lonelysmiles: (Staggering Through the Ruins)
lonelysmiles ([personal profile] lonelysmiles) wrote in [community profile] dreamcrystals2024-05-10 03:00 pm
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Passive Dream Recording: This Place Reeks of Death

Sender: Alastor
To: Everyone
Which: Passive dream recording
Warnings: Implied character deaths


Alastor clutches at his bleeding chest with one hand, his broken microphone cane in the other. All around him is The Wasteland as far as the eye can see.

"It's just farther than I remember. I was distracted by the chase. If I just keep going this way, I'll hit it sooner or later." A pause. "Hopefully later."

The ground beneath his feet is freshly-blackened. It crunches ominously beneath his feet. He should have seen some evidence of the quaint not-so-little town by now or at least the forest surrounding it, and he knows it.

Clank! His foot steps on something metal instead of earthen.

Alastor freezes before looking down, using the toe of his shoe to sweep some of the dirt away from the metal protruding from the ground.

He drops to his knees and begins digging out the metal, the twisted, melted remains vaguely resembling the radio antenna that Alastor had insisted be designed to match the town's aesthetics rather than be the ugly scaffolding of his world.

This is all that's left of the radio station that had been on the edge of Reverein, but all around him for miles and miles is more nightmare energy-riddled Wasteland.

The noctaere circle closer as the Radio Demon screams.
holdshisown: (Surprised)

Sender: Maedhros

[personal profile] holdshisown 2024-05-12 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you alright, friend? That seemed an awfully dreadful dream to have.
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[personal profile] holdshisown 2024-05-17 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
A fact I know all too well myself. Which is why I myself don't tend to sleep all that much. [No one really needs to see the worst things his guilty mind can conjure.] Still... it is not always the ones with the most overt horrors in them that are the most difficult for the one dreaming it. So... are you truly alright, friend?
holdshisown: (Annoyed)

[personal profile] holdshisown 2024-05-24 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[It truly is such a marvelous and well-adjusted club, isn't it?]

It is rather... annoying to have ones dreams put on display like that. Not to mention some of us have dreams that aren't exactly... normal, let's say. I don't exactly want to subject others to my trauma. No one needs that in their lives.

[Yeah, he sees right through it but he also knows that pushing the issue is not always the way to go with these things.]
holdshisown: (Default)

[personal profile] holdshisown 2024-05-24 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yep! No mentaly or emotionally unstable people here.]

Might be so. Or perhaps they anticipated us to have more pleasant dreams than we do?
holdshisown: (Annoyed)

[personal profile] holdshisown 2024-05-24 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[None at all. Why would anyone ever think otherwise?]

You do have a point with that. There seems to be a lot of people arriving here from less than ideal circumstances...

[Maedhros himself has met two of them, which in his humble opinion is two too many. Children should not be fighting wars, they should be protected from them.]
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[personal profile] holdshisown 2024-05-26 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Who knows, indeed? Clearly not because there's any signs of it to see here!]

Yes... it certainly does seem like it might be. It does make one wonder about what it is about us that draws us here, yes? That is, of course, assuming it is not just random chance.
mwehehe: (honki de aisanaide)

Sender: Futaba Sakura

[personal profile] mwehehe 2024-05-22 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah... he was the singing guy during her excursion. She remembers. She knows about the radio tower too, but she knows outside the dream it's still there.]

Losing the radio tower would hurt a lot, huh? Though if you want a confirmation it's still there... I can go outside and look right at it for you.
mwehehe: (tada no geemu)

[personal profile] mwehehe 2024-05-25 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
I think I'd be pretty sad if it were gone, it's fun to listen to.

[...though now that she thinks on it...]

But wait, it's not in the wasteland, it's here in town. [...............................if she could have a loading circle on her head, it's here.] Wait, why was Reverein missing?

[That's nightmares for you!]
mwehehe: (shunkan ni)

[personal profile] mwehehe 2024-05-29 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
...oh. I get it. Not so much the tower, but us. Reverein. We're that important, huh?

[She gets it; she feels the same about this place. If it vanished... well. It would be more than unpleasant!]