capeandcowllogs | 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

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"You're a bit too far away to be trying that, aren't you?" Cavil sneered, seeming more amused than wary at this point. "You know, I never pictured you as being a fighter. I always thought you were too weak."

"Bakura, don't..." Kiryu struggled to stand up--was he just going to sit here and watch Cavil torture another friend--but he could barely keep his head up. He was going to lose someone else and he couldn't do anything about it.

He was weak. He was always weak. He couldn't fight, he knew he couldn't fight, but he had to do something!

"Get away from Kiryuu-kun!" he shouted, still trying to get to where his brother was, but feeling like he was running underwater.

"No, I don't think I will. You see, your friend here has cost me a good deal of time and resources. It only fair to return to favor."

And because this really isn't all that big a place, that hallway up ahead seems to be where the voice is coming from. That row isn't very long--there's only about eight cells--but Kiryu's cell is at the end of it.

"You've caused enough trouble!" Bakura shot back. Closer, getting closer now-- there! The moment his feet touched the floor of the hall, reality seemed to return and he was suddenly moving properly, running properly towards where Kiryu was, shouting his brother's name.

Cavil only response to that was a soft laugh and another prod at Kiryu's brain to get him screaming again.

But Kiryu could still hear Bakura calling his name. And each time he seemed to be closer and it filled Kiryu with dread. Bakura wasn't a fighter; what could he do against Cavil? He could help Kiryu quite a bit, sure, but he'd have to get to him first.

"Bakura, cover your ears first!" he finally called back, lucky to have even gotten that much out.

Bakura blinked a moment, not understanding the reasoning, but did so anyway, eyes closing as he did so, hands already glowing. When he pulled them away, the glow stayed, looking like magic earmuffs and cutting off all sound.

Kiryu,.. had to find--

Somehow he could still hear his own footsteps, but the screaming, the laughing, every other sound was gone. Even his own voice had vanished as he called out his brother's name once more as he reached the cell.

Kiryu was doing his best not to scream again--Cavil really hadn't appreciated Kiryu warning his friend like that. So Kiryu didn't noticed when Bakura finally got there.

But Cavil did. And he looked even more annoyed with this. And he might have been pulling out something that looked suspiciously like a gun.

Bakura didn't even notice the other figure, so fixated on the sight of his brother in pain. His hand began to glow, white aura building around him, turning into his white mage robes that billowed with in seen wind, healing spell floating out from his finger tips towards where Kiryu was.

That didn't quite have to affect Bakura was looking for. Instead, the pain grew sharper and Kiryu certainly looked like he was in more pain than before. It was probably because Cavil was making it worse, but it didn't change that it hurt.

"Stop!" he shouted, close to screaming again. "Stop! STOP!"

Bakura froze, eyes wide in horror, robes flickering out again. It was--

That wasn't how it was supposed to work! "How can I stop it?!"

As soon as the robes went away, Cavil let up a little and Kiryu sagged against the bars in relief. He finally looked up, looking a little surprised when he saw Bakura.

"Bakura..." Nonono what was he doing here?!

"Nice of you to join us," Cavil said, though this mild tone didn't match the annoyance on his face. "If only it's to see any thoughts you have of saving your friend are futile."

Bakura turned, expression hardening. It would be so easy to just--

no. no even...

...

Why couldn't he?

This was someone who had hurt-- had killed people he cared about.

If it was all right for Saitou to kill him... why wouldn't it all right for him?

The glow was cold this time as it build up. The ice of anger in his veins, eyes in his eyes so hard as his hand came afire with the intensity.

No subtlety this time. Just the rawness of the moment of hate, so rare, but so sharp as he shoved his hand outward, energy near blasting into the figure that was tormenting his brother tormenting his--

The world rushed around him as his consciousness followed the magic, shooting for Cavil's heart, focusing on just one section, pouring healing energy into it, willing it to pump faster, faster, faster as the rest of the muscles struggled to keep up, regenerating, regenerating, faster faster-- The cells were reproducing faster than they were dying off now, warping as the formed, stretching the muscle into something misshapen...

Cavil staggered under the assault and dropped the violin tuner, which fell silent when it hit the ground. But he wasn't going to give up so easily; he managed to raise the gun and fire a couple of shots before he finally collapsed and dissolved into smoke. Though since he had to struggle to lift the gun in the first place, the bullets flew harmlessly past Bakura's head and feet.

Kiryu let out a hesitant laugh and flopped against the bars. He had no idea what Bakura had done, but it worked and that was enough for him.

Bakura was still a long moment, eyes slowly opening as he looked down at where Cavil had landed, expression unreadable. Finally, he bent down, picking up a key that had materialized when Cavil had been defeated and turned, unlocking the cell door and holding out a hand to Kiryu to help him out.

Kiryu struggled to his feet and took the hand with a grateful smile, and then tugged Bakura into a tight hug. He'd never been so relieved to see one of his brothers, even though he would have preferred Bakura to stay out of harm's way.

"Thanks. What'd you do, anyway?"

Bakura clung tightly in return, feeling like he was letting out a breath he hadn't known he was holding.

He looked up with an almost sheepish smile. "Healed half his heart until the rest broke..." he finally explained.

That got Bakura a very startled look but it was brief and then Kiryu was hugging him tighter than before. That was a surprisingly vicious thing for Bakura to have done.

"He deserved it."

Bakura's heart nearly stopped at the look, but the hug made it all better and he clung just as tightly, nodding. "Un... he did."

Nightmare Moshpit

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aaaaah i didn't forgot you i promise i've just been stuck

S'all right! :) Been saying he only half remembers where he was anyway, so s'all good.

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