IC: Dream Post

[doesnothappen]

The space you are standing in is cold and grey and very still. There is nothing beneath your feet, nowhere to go. You hang for a long moment, in this place with no place, without direction or a proper sense of time, until the light dims...

...and your feet touch ground. Your eyes are closed. When you open them, you find yourself here.

((OOC warnings/notes))

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Re: Under the Deep Water

[glorious]

[...drops it.]

...Mau?

Re: Under the Deep Water

[doesnothappen]

"Yes?"

Re: Under the Deep Water

[glorious]

...Are you that afraid of my dying?

Re: Under the Deep Water

[doesnothappen]

"Of your desire to die."

Re: Under the Deep Water

[glorious]

I see...

[places a hand on his shoulder]

Re: Under the Deep Water

[doesnothappen]

He leans into that.

Re: Under the Deep Water

[glorious]

How else can I help?

Re: Under the Deep Water

[doesnothappen]

"You can change things... change the dream."

Re: Under the Deep Water

[glorious]

[nods]

Do I have to go elsewhere to do so?

Re: Under the Deep Water

[doesnothappen]

"No. You can do it here... I'm sorry, I can't show you. But the ingredients are all around you."

Re: Under the Deep Water

[glorious]

I see...

[...takes a look at the feathers.]

Re: Under the Deep Water

[doesnothappen]

They are made of steel, and if you pick one up you will experience a wave of fear -- fear that even now, his Nation will die, invaded and overwhelmed by one of the great European empires.

If you survey the shelves, you'll find, in addition to the items listed already: silver apples, little gold dolphins, broken grey branches, a curve of iron, a blue hermit crab, a bloody black gamepiece, a tangle of blue, yellow and light green threads, a smooth grey stone, an alaki, a ball of clay, a blooming Selenia in a little vase of water and a white handkerchief...

Re: Under the Deep Water

[glorious]

[...That blooming selenia is calling me.]

Re: Under the Deep Water

[doesnothappen]

When you touch it you experience a rush of appreciation for life, an emerging belief that it can be good, that it's worth protecting for its own sake, that forgiveness is possible and change is inevitable but can be influenced, that people are worth saving and living in the world is possible... and hope, raw, sharp-edged hope that you, personally, will start to discover these feelings, that you'll learn to live.

Re: Under the Deep Water

[glorious]

[brings it over to Mau]

The bad dreams are in the cauldron, aren't they? Will adding ingredients change them?

Re: Under the Deep Water

[doesnothappen]

He looks up at that. He seems much more alert, now that there's light in the room.

"It should."

Re: Under the Deep Water

[glorious]

[nods and tosses in the blooming selenia, watching the cauldron closely]

Re: Under the Deep Water

[doesnothappen]

The flower floats for a moment before it's swallowed by the thick, dark liquid. A ripple passes over the surface, and as it settles, the picture changes... now, in the dream, the little figure of Selenia is leading the rest of the crowd to the edge of the islet, helping them down to swim away...

Re: Under the Deep Water

[glorious]

[smiles softly at that, then takes a look at the gold dolphin. that must be nice.]

Re: Under the Deep Water

[doesnothappen]

It contains the hope that his Nation will flourish in safety, for generations.

Re: Under the Deep Water

[glorious]

[into the cauldron that one goes, checking the dream]

[will be grabbing the silver apple after that]

Re: Under the Deep Water

[doesnothappen]

It changes again... a ship appears on the horizon, everybody is rescued, and it sails away... until it's just Mau on his own in the darkness, fighting furiously and hopelessly against Locaha... and now the liquid in the cauldron is a deep, clear blue.

The apple brings you visions of Aather, without darkness -- everybody coming whole out of the book, the Personae's bonds shattered, freedom and hope.

Re: Under the Deep Water

[glorious]

[apple goes in there too cause Mau should dream of everything nice]

[how about those glass stars?]

Re: Under the Deep Water

[doesnothappen]

The apple doesn't cause any change in the images of Mau fighting Locaha that flicker in the cauldron, but the liquid clears further -- it just looks like water, now.

The glass stars contain the memory of this thread with Allen.

Re: Under the Deep Water

[glorious]

[that deserves to go in there as well]

Any better?