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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2013-08-09 07:07 pm

Event | Landfall | Dreaming

Characters: Any and every!
Date: August 10th - 31, 2013
Location: The realm of Dreaming as accessed via Sinbrilee
Situation: Dreaming is but one of the three realms and here characters are subject to their fanciful thoughts.
Warnings/Rating: Please place content warnings in subject headers!

Sinbrilee | Dreaming | Death


Life. Dreaming. Death. Three realms overlaid upon one another and yet each distinctly their own. They dwell in Life and do so live upon the back of the great turtle as those of Sinbrilee did upon the shell of his sister. However, there stand numerous arches of marble throughout the ruined city that are inlaid with runes beyond understanding. Those that live and breathe which step through those whose runes glow with faint, iridescent light tread instead into the realm of Dreaming.

Here, there exists no single defining characteristic beyond the visitor's imagination. The landscape sculpts to their individual thoughts, the events to their dreams. From a drab gray nothing to the most brilliant of displays, the senses perceive all that they wish to perceive for all that nothing here truly exists. This far from Tu Vishan, the ability to shape their surroundings is all they have, for Sinbrilee's Dreaming does not have the energy to sustain powers, only the bodies of those that dwell here.

Should two parties near, then the Mesh begins. Dreams, you see, not only can be shared, but they strive to be. These visions sculpted into reality reach out for one another and blend. They begin an exchange akin to a linking of the minds, within which one visitor can learn the other's deepest thoughts. Their limitation is but compatibility, for two minds that cannot flow upon the same current cannot hold the Mesh.

Happiness or loss, the landscape and events play out memories and fancies with a most convincing air. The mood rises and falls with the tide of the visitor's mind, detached as they are from the soothing influence of a great turtle's mind. Nothing here, however, is real; 'constructs' simply fade if taken through the archways and even the greatest scientific minds or tools will reveal nothing of its source. This is an ancient magic of an ancient realm, long practised in concealing itself from any prying.

Note: Due to the fluid and highly individual nature of Dreaming, no official subheaders will be provided in the comments of this post. Feel free to post and thread however you like, so long as the rules of Dreaming are adhered to.
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[personal profile] bonvivant 2013-08-10 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[A pig indeed. How rude, interrupting a man's dinner, even if there was far more food here than Hannibal could ever eat on his own without it spoiling.]

The one wearing the mask ought to identify first, should he not?

[Because he doesn't accept 'police' as an identification. He doesn't seem to react to the presence of a gun, nor the dead-and-vanished bodies, and is as nonchalant as ever.

He takes a slice of liver this time and eats it.]
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[personal profile] givenanonymity 2013-08-10 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Mask? No he's not wearing a mask -

No he is.

Hoffman pulls it off and stares at it before dropping it on the floor in shock. There's blood across his non-gloved hands. His lip curls.]
...I didn't know I was wearing that.

[He pauses] I couldn't tell it was you.

[You were a criminal. In that mask everyone is a criminal. Hoffman stared.] Is this your house? That all yours?

[he gestures to the food.] Smells good.
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[personal profile] bonvivant 2013-08-10 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, it's mine. [Perhaps an exaggerated version of what's his, though.]

Go ahead. [He gestures to an empty seat. Intrusive as this guest may be, it would be rude to keep all of this food to himself. Officers of the law are technically allowed to kick in doors, aren't they?]
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[personal profile] givenanonymity 2013-08-10 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Everything that Hoffman touches leaves a smear of blood. The chair, the gun when it's set down on the table. When he looks back for his friends they're still gone and instead he picks up that fork.]

...You're not supposed to be here.
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[personal profile] bonvivant 2013-08-10 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[No, you're not supposed to be here, is what he's thinking. But mutual confusion isn't much fun.]

I don't limit myself to where I'm supposed to be.
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[personal profile] givenanonymity 2013-08-10 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
...Why's that?

[He continues to leave smears of blood across the table cloth, the chair, even the forks. The mask is set beside him.]

Most people don't appreciate people sticking their nose in someone else's business.

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[personal profile] bonvivant 2013-08-12 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Good thing Hannibal knows how to clean bloodstains.]

I'm a therapist. It's a bit of a habit, I suppose. [And he just really likes getting into other people's business.]
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[personal profile] givenanonymity 2013-08-12 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't know what to make of that. He smears blood across his forehead and through his hair as he glares at him. Then he snorts]

I don't like therapists as a rule.
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[personal profile] bonvivant 2013-08-13 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Hannibal doesn't like cops as a rule, either.]

You've had problems with therapists in the past? Or are you uncomfortable around someone whose job it is to find out your secrets?
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[personal profile] givenanonymity 2013-08-13 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hoffman's gaze flares at him.] ...It'd be pointless to say that I don't have things I want to keep private.

I thought we were both in the same business though. Helping people. Not finding out secrets.

[His hands remain on the table top...leaking blood now. He has a lot of blood on his hands and it shows.]

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[personal profile] bonvivant 2013-08-18 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
But finding out secrets is an essential part of my job. There's a reason confidentiality rules are so strict.

[Goodness, what a mess.]

You have blood on your hands.
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[personal profile] givenanonymity 2013-08-20 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hoffman twitches, staring.]

I'm a police officer. I've killed men before.
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[personal profile] bonvivant 2013-08-23 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
And do you feel bad about it?

[He knows that most people do, even if it was truly in self-defense, but he's curious to see what Hoffman had done.]
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[personal profile] givenanonymity 2013-08-23 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[He has to think.

Maybe behind him there's some visuals. The people he's seen die. Horrific, monsterous traps and over it all a figure in a pig mask. A twisted laugh. Maybe. It might just be his imagination. Or crazy SAW visuals.]


Not if they deserve it.

[He smiles a very sick smile, but one of his hands is curled into a fist. Rigg. Eric. Kerry.]
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[personal profile] bonvivant 2013-08-23 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
['Deserve it' is interesting wording, because the police aren't supposed to kill whoever they think is deserving. Not without many trials and years on death row, anyways.]

They threatened you? [The only circumstance you're actually supposed to take lethal action - legally, anyways.]
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[personal profile] givenanonymity 2013-08-23 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
[His throat is tight] They threaten others. They...

Why are you asking about that?
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[personal profile] bonvivant 2013-08-23 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
I've worked closely with law enforcement before. Lethal force is admissible only if there is a reasonable threat, correct?
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[personal profile] givenanonymity 2013-08-23 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course. [And he has used it. On the job. There are notations in his jacket but he's always spun it so he gets a medal instead of a scolding. Besides the people who did it would have hurt people.

Like Gibson. Smarmy ungrateful little fucker...

Hoffman smiles.]
I'm a good cop. I've been a cop for over twenty years.
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[personal profile] bonvivant 2013-08-23 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Who are you trying to convince? [He takes another bite of the food.]
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[personal profile] givenanonymity 2013-08-23 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything.

[No, now he's just getting angry.] I'm telling the truth. I'm a good cop and if I've killed people then they deserved it.

[He stares. Daring the other man to challenge him and through the mists a woman screams. Sharp. Piercing.

Hoffman is on his feet in a heartbeat that's Angelina...

The question is. Is it something that only he can hear?]
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[personal profile] bonvivant 2013-09-02 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
If you say so.

That's quite a racket. [And he's pretty sure it's not something of his own doing.]
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[personal profile] givenanonymity 2013-09-02 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That's my sister you jack ass. [Instantly alert. Instantly on guard. Like a growling dog. Shoving away from the table he moves toward the door, tugging at it with a wild desperation.

It won't open. For him.]



Open the fucking door!


Edited 2013-09-02 17:56 (UTC)