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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] traumatizing 2013-05-13 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[AW MAN YOU'VE NEVER HAD POP-TARTS, prepare to have your mind blown, turtlebud. Terry gestures for him to follow as he gets up to head to the kitchen.]

Aren't you sick at the moment? I feel like that should be a bit more preoccupying than saying hi to my subconscious.

[He's not judging or anything, just curious.]
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[personal profile] traumatizing 2013-05-19 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[He glances at Asti as he leads them to the kitchen, frowning thoughtfully.]

Is there anything we can do? It's why we're here, right?
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[personal profile] traumatizing 2013-05-24 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[How far is the kitchen anyway? It's really hard to judge in terms of Steps per Word. Whatever, it's a dream it doesn't even matter THEY'RE THERE NOW.

Anyway it would be hard for Terry to look more upset by this answer, even as he reaches up to rummage in the cupboard. He knows rationally that almost everything dies sooner or later and he imagines Asti has been alive longer than he can fathom, but Tu Vishan is loved and he is a home. It doesn't seem right.]


This-- thing we're supposed to beat, whatever it is. Is that what's made you sick?

[The real question, of course, being "would stopping it before you died even make a difference?"]
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[personal profile] traumatizing 2013-05-24 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[He pulls out two boxes of pop-tarts, one chocolate flavor and the other strawberry, and holds them up as a silent question of which he'd prefer.]

What is it, exactly?
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[personal profile] traumatizing 2013-05-25 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like family. [He scoffs as he pops strawberry one and a chocolate one in the toaster and leans against the counter, frowning as he tries to put everyting together in his head.]

If we can't stop it before you... Pass. [It's a pretty big 'if' in his opinion, to be honest.] Is there anything we can do to make it easier for you?
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[personal profile] traumatizing 2013-05-26 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure I can do that.

[He probably would anyway, knowing he's awake and can hear them. But it's nice to know it wouldn't be annoying.]
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[personal profile] traumatizing 2013-06-01 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
This hasn't been my home for a while. I guess my subconscious has issues letting go.

[he pauses to grab the other pop-tart (and ruminate on his life.)] I can't guarantee the taste of these is accurate, by the way. They're probably better in my memory, so I'm sorry for the inevitable letdown if you ever get to try the real thing.

[look at that brilliant topic changing]
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[personal profile] traumatizing 2013-06-05 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Well, you know. Just in case.

[They're less sickly-sweet than the real thing, for instance. Perfection.]