EVENT LOG: ENTER MR. SANDMAN (DREAMERS)

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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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[therewillbeorder]

[He furrowed his brow at the chat window. His sister? It must be referring to someone Buffy or Wanda knew. But he didn't have time to think about that before the radar screen caught his attention. Something was approaching and he doubted that it boded well for him.

But there was no way to figure out what it was before the screen flashed once more and he narrowed his eyes at the pop-up window. Crait....somehow the keeper or the lighthouse network knew where he had been last. He remembered something about a shuttle leaving Crait then a bright flash of light. He shook his head- now was not the time to dwell on that. There were screens flicking on and he saw Wanda on the first floor, wondering why he hadn't seen her before. But it was the window with Buffy that caught his attention fully.

He let out a gasp but there was nothing near him even though he saw something grotesque slam Buffy against the computer console. But when he looked beside him, she wasn't there. There was so much going on, he looked up when a figure darted past him and then suddenly it went black.

It felt like he was in a void. Time had no place here and he had no idea where he was, how long he was there for. It felt as if eternity had passed before he suddenly woke up with a gasp, heart beating hard with a phrase echoing in his head. You must live with what you have done.

He must live with what he's done. He always knew that- he had made peace with that when he had given the order to fire on the Hosnian System or when he helped murder his father. He knew that these things would stay with him his entire life and perhaps one day he would be held accountable but right now, he didn't regret anything. He had acted out of necessity.

There was something nagging at him though as he got to his feet, feeling shakier than he cared to admit.]