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adsum ([personal profile] adsum) wrote in [community profile] yogen2022-03-01 09:10 pm

MARCH EVENT LOG

At midnight on March 1st, a rolling lightning storm hits Yogen. Thunder crackles, and strikes of Anvil Crawler lighting can be seen lighting up the sky; anyone paying attention to the courtyard may see the explosive strike of lightning hitting the wisteria tree. Petals scatter throughout the air and are carried off in every direction by the wind...

As the month goes on the school will start to look even more barren. As the month goes on, several students start to disappear, with rumors spreading here and there about students disappearing after entering the forest. Those rumors twist and warp, and within just a few days there are rumors of a witch in the forest. But it's not a witch, nor a ghost, or anything else, but a dream, and those who enter will find themselves reminded of such by a soothing voice, the voice of a person they're familiar with, speaking gently in their ears:

"You are dreaming... They have always led and will always lead you here... Remind yourself, this is a dream..."

The world shifts subtly. There are gravestones marking the pathway now, and before long the forest is replaced by a completely new scene. A voice reminds you once more that this is a dream, and that you have always been here. You have always been led to this place. But where is this place? It's the world of a player character. It's nothing more than a snapshot in time. It might be one that they wish to escape, or perhaps a warm memory of a time that they wish to return to, but it is always an important memory to the character.

Whichever it is, the only way is to move forward. As characters move through the memory, characters will soon notice a snake and holly tattoo that spreads over their body will be. It starts small, a clump on one's back, but will spread across all parts of a character's body. It will reach the neck and face last, killing them upon reaching the eyes. As the curse spreads, they will notice changes in the dream including hallucinations, hearing lullabies, and shades that pursue them. They will also notice increased exhaustion and lethargy.

Upon reaching the end of the memory, they will find a glowing ball of light representative of a lost student's soul. Finding the soul will lead to both characters awakening at the edge of the forest, and the character who had been dreaming will be covered with the tattoo for a brief moment before it disappears.

Those who entered the dream may hear that same voice from before that tugs at their mind as the dream fades away:

"Remind yourself, this is a dream, and soon you will awaken. But you are here, as you always have been, and as you always will be... Soon, you will wonder where you were, and each moment after, will bring you here..."
✽ Dreams may be whoelsale memories, or they may be more akin to dreamscapes based on a person's memories or mental state.
✽ The holly pattern represents the pain of love and aches of the heart, while the snake represents the yearning for the dead that consume a person.
✽ The tattoos will be blue or red.
✽ Characters may be drawn into the forest more than once, or require multiple memories to be gone through before reappearing. In those cases, the character who had gone through the initial memory will simply wake up in the forest alone.
✽ Characters who hear the voice upon leaving the dream will be more susceptible to entering and being lost in the forest.
✽ Anyone who is not rescued by the end of the month will be found at the edge of the forest. The tattoo will cover their body and stop just short of their eyes. It will disappear within an hour, but they will be exhausted for the rest of the day.
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[personal profile] silentabyss 2022-04-01 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
[With his free hand, Noah idly picks sticks and pine needles from her hair. Yeah, there's a lot there.]

I don't really remember what happened. I was... dreaming, and I think you were there.

...

Did you give my brother strawberry candy?

[He's really focusing on the important shit here.]
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2022-04-01 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I was in your dream, I think? And I was looking for you. But I found you as a kid isntead... ... ah.

( nene digs back into her pocket. she's missing a candy. ... she places one on noah's wrist, because his hand is busy being held. )

Sure did.
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[personal profile] silentabyss 2022-04-03 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[With his free hand, he snaps up the candy, unwraps it, and pops it into his mouth, where he spends the next second or two chewing while laying down. Because that's comfy.]

I was a crybaby as a child. [Sir you're a crybaby to this day?] I'm sorry you had to see that... I'm glad you met Harque, though, even if it was just a memory.
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2022-04-06 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
You were cute. I wanted to squish those big soft cheeks so bad, but you didn't know me so I thought it'd probably be a little weird.

( wanted to give them an abundance of kisses too. but she won't say that much. nene does roll over though, more onto her side and sort of on noah's arm, which would probably be uncomfortable for her, given they're holding hands, if she cared more. )

... He was nice. Maybe someday we can see him again. The real him.
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[personal profile] silentabyss 2022-04-12 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Noah, Known Simp, actually just kind of lays there and tolerates this. If his hand or whatever falls asleep, that's on him for being weak.]

Yeah... maybe. You'd like him. He was good at playing the piano, and he put up with just about anything with a smile. I'd just throw tantrums... we were polar opposites, in a way.
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2022-05-01 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
( she thinks both sound sad- tantrums are an outburst of emotions, but smiling through anything... she thinks that's repression, or something like it. it's not fair to either of them. they should have gotten to show what they were feeling and be loved regardless. )

... You were still little. So, don't be too hard on yourself for that, okay?