So Make A Wish On Heaven

[these_balls]

Who: Participants of the Dream Plot!
Where: In your dreams!
When: Anytime your character is asleep on April 17th!
Summary: As promised, this is a catch-all log where people can post a character's dream as a top-level comment and allow other holders of our Mysterious Feathers™ to come visit them! Remember that the content of your dream is entirely up to your discretion, but we ask that you only have one, and to please also warn for content as needed!
Rating: PG, and please warn for threads that may go higher!
Log:

[Under the light of the full moon, the Mysterious Feathers™ begin to glow.

In the hours that follow after they sprawl out to sleep, those who had the good fortune (or at least the insatiable curiosity) to pick up one of those feathers earlier in the week will come to discover that something very strange is happening across the regions of Johto and Kanto. There's a saying about what happens when you let your mind wander; this time, though, it's a little more than just one's mind that's going wandering, as dream after dream stretches out before you like a horizon just begging to be chased.

Don't worry about getting lost, dreamers; as real and vivid as they may seem, your surroundings are really only visions and illusions, and in the end the failsafe way to escape from them is to simply wake up. If and when you do, you might feel perfectly well-rested or as on-edge as if you'd just jolted awake from a nightmare; like the dreams themselves, there's really no telling how the experience will play out for you, being different and unique to everyone.

But for now, you've got the whole night ahead of you, filled with places to go and people to see. Might as well make the most of it while it lasts...]

Comments

[ladywithnovoice]

It's a good thing he speaks up when he does, because she's halfway through turning away. At the question, she pauses. Is she? Maybe...

"I hadn't noticed," she admits, curling a hand by her chin for a moment before he eyes fall onto the paperwork again. "Maybe it's because of this."

Reaching down, she waves a file slightly. "I feel like we're getting close to that bomber that's been around... Maybe we'll finally get him, you know? That sort of feeling."

[crouching_sin]

"Maybe the only reason you can't see that the system is broken is because you're inside the system, officer." He puts his feet up on the desk and crosses his arms behind his head.

"But I'll admit, there are some things that don't need fixing. There are some systems, though, whose expiration dates are long past due. When the world's falling down around you, why not take a chance and remake it how you know will work better? I've seen your ambitious little broadcasts. You're not the sort of person to sit around and wait, you're the sort who takes the opportunities he can. So how can you fault me for doing the same thing?"

[walkersystem]

"We need to hide!" she hisses in a strangled whisper, but the thing is, the Boogeyman doesn't stay there just because somebody told him to. He appears in front of them after only a moment, and Molly shrieks and backs up, pulling Kirikou with her again.

[walkersystem]

No no no, it wasn't fine, and even though the way Veronica hurt him was enough to drop him and make him bleed, Molly didn't seem reassured in the least. In part because of the violence, but in part because she'd seen him survive this kind of thing before.

Taking a step back, she kept staring at them both - Veronica with a bloodstained sword, and the Boogeyman crumpled on the floor, looking like he'd been beaten. Molly knew he wasn't.

"We have to hide", she said, worried, quietly, urgent.

[fourwayconnection]

"I've heard some pretty heavy stuff." Kirikou shrugs. "You don't have to worry about me not reacting badly. I'm game for whatever you want to tell me."

He starts to head towards the exit of the place, pausing to look over his shoulder to make sure that Lust really is alright.

[walkersystem]

She gladly climbs up his back and wraps her arms around his neck, burrowing into his shoulder for a moment before she looks back at the two pokémon that have the Boogeyman pinned. She's expecting him to stand up and fling them away with his mind, but he's bleeding on the floor. Even if they didn't injure him. He's bleeding.

Then again, that hasn't mattered in the past.

She hugs Tobias from behind like that, and even though he might not be that strong Molly is pretty light and little for her age, so that might still work out.

She's worried, though. "What about your pokémon?"

[walkersystem]

Sitting up a bit straighter when Cerbee perks up to let him go get that ball whenever he wants, even if she keeps a hand on him for now, Molly lets out a little laugh.

"You told me. It's still kinda scary though."

Which she means, cause getting to his house wasn't all that fun. She thought she was going to find something else completely.

[walkersystem]

She squeezes his hand back and steps closer to him, looking around them even more. "Sometimes they turn into the Boogeyman", she says in a half whisper, like if she tells him this their plan might change, like they'll do something else to throw them off just because she knows.

But that doesn't make a lot of difference. Because no matter what they do, they're still scary. And terrible.

And as the cockroaches crowd into the room, in front of them, and eventually start to leave the walls bare as they clim into each other, it's clear that they'll follow the normal pattern. They slowly shape themselves into a person. There are so many cockroaches, so many ...

Squeezing Kaneki's hand again, Molly takes a step back, feeling so anxious she's not sure what to do. She should run. They should run. But she can't quite will herself to move that much just yet.

[pipers_son]

Thank god for that, because Joker is still a bit shaky when it comes to modern transportation. Somehow, flying on a giant bird is less weird than that. Don't ask him why.

"Oh, just showed up on the streets, nothin' impressive," he chuckles. "Certainly didn't find anythin' like this waitin' for me. Looks like you got all the luck."

[ladywithnovoice]

She passes him an apologetic smile.

"Sorry about that. I didn't exactly mean to intrude."

:D !!

[imperfectscientist]

"Oh. I was kind of hoping you would know. That's really curious though! Do you recognize this place at all? I've spent a lot of time in various deserts, but I'm fairly certain this is not one of them..."

[pipers_son]

"I think yer just good at this." Another laugh, but this one seemed a bit more genuine. He was visibly starting to relax now that one had been found, after all. "Well then, spot any other ones?"

[fourwayconnection]

"What did I just-" The impressive amount of swearing Kirikou could do is interrupted as Molly jerks him back, and he gives the Boogeyman a positively venomous glare.

"Yo, I don't think running is going to solve anything in this case!"

[wing_attack]

"They'll be okay. I trust them to know when to pull back from a fight." The important thing right now is getting her away, so he starts running. Away from the house, down the street, anywhere but where they are. Rachel sits down on top of the man, pinning him further, and huffs.

Tobias shifts again, becoming a horse and starting to gallop as fast as he can while making sure Molly stays on. <Just tell me where to go, and we'll get there!>

[wing_attack]

<The world's not fair. But we've just got to try to make it more fair, right?>

[fourwayconnection]

"Well how come you can't get out, then?" Standing his ground, Kirikou just offers the question. "Like, what's the deal with the cave and the voices and all that? How come it has to be you?"

/comes in late with Starbucks

[me_first]

Royce watches quietly, before he approaches the door. If Elsa wants to be left alone, maybe he should just leave her. It's difficult not to get distracted by the architecture, but... well. Elsa's been kind to him.

He knocks on the door, trying to figure out how to phrase this. "... Elsa?"

[crouching_sin]

"Because I'm cursed." He crosses his arms over his chest, hugging himself tightly. "And this is... I don't know. A metaphor, I guess. But I can't... I can't break my curse. I've tried for thousands of years, and the last chance I had..."

Betrayal. Rejection! He hates you... he hates you...

[unkinder]

"It's fine," he grunts, closing his eyes for a moment. "I doubt you would have come here willingly."

[awesmazings]

"Hang on, I'll keep looking!" The encouragement is helpful and it spurs Jimmy into having another glance around the room, a bit more thorough of one this time. Just to make sure there isn't something here he might have missed.

[awesmazings]

Jimmy blinks and leans back a little on his heels, a bit surprised by how alarmed Naki sounds. What on earth does he have to be afraid of? Aside from these people acting a little strange, they don't exactly look all that dangerous or anything.

"I dunno!" he replies, rubbing the back of his neck. "I'm back in Goldenrod, so I thought maybe I just woke back up...but I guess I didn't."

[awesmazings]

"Right. And I believe in you...and your friends."

[awesmazings]

"Aw, you think so?" He tosses the ball and catches it back in his hand once before throwing it across the yard, Cerbee barking and jumping from Molly's lap to chase after it. "What makes you say that?"

[stitchedupbodyguard]

"Then we'll hide." It was as simple as that, for Veronica. She would get Molly somewhere safe, away from this... thing.

She lowered her sword arm, stepped towards her crumpled foe to not only look upon him with scorn, but for another specific reason. She stood up straight, taking in a deep breath, before she let it out. The breath turned into a gout of flame that bathed the crumpled form.

With that settled, she turned back to Molly, offering to help her up. "Follow me, okay?"

[samsa]

Kaneki doesn't step back with her, if only because he wants to put as much distance between her and the Boogeyman as he possibly can. "Stay behind me, okay?" he whispers, watching the cockroaches as they start to come together. He's not sure yet what he's going to do since he doesn't trust his kagune to help him right now- nor does he trust himself, even if he could rely on it- but he would rather put himself in harm's way than let Molly get hurt.