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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.]
thetyrant: (relief)

[personal profile] thetyrant 2013-05-16 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Logan's dreams are torn and ragged and dark, nightmares, until Tu Viashan finds him. He dreams of the Crawler, like always, hissing horrible things in his ear and consuming him, making him relive those hours in Shadelight, swinging his sword blindly at something he couldn't find as his men dropped like flies around him.]

[But then it gentles, and fades into Fairwinds, the capital and main seaport of Samarkand, a southern, mostly desert country. But the city is humid and heavy and hot, the night still bright and lively. He walks through the streets, smiling, laughing in a way he's forgotten how to do in his waking hours. There are street performers and fortune tellers and merchants selling their wares from beneath canopies. He stops before a teenage boy sitting on the ground.]


Hello. What do you have for us, then? [People always have something for the young, handsome, visiting king of Albion.]
thetyrant: (relief)

[personal profile] thetyrant 2013-05-17 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
[In real life, at this time in his world, Logan would have scoffed, laughed at such a mean gift. He would have given the boy only scorn and moved on. After all, it doesn't matter how he treats the people; the nobles all love him and that's what people will hear, isn't it?]

[But age and certain events have given him more grace than that, more kindness, so still smiling, he takes the box.]
Did you make this yourself? [He flips open the lid with one hand, seeing if there's anything inside (and if there is, hopefully that little move didn't just spill it out).]
thetyrant: (my albion)

[personal profile] thetyrant 2013-05-18 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
[It manifests as a shockwave of light, and Logan flinches back from it a little. It's unfamiliar and a little unsettling. Like working a muscle that's atrophied. But the gift settles him quickly and he smiles at the boy again. When he wakes up, he'll cry, because he forgot what it was like not to be dogged with every though.]

I think you have a future in shaping wood. This is strong work.
Edited 2013-05-18 06:00 (UTC)
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[personal profile] thetyrant 2013-05-29 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
What other talents do you have, hm? I'm sure making boxes doesn't consume all of your time. [He seems content to linger and talk. He likes being near this boy. He gave Logan a precious gift, which he already understands without knowing what it was in that dream-way he won't question. Also he's young and pretty and that never hurts.]