Action: but you never tire of dreams

[ofthebeast]

Characters: Any willing dreamers
Open? Yes
Where: In your minds
When: After the party
What: Part two of the dream plot!
Warnings:


The party went on, with the beast's head on display. A proud, twisted thing. Behind false ruby eyes, it waited. And as the music became slower and the wine less plentiful, it waited still.

Those who had gazed upon it at the ball. Those who had seen it once living in the forest. All heroes who dared to look upon its face and dream still that they would be able to live another day...

There are all sorts of ways of living. In waking. In sleep. Perhaps, now, they would find one in between.

(ooc: Feel free to keep tagging into the party post! Once your characters go home and go to sleep of their own accord, that is when the dreaming will begin. Remember, it is up to you to set up what kind of world your character is trapped in and how best to help them. Plotting post is here, make use of it!

The beast's power will wane once the bulk of the dreamers have escaped his curse. If your character was not at the party but you still want to involve them in the dream plot, that is fine! They can either help get people out or have seen the beast wandering in the woods before it was killed and have caught its attention that way.

Comments

[shadedsunlight]

Ten years? Alice carefully studies him with a tiny tilt of her head. Ten years is a very long time to be together, it's a very long time in general. A lot can change in that time and she's glad the two have been together for so long. But theta one problem that stands out in her mind, and being Alice, she voices it.

"You don't look ten years older. You would have more wrinkles if you were older. Are you using magic to stay young?" Because magic can do everything and clearly that must be the case.

[consultmybooks]

Giles gives a truly admirable display of offended sputtering at the very suggestion. Alice wouldn't be the one to know, of course - no one does - but "using magic to stay young" is something of a family trait, with him. He has a pair of great aunts that look decades younger than him.

"N-No, I most certainly..."

And then it happens again, like one picture laid over another, the metal room where three injured and scared people are trapped overlays the happy scene, before flickering out again and Giles is sitll sitting there, as though nothing had happened.

"...haven't. I...I-I just, um, age well, I suppose. It's, it's been a far less stressful time than it used to be, after all. That, um, th-that probably had something to do with it."

[shadedsunlight]

"Who are they?" Alice asks, waving a hand to gesture at two people that aren't there with them now, at an environment no longer surrounding them. "What's going on, how did we get here, why am I here?"

Greater distress follows each question as she asks them with all the insistence of someone who is lost and confused and refusing to drop the subject. This can't be the happy, perfect, shiny world Giles wants because things keep changing and she's here. Things can't be perfect if she's here and so is Giles. She knows Helios wouldn't mind and he would be happy to see her and show her around, but Giles would mind.

"Only the best chocolate for my sweet carbuncle."

On the otherside of the fountain sit the spectral forms of Helios and Alice, both bundled up in winter clothes and cuddling against each other. Helios smiles as he feeds Alice a piece of chocolate, the image vanishing as his fingers touch her mouth.

"Why am I here?" Alice asks again, giving no indication she'd seen the vision.