. If it lets us go somewhere else."

[trashmouths]

This isn't a confusion dream, Richie's sure of it, the way there seems to be light and a swelling in his chest that's similar to when he'd stood in a circle, palm bloodied, making a pact. Hope.

That's what it is, but Richie's still puzzled, despite all of that.

"Don't you want to go home?"

[braveoff]

"I can't go home."

He says it simply enough, and there's no grief there. Not anymore. He does still wish he could go back, yes, see his mother again, tie up a few loose ends, but... he can't and that's all there is to it. Drake would rather take hold of what he has than cling to what he's lost.

"What about your world? What's it like?"

[trashmouths]

"Not this," Richie says simply, because that's the truth--not an underground cave, not some weird series of tunnels, not spires. He offers a small smile but it's more like he's wincing, like he's somehow pained, and he watches the other carefully.

"Why can't you go home? Everyone else is."