tushanshu_logs | ENDPLOT | BEFORE THE DAWN

Characters: ALL!
Date: December 1-7, 2014
Location: Under the shell and in the Dreaming
Situation: Malicant’s defeated, but it seems the Foreigners have gotten a little bit stuck ...
Warnings/Rating: Add warnings as needed.

Where are you going?

What did you do?

Can you hear me?

Hello?

At first the Dreaming twists and warps around the Foreigners, radiating with the sort of unheard shriek that causes adults to wake sweating in their beds. The only problem is--they don’t. Something cracks like a thud in the skin and the surroundings of the turtle’s body dissolves, and their environment changes in a heartbeat between blank greyscale and any familiar environment.

Eventually it settles, but something is wrong. Where before the Foreigners had clarity of thought even in the Dreaming while battling Malicant, at first it feels as though their minds are shrouded, groggy with half-sleep. They might find it difficult to realize where they are--that their most familiar environment, surrounding them now, is not because they've been sent home. They’re still Dreaming, and the Dream is subtle, but can be manipulated and can be shared if they remember their comrades strongly enough. More of them converging in one place will help shed that torpor, leaving them to realize what might be happening...

They’re trapped. Every now and then they hear Eva’s voice speaking, and some of them will even see her in person, walking through their Dream with a trail of grey mist in her wake.

Can you hear me?

Follow me.

If you want to go home, follow me.

[OOC: If you’re intending to canon update your character (even if they just want to return home to "check in") OR if your character is departing Tu Vishan for good, please use Eva’s subheading! If you’re not going to canon update but your character will still try to follow Eva, she will vanish into grey mist and they’ll be unable to follow.

The rest of the log is general "mingling" while the characters who choose to remain in Keeliai are trapped together in the Dreaming. They can share details of their battles against Malicant, try to brainstorm a way to escape the Dreaming, anything they want. They will be aware of the passage of time, though they won't have any concrete way of knowing how much, only that it seems like it's much longer than it should be.

Please see this OOC post for additional information regarding timing and posting during this log, or questions. Thank you! ]

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Ryou was standing in his apartment again, the Monster World diorama sitting in front of him. As he stared and eventually sat down to rearrange some of the set pieces, he could hear Eva's voice echoing nearby.

Can you hear me? His eyes immediately darted down to his chest, expecting the Ring even if the voice didn't fit. It wasn't until she spoke again that he started to piece things together--to realize that this was a dream.

Follow me. If you want to go home, follow me.

"Home...," he swallowed, mumbling the word to himself. "To my friends?" Ryou continued to stare down at the diorama in front of him, his vision wobbling as tears brimmed in his eyes. That was right, they finally won, and that meant they could go home. "But I made friends here too, and there's Yin-chan..."

Nobody was going to answer him, so he wasn't sure why he was mumbling to himself. All Ryou could do was heave in a shaking breath and cover his face with his hands as tried to make a decision.

What should he do? If he went back home, he could be reunited with Yugi-tachi and his father. But Bakura would probably be cruel to him again, and he'd be leaving the friends he made here and his "child" behind.

"This sucks," he whined, his arms sinking to the table until he could bury his face into them. There was no connection to Yin here, and he didn't see Zuko or Dante, among others. He couldn't just leave without saying goodbye, and he couldn't leave unless he knew Yin was safe, but what if this was his only chance to go home? Really, it was his own fault for not thinking of clearing this up sooner...but even if he had, it wouldn't be any easier.

"Tell me about it." Dante looked around the nondescript apartment. Ryou must be one of those 'normal' people he keeps hearing about. Well, at least that makes it easy to get to business without too many complications.

"Hey, you weren't in dreaming when this whole mess happened, right?" Dante immediately asked. "Do you have any idea what's going on. I haven't heard a peep from Yin since I got here, and I'm getting kind of worried here."

Ryou lifted his head up at the familiar voice. At least that was one person he was hoping to see, but as he wiped the tears from his face he felt that circumstances could have been a little less embarrassing.

"No... I stayed behind, just in case." It felt like an excuse, really. "But I'm as lost as your are. I don't even feel a connection to Yin-chan down here."

As it were, if Dante was worried, it only intensified his own worry. Something he hadn't considered suddenly came to mind. "We would know if something bad happened, right?"

"I know. I was hoping to get something from someone who hadn't been knee-deep in a battle when this happened." Dante's already made his opinion on the matter clear.

"But judging by the way our late pain in the ass works? Everyone would know if something bad happened." The last time there had been deaths among the baby turtles, he had made a scene. The fact that things were ambiguous was a good sign.

"I'm sorry I couldn't be more help," Ryou apologized, not because he did anything wrong, but because he was worried too.

"We should be able to figure it out when we get to the surface... Whenever we get out of here." He pursed his lips with a worried look. That might take awhile.

"Are you staying here, Dante?"

"I kinda have to. There's a lot of unfinished business. I'd feel bad if I left it hanging." Dante answered. He expected that he'd go home eventually, but for now, he can't even be sure Malicant's dead yet.

"So I kinda have to worry about how we're getting out of here." He nodded. "But if you were sucked in? This sounds too damn complicated. If you want to leave? I'd suggest you do it."

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Ryou shook his head at that, sniffling a little before he spoke, "I... I want to go home, I really want to go home, but I can't leave Yin-chan after all this... I-it's not right. I won't even be able to say goodbye."

If there was anything that Ryou knew, it's how painful it is to lose a family member. Even if he wanted to go home, he couldn't leave just yet.

"Then I guess we better work on busting out of whatever the hell this is." Dante knew how painful it was to lose a family member, but was Yin family? It was a tough call. All Dante really knew is that he felt bad about the kind of 'parent' he had been, even if he was only a surrogate.

"From what I can tell, the whole 'location' thing is a bit screwy, so that might be a bit of an uphill battle. If you don't hear from me, I'm probably lost in whatever the hell this is."

"Does that mean we're splitting up...?" Ryou seemed unsure, and not exactly welcoming to the idea of splitting up in a place as disorientating as Dreaming.

"I think we should stick together, so we can be sure we both get out of here and find Yin-chan," besides, this was his first time wandering around in Dreaming. He wasn't totally sure what to expect.

"Fair enough. It's not like we're in any real danger or anything. I could use an extra set of eyes." And an extra brain, but he's not saying that. But either way, numbers can't hurt.

"Okay, it sounds like a plan then! I'll just, ah," say goodbye to this imitation of his apartment, he supposed. This might be the last time he gets to see his home in a long time.

"I just need a minute."

Dante nodded and waited. He wasn't so hurt about leaving home, but he knew that there were multiple foreigners who were. Best to let someone like that have their moment.

For his 'minute', which extended quite past a single minute, Ryou moved past the large diorama on the table and went to take one he'd left on a shelf instead. This one was much smaller (about the width and height of his chest), and held a diorama of his friends.

Picking it up, he took it over to Dante with a wistful smile and held it up to show him. "These are my friends from back home. I owe them a lot..."

That's so sweet, and- Wait. What the hell is wrong with those guys' hair?

"I'd say helping to save the world makes you square with them, but that didn't stop my friends from saying I owed them money." Ryou, never turn out like Dante. "I don't know. If they show up, you should ask them."

"Ah...," he remembered now. Somewhere along the line he kind of forgot that this whole thing was to save the world. At some point, he stopped thinking about that and only wanted to get revenge for what Malicant did to Emily-Helen. That was why he learned to summon monsters, and yet look what use that was...

"I guess it wouldn't hurt," Ryou set the diorama back down. He couldn't take it with him anyway. "Anyway, I'm...," he sucked in a breath and slowly released it. "I'm ready."

ENDPLOT | BEFORE THE DAWN

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Sorry, it had to be pointed out.

lmfao god... it's true