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tuvishan ([personal profile] tuvishan) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2013-05-11 02:31 pm

the dreaming [open]

Characters: Tu Vishan and you!
Date: May 11th
Location: All over Keeliai.
Situation: Tu Vishan is attempting to reach out to the foreigner population, with... mixed results?
Warnings/Rating: Should be pretty tame. Will update if this changes.
Notes: This log is set at night, and characters are technically encountering him in their 'dreams'. He may or may not be exerting some subtle supernatural influence to make characters fall asleep, so if your character doesn't require sleep feel free to say he's done something to them. Technically, every creature in Tu Vishan would be sleeping during his little foray, so the streets are uncharacteristically empty.

This is not a predominantly plot-driven log. Tu Vishan is reaching out to people and may surrender plot details if the right questions are asked, but this is mostly part of his ongoing effort to become acquainted with people and the thread direction may stick solely to slice of life, depending on how your character chooses to direct it.

A character's 'dreamscape' should be shaped by their subconscious mind, so feel free to go wild with whatever you'd like. This includes details of their location and what their dream!selves might look like. Tu Vishan will appear to the characters as a young boy, between fourteen and sixteen years of age, and anyone he visits will have extremely peaceful dreams. It's considered a gift and a blessing to have been visited thusly by Tu Vishan, and one can expect good fortune in their futures if they are visited. Characters may also not remember perfect details of these dreams in the morning, or remember them at all. That much is up to you.





[The night is calm and still and on this night, Tu Vishan wanders.

He does not often take a form not his own, but there is a growing sense of unease in his shape, in his body, that he cannot escape. He knows it. He has felt his brethren sicken thus, and die. So for a time, when he can, he escapes. Like smoke, like a ghost, a breath, he escapes and he wanders.

The city is sleeping when he does so. He likes the cities at night, though the dimly flickering light of his shell is...

(Sad, he thinks)

--Inevitable.

He passes from house to house, between buildings and shadows. He listens.

'Keeliai' means 'Finality'. It is an irony he has never sought to correct. Instead, he stops at doors, on rooftops, in the empty rooms of old houses, and he thinks of all the lives scattered here. Small enough to be insignificant to him, but hardly that. He cannot so much as feel the patter of their movement across his back, but he is aware of each of them as a tiny heartbeat, an audible echo of life and hope.

When he finds a receptive mind, he will sometimes reach out and touch it gently. A calm, gentle reassurance. If they wish to speak with him, he is there.]
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[personal profile] sophos 2013-05-31 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
[She picks up on the tone, but rather than huff up defensively, her shoulders sort of sink in acceptance of the concern. Only in her dreams, apparently.]

Okay. [Because she wants it, and for all the distrust of the situation in being on Tu Vishan's back, she has no ill feelings or mistrust toward the turtle himself; she's been in the presence of the peaceful aura numerous times to believe it possible, and she'd rather take the chance that it is now than do the opposite. It's easier to acquiescence when she's not too worried about keeping up a shield, too.] Is this communication another one time thing? Or once we finish here, is that all? [Pause.] You're sick. Will doing this for me make it worse?
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[personal profile] sophos 2013-05-31 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Annabeth nods, because it makes sense, given what they've discussed and what she's learned.] I'd like to speak again, if the chance ever arrives.

[She has a million questions, she always does, but for once, she's content to just accept Asti's offer (she's just so tired) - especially now that she knows it's possible to speak with him again. But it's beyond the questions alone, just wanting another encounter for the sake of it.]

[A sigh, but one of relief; she doesn't want to make it worse on him.] If there's a way to heal you, it'll be found. There are a lot of people who want to help you here. [Because above all else, she's pretty sure the population is united in that much.]
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[personal profile] sophos 2013-06-05 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a pause of her own.] Does that mean there is a way?
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[personal profile] sophos 2013-06-08 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
[She wants to say she'd try at any cost, but there's something in Asti's tone that she can't bring herself to disagree with.]

There's really no point in forcing you to do something you don't want anyway, not when you have a choice. There must be another way, though. Something nobody's found yet.
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[personal profile] sophos 2013-06-14 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't believe it. It's okay, you don't have to. Impossible odds aren't exactly a stranger to me. You'll be saved.
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[personal profile] sophos 2013-07-08 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Asti actually gets a smile!! The kind she doesn't give out often.] Of course.
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[personal profile] sophos 2013-07-18 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
No. [She has a billion other questions and things she'd like to ask, but right now she just. Doesn't. She's tired.] Not unless there's something I can do for you.