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Exploration Event: Neverwere

EXPLORATION EVENT: NEVERWERE

Who: Everyone!
What: Your wildest dreams come true!
When: May 15th to May 18th
Where: Ziziphus, those still on Ensō...and Mu
Warnings: Mark as needed!

Then Know That My Life Was Just a Killer Dream
You can find most of the information you need in the OOC info post! In the meantime, feel free to use this log as a catch-all for your dream worlds, as well as detailing your efforts to free one another. Whether they're on Ziziphus or Ensō at the time of the dreams' capture, your character is free to access as many dreams as you like, as the interlocking mental landscape allows for that sort of crossing over apropos of nothing. And time, of course, is very fluid in dreams - many days, months, and years can transpire in a matter of mere minutes.

Will you fight your way free from Ziziphus's vines or Mu's thrall, or are you content to die in your sleep?

Remember to let us know if your character dies during this event!

Event Timeline

[ ♆ ] May 15th: The vines make their move, ensnaring characters in ideal fantasy worlds
[ ♆ ] May 17th: The Storyteller will make contact with those they can, as well as issue information and a potential solution
[ ♆ ] May 18th: Those that have not freed themselves from the vines or from Mu will suffer a death

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One of the servants is coming over to him now, with food for him. He's young and what he lacks in grace he seems to make up for in pure enthusiasm so he is all smiles even as the tray wobbles slightly precariously.

"Your breakfast, Tiziran." There's a slight flicker on Shion's face as he gets his tongue around the word that should be familliar to a servant of the palace.

His smile is back in place a moment later though as he puts the tray down on the table and steps back. He hovers though, because Dagger is his favourite of all the royal family and Shion often is found lingering more than was maybe proper, in order to talk to him.

"Thank you, Shion. It's most appreciated."

The smile lights up Jullien's entire face and makes his red eyes glow even more. He rather enjoys his meetings with this servant even though it is odd for a human to be working in the Andarian court. Not that Jullien minds.

"Would you like to sit down and join me? Eating alone is never as pleasant and eating with company."

Shion beams at the thanks and his smile grows even more at the offer. "Thank you Tiziran." He moves to a seat and sits, this is why he lkes Dagger best.

He sits down, no one will mind. The prince was known for being kind, friendly and personable.

"Jullien. You don't have to keep calling me tiziran."

He pops a piece of fruit in his mouth with a happy smile that reveals his fangs. Unlike some of the rest of his family, Jullien doesn't care as much about ceremony.

"Julien." It is said with a smile, though for the brief moment there is a flicker of something, on Shion's face. Julien, not Dagger. Where had that name come from?

He recovers a moment later and concentrates. "What do you have planned today, Julien?"

"I'm going to spend some time with my wife and children. Nykyrian and Kiara might even stop by to join us for a picnic with their little ones."

Truly Jullien is looking forward to it. With affairs of state, he doesn't often have a lot of time to spend with his twin.

"It sounds lovely." It did, he knew that Dag... Julien enjoyed the time he got to spend with his family.

"The weather is lovely so I am sure you will have fun." He hoped it stayed so, Dagger deserved a lovely day surrounded by loved ones.

A flicker, where had that thought come from? Of course the Prince spent every day with loved ones, in his palace. Why would it be any other way?

"I'm rather looking forward to it."

Jullien is absolutely beaming over the fact that he gets to spend some time with his family. The fact that it's a nice day out is just a bonus. Hopefully he won't have any serious interruptions, but really, why would he?

"I'm glad." Shion smiled at him again, "Do you need anything?"

It felt weird to just be sat here, when he should be working. Though he could argue that talking to Dagger was working, he was supposed to follow the Prince's orders and he had asked him to sit here.

"I mean... I know you just wanted to talk, but I can get you some more food or tea or something..."

"Could get me something," a voice said from the doorway. "Or I could steal some food off by brother."

Jullien glanced up to find his twin, Nykyrian, grinning at him from the doorway. Even from that distance Shion would likely be able to see the variety of scars marring the crown prince's face. When he stepped further into the room there was also a pronounced limp. Andaria was a country that had had peace for years. There was no reason for Nykyrian to bear such injuries... yet he did.

Shion jumped to his feet as Nykyrian entered the room. He noticed and frowned, how did the prince have so many scars? What had happened? He felt like he should know. Such things would be part of history after all.

Perhaps it was because Shion had never learned history. But that wasn't right either, as it? He took a breath, focussing. "I will get you something sir, you don't have to steal Dagger's food."

"Dagger?" Nykyrian asked.

Jules didn't say a word, but only because he was too dumbfounded to speak. That one word was like being electrocuted. Dagger. Shion had used it like a name. His name. But his name was Jullien eton Anatole.

No.

No. It wasn't.

"Jules Dagger Samari..."

"I didn't mean..." He started to apologise but trailed off as Dagger, Julien spoke again. His eyes flickered between the two princes not understanding. Where had that name come from? Why was it more natural for Shion than Julienne?

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"That's my name. It's been my name for... years."

He looked around. At Nykyrian. At the room. At the amazingly perfect life he supposedly had in the palace. But he'd never had a perfect life at the palace. He'd never even had a perfect moment in the place. It was a place of terror and hate.

And his twin would never stand in the same room with him and smile. If Nykyrian ever saw him, he'd kill him.

"This isn't right."

"It is." Dagger is his name, that's why Julien felt strange. Shion looked around confused and frightened.

What was going on? Should he leave?

He watched Nykyrian warily, again he's unsure but he feels more drawn to Dagger, he trusts him much more than he trusts the crown prince.

As Jullien's mind started to realize this wasn't right, the setting started to fracture. Once he was absolutely sure all of this was a lie, it shattered completely.

He woke back in the real world, covered in vines. It takes a moment for his brain to catch up. When it does, the fury rushes through him and burns nearly out of control. Eyes blazing a brilliant red, Jullien screams in a mix of agony and anger. Fire blasts from his mouth and shoots down his arms. The vines around him shoot up in a fireball that engulfs Jullien as well. The fire burns the vines to ash and leaves Jullien scorched as well, but he doesn't care. He's too angry to care. The internal pain is far worse than the external.

Shion disappeared, pulled back into the many swirling dreams that were happening but it did not take him very long before he woke.

Mere seconds in real time even if it had been enough for him to return to his own dream and realise that everything was wrong. Little details picked up from the dreams he had visited, all springing together to the logical conclusion. It wasn't real.

Not that he was convinced that the world he woke up in was real either, but it was not a dream. Or at least not like those perfect worlds had been a dream.

As he was speaking to Laurent over the stones he was also searching and so it wasn't long before he found Julien, scorched.

"Dagger!" And he's running at him, digging into his bad for his first aid kit.

The ashy remains of the vines littered the ground around Jullien. Most of the ground in a wide diameter around him was burnt to a crisp and has nothing left on it either. Jules himself sat in the middle of the destruction, face twisted in fury and eyes blazing red hot. While Jules' skin and clothes showed signs of being seared and burned all the way through, he didn't seem to notice the pain. If he was even in any, of course. There wasn't as much damage on him as would be expected given he was in the center of the inferno. He had been in a lot worse pain than this before in his life, and training as a Fyreblood had left he used to burns on some level.

"I'm going to burn this fucking place to the ground! There won't even be a minsid piece left untouched!"

Anger... Anger is something that Shion understands only too well. He still has his first aid kit in his hands and he gets closer. Reaching out to Dagger's arms, to grip them. He needs to calm Dagger down, and fast.

He remembered that Dagger had powers, but he had not known he had fire. He understood the urge to want to burn everything, he had felt very much the same... But he also remembered how awful he had felt afterwards.

His own dreams are still muddled in his mind, he's angry as well. Angry that this attack used their own minds against them. Angry, furious that somewhere on this island Aster was still sleeping, burried under vines. Aster was here, Ceej was here, Ren was here. They were the thoughts that spurred him to try and stop Dagger.

"Half the islanders are still asleep on this island. You're not burning anything." He makes eye contact, his voice stern, as calm as he could be because the fear of what would happen if he didn't manage to stop Dagger was bigger than the fear of Dagger's anger.

"Breathe Dagger."

He could still burn a lot of things, thank you very much. Fortunately for everyone else trapped on the islands, Dagger doesn't have the desire to destroy innocents that runs through the rest of his family. He only kills people who come after him first. Or deserve it.

"I will happily breathe more fire. And I'll fry everywhere where people aren't. Human and not human."

Yes, well, this is Dagger. He isn't exactly known for brilliantly thought through plans in the heat of the moment.

"And that fire will catch. These vines are probably highly flammable and they are twisted around everyone. I woke up in them, the others who are still sleeping will be burried by them."

Shion's voice is perhaps sterner than Dagger has every heard it. But he understands, the urge to destroy is rising in him as well. Aster was out there and she was trapped. Trapped in a dream.

He would tear apart the whole island if he thought it would help but he has to stay calm. She could be anywhere, he needed to search.

"You have to stay calm."

"Which part of, I can control my fire, are you missing?"

He never actually said that ever, but close enough dang it. His eyes flash once again, and he fangs Shion. It's a high insult in his culture and one he rarely ever uses. That alone shows how pissed off he is, though not directly at Shion.

"Not exactly known for my calm."

Shion stares back, meeting his eyes and not flinching at the show of fangs. It's not that he's unafraid. It's just that Dagger being angry at him, Dagger hurting him would be infinitely preferable to Aster being in danger.

"You're telling me your in control and you're telling me you are not known for calm." Which is it? Shion didn't take his eyes off him as he stepped closer. "I know... Whatever that attack was it used our minds against us. I know that's..."

Awful, was what that was. He knows enough from the little Dagger has told him, their conversation at the Story Telling to know that his dream was cruel. Crueler than Shion's. Shion's at least... A future like that could still happen. It would be difficult but not impossible.

But nothing could change the past.

"We need to find others, try and see if we can wake them and get them out of those roots."

He's so exhausted, every part of him is screaming at him to rest even if he spent however long he had asleep and trapped in dreams.

"Both. I'm in control of the fire. Literally. I can control it. I'm also a pissed off Andarion not knowing for making the most logical or safe decisions. My plans usually involve self destruction."

This one was probably no different. While he wouldn't hurt anyone else, it was basically a guarantee that he would pay for his destruction.

"Why should I?"

It's an automatic growled response. One Jullien doesn't really think about and also doesn't mean. He's still so furious from what he experience in his dream. Reliving that has pushed him back into the defensive, prickly Jules he'd been before finding Ushara. He hadn't cared about anyone then because nobody had given a shit about him.

"Right." What a pair they made. Shion breathed. He had to stay calm. Had to rescue Aster and Ceej and anyone else who was trapped here. He had to do all of that, keep himself in control and also protect Dagger from his own self.

Breathing. All plans had to start with breathing. Red eyes flashed anger as he turned at Dagger's response. He bit down his anger. Dagger was hurting. Dagger had been hurt and was struggling with the aftermath of his dream.

"Why wouldn't you?"

It's quiet and only half a real question. He's not completely naive. Not any more. But this has been an attack and they are clealy among the first people to escape, it is their job to make sure they rescue who they can.

That's what those who recovered quickest did, helped others.

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