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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.]
depicted: (just rerunning conversation)

[personal profile] depicted 2013-05-12 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[The fabrics would seem to multiply, as if in echo of certain words under Dorian's fingertips. Muslin, gauzes, satins, silks. Dorian rises, if only to observe Asti, and his hand falls away from Oscar's book. The chandeliers are now from New York. The carpets now come from Paris.]

They're memories. [He says it, but he thinks Asti must already know.] You should be careful with them.

[Too many are unpleasant, and dreams work strangely. Dorian doesn't want his sicknesses to infect this being.]
depicted: (we're going to hell we're going to hell)

[personal profile] depicted 2013-05-12 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad.

[It does reassure. Dorian is once more at a kind of peace. And the moment is so quiet, so rare, that he hardly dares to breath to interrupt it. He just watches Asti, and wonders about him.]
Edited (I am sorry for the lack of stuff in this tag) 2013-05-12 05:02 (UTC)
depicted: (I will never disappear)

[personal profile] depicted 2013-05-13 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
[The only movement is in the curl of Dorian's fingers, inwards, up against his palm.]

What do you take from me in return for giving peace?

[There is always something. Such things have not been given to him for free.]
depicted: (do what you want)

[personal profile] depicted 2013-05-15 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't want to take out a second mortgage on his soul, all right?]

And what if I wanted to give you something in return? Not payment. Just . . . something you want that I could give you.

[It's payment in a different sense: it's something given from gratitude.]
depicted: (do what you want)

[personal profile] depicted 2013-05-18 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. What are you missing?
depicted: (you got that medicine I need)

[personal profile] depicted 2013-05-24 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It's yours. [He settles down again, leaning back against a cabinet, watching the face of the boy.] I don't know how I could contact you, but you're welcome into my dreams any time you like.