potentite: (or just waiting to die)
pretty rugged fucking dork ([personal profile] potentite) wrote in [community profile] spellbinders2017-10-17 09:37 pm

Hijinks Mingle

Who: Everyone!
Where: Anywhere around the hub!
When: Days 103-105
Open/Closed: Open mingle!
Notes: See this post for details on the moon prompt and this one for the telepathy/dream/spirit prompts!



[A | Flower Gleam and Glow]
[The nearby moon is still passing close to the hub island, meaning the effects are still in play. Perhaps now is the time to stop and smell the large lit up sparkling moonflowers that have bloomed? Or be annoyed by the mosquito-like insects that came with them.

Alternatively, the deer seem to draw some sort of energy from the moon's light. Given their size, at least their sudden aggression and proximity to the base camp isn't the worst thing in the world but a kick would still break a rib or other bone so be careful! Possibly help each other deal with these cute but troublesome fauna.]



[B | Eavesdropping]
[For some reason, the telepathy will suddenly get rather wonky. Characters won't know why it's happening, though of course no doubt there will be ponderings, but it means characters won't be in control of their ability to broadcast — or more specifically, not broadcast — their thoughts. Time to find out secrets of an embarrassing nature. Or maybe something sadder is going on in your character's head.

If this wasn't bad enough, the area around the signet might experience burning or tingling. Just try to keep a lid on your brain for the day and distract yourself from any annoying pain.]



[C | Talking In Your Sleep]
[Or maybe your character just doesn't have the most interesting thoughts. Maybe they're busy thinking about pie instead of their upsetting childhood. That's fair. Pie is great.

But surely sometimes it haunts their dreams. With the telepathy running amuck, it's no wonder dreams and nightmares are leaking through, too. Of course, it doesn't have to be an accident. Feel free to grab a friend and share a fanciful dreamscape together on purpose! But for those nuts that are tougher to crack, accidents can and will happen.]



[D | Who You Gonna Call]
[Last but not least, as Friday rolls around, there seems to be something odd going on with the island. If your character is inclined towards the spiritual or supernatural, they'll no doubt notice the strange heavy thickness hanging around. There are whispers in the air and all of new energy just feels solemn. Might be good to give people a heads up and keep an eye on it.]
oneandmikleonly: (heard from a friend of a friend.)

[personal profile] oneandmikleonly 2017-10-19 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
[he...takes them off again after reading...to try and wipe them clean with his glitchy-ass sleeve...and then puts them back on

that probably doesn't help.]
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (he has... the managers attention)

[personal profile] splinten 2017-10-19 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
The message is still annoyingly glitchy. If you look around, you will realize that the world around you is PRETTY GLITCHY TOO.

There's a SUDDEN MOVEMENT BEHIND YOU. What's that?

>
oneandmikleonly: (NOPE)

[personal profile] oneandmikleonly 2017-10-19 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[whirls to face it, shedding pixels, shades still in hand for some reason]
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (i love geromy)

[personal profile] splinten 2017-10-19 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Sup.

[It's Dirk! He is in his Godtier. He looks kind of badly pixelated.]

Sorry about that.
oneandmikleonly: (and man so small.)

[personal profile] oneandmikleonly 2017-10-19 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh...

[offers him the shades, not sure what else to do here]

Are you okay?
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (because i didnt care)

[personal profile] splinten 2017-10-20 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, this is just a kind of fucked up time in my life.

[Dirk takes the shades and puts them back on.]

I mean that in a really literal sense. It's a period that is physically screwed. The fabric of space-time itself was boned super hard. It's giving its partner a serious lecture on bedroom safety and respecting one another's boundaries. It did not agree to that kind of Christian Grey bullshit and they are going to have a conversation about it or this relationship is over. Space-time isn't going to stand for this. Space-time has goddamned self-respect.

[a beat]

Yeah. That's all the glitching.
oneandmikleonly: (on echo beach.)

[personal profile] oneandmikleonly 2017-10-20 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
...

I feel obligated to point out that this is a lot more coherent conversation, if not environment, than I usually get out of my dreams. I don't even know those references when I'm awake.

[clasps his own arms with uncomfortable lucidity--Dirk is in this case contagious. the glitch sparks off little fragmentary flashes of other around him, scales, the blue-white curve of some kind of weapon, the shine of something gold and green around one tense hand]

Maybe we should get out of here.
Edited 2017-10-20 01:40 (UTC)
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (yo shopping confuses the shit)

[personal profile] splinten 2017-10-20 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Hm. He notices those.]

I've been assuming this to be an extension of our telepathy issue. If we move up, we might be able to kick my brain's gear into ocean ventures.

[Or maybe even find Mikleo's places? Either way, hopefully it will get them out.]
oneandmikleonly: (tonight the hills are watching.)

[personal profile] oneandmikleonly 2017-10-21 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Sure. Not that this isn't interesting, but looking into someone's head involuntarily is just weird?

[moves up not unlike he's swimming, which may help with the transition, if they can in fact trigger one]
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (IT KEEPS HAPPENING)

[personal profile] splinten 2017-10-22 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[The space air seems to be getting more mass, so maybe?]

It takes the idea of invasive to a new and mildly psychedelic level. Let me know if you want in on more ruins.
oneandmikleonly: (to us from the dock.)

[personal profile] oneandmikleonly 2017-10-23 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
I would love ruins, but I also, um, don't want to see stuff you don't want me to see...?
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (ok dude no)

[personal profile] splinten 2017-10-23 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'm willing to wake up if you can figure out a way to do it. Our best chance otherwise is to try to control the parameters of the dream by actively seeking out the least concerning parts of it.
oneandmikleonly: (footprints make you follow.)

[personal profile] oneandmikleonly 2017-10-23 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
...I don't think I know quite enough about dreaming to will waking up...

[he's in the habit but this situation is sort of, new,]

Right, then. I guess I went straight for the weirdest-looking parts, so maybe if we just head back it'll become innocuous again.
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (it was that point when i got distracted)

[personal profile] splinten 2017-10-24 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Association could have a warping effect. It can be hard to work out the exact rules of a dream area until we've really dived into it, but the significance of thought tends to be common.
oneandmikleonly: (dock of the bay.)

[personal profile] oneandmikleonly 2017-10-24 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's try for the ruins, then. Going by association, if this starts warping into my dream we'll probably wind up somewhere like my home, and if not, then...we'll find an underwater city?

[god he hopes dreams bend to logic logic]
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (i mean not some gay kinky roleplaying)

[personal profile] splinten 2017-10-26 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Please let it be so. Dirk nods in affirmation and starts swimming that way. SET THEM FREE]
oneandmikleonly: (tonight the hills are watching.)

[personal profile] oneandmikleonly 2017-10-26 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[they shed pixels and candy stardust or whatever the heck Caliborn poured in, it's been years since I read through that part of Homestuck. anyway they shed glitter as they travel back out of the weird space section of Dirk's dream and...

...towards a giant, hovering version of the tumbled statue on the seabed, since that was like, the only thing he looked at closely

#nailedit]
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr ("got to church!")

[personal profile] splinten 2017-10-27 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
[There was definitely candycorn, goddammit.]

Sam Houston. Awesome.

[GLANCES AT MEEBO]

You grew it.
oneandmikleonly: (SOREY NO SOREY STOP)

[personal profile] oneandmikleonly 2017-10-27 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
I. I actually did not mean to. What are we supposed to do with this?
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (it doens't even HAPPEN.)

[personal profile] splinten 2017-10-28 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
Shrink it with the red ray.
oneandmikleonly: (ten people tell me.)

[personal profile] oneandmikleonly 2017-10-28 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[looks around a little helplessly, actually kind of hoping for a laser to appear out of nowhere]