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- !plot: at the mountains of madness,
- aeneas,
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- rhiow,
- robin,
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- vivio takamachi,
- wyn callahan,
- xander,
- yuri otani,
- zelda and sheik
Beyond the Walls of Sleep
Slowly but surely, the nightmares have been chipping away at the mental defenses of the crew.
Even those who attempt to stay awake to avoid the nightmares find themselves too on-edge to completely concentrate their defenses.
And the Nightmare King has not been idle during all this, no. He has been slowly feeding off the crew, gathering his strength so that he may yet break free from his prison.
And he now uses that new found power, reaching out to affect the minds of the crew even in the waking world. Even those avoiding sleep will find themselves drifting in and out of their nightmares, bringing everyone a taste of despair.
After all, no one can escape the grasp of the King of Nightmares.
No one.
[ooc: OH NOEZ. As you can guess, the Nightmare King is getting stronger. As such, the crew will start experiencing waking dreams. These are much more subtle than the normal nightmares, however, and are more so depressing and surreal than actually brain-breaking. Mostly they would be miserable versions of the character's normal life, or perhaps even their life on the ship.]
Even those who attempt to stay awake to avoid the nightmares find themselves too on-edge to completely concentrate their defenses.
And the Nightmare King has not been idle during all this, no. He has been slowly feeding off the crew, gathering his strength so that he may yet break free from his prison.
And he now uses that new found power, reaching out to affect the minds of the crew even in the waking world. Even those avoiding sleep will find themselves drifting in and out of their nightmares, bringing everyone a taste of despair.
After all, no one can escape the grasp of the King of Nightmares.
No one.
[ooc: OH NOEZ. As you can guess, the Nightmare King is getting stronger. As such, the crew will start experiencing waking dreams. These are much more subtle than the normal nightmares, however, and are more so depressing and surreal than actually brain-breaking. Mostly they would be miserable versions of the character's normal life, or perhaps even their life on the ship.]
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Katara almost glared, but thought better of it. She was just a little annoyed people were taking the king for granted, like they had nothing to worry about. "Well after this, I'm pretty sure that he'll ruin any chance for us to have a restful sleep."
Katara thought a moment. "I met someone named Blin. Talked with Zuko, Danny Phantom again, showed a few people the bus. Oh, and I was able to talk a lot to this woman named Diana Prince, who's also called Wonder Woman. I didn't get to accomplish much, but at least I got the word out a little more. I just wish I was able to do more to get the word out, so I could try to help him."
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"I've met Blin. We had an interesting conversation after I walked into...er, after he woke from the pods. And I've talked to Diana a few times." He pauses for a moment, then says, "I think you've been doing a good job with that, though. Ye talk to people and then they'll talk to people. It's just hard to reach everyone on the ship at once."
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So in other words Jamie, she totally gets why you'd want to avoid sleep.
"I try," she said, and there was no arrogance in her tone. "The more informed people are, the better prepared they'll be. I'm not ready to give up on the crew yet. If there's a way we can all band together to end this Nightmare king, I want to find it."
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Then again, who knows? Jamie's not entirely sure who would and who wouldn't take things seriously right now, even with the waking dreams.
"I know they've said things on the wee bitty computers, but I don't think everyone uses them regularly. I know I don't." He uses the Omnicom - especially when he gets into a mood when he's trying to learn more about it, but he also forgets to check it rather a lot. He can see people missing the warnings that have been posted on there. Especially now, given how tired everyone must be getting. He sighs.
"I just wish I wasn't so tired. Makes it verra difficult to think what to do."
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Katara nodded. "Between my get together at the bus and Nanoha's warnings and even Leon and Kirk's messages, it's going to be impossible not to know that the Nightmare King is around. The waking dreams are going to be their wake up call. If no one acts now..." Katara shook her head. "Then whoever helps me will help me, but I'm going to find him no matter what. I'm sick of thinking this place is going to band together."
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He sighs and looks at Katara, "Ye know, I wish I could come up with better ideas to help. It's not like capturing a Yeti. I knew what I was doing there. This..." He gestures, a bit helplessly, and leaves the sentence unfinished.
After a moment of silence he says, "I'll help ye however I can, though, Katara."
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She grabbed his hand, looking at him seriously. "That means a lot. If there's anything I think that can beat this thing, its our combined strength. We aren't helpless as long as we have faith that we can pull through. The Nightmare King wants to divide and conquer us: we have to let him know we won't let him."
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He nods as Katara grabs his hand and places his other one on top of hers. "I know. I keep trying to think like that." It's just hard, at times. However, Jamie does have faith that they will pull through in the end, and isn't afraid to say it. "We will beat him," he says firmly. "We will."
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She could think about loving him and how she wanted to be with him when they were actually fighting the Nightmare King. Thinking about it now hurt her unexpectedly.
And here, Katara smiled. "Good. Remember to tell yourself that. Because I'm not going to be defeated by this guy, and neither should you."
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"Och, I didna mean to upset ye, Katara. But, if it helps, ye will save him. And neither of us are going to be defeated by the Nightmare King." He sounds quite positive about this.
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She sighed. "But I also have to put a stopper on those emotions too. They're strong, stronger than most of the feelings I have. The Nightmare King has already made me see a corrupted teacher and my mother: I don't think showing me a dead Aang would be out of what he can do. He WANTS to mess with Aang's resolve in the first place. Part of beating the Nightmare King is making sure he DOESN'T beat me."
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"Wouldn't those emotions give ye strength, though, because they are like that? Something solid ye can hold on to?"
He may be wrong about that, but isn't seeing why.
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Not that she was going to be happy doing this, but as long as he didn't know who she was, the better.
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"What happens then?"
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"Then I deal with it as it comes," Katara said. "But I never give up. Not ever."