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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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And for the first time, Cavil wasn't all sarcastic smiles and biting words; he even took a step back in his surprise. The annoying note in the air got steadily louder as Cavil turned it up for Alastair to be able to hear it too.

Kiryu was shocked too, of course, but it was more shock and awe in his case than shock and fear. He'd known that Alastair had had some sort of power before--maybe this was it. The mark on his arm certainly seemed to think it was, as it started glowing in response.

"Alastair, you..."

"Kyosuke. Are you all right?" The relief was clear in his voice, but so was a confidence Alastair usually only displayed when flirting or trolling the comm. The note made him flinch, but the Seal on his forehead blazed brighter as if to resist it. "Urgh...stop that!" he demanded of Cavil. "I'm not going to let you hurt him any more! Let's see if you can still work that thing without your soul!"

He didn't have his duel disk on him, but he had his cards in a back pocket. He flicked one out and held it out, a spell card written in a different language. The room shimmered with green light, and the mystical Seal appeared beneath their feet. Kiryu's mark would save him from this, but Cavil? He stood no chance against magic when he had no dueling skill to save him.

it was horrible of him, but Kiryu really could help but note just how attractive Alastair was right now. That confidence was something he didn't have very often, and it was definitely something Kiryu wanted to see more than just now. but he couldn't answer that question. Of course he wasn't okay, but he couldn't tell Alastair that, and he certainly wasn't going to admit it in front of Cavil.

Cavil took another step back, certainly not expecting the floor to just start glowing or for Alastair to have such a backbone. He was still able to sneer at him, "You think I have a soul? So sorry to disappoint..."

"I always figured you didn't have a soul, but you really don't have one? Oh well." The confidence was undercut with a snide arrogance that really wasn't very heroic at all. Alastair wagged the card in his fingers. "That means you're just a shell. A thing, which I can tear apart just as easily!"

He shifted his gaze to Kiryu for a moment. "You might want to cover your head. This could get messy. Everything inside the Seal except you and me isn't going to be here for very long."

It was only slightly different from how he had used it before, but simply willing it, wanting, had turned off the plane's autopilot and sent them plummeting toward a mountain. Alastair felt fully confident that he could rip that robot's head off if he bent the Oricalchos toward him.

The moment when Cavil realized this was out of his control was obvious--he suddenly started taking steps backward, until his back ran into the edge of the Seal and he couldn't run away anymore. Kiryu dutifully backed away from the bars as far as he could before hitting the edge of the Seal, but he wasn't going to stop watching. Alastair having power like this was refreshing to him too.

The sight of his enemy cowering from him lent fresh power to Alastair. He wasn't afraid of or running from the Oricalchos anymore, he embraced it. He threw back his head and laughed cruelly, and then shot out a finger, pointing it at Cavil. "This is what you get for hurting my family!" he declared, letting the symbol flash. The room shook, the floor began to heave, and the bars of the prison cell warped. Some of them uprooted themselves and flew like projectiles in a tornado, skewering Cavil through his robot body. Not to be outdone, Alastair flexed his power and arced it like lightning, shorting out vital systems and making things explode in satisfying places. The Seal on the floor began to contract, passing harmlessly through him and through Kiryu but stopping when it got to their enemy. He was trapped, and Kiryu was safe.

Alastair tilted his head slightly. "Come on out, Kyosuke. You get the rights to finish him. I think you're overdue."

With every blow, Cavil cowered and flinched in pain until, by the end of it, he was a truly pathetic figure. One who Kiryu couldn't bring himself to fear at all. Rather, the more he'd seen, the angrier he felt, at himself and Cavil. That bastard had hurt him, but more importantly, he'd hurt his friends or threatened to, and he'd been about to get away with it.

He carefully got to his feet, his old appearance melting away into that of the Dark Signer he really was.

Cavil shifted and Kiryu started feeling weak again--then he reached out and clenched a fist and the violin tuner went up in flames. The flames steadily spread until he was engulfed, a pillar of extremely hot fire, edging on blue-white in color. Cavil let out an angry yell and stumbled forward into the Seal again. Kiryu just laughed, more than content to watch him burn to the ground.

The Seal had contracted into a tiny spot no bigger than Cavil's body, so the more he thrashed and burned, the less he could move. He was trapped, and the two young men could torture him all they wanted. For some reason, Alastair didn't want to stop.

"That's more like it," he cackled. "Burn, you fucking bastard! Maybe now you'll never mess with me and Kyosuke ever again!"

For a moment, Kiryu wondered why Alastair was suddenly enjoying this when usually he wouldn't even be watching--but then he decided he didn't care. If Alastair wanted to enjoy this with him, he wasn't about to tell him he shouldn't. This bastard deserved it, after all.

But it couldn't last forever. Eventually, Cavil's movements slowed and came to a stop and the flames started dying down. Kiryu gestured a bit to pull them up again. He wouldn't be satisfied until the damn man was reduced to ash.

"Mmm, I think he's about done. Too bad..."

"Metal doesn't burn that well, does it?" Alastair turned to him, not even caring that the Seal was flaring on his forehead. This was supposed to be his nightmare, but it had somehow saved Kiryu. He wasn't going to question it as long as it worked, just in case his doubts would make the power go away.

"I'm glad you're safe now. I didn't even know how to find you, I just kept looking until I did."

"Heh, not usually." Kiryu grabbed one of his hands, using him as support for a moment. Now that the adrenaline was running out, he was starting to feel pretty weak again.

And that might have been why he quickly pulled Alastair into a tight hug too, but probably not. "Thank you. I don't know what I--I'm really glad you came."

In the face of that rush of relief and happiness, the nightmare around him faded - and so did the Oricalchos. Alastair clutched Kiryu tightly to him in turn. "I couldn't just leave you out there somewhere. Bakura said he saw you, so I came to find you."

He breathed a short sigh, looking over Kiryu's head to the surroundings just in case something else was going to start. "I don't know what the hell's going on, but I'm not going to leave you if I can help it. We can handle it better if it's two instead of one."

"Is it the real you? You feel real." He sighed, burying his face in Alastair's shoulder for a moment so he'd sound even quieter when he muttered, "Crow was here earlier too. This was the third time..."

Kiryu leaned back a little so he could get a better look at Alastair's face and brushed his thumb over his forehead where the Oricalchos mark had been. "Was was this? I liked it..."

"Yeah, I'm as real as I know how to be." Alastair kept his arms around Kiryu, not wanting to let anything tear them apart now. This dream, whether real or not, was too dangerous. "Third time...? What, so it's like...recurring? That's...yeah, no, I'm not leaving you now. I don't want to be back in the Leviathan, and you don't need to see any more of that bastard. Whatever happens, we'll face it together."

He lowered his head a little when Kiryu brushed the spot between his bangs. "That was...the Oricalchos. The power I used to have. I don't know where it came from...and I don't know if I can bring it back again."

"Mmm, my dreams usually do..." Which was what this had to be. Saitou and Cavil weren't around anymore, and there was no way they could be in Satellite. Not the both of them. though it was definitely nice to hear Alastair promise to stay with him. He really didn't want to face Cavil again. "But I think, if you're with me, it won't do that anymore."

Kiryu chuckled and kissed that spot on Alastair's forehead. "It doesn't have to. I feel special think you just brought it out to help me."

"It's...you do?" Alastair looked down awkwardly. He had been so afraid of what would happen if he got that power back, but then...he did help, didn't he? It was all so confusing.

"Well," he said with a weak laugh, "I guess you're learning all kinds of secrets about me. Assuming we remember any of this when we wake up. C'mon..." He looked around once more, noting that the scene around them had already changed. The other figures were long gone. "Let's see if we can find anyone else. Or at least get out of the dark. Whatever happens, I'm not leaving you, okay?"

"Yeah. I've never seen that side of you before. We're even more alike than I thought. And I'll remember it. Most of it."

He glance regretfully back at the space where Saitou had been laying before, but if it was a dream, he hadn't really been there. At least, that was what he told himself so he could nod and start leading the way out into the darkness. "I would not mind getting out of the dark. And I'm not about to let go of you."

Alastair wanted to deny that he was like that, or explain that it was his past, but he just shook his head. Of all the nightmares that could still be visited upon him, while they slept, he decided that one could come back if only because he needed to use the power to protect them.

He wasn't much of a hand-holder, usually, but this circumstance called for it. Staying physically connected was the only way for them to survive and not lose each other. Alastair took Kiryu's hand and entwined their fingers. "I'm with you. Let's keep moving."

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