Event || Once Upon A Dream

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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

Comments

[rivieran]

"Because I used Detect Thoughts, of course," she murmurs, evidently still somewhat aware of Hunk but still having a hard time going against the flow of her memory. But wait, had she just been using that spell? She was, wasn't she? Otherwise she wouldn't have known someone was in the hut, right? "It means there's someone alive over there."

Hunk is mostly in line with Jehu and the armored one, who both started making their way to the hut, gingerly stepping through the splintered wood soon after Verus said he was busy. Ena, too, is compelled to trail behind him, sort of aware of Hunk, but at the same time mostly concentrating on her two other companions. She starts to murmur to herself, something in the back of her mind telling her to finish answering... some sort of question. "I think he's important. I think he's the one who sent the message..."

[chefbayardee]

Hunk just shoots poor Ena a look at the murmuring. Detecting Thoughts was weird enough, but she didn't seem the sort to mutter like that. So he tried to make eye contact, and just pressed the issue further.

"What do you think happens next?" His gaze softens, and his tone starts to plead just a little. Hunk's steps take him further forward, though his pace slows a bit behind Jehu and the armored one- they're not the ones he cares about here. "Do you remember what's in the hut?"

[rivieran]

They make eye contact. Ena tilts her head in confusion, listening to his questions. "It's Endo," she says, her tone suggesting the answer was obvious. "He's the one that sent the mes--"

But she's cut off. There comes a voice, one that obviously belongs to an old man, creaky and weary, but at the same time booming and somehow sticky-sounding. "It's a dangerous world for pretty girls like you," it says. "You shouldn't be here; you should leave now."

Despite how it seemed to surround all of them at first, the more the voice spoke, the more it sounded like it was coming from behind them. All at once, Ena and her party whirl around to look back towards the town square. "Come, take shelter in my church." And just as it says that, a shambling figure appears from the church doorway. A closer look shows a salacious grin creeping across the figure's face before it dashes off behind the rubble.

Just after the figure disappears, there's a rumble that fills the air... No, those are groaning sounds. Bodies the party previously missed begin to clamber out from the rubble, reaching for something, anything to grasp on to and feed on.

The top halves of the bodies that Verus had been cutting up begin to stir, trying to push themselves up with no avail. "Ha!" comes the Dwarf's booming laugh. He proudly slams his greataxe into the skull of the nearest zombie and pumps both of his fists. "I told you so!"

[chefbayardee]

That voice, Endo's? It's creepy, upsetting, just all-around undesirable. It needed to stop, and then maybe the sun could come out and everything would be okay- no, a creepy grinning thing just popped out from the church and now there are zombies coming to unlife. The dwarf did tell them so, and now the visitor is just very uncomfortable!

"Y'know, Ena, that voice is kinda right!" Hunk shrieks out, his hands almost instinctively pulling the massive shrapnel cannon from his back and cocking it like a shotgun as gravity brings it down to his side. He takes one step, two towards Ena to prioritize her.

"We probably should leave, we have places to be that don't have zombies!" He takes another step and pulls the trigger on his gun, firing an absurd amount of jagged metal chunks into a trio of zombies nearing his friend. Man did he miss his gun back in Vaikuntha!

[rivieran]

For a moment, Ena is slightly perplexed by the presence of this... weapon she's never seen before? She narrows her eyes, trying to think of where she might have seen something like that before. But just as her mind is about to put two and two together, a really rad tune fills the air around them.

Jehu had pulled out his guitar - which showed he wasn't that hunched over, the instrument was just hiding under his cloak - and was now inspiring a fantastic amount of courage to all his allies. Which meant, by extension, Hunk too.

Ena took a step away from Hunk to gain a clear line of sight to the pile of writhing bodies by the well. "We can't leave yet, we came here to do something," she explains quietly to him first before yelling, "Verus, move!" Dwarf and wolf do exactly as told, hopping a good distance away as Ena starts casting some sort of spell. A few seconds later a massive fireball appears out of thin air and makes impact on the pile, charring and rendering all bodies there motionless.

"Keep them away from the house!" the armored Human yells, brandishing his sword.

[chefbayardee]

"Haha, awesome!" Hunk found himself whooping and cheering when Ena threw that fireball- her magic was so cool! But as soon as the excitement wore off, he remembered that they were surrounded by zombies. And that was terrifying! Or at least it would've been, if there wasn't a killer melody slaying the dragons his nerves were trying to be. Magic here is so cool.

"Are we here to get to the house? Who's in the house? Why do we care about the house?" Hunk's questions are rapid-fire because while he's not terrified he's still panicked and out of his element. Ker-clack goes the boom cannon as Hunk pumps it again.

"What happens next? Does it involve us stopping all these zombies?" Boom. Down go another couple zombies. Ker-clack. "You know more about your home than I do, Ena!" Give him something to work with, anything.

[rivieran]

The clacking sound of the odd weapon, Hunk's presence, and the questions pull at her again. Of course she knows the answer. "It's Endo--he's the one that contacted Jehu for help. I can see why—"

"I thought we killed all these damn risen the last time we were here!" Jehu cuts Ena off, shooting one of the undead with his crossbow.

"Looks like the whole town became fodder this time," the armored Human responds, slicing through one of the shambling corpses.

Their conversation now over, Ena turns back around to look at Hunk and casts a quick Magic Missile into a small group approaching his behind. She glances at him briefly, and his question comes back to mind. "After this? I mean, if things go according plan, then..." she trails off. Wait, should she know this? That's odd. That hasn't happened yet. Her gaze turns back to Hunk. A brief image of a village on fire flashes in her mind's eye. That was—

Thwoom, thwoom. The ground shakes, giant footsteps growing nearer. The whole party stops in place, suddenly cautious. Ena's train of thought yet again is interrupted by the chaos around her. Her gaze still trained on Hunk, her eyes slowly widen.

[chefbayardee]

This was Ena's normal? Hordes of creepy zombies? A whole town worth?! Gross. Terrifying, even! But he finds himself tracking the conversation between the figments of the memory, grumbling at how rude they were to just cut the elf off like that.

And then she throws a series of magic bursts into zombies that Hunk hadn't noticed, what with his focus on the others. He smiles, nodding in thanks as she continued. If he used his people words, he'd probably start screaming, so this was for the best.

Thwoom, thwoom. Those aren't good noises. Everyone stops, and Ena's looking... at him. With wide eyes. Since she just shot magic at zombies that were behind him, Hunk just sighs. There's probably something else behind him.

"Ena, can we go home...?" The words are groaned out like a child asking if the car's there yet. Zombies are stressful and they're not going back to that shack so what are they doing and- Then Hunk whirls around, aiming into the space that used to be behind him, and pulls the trigger. Boom!