logsinthenight | EVENT LOG: ENTER MR. SANDMAN (DREAMERS)

characters: all characters that signed up as a dreamer for the event.
location: dreamland feat. beacon of the past.
date/time: november 16-29.
content: the dreamers investigate beacon as it once was.
warnings: psychological/existential horror. further cws will arise depending on the location; mods will cw tags appropriately, and you will too!

say your prayers, little one.

Hello, dreamers. Welcome to Beacon.

Below, each group has a toplevel ready and waiting for the investigation to begin. Feel free to tag in however to establish a tag order, and mod responses will begin once each character has tagged in. If you need a refresher on how the event will work, give the OOC info another read!

As for those of you in the ~~sin bin~~ opt out area...

The Beacon of the past isn't all too different from the Beacon of the present, frankly, except for a few notable exceptions. For one, it's far better lit: daylight leaves everything feels a lot brighter and more sensible than eternal night does. Several advertisements for community theater in the Invincible are hung up (Tryouts for the Ice Man Cometh! Cometh try your luck!) and minor lost and found posters are tacked to a community bulletin board nearby. Oh, and a merry little tune is playing on loop from a record player set up outside the Invincible.

It's cheerful, if not a little off-putting. But the signs of life are clear, even if the forest still looks darkly oppressive over yonder.

Additionally, since investigation threads 1) rely on mod responses, and 2) will likely move on the slow side given the nature of the event/size of the groups, if you would like to have your characters "mingle" in their assigned location, please feel free to write your own toplevels! We ask that you post them as separate toplevels not in response to the mod toplevels (so our inboxes don't get super flooded/we don't accidentally miss stuff). Remember that groups may only interact with each other during the event, but you're welcome to assume timey-wimey shenanigans to excuse why your characters are mingling instead of searching for clues—they do have two weeks in this dream, technically, and dreams are not always linear. If your investigation thread has not yet progressed to a point in which you've got enough of a handle on the setting to write a separate mingle starter, ask the mod you're working with! We'll fill you in on some OOC details so you can mingle accordingly while still allowing for characters to discover those details ICly in the investigation thread.

If you're still jonesing for more threading action during the event, we encourage you to check out the TDM!

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[Stone drops down to join them, finally, and peers over the edge, down below. Ugh, all those stairs... maybe he'll just climb down in his current form, if he can squeeze through. That'll be faster.

He jerks his head and points down, suggesting agreement. Might as well keep going, since they were dragged this way anyway.

And if he can get his winged form down the central stairwell shaft, he's going to give it a try. Otherwise he'll wind up giving himself a heart attack, or something, climbing them all. Feel free to hitch a ride, boys, at least until and unless he gets stuck.]

[ eliot nods, disposing of the water. ] Yeah. Might as well. It is a dream, so. At best we learn something new. At worst we just. Wake up?

[ he looks toward the staircase. ]

Whatever this facility is, there's got to be something here that tells us. Well. Something. We haven't seen this anywhere in Beacon, or at least I haven't, so there must be something here worth understanding. Unless the spirits are sending us on some kind of wild goose chase.

[With Matt and Eliot riding on Stone once more, they're able to make a descent down layers and layers of empty, under-construction metal floors. There's suddenly a sound of cracking, popping, metallic groaning, and they may think it's going to collapse under the weight of the surrounding water. Or maybe the monster from before is making an assault.

The truth of the dream is much more frightening. Metal railings warp and the bottom beneath them begins to open, until it appears that they're in a giant vortex of artificial teeth. The mouth of the cavernous beast is hot and acrid, black and bottomless. No matter how fast Stone flies away from it, it pulls them down, down, down, and it seems there's no escape.

No way out.

The jaws close around them, and then they wake up.]

EVENT LOG: ENTER MR. SANDMAN (DREAMERS)

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