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The Big Applesauce Moderators ([personal profile] applesaucemod) wrote in [community profile] applesaucedream2014-12-27 01:21 am

Better to Receive than to Give [open to all]

Somewhere in the cosmos, there is something bright, and young, and playful. Somewhere, this being watches over their little flock and does their best to make those people safe and happy. Somewhere, that godling and their flock celebrate the winter holidays in the happiest of dreams.

And somewhere closer at hand, a sleeping giant stirs.

The bright tapestry of dream threads gathered by Zephyr is suddenly yanked hard enough to pull it from its temporary mooring. Something entirely unlike the little godling reels in the dreamers so neatly gathered and packaged up for it, bringing its own toys back to their proper place and taking all the others it can with them. Unsatisfied, it reaches out again and again, dragging in dreamers from all across the multiverse. It will snare them, all of them, and then it will possess them completely.

Perhaps it's fitting that when the stolen dreamers arrive in this new shared mindscape, they'll find they've been designated the Rift's Christmas gifts to itself. Each might awaken inside a dark box, or cocooned in…is that tissue paper? When they claw their way out they'll be greeted by the sight of an enormous evergreen tree laden with twinkling lights and kitschy knickknacks looming overhead. Beyond the shadow of the tree the rest of the world -- that is, the living room -- is just as large. Or is it that the dreamers have just become very small? Giant packages wrapped in bright paper form an obstacle course, but the wooden floor of the room is wide open between the tree and the hearth where an enormous plate of cookies and glass of milk await a cataclysmic Santa Claus.

All in all, things are fairly normal as far as the rift's dream gatherings go…at least on the surface. The more telepathically sensitive among the dreamers may notice an undercurrent of something darker, more urgent, and more possessive than normal. The rift isn't just sampling the wares of other worlds tonight; this time it means to play for keeps.


[OOC: This is the second part of our crossover with [community profile] wethelost! Part one can be found here. Usual dream party rules apply: all players and characters are welcome regardless of whether they are currently in the game, and characters may remember or forget the events of the dream party at the discretion of their players.

For reference, characters of average human height are roughly four inches tall according to the scale of their current surroundings. There is an entire giant house beyond the living room; characters will find a kitchen and dining room on the same floor, a staircase outside the door of the living room that leads up to a second floor with two bedrooms and a bathroom, and another staircase off the kitchen that goes to an unfinished basement. Feel free to add details as needed!

This event takes place on evening of August 8th/morning of August 9th in Applesauce time, and December 31 in WtL time.]
wolfishsurvivalist: (Freaking out? Who me?)

[personal profile] wolfishsurvivalist 2015-01-02 09:36 am (UTC)(link)
"And how is 'breaking their nice things' count as a smart plan?" She laughed, her ears flicking back before they twitched forward again. "What is that, the most basic plan on earth? Wake up kidnapped, wreck the captor's things when we're, what...?" Mika squinted, eying the size relative to the tree and the ornaments nearest them.

"Anywhere between five and ten inches tall. And your genius strategy is to break stuff." Brows furrowed, she peered at him out of the corners of her eyes as her lips thinned, wobbling as if she was trying very hard not to smile and losing that battle. "What makes you think they won't just find that funny?"
bigbadsheriff: (Leery/side eye/vaguely amused)

[personal profile] bigbadsheriff 2015-01-02 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Consider this-" He moves to slide his pack of Huff N Puff's from his pocket to have another cigarette. His second of the night. "Whatever force took us, took the time and effort to wrap everyone present. They're possessive, they want to ensure we know we belong here now." Bigby lights the cigarette, taking a slow drag as he watches Mika's expression waver. It is amusing in its own way that his plan seems to be 'break things', he can admit that much to himself, that in itself is why his lips quirk slightly as he explains his thoughts.

"The size is just another reminder of that. They took care to put all of this together, time, effort." He shakes ash off onto the floor. "I'd be inclined to think it'd piss them off enough to appear. That'd give us more than just wandering around."
Edited 2015-01-02 11:01 (UTC)
wolfishsurvivalist: (STFU & go DIAF B|)

[personal profile] wolfishsurvivalist 2015-01-12 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"And they can bite my bony white ass if they think I belong here." She snorted, lips curling and ears flat as a growl tinged her voice. "I belong in the Meadous with Zephyr. If they think they can keep me here they have another thing coming." With that she lapsed into silence, still growling softly with every exhale as she glared at nothing in particular.

"As ridiculous as it sounds you might actually be on to something though. The downside is I'm in no real condition to help with that." Making an unhappy face, she gestured to her appearance, all skin and bones and ragged clothes, leaning heavily on her cane. "What you see is what you get, I'm not really up for massive-scale destruction. I might be able to convince one or two people to help you though."