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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.
cowardley: (тαlĸιɴɢ тαlĸιɴɢ ιт нυrтѕ)

[personal profile] cowardley 2016-06-06 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
It's never over. [ Ashley whispers back, pulling away from her friend—someone willing to die for her, and her for them. It's strange to go from such feelings of animosity to this, but she's glad for it; the things they've experienced here have brought them closer, and for that she's glad, but the things they've gone through have been, largely, nightmarish.

And though the dream nightmare may be over, this one is not. This one is never over. ]
What about tomorrow night? Or the night after? Or... or when it's not nightmares anymore?

[ And it's not just fear that permeates her voice, but quiet, dangerous fury. Her words are thick with it. ]
unfollowing: (the blood is symbolic i guess)

[personal profile] unfollowing 2016-06-06 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ashley's right. That night is going to stay with them until they die, and maybe even after if there's anything after death. More than just the next few nights, more than the possibility of another wendigo event -- it's worse, living with the memories and the guilt and the regret. At least, for Emily it is. You can't really kill the demons on the inside.

When Ash pulls away, Emily lets her hands fall to her upper arms. She just can't let Ash go yet, more for her own sake than her friend's. She can't let her drift away right now.]


If it's not nightmares, then it's real. And if it's real, we kick its ass. [It's almost a growl, definitely ferocious, low and rough with the tightness of the tears she's more or less fought back now.] We survive, right? We make it through the night on the mountain, Chris said. So we're badasses. We keep going.

[Sam would be better at this, it occurs to Emily just then. Hell, Sam is who Emily would've run to in the middle of the night, desperate for the warmth of another person's presence nearby, the sound of someone else's voice and heartbeat and breathing. Sam would know what to say, and she'd say it just right, not all jagged edges like Emily does. Still, it's all she's got (because Ashley and Chris have each other, and Josh and Chris are still best friends, in spite of it all), so she sucks it up and deals.]
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[personal profile] cowardley 2016-06-07 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's something about hearing those words from Emily; we're badasses, plural, meaning including Ashley. For a moment, her lower lip trembles, eyes wet, and then she steels the fear and worry and aching anxiety. She locks up the horrors of this night in a chest in her mind, puts it away with all the other nightmares and ghosts of their past.

She swallows. Emily is right: they are badasses. They haven't survived just this nightmare, or the one on the mountain, but all the other hellish things that have been tossed at them. They're still here. Hell, even death can't hold Emily back.

It strikes her then just how lucky she is to have Emily here, beside her, in Hadriel. Her ferociousness, and cool demeanor used to be intimidating—and still is, at times—but has become a comfort, and a blessing.]


And we show them it takes more than this to hurt us. [ She's no flower to wilt away at a nightmare, or a wendigo encounter; they'll get through this, and then they'll get through the next thing, and the next because they're better than all of it. ]
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[personal profile] unfollowing 2016-06-10 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn right.

[Honestly, now that Emily thinks about it, they really have been through so much, and for all that it's fucked them up (especially considering they haven't dealt with it at all, they're still here, still living, still fighting against the shit this place and its gods throw at them.

Nodding, Emily pulls back her hands.]
I'm gonna make some coffee. Can't sleep now anyway. Have some, if you want.
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[personal profile] cowardley 2016-06-11 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I might get some later, but I think I'm going to go... sort my head out, take a walk. [ Ashley, unlike part of the house, does not subsist on caffeine, but she does require time to be with her thoughts. ] Maybe I'll even want to go back to sleep when I come back.

[ But what are the chances of that? She'd like to avoid sleep for the time being. ]
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[personal profile] unfollowing 2016-06-12 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
That makes one of us. [Emily has no intention of going back to sleep. Fuck that. She's been Fear's little battery for long enough tonight.] I hope you can get some sleep.

[She'll just be downstairs, scribbling on a piece of paper. Doodling, writing stupid notes -- literally anything to keep herself from falling asleep again.

Nodding towards the hallway as if to say "let's go", she starts for the door. Maybe Chris or Josh will be downstairs too. Emily isn't sure if that would be better or worse than being alone.]
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[personal profile] cowardley 2016-06-14 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ They exit the room, and head down the stairs. Ashley gives Emily one good look, and a quiet,"I'll be back" before she's out the door, only stopping to grab her hoodie and satchel from the coat rack. She knows she'll likely hit the stores before she comes home. ]