lifeaftr | 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

LOGS ● OOC ● STORIES ● MAIN NAVIGATION

( CODED BY BOOTYCALL )

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Lot of reasons. The first one being nobody has ever given a shit about me."

Not until Ushara. He turned away from Shion and glared out into the distance. While that had been his excuse for a long time, and still was a valid one for the most part, it had never been the biggest reason why he'd never tried to help anyway. His jaw clenched and released a few times before he decided he would give Shion the real truth.

"The second one being everyone would think I have an ulterior motive. It's a hell of a lot better not to get involved. That way I don't have to face the looks of accusation for doing something good."

While he never outwardly showed it, he was tired of that.

Shion frowned, opened his mouth to tell him that that wasn't true. Shion cared about him. But... It wasn't enough. He had just been in Dagger's dream after all and knew... if all those people hadn't cared about him in reality and the dream had used that...

He wasn't enough. His frown grew as Dagger continued. He doubted that anyone would think that. He imagined that most people would just be grateful to be found.

"Why would they think that? Here on these islands? No one really knows you. At all. All we know of you is what you show us and if you show yourself to be someone who helps others... People aren't going to doubt that."

He shakes his head. "I know it's...." He looked around. "I'm going to find Aster. You don't have to come but... You were brought to these islands and though that's not a good thing... you are involved. Already. Because you are one of those stolen here. You can help or not but all people here know of you is your actions... not what happened before, not who you were just... They know Dagger and you..."

He's really bad at this, he's still reeling from his own dream. From Aster's dream and Ceej's dream. From Dagger's dream. It's all muddled and he just looks at Dagger sadly, as if he could will what he was trying to say into his mind. Dagger clearly came from somewhere where people expected the worst of him. But here no one expected anything. It was like a second chance.

Shion was definitely wrong about that. When you had no one, one person was always enough. Having one person who cared was a whole new feeling. When you aren't used to something, the smallest part of it means the world. A single pea means little to someone who eats at a buffet each night, but to someone who is starting that pea is worth a few tears of gratitude.

"Because I am, actually, an asshole. It's the vibe I've always put out to protect myself. That, and I actually am an asshole. People here don't have as much to hate me for, but they'll still manage I'm sure. I can count the number of people who tolerate me on one hand."

And Aster is one of them.

"I'll help you find Aster and free her, but that's it. For you."

"I've never gotten that feeling from you." Shion meets his eyes again with a serious expression. "Not once have I thought you an asshole."

Since meeting in the strange dream world, Mu. Dagger had been kind, had been helpful. Had tried to help Shion after Ai'Tuoh. He had said then that he was not a good person.

Shion should have tried harder to convince him otherwise.

Right now though he nodded, "Thank you." His gratitude was obvious in his voice, he reached out to offer a hand to Dagger to help him to his feet if he accepted it.

(OOC: We can probably start wrapping? I'm about to go and tag into your log for aftermathy stuff)

"You're probably the only one."

And more because he didn't know Jules that well yet. Even Jullien would deny that he was pretty much an asshole. Even his friends knew that. Shion simply hadn't been around him long enough to get a full taste of an uncensored Jules.

He took the offered hand. Maybe, eventually, they would become close enough that Shion would get that uncensored look.

((Yup! Probably good.))

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