http://ofthedream.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] ofthedream.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2010-11-12 07:19 pm

Nightmare Moshpit

WHO: Everyone trapped in the Nightmares
WHERE: Nightmare Moshpit
WHEN: Starting Friday, 10am, continuing until the Dreamers are freed from the nightmares
WARNINGS: HIDEOUSNESS, everyone's personal nightmares, will probably have blood, gore, trauma, insanity, etc. Go nuts, people!
SUMMARY: Ysera has plunged half the City into an interconnected nightmare labyrinth. Everyone caught up in the nightmares will experience their own personal nightmare - whatever horrible nightmare they may have (this is totally up to individual players, go nuts). Those with strong willpower and focus, who realize that they're dreaming, can break free from their own personal nightmare and wander the interconnected nightmares of other dreamers.

The dreams are connected subtly. You could open a door that should lead to a room, wanting out and focusing on getting out of the dream, and find yourself entering a location in someone else's nightmare. You could turn a corner in a spooky woods and find yourself in an open field or a cave or deserted building in someone else's nightmare.

Items can be taken from one dream zone into another. You will start out with whatever clothing/items/etc you subconsciously associate as a part of yourself - or with whatever items/clothing your nightmare calls for. If your nightmare is being tortured, you're in chains. If it's being naked in public, you're naked; etc.

If you realize you're dreaming and have strong focus, willpower, and imagination, you can attempt to manipulate your dreamself and your surroundings - changing them to suit yourself. This will not be easy nor perfectly accomplished right off the bat, try to be realistic about it. It'll take practice and perfect focus at first to manage it, plus a good imagination. Losing focus could cause your changes to revert. Someone with a stronger will - especially in their own dreamscape - can revert or alter changes you have already made, or parts of their own dream.

This all means that if your character can manage the focus, willpower, and imagination to keep it up, they can regain any powers Lachesis took away when they arrived in the City. They can also add extra powers such as flight, breathing underwater, walking on water, etc. Bear in mind, if they lose focus, these manipulations will revert. These changes exist only in the dreamscapes. They do not carry over back to the waking world.

You might run into an evil nightmare version of yourself in your own dream, or in someone else's, if they have nightmares of an evil you.

Death in the nightmare is NOT permanent. Dying or being mutilated in the nightmare will not permanently harm your body in the real world. The worst that could happen to your real self is mental trauma and seizures.
FORMAT: CHAOS

[identity profile] teppoudama-crow.livejournal.com 2010-11-13 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
He bristled with anger; just who did that guy think he was, who was he anyway? Then he heard Kiryu's hint; thing in his hand, sound - he wasn't sure what that meant, but it was a good hint and hopefully his helmet was good enough to block whatever that man was going to try…

"Yeah, let's play" he snarled, a card in between his fingers, taking aim and throwing with practiced ease and then he stormed forward; he was going to take that guy down.
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[personal profile] satisfiedsigner 2010-11-13 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Thankfully, Cavil's brain affecting powers wouldn't work with that helmet in the way (not that Kiryu knew that or he would have been singing a much more reassured tune), and he certainly didn't anticipate a card knocking the tuner out of his hand. Kiryu reached out and grabbed it and turned the damn thing off, almost sagging in relief when the note disappeared.

And he could sit back and enjoy Crow kicking the crap out of his worst enemy. Cavil was no fighter, which was why he hid behind his damn powers and the law, so it wouldn't take much to take him down.

[identity profile] teppoudama-crow.livejournal.com 2010-11-13 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Crow pushed forward his elbow as he ran, using his monument to tackle Calvin down (becoming 'Crow the Bullet' in the most literal way), then pressed down with his weight and pulled back his head to ram the helmet against the old man's forehead, ready to deal more damage in case that wasn't enough to knock him out.
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[personal profile] satisfiedsigner 2010-11-13 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
The first assault wasn't quite enough but the second, aided by Kiryu's burning desire for it to work so he could get out of there, was more than enough. Cavil fell back unconscious and dissolved away into smoke.

Kiryu laughed a little, not really believing it was over. It couldn't be that simple, it had never been that simple. but it certainly seemed to over, and it was because of Crow.

"Crow..." He struggled to his feet, leaning heavily against the bars. "Would you let me out of here?"

[identity profile] teppoudama-crow.livejournal.com 2010-11-14 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Crow blinked when he saw his opponent dissolve into nothingness - way weird really; but he knew he'd seen weirder - then got up and turned towards Kiryu's cell, rolling his eyes at the question and laughed as he pulled his set of lock picks from his belt, though he couldn't quite keep out the concern he felt at seeing Kiryu's condition. "'Course. Didn't come all the way just to let you rot, after all."

He crouched down as he started working at the cell's door. "Who was that bastard anyway?"
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[personal profile] satisfiedsigner 2010-11-14 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
"No, you didn't..." He was still trying to wrap his head around the idea that Crow had come to help him when he was sure his former friends would rather see him locked away.

"His name's Cavil. He killed me once to test his powers." Kiryu chuckled, closing his eyes as he remembered their other meeting. "I killed him a couple months after in revenge. He's been trying to get back at me since."

[identity profile] teppoudama-crow.livejournal.com 2010-11-14 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Crow grimaced at Kiryu's phrasing; he disliked the idea of Kiryu being killed just as much as that of him killing. Not to mention how could that guy be coming after Kiryu if he dead? Unless of course… "Wait… so… he's Dark Signer too?"

That would at least explain the strange way he had disappeared.

But… that couldn't be, right; they had gotten them all back then. Something's really not adding up here. Not that that mattered when he heard a satisfying click and got up to swing the door open.

"Here ya go."
Edited 2010-11-14 00:36 (UTC)
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[personal profile] satisfiedsigner 2010-11-14 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
"No, he's...a robot. I think. Usually robots get turned human..."

Kiryu made his way over to the door and slipped outside, though still with a firm grip on one of the bars. He thought he might feel better in a little while, but for now it was an effort just to keep standing.

But he would keep making that effort, because Crow was here and Crow had helped him and Crow didn't hate him after all. He was struck with such guilt for ever doubting his friend in the first place, staying standing for him was the least he could do.

"You really came here to help me..." Just, what did he say to that? Thank you? "Crow, I..."

[identity profile] teppoudama-crow.livejournal.com 2010-11-14 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
"It's always robots theses days, huh?" Crow snorted; Ghost and Jack's-imposer-thing had been robots too, right? Though the 'get turned into humans thing' did and did not make sense on the same time. Robots didn't just become human's over night (but Crow knew that weirder shit had happened in the City… right… the City…)

"More like ended up here…" he mumbled with a frown. "It doesn't make sense at all. But I ain't gonna leave you behind now."

Then he shook his head and stepped closer to offer Kiryu his shoulder. "Come on, let's get outta here."
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[personal profile] satisfiedsigner 2010-11-14 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Heh, most of the robots I know are pretty cool. Though I dunno if you'd like them..." Considering most of them were war-robots from another planet, he doubted Crow would like them much at all.

"Yeah, but you could've left or...yeah..." He blinked down at Crow, awkwardly shifting to lean against him instead. It was...weird, feeling like he could trust Crow again.

He'd always been comfortable with teasing him, though. "This isn't gonna work well. You're too short."