EVENT: Dreams and Portals and 4th Walls, Oh My!

[fatedhearts]

Well, lookie here! We have a new event! And it's a collab with another game, Missrecalled! How will that work, you ask? Here is the event info on their side:

https://the-spaces-between.dreamwidth.org/436.html

And on this side:

Jordan was not the only person desperately trying to fix things that had gone wrong. On Gaia, the Sephiroth native to that world had been running himself ragged for the last several weeks, frantic to find a solution to what he had caused by bringing so many there through portals. It had been an accident, and his intentions when inadvertently activating the portals had been innocent, but that hardly mattered to him. He saw only that he had tried to do something for himself—using the Ancients’ magic to be sane again—and everything had turned on its head.

The Heartless attack had been the last straw. That was dangerous, that was deadly, and something had to be done. He had to send all of these poor people home.

And so he was struggling to open the portals. His will should be able to override whatever was keeping them closed, shouldn’t it? He certainly thought so.

In hindsight, perhaps he should have asked the other Sephiroth for help, given that that Sephiroth had the power of portal-making. But he hadn’t wanted to bother or burden anyone more than he already had. He had caused this on his own. He had to fix it on his own.

So while Jordan dreamed, Sephiroth fought with the portals.

What could possibly go wrong?

As it turned out, a lot. Both magic users, desperate to correct the problems in their worlds, reached out through the cosmos ... and the cosmos answered. A piercing portal developed from Auradon, through the Isle, all the way to Gaia, with the two blue-winged Sephiroths the unfortunate conduits. The dreamscape mixed with the waking world and portals began opening in both.

When this latest disaster exploded across Gaia, Sephiroth stared out the window in shock. Portals were everywhere, but people weren’t going through them back to their worlds. The energy he could feel from them didn’t even feel like the portals that had opened to start this whole mess. He went outside, looking into the nearest portal. The bizarre world on the other side, of flowers growing in the sky and clouds on the ground, looked like someone’s fever dream. Several more inane sights led him to conclude that the portals were indeed all going to people’s dreams. And upon talking with the recipient of one such dream, he made another alarming discovery: the portals were going to the dreams in other worlds.

He groaned and slumped back, running a hand down his face. “What have I done now?” he cried in dismay. Would he never be able to fix anything, only cause more destruction?


OOC Info: This is a collaborative event with the RP Missrecalled (info below). Characters from different worlds can either meet on the dreamscape while sleeping or pass through to Gaia while awake via the portals. But even in the waking world, the dreamworld is insisting on encroaching. The longer the madness goes on, the more the strange sights from people’s dreams are creeping into Gaia.

While there isn’t as much awake time on the Missrecalled side of things (and less and less of it as the event progresses), the Gaia side allows for people to be awake and not asleep if preferred. (Or they can dream on the Gaia side as well, if preferred.) The Sephiroths are dream-walkers and can pass through the dreamscape both asleep and awake. They can also take others with them. Everyone else can also use the portals to wander amid other’s dreams or pass through to Gaia if they were someplace else. The portals popping up in the waking world must be closed from inside the dreamscape, which the Sephiroths will be trying to take care of along with those who volunteer to help them. But there’s so many, it could take some time. And while any are open, things from people’s dreams are getting loose everywhere. Monsters, weird disasters, any distressing scenario dreaming people can come up with. Go wild! Make top-levels and reply to others' top-levels from this post, or from Missrecalleds' 4th Wall at: https://the-spaces-between.dreamwidth.org/436.html
Just mark your threads accordingly if they have any content others may wish to avoid. Also keep in mind that as wild and weird as your dreams can be, you don't have the right to force that weirdness on others' characters unless they're okay with that. I.E., does your dream involve forced transformation into dogs or cats? Great! That's fine for you, but no one else should have to be changed if they don't want that. So either mark your thread that it's for those who want that weirdness, or have it open to all and expect to see some humans talking to your dogs and cats. :)

Given the nature of the event and the need to close so many dream portals, dream-walkers and characters with other dream-related powers will be especially useful. The Sephiroths could use all the help they can get! But everyone is welcome and all characters can help! Just know that if you’re going to try closing dream portals and you don’t have inherent dream powers, you’ll need to go with one of the Sephiroths. This is a combination collab event in which characters from both games can mingle, as well as a 4th Wall in which characters from anywhere and anything can appear, whether they’re in either game or not! Bring everyone! It’s like a test drive, only wilder. If you especially enjoy your time in the 4th Wall, apps are always open at Fated Hearts and open until October 30th at Missrecalled and we would love for you to join us permanently!

And the info on our collab partner: Missrecalled is a game based on an AU of Disney's Descendants/the Isle Of The Lost novels, taking place if the third movie ended slightly differently. The game is split in two parts; Characters who start in Auradon are welcomed to a seemingly-idyllic setting with only minimal power nerf that is exploration, slice of life, and working together plot lines. Characters who start on The Isle are in for a powernerf experience with survival and school themes. There are ways in game to change from one to the other, but they are not frequent and the pace is often player driven. The Missrecalled Mod Squad hopes to see you on the 4th wall... once upon a dream.

Things to note: Missrecalled has a magical no-swear filter, and requires FTB for physical intimacy scenes.

Comments

Beginning the Dreamwalk

[imjustaman]

After the initial shock and horror of seeing the portal mess, Sephiroth quickly snapped to in order to fix it. He contacted the blue-winged Sephiroth for help. The other came immediately, surveyed the damage, and tried to close one of the portals. It didn't work. Frowning, they both went inside it and closed it from there.

Now they were relieved. They knew what to do, and they found they could escape the dream world and return to the real world. Whether that was because of their wills or something else, they weren't sure, but it was good to know.

It was absolutely startling when a second blue-winged Sephiroth stepped out of another portal, utterly baffled. But he quickly warmed to the occasion as everything was explained to him. He also told of a sleep spell happening back in the world he had come from. He seemed to be the only one there who was awake.

This was so bizarre. Sleep spells and portals.... And two blue-winged Sephiroths.... Was it all connected? It seemed it must be, somehow. Perhaps those Sephiroths were the keys?

The Sephiroth who had been trying to open the portals in the sky and had opened the wrong ones sighed, steeled his expression, and looked back to his two companions. "Alright," he said. "Let's fix this."

((OOC: Characters who want to sign up to help fix the dream portals but don't have inherent dream powers will need to go with a Sephiroth. They can sign up here. Let Sephiroth know which Sephiroth you want to travel with, if you have a preference, and if you want to thread out the adventure in a top-level of your own! Closing the portals won't be easy most of the time, as there will be so much going on in people's dreams to deal with.))

Re: Beginning the Dreamwalk

[andstitch]

"Fix what?" Lilo asked, stepping out of one of the portals.

Re: Beginning the Dreamwalk

[imjustaman]

Three Sephiroths turned to look at her.

"This problem that's just started with these portals," said the one without blue wings. "I was trying to send everyone home. Something went drastically wrong. Now there are portals everywhere connecting to people's dreams!"

Re: Beginning the Dreamwalk

[andstitch]

"Sounds like a 'Speriment! Me and Stitch will help!"

She didn't even think of asking Stitch first.

Re: Beginning the Dreamwalk

[3wingedangel]

"It's not an experiment," one of the blue-winged Sephiroths said. "From what we can tell, the magic in another world collided with the magic in this world, although we're not certain how or why. Now we need to close these portals. They lead to people's dreams, and some of the creatures in their dreams are getting out into the real world."

Re: Beginning the Dreamwalk

[andstitch]

"So the portals are like space ships for dreams? Cool! I wanna ride one!" She went running for a portal.

Re: Beginning the Dreamwalk

[3wingedangel]

One of the blue-winged Sephiroths teleported to be in front of her. "You don't know what's on the other side of that!" he said. "Some people have been dreaming of monsters."

Re: Beginning the Dreamwalk

[andstitch]

"Cool! Sounds like fun! Besides they're just dreams right? So long as it isn't Remy, it should be fine!"

Re: Beginning the Dreamwalk

[3wingedangel]

"That's the problem," he flatly answered. "They're not just dreams. The dangers from them are escaping and causing actual damage in the real world."

[phoenixwiz]

“I take that there is something weird happening with the portals right now that it requires us to deal with them,” Harry speaks as he steps out of the portals, having zero dream powers to utilize or that he might have another him waiting for him somewhere, “So what’s the current plan?”

(OOC: Let’s use the blue winged Sephiroth who managed to save him during the Heartless swarm for this one then we can bring the Isle of Avalon/Missrecalled version of him at some point.)

[3wingedangel]

((OOC: Okay!))

All three Sephiroths looked up with recognition to see Harry. It might be confusing to Harry to see the two blue-winged ones looked identical, unlike the conversation he'd had with the third Sephiroth.

"We are sealing the portals," one blue-winged one said, stepping forward. "People's dreams are escaping into the real world. Unfortunately, these portals only go into dreams except to exit into Gaia. There is still not a true passage home for anyone from these."

[phoenixwiz]

“So okay, this is starting to sound much worse than I thought,” Harry takes note of the dilemma, “This is going to take a while for everyone to get these portals sealed before things take a drastic turn. Whatever it is, I’ll try to help out in any way possible.”

[3wingedangel]

He nodded. "Thank you. Come with me and we'll work on sealing some of them."

[phoenixwiz]

“Alright then, I will come with you and we can get started on it right away,” he says in agreement as he joins Sephiroth along for the portal sealing task.

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth leads him into a portal. The dream on the other side is strange, with cartoon characters acting out an “episode” the dreamer is watching. Sometimes the dreamer is one of the characters.

“Odd but harmless … so far,” Sephiroth says. “We should seal it before monsters enter from another dream or the dreamer starts dreaming of monsters themselves.”

[phoenixwiz]

Harry notices how peculiar the cartoon dream is, but he could also tell that things in there are being serene and harmless for now at least. He hates to see monsters rampaging between worlds and fears of people having some of the worst nightmares ever. And the young man already has enough nightmares from home to last him for the rest of his life.

“Hm, these guys seem to be reenacting a dream of whoever is dreaming this dream,” he observes, “But I haven’t seen the dreamer among the characters present so far. But we will need to do what we can to keep the bad dreams away.”

[3wingedangel]

"Without seeing the waking world, it's difficult to tell who is the dreamer," Sephiroth muses, "although I could figure it out if I try to sense life from the beings present. Right now I'm more concerned with closing this portal."

The dreamer suddenly seems to realize more people have entered. "Hi," she greets, coming over. "I don't remember dreaming of you guys before."

here, have a tree dude :D

[elvendryad]

He seemed... stressed. Tense. It was something in his expression and posture, though his body was covered in some sort of impossibly slim, shiny black platemail or maybe exoskeleton, or perhaps it was an oddly quiet robotic sort of form...? But however he was giving the impression, it didn't seem to be hostility, so much as guarded worry. Whatever had him on edge, he wasn't about to make it someone else's problem.

And then he heard someone who seemed to have just practically invited the notion that it was... or at least, was in terms of dealing with it. He headed right for the closest of the Sephiroths, pausing a good few yards away. He'd have their attention; he didn't need to come right up to them. It was a little difficult at first to tell exactly where he was looking, given that his eyes were entirely black... though definitely not impossible, if they watched.

In fact, there was something about this newcomer... though he'd paused a distance from them, the two could just about feel where his attention was, as he glanced between the two of them.

"Hello, friends. Do you know how to fix whatever is happening?" He was hoping so -- and they'd know as much, though how they knew was anyone's guess. He wanted... to be somewhere else. A particular somewhere else, one that was dark and chilly, a stone building surrounded by thorns....

But how would they know that? He definitely hadn't mentioned it, but the notion was there, faintly, similar to how his presence was, troubled but self-possessed....

There was nothing malicious here, merely a want to solve the issue.

They might find it a bit enlightening, to give him a closer look on another level: he most certainly had some sort of power. It didn't quite register the way the magic they'd be used to did, but one of the two Sephiroths might well recognize it as feeling akin to Mallia's. It was hard to tell just how much; he wasn't holding it as at the ready as she did, but considering how hers worked, that likely didn't mean much of anything past that they certainly weren't seeing the extent of it yet....

Did they want to pick up some sort of Black Knight-looking figure as a helper?

I replied to this last night, but apparently the reply is gone. Ugh, DW....

[3wingedangel]

One of the blue-winged Sephiroths looked particularly intrigued and curious, as he sensed the magic being similar to Mallia's.

"We know," he said. "We have to seal these portals to keep people's dreams from spilling out into the waking world." He tilted his head. "And you are ... ?"

figures, lol

[elvendryad]

"Chell," he said, giving him a small nod in acknowledgment. "Have you seen this before also?"

Re: figures, lol

[3wingedangel]

"No. This is new for us. None of us are sure why we have the ability to deal with dreams in general. One of us could previously enter the dreams of specific people, but not any at will until now."

Re: figures, lol

[elvendryad]

"I have yet to see the same gold, between places, as before." He frowned a little more, looking around again. "And I did not mean to leave where I had been. When this happened before, wandering from dream-place to dream-place was how I found the place I now want to return to. I did not mean to leave it... I must not have been paying attention." He sighed and looked back to him.

Re: figures, lol

[3wingedangel]

“Hm. So you have been staying in a dream? Or is it a place in reality?” He looked concerned but curious.

Re: figures, lol

[elvendryad]

"It was real, to the best of my knowledge... but things did not behave there as I am used to. Magic could not be used, usually...."

He paused, considering that, and whatever else he'd been about to say, he set aside as he brought his hands up, closing them in front of him, and then opened them... to now reveal more of those large black berries, which looked to be the same kind as Mallia favored. If Sephiroth were to be watching, he'd probably catch sight of the handful of little twigs that seemed to be growing from the back of Chell's head, like a sort of makeshift crown worn backwards... and the similar berries that hung from the twigs' tips, like grown jewels.

Chell sighed at being able to do that, and frowned a little... and closed his hands again on them. There was plainly nothing there once again when he lowered them right after, dropping them apart.

"Either I am dreaming again... or I am most definitely not where I had been." The latter possibility was what seemed to be bothering him -- there was that hint of worry under his words, that impression he was somehow managing to project, that he hadn't wanted to leave....

Re: figures, lol

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth watched, intrigued and curious. He looked confused at the concern.

“You want to be someplace where magic is cut off? Why?”

He would ask about the berries, but not yet.