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Entry tags:
- *game event,
- *mingle,
- *open,
- 2064 rom: turing,
- dragon age inquisition: cole,
- elsword: add,
- fate/grand order: merlin,
- ffvii remake: aerith gainsborough,
- ffvii remake: tifa lockhart,
- ffviii: rinoa heartilly,
- ffxv: noctis lucis caelum,
- kid icarus uprising: viridi,
- original: melinoë,
- persona 5: kasumi yoshizawa,
- persona 5: ren amamiya,
- pokémon: raihan,
- pokémon: samuel oak,
- starbound: indigo,
- super mario: bowser koopa,
- watch_dogs: damien brenks
004 - Lucid Dreaming
Lucid Dreaming
Event Info Pt.1 ▲ Event Info Pt.2 ▼ CommentsAs a final reminder, all characters will fall asleep for the full duration of this event whether you decide to take part or not. You may continue tagging threads that take place before the event, but everyone will fall asleep simultaneously.
Falling Asleep, Waking Up
The shift happens without warning, much like the first time people appeared in the world. Perhaps you remember what you were doing in the last moments before a strange feeling of exhaustion overwhelmed you - or perhaps you remember nothing at all. Whatever it may be, you've appeared somewhere new. A seemingly ordinary train station, if not for the bizarre walls of flesh blocking the only exits. The only path forward is down into the pulsating depths, a humid breeze pushing at your back.
There may be others here with you, or you may be alone. Could there be more people trapped in this strange place? You won't find them just by standing around.
Nightmares
The screeching of a distant train will echo through the tunnels on occasion, shadows flicking through the translucent flesh of the walls. Sometimes, however, instead of fading away the noise will only grow louder, closer, until it sounds like the train should be upon you. It never appears, but something else always will.
The train is a siren call for nightmares, and you're unfortunate enough to be their victim. The shadows turn alive, twisting and growing as they rise up from the ground and begin to transform. What form they take varies, but the shadows of the mind know the true fears of those who walk among them. Are you prepared to face the darkness?
Volcanic Panic
The shadows congeal at the edges of the floor, and soon after a hot orange glow begins to fill the room - molten lava is pooling in from the other end of the tunnel. It rolls slowly forward, devouring everything it touches with an unquenchable searing hunger, leaving behind only the charred bones of its victims... although, strangely, the tunnels themselves appear to be completely unharmed.
Outrunning the flow of lava shouldn't be a problem, but there seems to be no end to it. How long can you run from something that never stops? Or worse, what happens if you find yourself surrounded? You'll need to find a way to higher ground before that happens.
A Radiant Plague
The shadows rise up into familiar shapes, and at first glance it'd be easy to mistake them for people. They may even share the faces and voices of people you know, stumbling towards you with wide, open arms... and empty, glowing eyes filled with an orange light. Something smells sickly sweet, and it's only once they're close enough to grab you that they begin to attack.
These are not your friends, and they'll do whatever it takes to make you one of them instead. Unfortunately, it's not an experience you'll be able to survive. Your only hope is to fight back before the plague can take hold, lest you become another mindless husk that knows only to further spread the infection.
Trust No One, Not Even Yourself
The shadows stretch and fill the air, choking everything in a thick blanket of darkness... before dispersing just as quickly as they'd appeared. A few moments pass and nothing else seems to be happening. You must've gotten lucky this time!
... Or did you?
Surely it can't be that simple. Nothing else here has been, so something must have happened just now. It's only you and the person you're currently traveling with... but are you sure that's really them right now? How do you know they haven't been possessed by another nightmare, waiting until you let your guard down to stab you in the back? Should you interrogate them to be sure, or start with restraining them and ask questions later? Wouldn't it be better to just kill them before things get out of hand? The sooner you strike, the safer you'll be when their true form emerges.
Yes, that must be the real explanation. It has to be them that's been possessed by a nightmare. What else could it be?
Joker’s Wild
There’s no limit to what form the shadows can take. The world may have its own perception of fear, but your nightmares are something only you could understand. What darkness lurks in the depths of your heart?
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Its name is Urgle, and it's trying its best! Don't listen to him, sweetie, you're doing amazing.
[Urgle does droop a little bit.]
Go take five and don't let the talking meat sack get you down.
Look, if you're just here to be tedious and annoying, feel free to move on, Captain Cosplay. I have better things to do.
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You were the one who called me. (Just for the record.)
Such as?
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...Actually, I'm supposed to see the future, so it probably is my bad. Left my tea leaves outside the flesh tomb.
[Urgle uproots itself from the ground and Viridi hops up and seats herself on its barky fists.]
We will be looking for an exit. Obviously.
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He's still kind of confused on the tree, but it hardly matters now.)
I think the way out is through.
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This feels like one of those annoying things where you have to kill the boss at the heart of the maze before it all collapses around you.
[Viridi plays a lot of video games.]
Urgle, let's go that way.
Follow me if you want.
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(Because usually, it is like that. And maybe that alone answers Viridi's question on rather this man is a talker or not. He can be, if he ever wanted to. However, he's careful about what he says and who he says it to. Many times, Joker prefers to say nothing at all.
Viridi can be a goddess, but that doesn't mean she knows what Mementos is, or how to navigate it. He prefers to tag along.)
Goddess of what? (Finally, he addresses it. One thing is for sure, he doesn't have the greatest relationship with Gods, but so far, Viridi seems to mean no harm. She's just arrogant.)
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[She laughs a little too long at her own joke.]
My sidekick's a sentient tree, I'm wearing flowers and a wooden crown, and I manifest as a child. I feel like you could have put the pieces together already, pal. Or is your mind not as sharp as the cut of your clothes?
[Maybe Ren's not the only way who can refuse to answer questions!!!]
Tit-for-tat. Tell me about you if you want to know about me.
[Urgle continues to lumber forward tirelessly. After a moment, Viridi reaches behind her and pulls out a glass of something-or-other from thin air and begins to sip lightly.]
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(And her own doesn't ring a bell at all. He'd know. Either way, she has a point and it's one that he hears quite often. At this point, after the mishaps of last month with the memory trade, he probably could be a little less distant, a little more open about himself.
Not in Mementos, though. He doesn't use his own name here.
That aside, old habits are hard to override.)
I'm Joker. (And if there's a hint of surprise in response to her action, the mask covers it.)
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[...]
Is that overused? Too bad, I'm breathing new life into it. [...] New life. ...Get it? Life?
...OK, anyway, I am the Goddess of Nature - Ruler of All Living Things. Don't they teach you people Latin anymore? They used to just call me Nature, but Viridi is way more adorable, isn't it?
[there is a correct answer to this question]
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(Really, he's heard that joke so many times since the Void that he barely reacts to it...
Ren stops to think for a moment or two, humming as he thinks of the question. Not because of points or correct answers, but because he really thinks it, he agrees.)
It is cute. Did you decide on it yourself?
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[Viridi makes a hum of appreciation as she places both hands on her hips.]
I'll give you back some points for that.
No -- well, maybe. It was so long ago I don't really remember. In the old, old days, humans didn't need names to worship what they saw, right? It was just nature - or light - or the sun.
Now we're Viridi - and Palutena - and... actually let's not talk about Pyrrhon.
Don't get me wrong, though. We're not beholden to them any - we created them with souls to match our own. It was just cute when they started using proper language.