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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] traitre 2013-05-25 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ and he stops dead at that, giving the boy a strange look.

no-- no, they shouldn't. but all the same, qilby snorts derisively to cover the fact that asti just might've got him to admit he's wrong. gosh! stupid turtle! ]
It... Wouldn't be the first time.

So if we die, you may yet live. And if you die, presumably everything else that relies on you for their livelihood goes as well. Do I have the right of it?
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[personal profile] traitre 2013-05-25 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Aah. Seems I'm mistaken.

[ there's a pregnant pause, and suddenly it's broken by another peal of laughter-- except this time he doesn't even bother to dampen the cruelty in its tone. ] Well, that's it then, I suppose. Alas! I would say I knew thee well-- but the fact of the matter is... I don't.

[ aaand he turns his back on asti with another dismissive little wave of his hand. ] But you might make yourself useful before you die and leave us somewhere near the mainland. I've much more in this world to explore, after all, and I don't want to swim there if I don't have to.
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[personal profile] traitre 2013-06-01 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ aah. well, it's a testament to how relaxed and optimistic he already is if he's able to simply be himself like this. goddess, if he even dared to speak half of what's on his mind...

the somewhat-ominous parting words leave a silence in their wake; he breaks it with a laugh, more out of surprise than anything else. was that a threat? perhaps it's a snapping turtle he's dealing with!

ends come to most every creature, and the turtle's sounds closer than it may be willing to admit. there's no "if" about that. and resuming his work amongst the stars and planets, qilby begins to wonder just how he might make the best of it... ]