OPT-OUT EVENT LOG: DREAM A LITTLE DREAM

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Who: EVERYONE that stayed in Asgard
What: the Dream a Little Dream mingle log
When: Day 515 ( Sept. 25/26 )
Where: all across the city!
Rating: PG-13. Anything higher than that should be taken to a private log, please!

Day 515 ( Sept. 25/26 )

Progress through the ice blockade will be slow and narrow, as they can't possibly hope to clear the entirety of the forest that has been buried under Thiazi's black ice. Now that they know the source of her magic's corruption, it might not come as a great surprise when cracking open the ice unleashes a strange burst of magic.

At the halfway point between Utgard and Asgard, a pulse of energy will move through the entire city, immediately putting every mortal it touches to sleep. This part of the curse is mandatory and your character must fall asleep; the dream effects of it are not mandatory, and can be played with at your discretion. During this first wave, Travellers will be granted a brief dream - that does not belong to them. They will see, from the dreamer's point of view, every hope and goal and aspiration that the dreamer wishes to complete before the end of days. Whether it's simply confessing their love to an old friend or saving their home planet or perfecting an Asgardian pie, your character will see someone else's ideal resolution before Ragnarok. More on plotting this below!

Upon waking, the Travellers will be plagued with the indistinct whispering of several voices overlapping one another and a slight headache. Both symptoms will gradually increase over time until it reaches incapacitating pain and nausea. The only way to assuage the symptoms is to find the owner of the dream and either maintain physical contact for an hour or discuss the subject of the dream until a full confession has been made. After that, the symptoms will fade and the Travellers will be free to carry on with their day.

There will be other pulses of magic at random throughout the day; these are not mandatory and you can feel free to have your character experience as many or as few dreams as you wish. All dream-sharing will cease by the end of the day, as the blockade progresses past that centre-point of magic.

[ OOC NOTES: This is the mingle log for the Dream a Little Dream opt-out event! Random pairings have already been sent out, but you guys can still feel free to plot with each and pair up anywhere you like. Please remember that these dreams are meant to be positive; details can be found here. Please put [OPEN/CLOSED] along with the time and location in the title of your comment. Let us know if you have any questions! ]

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[windbreak]

"I told it to hold down the fort!" Yosuke protested, conveniently sidestepping the question of whether he should be held responsible for an animal he just couldn't seem to get rid of. "I don't know how he followed us... You're one persistent little furball, I'll give you that."

He knelt down, his clumsy attempt to safely pick up the reinhare distracting him from thoughts of his partner for the time being - and, briefly, from Maribelle.

[damselled]

"You told a reinhare to watch everything?" asked Maribelle incredulously, blinking at Yosuke. She didn't even know whether they could understand what anyone said (although she had, on occasion, talked to Lissa). She sniffed impatiently at Yosuke, moving to pick up the creator herself. She was, after all, covered up and wearing gloves, as she was wont to do, so it would be much safer for her to pick up the little thing than Yosuke - and knowing him, he would just end up giving himself another migraine, anyway.

[windbreak]

"Well, okay, more like to just stay freakin' put for once," Yosuke mumbled, still distracted. "I left him extra cat food and everything..."

Expecting the animal to poke an antler into his eye and squirm free at any moment, he began to lean back, and was thoroughly unsurprised to feel the reinhare's warm weight slip out from the crook of his elbow - but then he glanced down to scoop it up again, and immediately jerked his head round in surprise. "What the -"

- whoa. Since when had she been standing so close?

Oh man. That was it, he had to get up in a hurry, or else she'd take this the wrong way... And yet the different kind of warmth now creeping up the side of his face without his permission seemed to have beaten him to it, because the rest of him promptly froze.

[damselled]

Maribelle sighed. "I find them to be more fond of fresh vegetation." Not that they didn't like meat, but Maribelle very much doubted they liked cat food. She'd taken good care of Lissa, and so the reinhare had taken to being incredibly loving and protective of her mistress, cuddling affectionately whenever she could. Yosuke's reinhare, meanwhile, was not happily snuggling in Maribelle's arms, causing the girl to smile as she looked down at it fondly.

This meant, of course, that she was not paying any particular attention to either Yosuke or his embarrassment.

[windbreak]

Thank goodness for small mercies, then, though it wasn't as if Yosuke's karma would ever have allowed him anything bigger. Jolting himself back into action, he rocketed forward to swipe the reinhare away. "Sorry!" he stammered. "Sorry, I didn't mean to make you -"

But no sooner did he lay a bare hand on the creature's fur than a momentary burst of red across his field of vision prompted him to flinch back in surprise. "Gah," he mumbled, "frickin' thing..."

[damselled]

"I beg your pardon?" asked Maribelle stiffly, cooling as Yosuke swiped the creature from her without so much as an if-you-please or by-your-leave. But, of course, Yosuke's horrendous luck had to bite him, and she couldn't quite bring herself to tell him off for his presumption.

Besides, it appeared as though he was rather distressed enough as it was. "Are you quite alright?"

[windbreak]

"I'm calm!" said Yosuke, hastening to tuck the indignant reinhare safely under his arm. "I'm totally calm, and... that's not what you're asking at all, is it?"

Belatedly, it occurred to him what a golden opportunity he'd just missed. Oh well. At least his face probably couldn't get much rosier.

He sagged. "...Should I just stop talking now?"

[damselled]

Despite herself, Maribelle found herself laughing. She couldn't help it; Yosuke was always so funny when he got worked up. After a moment, she calmed herself, and stifled another giggle. "No, Yosuke, it is not. And I do believe you are the very opposite of calm, at the moment."

She shook her head after a moment, turning as if to continue on. "Not at all! Shall we move on?"

[windbreak]

Despite himself, Yosuke managed a weak smile back. Hey, even if it was at his expense, she seemed pretty happy... That was a good sign after what happened earlier, wasn't it?

"Alright!" he said, doing his best to hurry on ahead and pretend nothing had interrupted him. "So, movies..."

[damselled]

Maribelle nodded as she followed him. "What are they, exactly?" He'd explained what they were to her before, but honestly, she still had trouble grasping the concept. Truly, it sounded more like a moving, talking painting than anything else she had heard of.

[windbreak]

"Oh, didn't I explain it that well before? Sorry." At least he wasn't too bad at giving the impression of having recovered quickly. "How else would you... hmm. But you like reading, don't you?"

[damselled]

Maribelle nodded at Yosuke, smiling. "I do. It's a shame I've not had a chance to read as much as I would like while here. I'm sure the literature in this place is fascinating."

[windbreak]

"Ha, if it's anything like the video games, that sounds about right." He waved his free hand hastily before he could lose his train of thought again. "Well, you can think of a movie like a book! Kind of. But a book just does it with words, and a movie does it with video. That's basically it."

[damselled]

"Oh" She knew about video games. "Ellie took me to the - arcade, was it? To play some video games. It was quite entertaining." Even if she hadn't quite managed to figure out how to play the fighting game, she'd still had quite a lot of fun with it.

[windbreak]

"With Ellie, huh?" He cocked his head. "Wonder if she's gotten any better... But yeah, it's easier to pick them up than explain them, isn't it? And it's easier to watch a movie than talk about it. So come on!"

And off he went, squirming reinhare in tow.

[damselled]

And Maribelle followed him, amusedly shaking her head, and it didn't take long for her to take the reinhare back from him. Within minutes, it was snuggling happily against her, looking quite pleased with itself and giving Yosuke a rather smug look every now and again, as if to say that this was the proper way to hold it, not that.

Or maybe it just liked annoying Yosuke.