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ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴅᴛᴇᴀᴍ ᴏғ ʜᴀᴅʀɪᴇʟ ([personal profile] hadrielmods) wrote in [community profile] hadriel_logs2016-05-16 10:28 am

Event Log: Dreamwalker

Who: Everyone!
What: The Dreamwalker event
Where: In your comfy bed and your sleepy head.
When: May 16th-26th
Warnings: Good dreams, weird dreams, bad dreams, straight-up nightmares. Please remember to tag for warnings in the header if things are going to be bad!


Have you been having trouble getting a good night's sleep? Tossing and turning, unable to rest those tired eyes? Or maybe you don't sleep at all, and never have. Not to worry! For a little while, you'll have no trouble at all falling asleep - in fact, as night falls, you'll find yourself overwhelmed with exhaustion whether you want to sleep or not. Lay down and rest your weary head, friends. Everyone could use a little extra sleep.

But what will your dreams bring? Something happy, images of a perfect day? Something hopeful, something you've wanted for a long time? Maybe you'll dream of anger, of the face of your worst enemy. Or maybe - just maybe - you'll have a horrific nightmare, and wake screaming, covered in cold sweat.

Not before others have time to see it, though. As you sleep, as you dream, the other residents of Hadriel, friends and enemies and people you've only met once, might find their way into your dreams. Or you might find your way into theirs - and then have to deal with someone's else's nightmares, or hopes, or anger. For the next ten nights, you'll find yourself either a host or a visitor, and no matter how you try you won't be able to stay awake once night falls.

Sweet dreams, Hadriel. Don't let the asshole fear gods bite.


► This log covers May 16th-26th.
► 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!
► You can't die in the dreams, but if you somehow manage to trip and fall and kill yourself getting out of bed, please report it on the death post.
stepford_smiler: (It's a pleasure)

[personal profile] stepford_smiler 2016-05-23 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah fireworks, a Chinese specialty. There haven't been any chances to watch them. There wasn't much to celebrate back home.]

Just like that one.

[Hakkai follows suit, drying impossibly quick and gaining shoes. He rolls his pant legs down and starts heading towards the source of the fireworks.]
inappropriatelaughter: you bet your ass im acting like a normal person (your;e damn right im calm.)

[personal profile] inappropriatelaughter 2016-05-23 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a path, now, leading to a break between the trees. Lanterns peek out from beyond it. Two figures are far ahead of them, vague half-imagined shadows of Sanzo and Goku.

Gojyo walks close to Hakkai, companionably, and digs a handful of cash out of his pocket. He has money!! Hope indeed.
]

Check that out. You said something about wine?

[ He nudges Hakkai. Let's DO THIS BUDDY ]
stepford_smiler: (pic#10258464)

[personal profile] stepford_smiler 2016-05-23 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
[That amount of cash only solidifies that they're dreaming.

He nods and quickens his pace towards the festival. Maybe he'll even be able to get blissfully tipsy in this dream!]


This should be fun.

inappropriatelaughter: i rev up my motorcylce and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement (Default)

[personal profile] inappropriatelaughter 2016-05-25 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ The festival itself is there in impressions: there's music, but trying to follow the tune is useless; there are streamers and lights, but the stalls they hang from seem to be empty. The people around them are colorful shadows without faces. There is no indication of what's being celebrated. Gojyo has a cup of some kind of alcohol, despite never having left to get one.

Lightning flashes far in the distance.
]

Ah, shit. I left all the windows open.

[ He doesn't sound too perturbed, though; he just sips his drink. ]
stepford_smiler: (Just the usual)

[personal profile] stepford_smiler 2016-05-25 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
[It's eerie. He's having a very mild fun. It's a content feeling that he prefers over strong bouts of elation. It's just enough.

He sips his own drink that's somehow made it into his own hands.

Hakkai's not a fan of the rain, but...]


We can worry about it later then, hm?

[Not like he'll have to clean anything.]
inappropriatelaughter: i rev up my motorcylce and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement (Default)

[personal profile] inappropriatelaughter 2016-05-28 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Maybe it'll stay over there.

[ Except as soon as he says it there's a burst of thunder, impossibly close, and it starts to rain—and then pour. The cheerful, featureless people around them, holding lights and drinks and unidentifiable bright shapes, seem not to notice. ]
stepford_smiler: (pic#10267890)

[personal profile] stepford_smiler 2016-05-28 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Of course it starts raining on them. Hakkai might not like the rain, but he's pretty sure Gojyo doesn't mind it, so why would his subconscious stop it from happening?

His hair starts getting weighty with the rain drops and dripping onto his face.]


We should...find shelter of some sort.
inappropriatelaughter: (pic#10222483)

[personal profile] inappropriatelaughter 2016-05-28 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a shortcut right through here.

[ His spirits seem to be just as high as they were by the ocean, but he picks up his pace and ducks into an alley. It's more complete and detailed than the festival was, ripped from some memory of Chang'an, but there are no half-formed people here.

He stops at a familiar door in an unfamiliar building and goes in ahead of Hakkai. It's his house—lived-in but clean, more or less.
]
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[personal profile] stepford_smiler 2016-05-28 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[He follows Gojyo inside and takes his shoes off at the doorway. He glances around the familiar house. They hadn't seen that place in a long time. In his own dream it was warped and dark. But here it was just as they had left it.

He smooths his wet hair back out of his face.]
inappropriatelaughter: but i know my friend "Jack fists" and he would like to come to knock the shit out of your teeth, (i may not know "jack shit")

[personal profile] inappropriatelaughter 2016-05-29 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gojyo shrugs out of his jacket, dumps it on a chair, disappears into the bathroom, and comes back out with a couple of mismatched towels, slinging one of them around his neck. He drapes the other over Hakkai's head. ]

What's with that face?
Edited 2016-05-29 01:00 (UTC)
stepford_smiler: (pic#10267893)

[personal profile] stepford_smiler 2016-05-29 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Hakkai reaches up and rubs the towel over his head when it's unceremoniously dropped over him. He pulls it off then starts drying his hair more meticulously.]

I'm making a face?

[He was totally making a face. Though, to a stranger, it wouldn't be noticeable]
inappropriatelaughter: i rev up my motorcylce and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement (Default)

[personal profile] inappropriatelaughter 2016-05-29 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
You're making the hell out of a face.

[ It's a neutral observation—he's smiling a little, even. He leans against the table opposite Hakkai and folds his arms over his chest, just kind of openly observing. ]
stepford_smiler: (pic#10284344)

[personal profile] stepford_smiler 2016-05-29 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
[He pushes a smile on his face. What face? He wasn't making any face.]

I'm fine, Gojyo. Really. Don't worry about me.

[He looks around again at the house.]

We really should decorate...

[He's just...subtly changing the subject.]
inappropriatelaughter: that by resorting to Swear language, you have forfeit this debate. Farewell my bitch (i regret to inform you)

[personal profile] inappropriatelaughter 2016-05-29 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gojyo looks as though he didn't hear any of it.

He turns, instead, to watch something unseen: it moves around the table and stops there. After a moment, Gojyo flips a chair around to sit backwards, propping his arms across the top, focused on some point in space ahead of him.
]

Yeah, I remember that.

[ It's like he's responding to a conversation they're not having. ]
stepford_smiler: (pic#10284345)

[personal profile] stepford_smiler 2016-05-29 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Hakkai looks confused and tries to follow his line of sight. He wonders if someone else is in the room with them suddenly. This is a dream, so it's entirely possible. But it's a bit unnerving to listen to Gojyo responding to someone that he can't hear.]
inappropriatelaughter: you bet your ass im acting like a normal person (your;e damn right im calm.)

[personal profile] inappropriatelaughter 2016-05-29 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ The space across from Gojyo is unquestionably empty, but the air seems thick, charged with something invisible. ]

I never said that.

[ He lights a cigarette for himself. The other half of the conversation, whatever it is, makes him grin, self-deprecating. ]

So what! Maybe I changed my mind.

[ The chair on the empty side of the table gains a shadow, suddenly. Someone is sitting there.

In related news, Hakkai's own shadow seems to have vanished.
]
stepford_smiler: (pic#10267892)

[personal profile] stepford_smiler 2016-05-29 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Hakkai's brows knit together as he strained his ears slightly to hear the other side of the conversation, but he couldn't hear anything.

He felt a presence of another person there, but it was only the presence.

He glanced around the room and noticed that the light around him shifted then there is his shadow. Sitting there at the table.

He is most definitely unnerved at this point.]


Gojyo...?
inappropriatelaughter: but i know my friend "Jack fists" and he would like to come to knock the shit out of your teeth, (i may not know "jack shit")

[personal profile] inappropriatelaughter 2016-05-29 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hakkai's shadow snaps back under his feet.

Gojyo looks over at him, totally relaxed, as if nothing had happened.
]

What's with that face?

[ His tone is exactly the same as it was the first time. ]
stepford_smiler: (pic#10284347)

[personal profile] stepford_smiler 2016-05-29 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
[His brows stay furrowed as Gojyo directs his attention back onto him and not at...whatever had his attention. There was a strange feeling of deja vu with the way Gojyo repeated what he had said only moments earlier.]

Was someone...just there?

[He gestures to the chair that is now unoccupied. This is all dream logic. There could have been someone there that he was unaware of because this isn't his dream. He calms himself down to remember that. It's only a dream. There are bound to be strange things happening.]
inappropriatelaughter: my nick name is "Mr Shut the Fuck Up" because i tell people to shut the fuck up not because i love shutting the fuck up (saying it again:)

[personal profile] inappropriatelaughter 2016-05-29 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gojyo smokes in silence for a second, frowning. ]

Hakkai, nobody's here but you and me. You okay?

[ There's an intangible sense of dissonance everywhere, as if this version of reality can't agree with itself anymore: the lights flicker; the chair Hakkai hadn't been sitting in has flipped around without moving. The rain seems to have stopped. ]
stepford_smiler: (pic#10258461)

[personal profile] stepford_smiler 2016-05-29 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Hakkai closes his eyes for a moment and pinches the bridge of his nose as if trying to refocus his own mind. He reopens them and finds things...off. As familiar a setting this is, it's a dream. It's still just a dream.]

Yes. I'm okay.

[He rights the chair and sits down. He tries to normalize the dream, even just a little by calling attention to the things around them.]

It's stopped raining. That's good, right?

[He listens out carefully and heightens his awareness to see if anything responds to his attempts at redirection.]
inappropriatelaughter: that i could pull one o f my teeth out right now but i dont want to (im strong enough)

[personal profile] inappropriatelaughter 2016-05-29 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ The lights seem to stabilize, but the heavy strangeness in the air is still there. ]

Why, you wanna go back out? It's like one in the morning.

[ The clock on the wall confirms it. Gojyo grins, propping his chin on his arms. ]

Don't be like me.
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[personal profile] stepford_smiler 2016-05-29 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Hakkai looks at the clock and sees that it is indeed 'one in the morning'.

He smiles just a little.]


Rain makes it a bit difficult to sleep. But you don't have to worry about me going out at this time.

[He's still a bit wary of where this dream might turn, but he's glad it's stabilized at least a little bit.]
inappropriatelaughter: but i know my friend "Jack fists" and he would like to come to knock the shit out of your teeth, (i may not know "jack shit")

[personal profile] inappropriatelaughter 2016-05-29 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Gojyo thumps the back of his chair against the table and watches Hakkai, somewhere between bored and content. ]

So you're gonna go to sleep?

[ Thump, thump. He tilts his head, cajoling. ]

We could do somethin' else.
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[personal profile] stepford_smiler 2016-05-29 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Even with as smart as Hakkai is, the only thoughts of 'doing something else' went to cards, walking around the town night life, and alcohol.]

Like what?

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