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Dreamtide Oaths Mods ([personal profile] dreamtidemods) wrote in [community profile] dreamtidelogs2012-02-13 11:20 pm
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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.
mostlineface: (swords of lineface)

yes please memory nomming. :3

[personal profile] mostlineface 2012-02-14 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
[The warrior would be one of those who decides to try and fight it. He has few attacks that could strike the creature from the ground where he is, so he does one of the few that would get close, and stabs his sword into the ground to send a Shining Wave toward the dragon.]
mostlineface: (at the ready)

YES WE ARE

[personal profile] mostlineface 2012-02-14 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[The warrior's eyes narrow, and he leaps back, intending to avoid the dragon's grasp- but if that is not effective, he has his sword at the ready, swung at the dragon's claw as it reaches out toward him.]
mostlineface: (fighting lineface)

[personal profile] mostlineface 2012-02-15 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Hearing the hiss- hearing that he has managed to at least affect the huge creature-is pleasing, but only for a moment in the situation. With the dragon's claws wrapped around him, he is both trapped and prevented from making any further attack, but he still struggles to move his sword enough to make it possible for him to give Shinryu another injury.]
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.]
mostlineface: (Fighting until the end)

[personal profile] mostlineface 2012-02-17 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[The warrior resists as a matter of principle when the fire from Shinryu's breath surrounds him. He does not intend to let the dragon hurt him so easily, after all. When he realizes what it is that's being seared away by Shinryu's attack, however, he struggles even more fiercely. Of everything he could lose, this is the one thing he would refuse to if he could, especially since he has only a few to be lost, now.

But of course there isn't much that struggling can do, except to worsen his injuries, and by the time the dragon has released him, that is exactly what happens. As shaken as he is, he has no time to react when Shinryu discards him, so he falls to the ground hard. He can feel that something is wrong, something having to do with the dragon, but without even his memories of the cycle, he cannot remember why- and with the injuries he's gained in struggling against the creature, fighting against it has only one logical conclusion. So he does not attack again.]