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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.]
gathersnomoss: (smiling)

[personal profile] gathersnomoss 2013-05-11 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Fair enough.

Do you want some tea or something?
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[personal profile] gathersnomoss 2013-05-11 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[going into his pack for a grate to sit over the fire, and a small kettle]

I only have one cup, so you'll forgive me if I don't share.
gathersnomoss: (thinking)

[personal profile] gathersnomoss 2013-05-12 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
It's fine. But if I'm going to be sleeping tonight, it'll have to be a tisane, not tea.

[is already taking out some dried leaves as the kettle boils, and placing some in each cup -- someone is really camping light]
gathersnomoss: (sad)

[personal profile] gathersnomoss 2013-05-12 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
This is a dream?

[glances at his hands, as if he's seeing them for the first time]

Of course it's a dream.

[sounds discouraged at that]
gathersnomoss: (surprised)

[personal profile] gathersnomoss 2013-05-12 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
I don't look like this in the waking world. Not any more. Something that, despite my best efforts, I've been unable to change.

Looking like this in a dream just reminds me that eventually I have to wake up.
gathersnomoss: (surprised)

[personal profile] gathersnomoss 2013-05-12 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Help?

Jut like that? For free?

[Just... kind of floored that a relative stranger would do that; Zel is pretty cynical about most people]
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[personal profile] gathersnomoss 2013-05-12 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Considering one of the most powerful mages was all 'you're joking? that's impossible' to Zel's face, an hour a day is pretty miraculous]

An hour...

But, still... why would you do that for me?

[Why are you being so nice and spending power on me?]
gathersnomoss: (sad)

[personal profile] gathersnomoss 2013-05-12 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Few people are that generous to even consider my being here their problem, since the Emperor is the one who brought me here, not them.

[and he remembers that he was making tea. RIght. Time to add the water and offer a cup of tea]
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[personal profile] gathersnomoss 2013-05-12 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
If you think that way, you're a better person than I would be in your situation.

[Honestly, Zel isn't certain, but he doesn't think of himself as generally nice or compassionate or prone to doing nice things to strangers, even if he used to chase bandits so his grandfather could give (part of) the money to the sick orphans. Of course, then he discovered Grandpa used the rest of the money to perform horrible magical experiments...]
gathersnomoss: (smiling)

[personal profile] gathersnomoss 2013-05-13 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe. But I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than disappointed.
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[personal profile] gathersnomoss 2013-05-14 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe. But I've met plenty of people who haven't taken power well.
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[personal profile] gathersnomoss 2013-05-16 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[He really can't answer that, can he?]

I wish I knew where your faith in me came from.

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