HALLOWEEN NIGHTMARES!!

[gish]

Oh boy, here we go! Let's all take a moment to shake a fist at terrible Patches the Spider. What a dick. Who even invited him?!

As you can see, the main set-up is there now, with a series of comments for everyone's individual nightmares that they've been deposited into. For the ease of reference, here's some links:

• AMELIA+KRENNIC: WEDDING LANTERN
  
• FORTY+DR. WHITE: PLAGUE HAMLET
  
• JIMx2: TARSUS IV
  
• HARLEY+JOSH: BIG TOP
  
• ADIA+GHOST: CONTAINMENT BREACH
  
• REYNARD+BLAZE: MENSIS MAZE
  
• STRATOS+NEKOMATA: TORTURE GAOL
  
• IPHIGENIA+VANYEL: BLOOD SACRIFICE

For the participants: you'll find that your characters are given a vague/generalized idea of what their objective is when the Messengers show you their scroll. The OOC note attached is a more concrete explanation of what your characters must achieve to escape their personalized Nightmare. Do you have to follow it by the letter? Not really! If your characters somehow flub the attempt, ICly don't figure it out, or find a work-around, these can happen! Just check with me first to make sure it's not too out of line, either via PM or comment on this post! (Discord is fine too, if you've got me on there.)

Failure to reach the objective or refusal to do so can still result in escaping. It's up to you if failure results in what is basically the Nightmare resetting and forcing you to try again OR the exit appearing regardless. A lot of this was made to let you guys make the most of freeform solutions and pathos, so don't feel bad if you feel like you're detouring or setting your characters up for (intentional) failure!

What does meeting the objective mean? It means the way out will appear! And said exit always takes the form of a big broken mirror, exactly like this one. Stepping through it will deliver you not to reality JUST yet, but to the 'hub' of the Nightmare where the final step will be played out. Another comment will go up for said hub a bit later tonight and I'll link it here. [Here it is!] People leaving their Nightmare can and will find one another in this location and can plan, discuss and explore their options before the final scene will go live, probably a week or two from now, giving everyone plenty of time to RP out their respective Nightmares and beyond. (Also, another comment will go up here soon for those left behind in the Waking (aka reality) to panic and speculate wtf is going on.) [Here's that too!]

Also, if you feel you are stuck or are unclear on something to do with the setting, objective, the things inhabiting the Nightmare, anything, please ask and I'll help you out! I am also willing to step in and provide a helpful nudge by way of Messengers to get your characters back on the right track if you find you or they are struggling.

Some Nightmare Objectives mention rewards. If the outcome is met, I'll discuss these with you. They will basically take the form of your character getting an eternal buff inside their brain, which is pretty cool! It won't hurt...well, I mean. Once it's done.

VERY IMPORTANT FINAL NOTE TO ALL PARTICIPANTS: Teamwork is vital in this, both IC and OOC. Please keep in touch with your nightmare partner! Let them know if you are going to have to go slow, take a day off, have an idea, want to do a specific scene or outcome, etc. It's not fair to your partner if you don't or end up making the scene drag or meander and don't communicate.

If for some reason any of you have to drop the thread, please tell me or the other mods and we'll arrange a replacement for you. There's no foul if this happens, life is like that! But please try to keep the thread moving and stay active in it as a courtesy to your partner!

AND FINALLY?

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Comments

[smartass_captain]

*bows down in worship*

You have outdone yourself Gish. A round of applause now and through the end of this.

[gish]

/BREATHING HEAVILY

THANK YOU THE WORK IS ALL WORTH IT FOR YOU GUYS

PLOT PLOT PLOT w/ Forty

[plagueofdeception]

Ooookay, so I can have Dr. White come in holding a spray can of... Something. He was going to use it on someone else before he got thrown into Nightmare land, but he could definitely try it on patient Zero. It's more of a temporary cure, but it should get the job done?

As for the plot... Uh. Dr. White won't want to take the plague costume off with all these diseased people running amok, so Fourt is probably going to have to deal with a silent friend. Who would mistake her for Patient Zero at first. Because why else did he get summoned here?

[brother_alone]

Hey i'm gonna put a catch all up here, because i know a lot of people are spying these threads.

There will be definite mentions of/attempted suicide in Josh's thread. If that bothers you do not read. You have been warned.

[gish]

I said it elsewhere, but this is a very polite and considerate thing to do! If you worry the content of your thread is going to get dark or contain material that is upsetting to certain individuals, feel free to leave a comment here as a blanket warning or add it to the header of your comments that contain dicey material. (This is in no way REQUIRED, but it is encouraged just in case. If you neglect doing so, you're not in trouble, don't worry.)

Because even though this is Halloween and getting scared is part of the fun, it's NOT fun to be triggered by sensitive subjects!

[directordisaster]

No thanks to Patches the Spider, but holy shit. This is so amazing. I'm gonna be so slow at this but I'm loving this already. Especially the Nightmare Plaza.

[grantuseyes]

IT'S GONNA BE A GOOD TIME

FOR NO ONE

[directordisaster]

NO ONE BUT MICOLASH

AFTER THIS KRENNIC WILL TRY TO FIND AND PUNCH HIM IN THE EYES OR SOMETHING IDK

[grantuseyes]

oh trust, my child, he's miserable as well

(krennic is still welcome to come at him, though. "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR BRAIN, DUDE, THAT YOU PUT US THROUGH THIS")

[emboldsursicklyspirit]

tbh this is hype as all heck and i did not expect to see anything that makes my Doll fingers itch o///3///o

[grantuseyes]

OH MY GOD YOU'RE BACK

[grantuseyes]

surprise, it's me, Dr. Hill's player. i've gone off the bloodborne deep end lately, does it show

[emboldsursicklyspirit]

hi hello yes is me /wavey fingers i die for months on end but come back when inspiried. mostly. owo

thats a pretty deep end. get into chalice caving? that stuffs shit but hella addicting

[grantuseyes]

My gf is currently going through the whole game presently (again) and just smacked around Paarl and is gunnin' for Amgydala next. fun times for the whole family!

the real horrible timesink is the sheer amount of time we sit around and chat into the wee hours of...NEW IDEAS. of the HIGHER LORE. we've been at it for months and there's just no exhausting the Bloodblood lore train. got us all like


DOES IOSEFKA'S IMPOSTER HAVE A LINK TO MENSIS. YOU FIND HER SPECIAL BLOOD IN THE NIGHTMARE OF MENSIS. ALSO, WHAT'S THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LAYERED PLANES OF WAKING, DREAM AND NIGHTMARE, BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE CERTAIN ONES FROM OTHERS AND I THINK THAT-

[emboldsursicklyspirit]

oh. im a little salty thinking of paarl. my latest (arcane) build is having trouble killing super paarl in the chalice dungeons :(

that kind of thing is fun too. i dont have people to chat to about that kind of thing but it sounds fun.

im like a billion percent sure that iosefka's imposter was a member of the Choir. and i think personally that iosefka might have a link to Queen Yharnam's bloodline albiet diluted over the generations hence why she was allowed to scarper off with blood healing secrets and shit. personally.

as for the dream stuff, its dreams all the way down. but not all dreams are good, yes?


anywho is there something you might like the Doll to do bby?

[grantuseyes]

HAHA oh no, Ali's doing an arcane build too! So glad we have that to look forward to.

If you got discord, we can exchange that and talk about lore! So much lore. So much speculation. (And also hashing out what our respective characters go with re: things that aren't concrete. Like with Micolash, I decided the worst origin story for the Brain of Mensis is gonna be the 'real' one with him, because come on. What's better than DOOMING EVEN MORE PEOPLE.)

Also yeah, Fake Iosefka is for sure Choir. Because where else is she gonna get those sweet chems that turn people into wobbly aliens? Also, we posit that she snatched the one-third cord that Willem originally used for the first calling of the Moon Presence, since the Choir was all about raiding what's left of Bergynwerth and hers for some reason has a desc talking about Willem and not her.

Oh god this is what I was talking about; ONCE YOU START, YOU CAN'T STOP.

ALSO. GOSH. If you wanted the Doll to show up in the thread where people are worrying about who got taken, that'd be really sweet. Gotta give some succor to some sickly spirits, baby

[emboldsursicklyspirit]

you at least dont need it to get the lower loran chalice but not finishing it really sticks in my craw

that is a thing we could do!!!

we'd speak into the wee hours of NEW IDEAS OF THE HIGHER PLANEEEEEEEEE

she's gonna answer questions. UNHELPFULLY. and she did it now yes

[boldygoing]

OKAY SO CONTENT WARNINGS.

I have no idea if all of this qualifies as triggering so much as disturbing/squicky, but fair warning up front, Jim x2 are going to be dealing with issues revolving around starvation, genocide (which does involve eugenics), and cannibalism. There may be self-sacrificial themes that border on or cross over into suicidal territory. There are gonna be dead people. The amount of explicitness of any of these has yet to be determined, but if this bothers you, you might want to consider giving it a pass.

[chiron_survivor]

Content warning for Adia and Ghost's thread.

There is likely to be a flashback or mention of a suicide. Potentially graphic. I'll put a content warning in the subject of any tag that includes it.