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The Big Applesauce Moderators ([personal profile] applesaucemod) wrote in [community profile] applesaucedream2013-10-05 05:39 pm

A Day Late and a Dollar Short



As far as dreams go, this seems surprisingly...normal. True, the dreamers of Manhattan and beyond will find themselves stranded in the middle of the ocean on a fairly deserted rocky island, but it's nothing so unusual as the labyrinth from last time, and no one appears to have become an animal or reverted to an insane past (or future) version of themself. Besides, well, rocks and grass, there's nothing here but an abandoned lighthouse, the doors and windows broken, and the spare furniture worn by the weather. You can go up the spiral staircase to look at the view, but there's nothing to see but the endless ocean. One might almost think tonight was a night for simple socializing via the telepathic current.

As if anything to do with the rift is ever that simple, you silly bumpkin. How quickly each person realizes what is unusual about tonight's dream will depend in large part on their personality. Some might go the entire night without noticing (except from the distress of others, naturally), but some will find out the instant they open their mouths to converse with another dreamer. You see, each and every dreamer will be completely unable to tell a lie for as long as the dream lasts. The truth might be evaded by omission, but any attempt to say that which is untrue will result in the corresponding truth emerging instead.

Good thing it's just a dream and everyone's going to forget in the morning, right? Right??


[Mod note: As usual, players can choose to have their characters remember or forget anything that happens in the Dreaming. As per usual party rules, both members and non-members are welcome to play any character in this post, regardless of whether that character is currently in the game. Unlike usual, tonight's theme is not optional; all characters will be subject to the enforced truth-telling. Have fun!]
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[personal profile] erratic_hematic 2013-10-06 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
"A ship." Okay. A bit odd, but whatever. "For the record, I don't drink human blood anymore." ...would have really loved to leave off that last word. "If you were worried."
Edited 2013-10-06 10:04 (UTC)
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[personal profile] alwaysalright 2013-10-06 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"I was," he admits, not entirely intentionally. Though that's better than nothing, even if he doesn't necessarily know when Spike stopped. He also doesn't know what kind of vampire Spike is.

But hey, maybe he can use the situation. "Do you know of the Time Lords?" he asks. It's highly unlikely Spike's a vampire from his universe if he doesn't.
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[personal profile] erratic_hematic 2013-10-06 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Time Lords?" Spike strikes a thoughtful expression, then shakes his head. "Nah. They a type of demon, then? Like...time manipulating or something?" He's trying to connect the dots here, but he doubt that a time demon would have anything to do with a dream that makes you tell the truth.

Which reminds him. "Knew a bloke that was cursed to tell the truth. Did not like questions." To put it mildly. "I think that's more likely that your...time lords or whatever."
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[personal profile] alwaysalright 2013-10-07 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Alright, unlikely to be his kind of vampires, then. Good. He doesn't particularly want deal with any of them again. If Spike really isn't eating people, then the Doctor doesn't need to, well, stop him.

"Never mind," he answers, shaking his head. "They're not exactly demons." He didn't intend to include 'exactly' but, he can't really deny it. "I think it's more likely to just be the rift again. Don't know of anyone who's powerful enough to impose rules like this on an entire dreaming community, who'd actually want to do so."
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[personal profile] erratic_hematic 2013-10-11 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
"And the rift does want to?" Spike definitely doesn't like the idea of sentient dimensional portals. "Or is this more a random side effect sort of thing?"
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[personal profile] alwaysalright 2013-10-13 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Could be either," the Doctor answers with a shrug. "The rift has shown some.. peculiar tendencies that could be taken for a vindictive sense of humour. Our could be mostly chance. It hasn't talked to me." He was gonna say he hasn't sat down to talk to the rift, but yeah, that is actually untrue. It just didn't answer.