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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[ they turn the corners and run down the aisles enough times that elektra loses count of how many. the scene doesn't want to let them leave until they bear witness to all of it, and elektra has received and doled out enough bloodshed that this shouldn't affect her as much as it is. but there's a difference between brutality and savagery; there's a difference between eating to survive and gorging yourself to relish in your prey's suffering. elektra follows elizabeth down, both to help and to not look anymore, steadying her hands on the other woman's shoulders as she retches, focusing on a spot on the floor until the roiling in her own stomach quells.

she helps elizabeth stand once she's finished, glancing up at coraline as she straightens, eyes somehow both wild and focused. the creature disappears, leaving what was once the young woman desecrated on the floor. ]

Let's go. [ if they can. and they seem to be fortunate enough to be able to now that they've seen what the spirits want them to.

unfortunately, they now have another to contend with, just when they think they're getting somewhere.

elizabeth shouts at the creature tearing apart the books, somehow missing the more pertinent sound of something feeding filling the room. ]

Forget the books, go! Run to the exit!

[ Coraline, who had been stunned into silence, simply let herself be dragged. Her mind races as she repeatedly stares in horror at the scene reappearing scene. Is this… did the spirits just appear and eat the townspeople? What the fuck happened to this place? Is this their fate too? She can’t help but feel like she’s missing something. Shouldn’t she be feeling sick right about now?

She nearly screams when they run into the Librarian, surprised at their sudden appearance. Yet, she’s also slightly relieved, because… they know the Librarian right? At least kind o--… Nevermind best to get out of here. ]

We- we can check on the books after!

[ In hindsight, days from now, Elizabeth will feel a bit silly having expressed concern for the books. In the moment however, it seems like the only safe thing to focus on that's not monsters, corpses, or other horrors. Books are familiar and safe to her. This is a blow.

Her boots clatter across the floor toward the exit, which thankfully seems to have lost its furniture barricade somewhere in the chaos of the shifting scenes they've been forced to witness. Even still, her hands are shaking as the grabs the handles to tug the doors open. ]

What if there are more spirits outside now...?

[The good news: there are no more spirits outside! The bad (?) news: this is where the dream ends. The second Elizabeth grabs the doors, they burst open. The women get a split-second moment to see what lies outside: the area outside the library all lit up in the pre-dawn light, with absolutely no one outside, despite all those noises of before.

It barely lasts. Soon enough, their vision goes black and they'll wake up.]

EVENT LOG: ENTER MR. SANDMAN (DREAMERS)

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