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A Very Bad Dream

Tonight, even if you are not asleep, you dream.

This is the first of these dreams in which you are yourself. Any thoughts and feelings are your own. The sickness takes no toll on you here as you survey your surroundings.

The world is dying before your eyes, grass dying and rotting and earth eventually becoming dusty rock. The devastation is spreading out from a single point in the distance, a colossal four-legged machine. It’s favouring one side - were it not a machine, you could swear that it almost looks injured. Even from this distance, the way its metal feet tear into the ground is clear, as is the fact that it’s slowly recovering. Whatever’s happening to the world around you, it’s repairing the great machine.

Above you, something begins to encroach on the sun. Pointed silhouettes close upon it and it’s only when its light is extinguished from the sky in a single bite and the world goes dark that you realize that those were teeth. Illuminated by the sunlight shining from its mouth, a great dragon appears. Its scales are crystalline, trapping the sunlight within them and making it glow brightly in the sunless sky. Glorious as it appears, it’s clearly as injured as the machine is. Its scales have broken away in places leaving it to bleed a glowing silver-blue substance, almost like mist, but the sunlight shines through the injuries, reforming scales and healing its wounds.

The earth groans and creaks violently, tearing itself up in places as the machine rips its feet up from the ground. It dashes closer with speed that nothing its size should possess., continuing to rip through the ground below it as it does. The dragon treats the world no more delicately, spitting the sunlight down into it in its attempts to strike the machine. In a matter of minutes, the world has gone from verdant and lush to a dead, burning landscape.

You realize that these two entities, each mighty as a god, are fighting each other. And that you are unfortunate enough to be in the way. The earth itself is as dangerous as either of them, tossing and rearranging itself as if it were a sea in a storm when the machine moves or the dragon’s tail slams against it and throwing anyone unfortunate enough to be stood on it when it does. Flame rains from the skies, meaning they’re no safer. The machine seems to care little for anything in its path, but the dragon occasionally snatches people up into its hands, absorbing something from them before tossing them aside.

It’s now that you realize you’re not alone...

[OOC! Okay, this is going to work differently from the previous dreams, in that it’s a mass log post. Characters are now having kind of a bad dream, as you might have guessed. Important points are-

1) Any injuries recieved, short of those that would cause death, will remain upon waking. Death is possible in the dream, but won’t stick when waking (though a healer will be needed pretty urgently).
2) Characters are unhampered by the illness, since they’re dreaming. They’re as well-armed as they would generally be on an average day, so those currently stuck on bed-rest will be as covered in metal as they’d be were they healthy and fightan things. Much as I’m sure we all want Kain to be forced to fight giant dragons in his favourite baby dragon-printed pajamas.
3) Shinryu can use character’s memories to heal himself. These memories won’t be gone upon waking, though they’ll be inaccessible for the rest of the dream and characters may be a little fuzzy on the details of whatever was forgotten for a few hours.
4) Dissidia folks will probably recognize the place. Shinryu may be familiar to them, but not recognizable unless they’ve survived a cycle long enough to see him. (...so Percy and team Canon Fodder).
5) People who’ve seen either Shinryu or Omega as a superboss will recognize them if they look the same (the robotic Omega, rather than the beasty one). But they’ll know immediately that the one they fought was far, far weaker.
6) If there’s anything else you need to know, tell me! And I’ll edit it in here.]


The injuries remain when you wake, the dragon’s roars and the sound of metal moving still ringing in your ears.

As before, the linkshells transmit emotions for a few hours after the dream is over.

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-15 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
I'll do whatever I can, but what do you have in mind?
dualcast: (Other - Looking up)

[personal profile] dualcast 2012-02-15 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Have you heard of a 'Band' yet, in the time you've been here?

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-15 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
I think so. It's a kind of magic, isn't it?
dualcast: (Determination - Calm)

[personal profile] dualcast 2012-02-15 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Essentially, yes. It's generally an attack used by one or more people focussing their powers, but I wasn't thinking of attacking anything.

My brother and I have the ability to augment the magic of others with our own, or to allow others to augment ours. One of my spells, sight, will allow me to map the immediate area. With as much power as you have right now behind it, I think we'd be able to find anyone who's between these creatures and know what state they're in.

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-15 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Terra's eyebrow raise at that; it's an intriguing idea, and given the situation, well worth trying. So she nods.]

Alright. As long as I can help with your magic, I'm ready for whatever must be done. Let's try it.

[But they should do it quickly, before the chaos of the battle affects them again.]
dualcast: (Determination - Quiet)

[personal profile] dualcast 2012-02-15 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Right. I'm going to cast a spell at you now. I'll make sure that you can absorb and redirect it. Imagine it's one of your own spells, and put as much power as you can behind it.

...and brace yourself, if it works it's going to be a little difficult to get your head around.

Sight.

[And if Terra does amplify and redirect the spell correctly- well, Porom wasn't lying. They'll both see every inch of the battleground from every possible angle at once. It's headache-inducing at best, but it'll at least let them know where everyone is.]

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-15 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Terra manages to do as requested by Porom--and gasps. The flood of information is rather overwhelming, at first. It takes a bit to absorb what she's seeing to a manageable level and even then, it's causing a headache. Still--]

Kain! I see him! And Golbez....
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[personal profile] grandsummon 2012-02-15 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
( yuna's rather determined now; especially now that someone else is counting on her. but as the earth beneath them begins to shake -- she can't help but stop -- it's all she can do to keep her balance ) A-another earthquake?!
bound_skyward: (not now dark side!!)

[personal profile] bound_skyward 2012-02-15 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Kain gasps in pain. Even now, with such terrible odds, his instincts are to fight. Never run. That's the way of the dragoons, and all honorable men of Baron. He's willing to take a more defensive strategy to things, but that's as far as he'll compromise.]

Perhaps others will come. We need only bide our time until then. Cosmos could hardly have summoned only two of us...

[Then, there's another round of attacking between the two warring entities. It's coming too close, much too close-]
mostlineface: (suspicious lineface)

[personal profile] mostlineface 2012-02-15 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Who are you?
mostlineface: (turned away lineface)

[personal profile] mostlineface 2012-02-15 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I was injured. [To state the obvious...] It is a hindrance.
mostlineface: (See it through)

[personal profile] mostlineface 2012-02-15 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's only slightly what he wanted- a battle with the creature is rather difficult when he's being held so tightly that his armor is becoming damaged. Still, he does not squirm to get away, or attempt to avoid the dragon's attention. This fight will happen, one way or another.]
transcendthestars: (suspicious)

[personal profile] transcendthestars 2012-02-15 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Golbez does not stumble as the earth shakes beneath them, but widens his stance to balance himself, looking toward the battle between Omega and Shinryu.]

I doubt there is any easy escape available to us, now that we are here.

[There is a tone of disgust in his voice as he speaks of the place, one hinting at both familiarity and distaste.]
rosesandhorns: (listening : attention caught)

[personal profile] rosesandhorns 2012-02-15 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[She rests one hand on it- standing still, balancing is easier, and she doesn't want to bring Scott down with her, should she fall.]

I will follow your lead.

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-15 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Terra can't help but agree with that last part, but...where are they?]

Well, we--Kain! Watch out!

[She grabs at his arm, not very gentle this time, but trying her best to keep him out of the path of that dragon's tail.]

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-15 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[She stares, eyes widening.]

I'm Terra! We're allies! You really don't remember?!?

[personal profile] mistlegacy 2012-02-15 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rydia spares a wary glance around, then raises an eyebrow at him.]

Where are we, Golbez? Is this that war you were talking about?

[personal profile] mistlegacy 2012-02-15 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yuna! Watch out--

[Rydia shoves the girl away from the growing rift in the ground, only to cry out as she falls into it herself.]
Edited 2012-02-15 14:56 (UTC)
mostlineface: (wondering lineface)

[personal profile] mostlineface 2012-02-15 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head.]

I do not know you.
transcendthestars: (creatures of shadow)

[personal profile] transcendthestars 2012-02-15 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. This is the Edge of Madness- the stronghold of Chaos.
dualcast: (Other - Thought)

[personal profile] dualcast 2012-02-15 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[...okay so either that is kind of odd or he is kind of odd. Possibly both. Her first thought is that he might have hit his head, there's certainly been a lot of things that could result in that, but it's difficult to tell with the helmet.]

How were you injured? Does it still hurt?
dualcast: (Determination - Quiet)

[personal profile] dualcast 2012-02-15 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[On the one hand, Porom had known exactly how much she'd need to brace herself for all the information and so she's better prepared for it than Terra. On the other hand, she's not a glowy esper. She doesn't endure it quite as well and more visibly her floating is a spell and not natural. She yelps in pain, concentration broken, and plummets but catches herself shortly before hitting the ground.]

R-right. I hadn't expected there to be quite this many people- are you okay?

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-15 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods, about to say something but her glow begins to fade. In the the time it takes her to descend, Terra reverts to from her esper self to the one Porom is more familiar with.]

I...think so. But I have to reach Kain.

[Sigh didn't tell her what state he's in and even if he is completely fine, she knows him well enough to tell that it might not be for long.]

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