[open to all] Room full of people in your head

[applesaucemod]

The rift has gotten bored, and has decided it's time to bring people together for another dream party.

This time, when you find yourself within the dream, you'll be somewhere familiar. Perhaps somewhere you feel safe or at home, some place you miss, or were particularly happy at some point in your life. It might not be the same place every time you come back here, though.

There will also be a door where there didn't use to be one, even if there's no wall to surround it. If you go through this door, you will find yourself in endless simple corridor, lined with unmarked doors. And if you go through them, you'll pay a visit to someone else's room.


[There will monthly Dreaming party post like this. Same procedure as last time. Non-members welcome to tag in!]

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[brink]

The place Topher ends up in may have been somewhere he was particularly happy, but it's also somewhere he's been extremely hurt and frightened. So it's really more about familiarity, a place he misses.

He's in his fancy office overlooking the Dollhouse, sitting in front of the computer and working on something exciting, though he's not sure what. There's no people around, and the lights are just slightly dimmed outside his office. It must be night. Topher's sleep schedule isn't generally adjusted to the clock.

[wildmage_daine]

Daine's beginning to lose count of how many doors she's tried, so she can't even muster much disappointment at showing up in Definitely Not Tortall yet again. She does manage a put-upon sigh, though. Kitten stares around the room with more avid interest, her eye caught by the various brightly-colored toys lining the walls or sitting on shelves. There's not much investigating she can do from her perch on Daine's hip, but she does reach out to swipe an action figure off of a nearby shelf and examine it closely, crooning to herself.

"Kit, leave be." Daine tuts disapprovingly and tries to pull the toy away, distracted enough by the task that she doesn't really notice who's in the chair by the computer. "Sorry," she says for whoever-they-are's benefit, "we'll be out of your hair in a minute."

[brink]

Topher's not surprised by Daine's arrival - he knew immediately that this was a shared dream, but he's not really in a rush to leave and explore. This place is strangely comforting. Of course, he made sure there's nothing coherent up on the screens, and that the doors to the imprint room are closed. He's blocking any information regarding neurology from appearing in the dream. Nobody needs to know that.

He swivels his chair around and smiles when he sees Daine with her pet dragon, having appearently come through the door that would in real life have led to the server room aka Topher's bedroom. "No worries. Mi casa es su casa," he answers pleasantly.

[wildmage_daine]

The realization that this is Topher's room gives her pause, despite the welcome. Does he know about the breakout? Did he figure out it was her? No one from Romac has come after her, yet, but that doesn't mean they won't.

She's also still a bit peeved with him for pretending to be a god, but she's not sure it would be wise to start scolding him over it. Might be better to make sure he stays kindly disposed toward her, if a word from him would have Romac agents beating down her door.

Well, then. She can't ask him the questions she wants to ask him, and she can't give him the scolding she wants to give him, so she turns her focus to freeing his toy from Kitten's grasp. Once that's accomplished (and Kitten lets out a petulant squawk), Daine does a bit of a double-take, frowning down at the little figure.

"... Is this meant to be the Doctor?" Because she's not sure how to feel about Topher having a toy Doctor in his room.