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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.
parallels: (HURT ★)

[personal profile] parallels 2013-08-11 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
...I'm sorry.

[She reaches out and entangles her fingers with his. She knows the loss of a parent is hard. Losing her mum nearly tore her apart. And words like "sorry" do very little to help with the pain. But it's all she has to offer and she hates that.]

He must have been very brave.
jirk: (pic#6213832)

[personal profile] jirk 2013-08-11 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
He was.

[He lets her take his hand, unresisting.]

Wish I'd known him.
parallels: (FRIENDS ★ heart to heart mind to mind)

[personal profile] parallels 2013-08-11 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't say anything. There's nothing to say in her mind. She's never experienced that sort of situation. Her mother died when she was fifteen, not knowing her and living in that aftermath? It would be different. But she does understand loss at least.

She squeezes his hand a little tighter and puts her other hand over his and offers him a small smile. It's the best she can do.]
Edited 2013-08-11 01:53 (UTC)
jirk: (pic#6431786)

[personal profile] jirk 2013-08-11 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[He smiles, but it's brief. He really is bringing down the mood, isn't he?]

Anyway, he, ah-- apparently in this other universe out there somewhere, he lived to see me become the captain of the Enterprise. So there's that.
parallels: (SMILE ★ you and me to the end of time)

[personal profile] parallels 2013-08-11 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Since someone's always obligated to say it when talking about dead parents.

"I'm sure he'd be proud of you".
jirk: (pic#6069677)

[personal profile] jirk 2013-08-11 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Jim laughs.]

I spent most of my life doing the opposite of whatever I thought he'd be proud of, if you can believe it.
parallels: (SLY ★)

[personal profile] parallels 2013-08-11 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
You did mention that you ran a car off a cliff.

So I can.
jirk: (Default)

[personal profile] jirk 2013-08-11 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[A mischievous smile.]

First thing I ever did that wasn't playing by the rules.
parallels: (ENCOURAGING ★)

[personal profile] parallels 2013-08-11 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
And here you are now. All grown up and a captain.

[She pats his hand affectionately.]
jirk: (pic#6197903)

[personal profile] jirk 2013-08-11 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
[He echoes her last sentence on his own, and then shakes his head wryly.]

Well, I'm a captain, anyway. I don't know about that first part so much...
parallels: (AHEM ★ steam in the subway citys afire)

[personal profile] parallels 2013-08-11 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm.

What about at the very least "tall and with nice abs and other muscles".

[She pokes affectionately at him.]
jirk: (pic#6107528)

[personal profile] jirk 2013-08-11 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
'Other muscles'.

[A total deadpan. Clara pls.]

Can't you just say I've got a nice ass like all the other girls?
parallels: (SASSING ★)

[personal profile] parallels 2013-08-11 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Not like all the other girls. Never have been. Never will be.

[A pause.]

You do have a nice arse though. From what I've seen anyway. Trousers on and everything.
jirk: (pic#6083812)

[personal profile] jirk 2013-08-11 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I kind of... came to that conclusion all by myself. I use my brain for more than just fantastic pick-up lines, you know.

[And then a grin, and he laughs.]

It's all the martial arts. [In a stage-whisper,] A guy needs something to land on.
parallels: (OSWIN ★  clara oswald for the win)

[personal profile] parallels 2013-08-11 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Still have yet to hear one of those.

[She raises her eyebrows with a face just waiting to be impressed. Then she shifts to adjust the hem of her skirt.]

Then martial arts was a calling that I completely missed. I've been told I've got a nice arse as well. Then again I have no idea how anyone would do martial arts in this dress. [She pulls on the hem again.] No idea how that works. Suppose I'm meant to be shouting orders anyway.
jirk: (pic#6107525)

[personal profile] jirk 2013-08-11 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Lazily,]

Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?

[Oh, he's got entire books of them, Clara. Beware. And then he just. eyes the uniform.]

Yeah, see, I actually have no idea. They are really impractical, aren't they? It's the twenty-third century! Let the women wear pants.
parallels: (EXCITED ★ something awesome)

[personal profile] parallels 2013-08-11 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
You didn't even try.

[But then she's distracted by fussing with the hem of her skirt again,]

Martial Arts would definitely end with me flashing my knickers. So would running, jumping and sitting. But... They're cute as hell.
jirk: (pic#6107528)

[personal profile] jirk 2013-08-11 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
[He smiles at her.]

I only use pick-up lines when I'm trying to score.

[And he wouldn't treat her that way. So forgive him his laziness, Clara, it means he cares.]

So imagine you're wearing a pair of those-- what're they called? Leggings? Then it's more of a tunic, and boom. You're set.
parallels: (PLAYFUL ★)

[personal profile] parallels 2013-08-11 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
So, I guess I should be flattered then.

[She's started to pick up on that. She definitely enjoys the flirting but hates being treated like an object. Jim respects her and she wouldn't change that for the world. Even if he is pretty cute and kind of sexy.

She raises up a leg and drops it into his lap.]


Dream me up some leggings then.
jirk: (Default)

[personal profile] jirk 2013-08-11 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jim lifts his hands out of the way like he's not quite sure what to do with this new development, because Clara. After a moment, he lowers a hand back against her knee and, yes, imagines up some leggings.

(They're plain black, because Jim wouldn't know the first thing about women's fashion unless he's taking it off and then his standards range from 'really complicated' to 'wow she was actually wearing that?']


Better?
parallels: (CASUAL ★)

[personal profile] parallels 2013-08-11 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Perfect.

Now I'm ready to explore new worlds and save civilizations.

[And able to curl up on the couch with her knees to her chest and not worry about flashing anyone. Which she does now.]
jirk: (pic#6214052)

[personal profile] jirk 2013-08-11 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Atta girl.

[He drapes an arm around her and tucks his other hand behind his head. Looking up at the stars.]