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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: (to face a task)

[personal profile] mostlineface 2012-02-15 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
... Yes.

[Terra may not notice in the middle of healing, but the look he's giving her is blank, and the slightest bit surprised, with no sign of recognition of who exactly it is that's healing him. His body language reflects that, his hand automatically moving as if to draw his sword, as she draws near.]

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-15 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't notice the look while in the midst of healing, but does see that hand of his move, and glances around quickly afterward. No other threat is nearby, but....]

...what's wrong?

[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?!?
mostlineface: (wondering lineface)

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

I do not know you.

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-15 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Terra would flail about this more, were there not a lot of other things to worry about ahead in line. Priorities.]

Well...we are. Are you still hurt anywhere? I can add more healing.
mostlineface: (knightly lineface)

[personal profile] mostlineface 2012-02-17 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I do not need further healing.

[He probably could use more healing, but that doesn't mean he'll ask for it, from someone he doesn't remember that he knows.]

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-18 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Terra's a bit skeptical, but she's not going to push it as long as there isn't immediate need.]

Alright, but--

[The ground trembles again, more violently this time. She yelps and stumbles forward--into the warrior.]
mostlineface: (wondering lineface)

[personal profile] mostlineface 2012-02-18 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[He stumbles himself, because of the earthquake, but when Terra trips into him, he staggers and almost falls, having to support both of their weights on the shifting ground, making a small sound of pain as he does.

Once the tremor is over, he helps her regain her feet.]


Are you hurt?

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-18 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Terra winces, as she accepts the help.]

No. I'm sorry, did I hurt you?
mostlineface: (unsure lineface)

[personal profile] mostlineface 2012-02-18 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
No.

[As soon as the help is given, he moves his hands away, and even steps back slightly.]

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-19 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Terra bites her lip at that, but...there are other issues at hand.]

We should find the others. They have to be around here, somewhere. They'll help....

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-19 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, our friends and allies. Other warriors of Cosmos, and people we've met on the Blue Planet....

[...now, if only they could show themselves.]
mostlineface: (understanding lineface)

[personal profile] mostlineface 2012-02-20 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Warriors... of Cosmos?

[His tone holds another question- 'is that what I am?']

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-20 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods firmly.]

Yes. We fought for Cosmos, the goddess of harmony. This is where we made our last stand against Chaos, her enemy. We won, so I don't know why we're here again...but we'll find out.
mostlineface: (to face a task)

[personal profile] mostlineface 2012-02-20 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Cosmos... [That, at least, pings some small fragment of memory.]

What do you intend to do?

[personal profile] proofofthebond 2012-02-20 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Leave. We shouldn't be here, and...I don't think we can fight those things. They're far too powerful.
mostlineface: (faith in the light)

[personal profile] mostlineface 2012-02-20 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[He nods.]

Then we will not.