soulcomet: (magi ◠ LET'S DO THIS)
鹿目 まどか (Kaname Madoka, aka Cute Batman) ([personal profile] soulcomet) wrote in [community profile] spellbinders 2017-11-13 12:29 am (UTC)

Mitakihara

A bustling city with as many places to be lost among crowds as there are places to hide. At the center, a satellite tower stretches higher than any other building, and should one happen to sit on the platform at the very top, they could reach up and touch the mosaic sky above them. It's the perfect spot to be Batman, basically.

Enormous objects like bicycles, swords and teacups float across the broken pieces of the sky as if they were clouds. Actually, they are clouds — every once in a while, the sky darkens, and rain falls freely from them.

The people are nondescript, just as they likely would be in any dream, but they do speak English. And they have no shortage of information or directions to offer, should whoever's asking think to dream up the answer.

A few places of note:

  • A flower field: In one direction, the skyline of the city lies in the distance, blinking with activity. In the other direction, the flowers stretch on forever, no matter how far one might run through them. Turn around, though, and the way back to the skyline is always in sight.

    The flowers also change color at random, and smell of sweet olives. Right now, they're a simple white.
  • A large walkway, surrounded by cherry blossoms: No matter the season a dreamer is feeling like dreaming up, the cherry blossoms are always in bloom, and petals are constantly falling from every direction. There are fish in the streams, and plenty of tables or places to sit and watch the dream world go by.

    The clouds, for some reason, are much smaller, and closer to the ground. Should someone decide they need the object of whatever form the clouds have taken, it's as simple as reaching up and taking it. Grab yourself a bike horn, give it a honk and make some miracles.

  • A shopping center: Notably, there is music playing from nearly all angles of the building, both inside and out, though it's impossible to tell where it's coming from. Even more notably, there's a music store inside, which happens to be one of Madoka's favorite places to visit. Go find yourself some tunes.


There are a number of curious creatures scattered about the city, like mustachioed cotton balls and butterflies that seem to be moving at a slower framerate than the rest of the world. They're harmless enough. But curious. There are also a lot of cats.

A random corridor

Down a rather large alley in the city is an archway that leads to a blank space — a pure white area from ground to sky that feels awfully disorienting for whoever happens to step it in.

At least, it feels that way until someone unseen starts drawing the hallway for them, leading them forward. They are not good drawings, but they are honest efforts — and whoever is making them is also employing some Sick Shading Skills that she probably learned not too long ago.

The walls of the hallway are also peppered with random drawings of animals and people. They are all wearing angled shades.

And, at the end, whoever's wandered down this corridor will step through another archway into:

Derse

A dream planet that's largely been unchanged, save for this one entrance back into Mitakihara. Because if there is one thing Madoka has learned from this experience, it's that, despite the fact that she finds the story here profoundly sad, this isn't a bad dream. And it isn't necessarily something that warrants changing.

Besides, someone Dirk loves is probably still sleeping here.

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