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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.]
aloadeddie: (hey over here!)

[personal profile] aloadeddie 2013-05-13 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[His hand automatically moves to an inner pocket of his jacket - but it's just a kid, just one kid. Not a mob, not an armed projection.

And this isn't someone else's dream, as far as he can tell. There's no reason for the dream to turn against him.]


Who are you? What are you doing here?
aloadeddie: (standing around)

[personal profile] aloadeddie 2013-05-16 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Moving carefully, Arthur just shoves his hands in his jacket pockets, instead of pulling out the gun.] Hello.

Can I ask why me? Or why now?
aloadeddie: (you okay with that?)

[personal profile] aloadeddie 2013-05-25 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[He eyes the boy carefully. He might actually be able to answer some questions - if Arthur asks the right ones, he thinks.]

Awake. Do you know what woke you up, or why? [If this is the turtle he's talking to, figuring out what's wrong might provide some insight into the mechanics of the dream - or limbo, or whatever it is.]
aloadeddie: (calm yo tits)

[personal profile] aloadeddie 2013-06-02 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. [He files that name away, for future reference, or at least, tries to. Even with all his training, sometimes he still forgets things.]

So, do you even know what's going on, then? If you were asleep, you weren't the one bringing people in?
aloadeddie: (can you see my lineface?)

[personal profile] aloadeddie 2013-07-05 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Is she telling the truth, then? [The truth as she thinks she knows it, anyway. This whole place just keeps getting weirder and weirder, even for a dream world.]
aloadeddie: (DEAD WIFE)

[personal profile] aloadeddie 2013-07-05 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
No value in lying to a bunch of angry kidnappees, some of whom have superpowers or magic? I find that hard to believe.

[Arthur is a skeptic by nature, even if this dream is making him feel a bit more charitable than he normally would - still, he files that information away for further consideration. If it's true, then it may be worth having.]
aloadeddie: (busy busy man)

[personal profile] aloadeddie 2013-07-15 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think she does, but she probably should fear us - as a collective. We've already caused her problems, and we're not even organized.
aloadeddie: (this is my stylish jacket)

[personal profile] aloadeddie 2013-08-16 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
I plan to keep a low profile until I can figure out how to get us home.
aloadeddie: (this is my stylish jacket)

[personal profile] aloadeddie 2013-08-23 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the only answer you're going to get. [He keeps his cards close to the chest, especially with dream-people.]