Exploration Event: Neverwere

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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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Comments

[savedbyasong]

[Because what if everyone saw? Shion's heart is breaking for Connor because this... he feels like this so much too. Trying to be better, trying to pretend that he was more than just a mess. That he had it together and was coping when really... He doesn't have to keep the monsters that live in his head in here, he lets them out. They can eat at this dream.

And Ceej. He had so many skills, he was kind. But he felt like this too. Like he had to hide, his house full of traps. Keeping people out. The fear that someone might get to know him, the real him.

Would they like what they saw?

He lashed out at the orchard, the trees were dying now. Vines creaping up them, rotting the world from the inside. He sent flashes of monsters, Tim broken and hurting. Ren tiny and terrified. Every bad memory of the islands he lashed out with. Breaking apart the very fabric of the dream.]

Will you keep running away from what's true?

[yourattention]

All I ever do is run.

[Connor squeezes his eyes shut, shaking his head. The sun starts rapidly setting and rising again - if Shion were to count, there would be exactly 44 sunsets - before rising and staying stuck at the highest point. There's a deep, shuddering breath from Connor, and the dream begins to actually break away.]

But I can step in - step into the sun.

[That's not what this feels like, though. It feels like his heart is breaking - like it's been ripped out of his chest.]

[savedbyasong]

[He keeps pouring despair into the dream. Every moment from the island he could ring despair from he did. The feeling of being trapped. The utter despair he had felt when he realised he had been stolen to yet another world. The despair and heartbreak he is feeling this very moment at destroying this world.

The sun begins to set and rise. The world flickers from dark to light and back to dark. Again and again. Shion counts, forty four. He wonders at the number but he forces his mind back to the task at hand. Tears are streaming down his face as he reaches out to grasp Ceej's hand.]

Step into the sun Ceej. [He holds on tight, prepared to physically pull Ceej out of this crumbling dream. Back to reality.]