melodiesofeternity | Event || Once Upon A Dream

Event || Once Upon A Dream

Who: All characters who signed-up!
When: May 31st - June 04th
Where: The Dream Width (+ Curti Center & Airships)
What: Event log for the Once Upon A Dream Event! Should your character have their own memory, start your own top-level with said memory. If not, then tag around in other characters's memories! Furthermore, feel free to use the Mingle threads at the Curti Center and in the Airships for non-memory related CR. Please refer to the OOC Post for details and plotting. Plot Memories and the second Airship Mingle will be unlocked on May 25th.
Warnings/Notes: Memories with specific warnings will be marked as such by their players.

Please use the following form for your memory's title line:
CHARACTER'S NAME | MEMORY TITLE | WARNINGS (IF ANY)
We will add links to your memories here as the event progresses!

Mingle: Curti Center | Airships #1 | Airships #2
Plot Memories: The Dream | The Nightmare | The Premonition
Holographic Messages

Adrien Agreste | Then and Now
Aqua | Thorny Pathway | cw: spoiler for kh 0.2
Castor | Lord of the Inferno | cw: fire, mind control
Ena | Zera Hamlet, Reprise | cw: mutilated corpses
Futaba Sakura | Early Days | cw: references to verbal abuse/neglect and auditory hallucinations
Ignis Scientia | For The Life of the Chosen | cw: spoilers, violence, death
Irhya Pendhula | The Parting Glass | cw: violence, amputation
Johnny D'Amico | United Earth Prisoner
Kanji Tatsumi | You're a BOY, you know! | cw: bullying, mild homophobia
Lelouch vi Britannia | Julius Kingsley
Monika | Just Monika | cw: spoilers, possible horror, possible deletion
Nanamo Ul Namo | A Good Memory
Noctis Lucis Caelum | Light of the Crystal | cw: chapter 13 spoilers
Okuyasu Nijimura | Lending a Hand | cw: blood/injuries
Prompto Argentum | I'm not one of your experiments! | cw: episode prompto spoilers
Selphie | The Answer | cw: gore/death
Takashi 'Shiro' Shirogane | The end of the beginning | cw: end of season 2 spoilers
Tidus | A Broken Dream | cw: death, bullying

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[Johnny jumps a bit from the sound of Hunk's voice. While this guy definitely didn't look like a UE soldier, he didn't recognize him as a Transport either. Maybe he was a newer one?

Also he was fairly certain he had been left alone in these cells.]

Where the hell did you come from? [Johnny doesn't waste any time, though. He keeps an eye on Hunk, but he starts to kick at the door and the barricade. It makes the walls shake when he does, and he's not even giving it full force.]

I'll be way better once we get outta here. If the Initiative leaves before we can get to 'em, we're fucked.

You do know how to get out of here, right? [ Hunk sounds a bit snide with his question, halfway trying to egg Johnny into realizing he's in a dream, and halfway baffled as to how someone barricaded into a room would know how to leave.

But then he scrutinizes Johnny's kick, the shake of the walls. That memory wasn't just exaggerated, it was real. Super strength? Pretty cool. But that couldn't do anything if they couldn't leave. So Hunk positions himself in front of the door, backs up, and rams the door with his shoulder. ]

Ow. [ Hunk sounds pretty displeased. It's harder to do this sorta thing without his armor! But the perks of knowing engineering and physics meant that he kind of felt how the barricade reacted. And he points to a particular spot. ] Try hitting right there.

I... don't know. But we'll figure it out once we get out of this cell.

[When he was brought here, he was still under Catsovi's influence, so everything was a little fuzzy. All they would have to do was keep away from UE soldiers, and find anyone from the Initiative.

Johnny looks rough, and with the way he's holding his left arm to him, that's probably broken. Still, he manages to give the barricade a swift kick where Hunk pointed out, nearly roaring as he does so. It's enough to shake the parts loose, and the door snaps open.]

Okay. Awesome. Now, um, I know where we don't go, and that's left. Left heads towards the exams rooms. So I guess that leaves right.

[Johnny sticks his head out, making sure the coast is clear before making a move.]

Edited 2018-05-28 23:31 (UTC)

[ Hunk follows Johnny, keeping his senses primed for whatever weirdness is probably coming their way. With all these sirens and what he already saw, there wasn't much good here. And with that broken arm, they're limited in what they can do. ]

So who are we looking for? [ There's an edge to the question, an apprehension. ] And what do we do to the ones we aren't?

[ But he'd continue to follow. As much as Hunk wanted to start chipping away at Johnny's awareness of the memory, he needed to know what they were up against. Otherwise, he might derail things in a bad way. And he doesn't want that at all. ]

You're gonna have to explain who you are 'n where you came from to me once we get outta here, man.

[Johnny gives Hunk a suspicious look over his shoulder. Hunk didn't seem like UE, but neither had Catsovi. Trust was going to be hard to come by now.]

If we run into UE soldiers, you either need to run 'n hide, or be totally confident you can take 'em out. And if you haven't fought one, they're tough assholes.

[Genetically engineered super soldiers weren't anything to mess with.]

We're lookin' for anyone who ain't them or the doctors and lab rats that work here. Anyone with the Initiative.

[Right now, though, their portion of the hold was relatively empty. The fights had moved outside, near the train. Blasts and gunfire would drift down the halls from time to time.

Johnny had been moving along at a decent clip, but he stops now to lean against the wall and catch his breath.]

Hey, if you think you can get out there before me, go. Don't wait. I'm only gonna slow ya down. I'll handle it.

You're crazy if you think I'm leaving without you. [ He takes a moment to weigh his options, and opts for being incredibly direct, albeit a little offended. ] After what I saw you go through, I'll drag you out of I have to!

[ And then Hunk just decides to make things a bit more uncanny. ] How's all this supposed to go? Walk me through this what's next? [ Because as much as he wants to beat Johnny over the head with this all being a memory in the Dream Width, he needed to be careful.

The guy wasn't in great shape, and none of this mattered if something bad happened to him. ]

No, I can... [Johnny drifts off for a moment when trying to think of what was next. A weird sense of deja vu settles in, and he realizes why he didn't remember Hunk being there when this happened. Because he hadn't been.

Johnny looks at Hunk, brows furrowed.]

That guard... the one possessed by Jericho, he shows up, and then Blaine... The hell is goin' on?

I don't know, that's why I asked you. [ He chuckles, and just shrugs. ] I'm just along for the ride. [ But at least he has the self-control not to mention memory lane. That could be too much, too fast. ]

So Jericho's a ghost possessing a guard, and some guy named Blaine shows up. Got it. [ He does not got it, but he's winging it. ] So who do we have to look out for? What're the biggest problems?

[ If they have to break out of this place to leave the memory then okay, fine, sure, he'll definitely do so. But not without a plan. ]

Fuck. I-- I'm sorry ya got stuck with me, man. However this happened. This was the end to a pretty shitty couple 'a weeks right here.

[Honestly, it could have been a worse memory.]

Yeah, they're it. Jericho cleared the way, and then-- he ain't a ghost, he's-- Y'know, I have no idea what Jericho is. I think it's just a thing he does.

[Superpowers, man. Who know how this stuff works.]

We just need to not run into guards for a few minutes. They're the worst, man. UE super soldiers. Born 'n raised to wipe out everything in sight. Once I ran into Blaine, he... [Thinking is hard right now.] He covered me while we got out. Dude is crazy good with guns. The Initiative somehow got a train here, and I made it back to Exsilium. I owe those two guys my life.

[In the near distance, the sound of gunfire and fighting can be heard. Right out the outside of this place looks like the set of an Avengers movie, with super soldiers up against all the crazy powers and weapons of the Initiative, and the Transports - those like Johnny from outside of this world.]

[ So he knows it's a memory. Good. Step in the right direction! Now they just have to make it out. Johnny's descriptions of what's in here don't help. ]

So we have to dodge the super soldiers, find Blaine, and get on a train. [ And then he looks out the window, at all the fighting. ] What if we do run into the guards? What can we do? What can you do?

[ Hunk sizes the guy up with his eyes. Since he was pretty banged up, might not be much. ] W-wait, can I do anything? [ Some of the other memories gave him weird powers he didn't quite understand, so... couldn't hurt to ask.

But in the interest of not staying still for too long, he's gonna start inching along one of the walls. ]

I still got one workin' arm and two legs. I'll manage.

[Never mind how bruised up those other limbs are.]

We don't get caught. That's it. They're, like... Genetically manufactured super soldiers. They're fucking nightmares. We need to not get caught, or we need to find people with weapons to help cover us.

[As they talk, some of the fighting can be heard getting close from around a corner. There's some yelling and some bursts of gunfire. Johnny curses, looking around for a place for them to duck into, but before they can get too far, a figure turns the corner. It's one of the aforementioned soldiers, who lowers their weapon when he sees them. He doesn't recognize Hunk, but Johnny didn't seem like he was in danger from him.

The soldier, a bit shakily, points behind them.]

J-J-Johnny. Go. Now.

[Looks like Johnny did remember what order things happened in correctly. He nods.]

Jericho. Thanks.

[The soldier seems surprised that Johnny knows what's going on.
Johnny looks to Hunk.]

The way should be clear, for now. But stay on your toes.

[ As he glances between this super-soldier-Jericho and Johnny, Hunk just... blinks a couple times. This is that ghost guy. They need people with guns who can cover them.

So Hunk takes the gun from Jericho's host, or at least tries to. He knows how to use it, and a super-soldier like that can probably just tackle people anyway. ]

You know how to get out? Directions, I mean. Don't wanna get lost... [ And then he laughs sheepishly, because that's the least of their issues right now. ] But I'll follow your lead. [ And then he gestures down the hall Jericho pointed towards. ]

[Jericho gives over the gun without a fuss. Better that the people in their own bodies be defended, especially since he's not at top dexterity in someone else's body. Besides, while Hunk and Johnny needed to get out, Jericho had to go find other people to rescue.

As far as how to get out, Johnny has to think really hard on this. It's all so blurry, and the all-too-close fighting and gunfire act as interference.]

Yeah, I... I think. Man, aren't I supposed to be dreamin' right now? How come I just can't wake up? Why're you even here?

[No lie, though, he's glad someone is.]

You are dreaming, and I don't know why you're not waking up. [ He looks awkwardly to the side. ] When some people realize they're dreaming, the memory falls apart. Other times, we've had to see it through and leave. [ Hunk starts grumbling, and takes a few steps forward. ] I guess this is part of that second group?

[ And then he shrugs, trying to answer all of the questions now, before things got crazier. ] I've just been bouncin' around between memories. A lot of people got stuck. And I didn't. [ He doesn't even sound smug, just a little confused. ]

I have no idea what happens if we get hurt in here, though. [ And his mood deflates a bit. ] I really don't think I should lead- I'd just get us into trouble. [ Or run too fast and leave poor Johnny behind. Maybe even both. ] Remember anything yet?

[ He's starting to get worried again. Hunk might just keep on talking and asking questions if he doesn't have something to focus on. At least he's not crying yet.]

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