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Panem Events ([personal profile] etcircenses) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2015-07-26 11:50 pm

Once Upon A Dream - 4th wall

The Tributes will not be warned for when their injections will occur. For those who are known to be compliant and willing to work with the capitol, they may be taken aside and told they are getting a shot or whatever else may convince them. Others may be injected within their sleep (and have been drugged earlier to keep them that way).

If you are not a tribute, your injection comes on your decision, having cashed in your ticket at Hypnogogia for a good rest and stay.

Everyone is ushered to bed at once and everyone will be quick to discover why.

The first effect is a sort of paralysis - not the terrifying inability to move, but a signal to the brain that says why move? Moving is so much effort. It's quickly followed by drowsiness, and then a chill that radiates from the needle into the body, and finally, unconsciousness.

This shared dreaming carries on whenever you sleep for seven total days, with the Expos running during their waking hours. Those with Vistors will meet them within the dream.

Day 1: It starts as a typical day in the tower. You may very well not realise it to be a dream. The only difference is that there are others here, ones who won't be around when you wake. They've been instructed to wait for you. You can show them the whole of the Capitol in this time, if you wish.

Day 2: On this day, the world is... yours. Some of the world will bleed into the mini worlds of others, so long as you have the wish in mind to visit them. Some details about the worlds may be off but it will initially seem as though you've finally returned home.

Day 3: A paradise. Any paradise. Whatever your characters would personally deem as a paradise. Like with day 2, the dream worlds will bleed into one another.

Day 4: On day four, it starts off somewhere inspired by a District. It's been tailored to suit the Capitol of course but

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The dream world seems to distort. From the setting, to those in it, for five seconds everything is warped and wrong, caught in an echo chamber. Then it goes dark and silent. From the dark, the nightmares crawl out. The nightmares may have things taken from memory, but most of it is a new and horrible scene where making sense isn't mandatory.

Capitolites are quickly awoken and refunded. They are given a (poor-tasting) drink that will offer them totally dreamless sleep. But they don't have to drink it if they do not wish...

[OOC: This is the day that D13 players will finally be able to participate and on every day following. You are allowed to post for this early.]

Day 5: The Capitol tries again to take back control of the dream, starting out with a fun and cute arena with super-soakers, glitter bombs, and weapons made from foam. It's happy and colorful. But it doesn't last long.

Soon enough, the dream warps again into a nightmare. The arena loses its harmlessness, becoming one that's very much a threat. This may be an arena from memory or something totally new.

Day 6: The Capitol hasn't given up fighting District thirteen's interference but they've taken to a new tactic. In attempt to drive them out, or at least pin some of the blame on thirteen, the sixth round of sleep is set in a bad memory. It can be any memory at all; something in the arena, something offworld, even things around the capitol or area around so long as it could've been caught on camera. Essentially, unless it's a blind spot, it's fair game.

Individuals who are free of or manage to fight through this torment are free to help the dreaming characters as they will-- or make things worse.

Day 7: War. Terrible war. This is what will be heard on the final day. It will echo out over the dream world. And that dream world will reflect the very terrible war spoken of. Is that your friend over there, looking shell-shocked? Is that your family laying there motionless? Who is that in the fray crying out? Could it be the one you love most?

This dream will leave very few survivors and will not last long. Those that do, will hear this: "Know the cost of selfish acts. Consider what you stand for."

[OOC: With this you may consider the fourth wall live! All tributes and any guests, Capitolites, and D13ers who are signed up may tag in here. Alternately, you may make your own logs! If you are tagging in here, you MUST warn with headers for any relevant topics that may upset players.]
biiowiired: wow ii feel embarra22ed (down)

[personal profile] biiowiired 2016-01-03 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
Psii was mercurial on a good night, so he quickly picked up on the swing towards gentleness. His wet hair matted and stuck up in weird places as Signless touched it. He stopped fidgeting with the curl and properly cupped Signless's cheek, the scruff there gently tickling his palm. He ran the pad of his thumb along his cheekbone. Bringing up the loss of multiple moirails never failed to stab Psii's heart with pity. He weathered it by concentrating on meeting Signless's red, red eyes.

"Doethn't mean I'm not thcared. You're right, and I wouldn't trade the family we made for anything, even if it'th more painful to lothe thomeone after. It'd be a shitty way to repay all you've done for me. I wouldn't be the thame perthon without you.... I thay all that now, but I'll never forget being told how the Helmsman pushed you away. I don't want you to go through that again becauthe of me."

It was subdued, but it was still self-depreciation. However, it was also a way of saying he never wanted to leave Signless.
69problems: debonairbear (xtra | While your family dies)

[personal profile] 69problems 2016-01-08 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Do you think you'll ever push me away? I don't think you will. I piss you off, but I wouldn't piss you off if you didn't care."

He leaned up and bumped their noses together, a gesture clearly tinged pale and more than a little at odds with his words. That felt right, somehow. Nothing clear-cut, but intimate either way.

"And if I lose you... we've talked about this. I won't forget you. I'll carry you with me like the others. I'll be fine."
biiowiired: thii2 ii2 niice (smile head lean)

i think this is about done!

[personal profile] biiowiired 2016-01-15 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Psii stared at him for a couple of silent moments, long enough for leftover water in his hair to drip onto the deck. Psii wasn't worried about getting too pissed-off at Signless to leave him high and dry. He was more concerned that something would cause him to not care one way or the other about his best friend, in particular a certain punishment the Capitol reserved for traitors. It wouldn't be the first time the Capitol avoxed a moirail belonging to Signless. Neglect and indifference were more cruel than the human idea of hate. Even humans, who routinely avoided displays of hate, had to care about someone to hate them.

Psii shook his head, rubbing Signless's nose with his own.

"You're shithive maggotth inthane."

He pulled him in as crushing a hug as a tall, dysfunctional stick could manage.