![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
open | brain heat meme
WHO: Anyone
WHAT: Nightmares, slumber parties, etc.
WHEN: Throughout Justinian
WHERE: Kirkwall and surrounding areas
NOTES: Ignore the first prompt if you're bothered by bugs. Also, while this is primarily to help people RP about their nightmares, feel free to use it for any kind of RP you want. (I.e., you have permission to set up a truth or dare game at the slumber party.) Talk about dreams OOC over here
WHAT: Nightmares, slumber parties, etc.
WHEN: Throughout Justinian
WHERE: Kirkwall and surrounding areas
NOTES: Ignore the first prompt if you're bothered by bugs. Also, while this is primarily to help people RP about their nightmares, feel free to use it for any kind of RP you want. (I.e., you have permission to set up a truth or dare game at the slumber party.) Talk about dreams OOC over here
This month, our heroes' sleep is getting more and more troubled. Here are some excuses to write about it.
I. SLUMBER PARTY: Mid-month, an infestation of hardy, prolific Antivan fleas requires everyone to avoid spending prolonged periods of time in their bedrooms while local alchemist Lloyd Meyers eradicates the bugs with his proprietary smoke bombs (and an equally proprietary flea bath for the Gallows' many pets). While the rooms air out for two or three nights post-treatment, bed rolls are available on the floor of the unstaffed dining hall. Sleeping outside in the courtyards is also an option, but a sudden squall of a thunderstorm will drive people inside on the second night.
Footnote: Characters who live in the city are welcome to join this slumber party anyway. Maybe they miss the ferry ashore, maybe they're afraid of tracking fleas into their own homes, maybe they already did track fleas into their homes and Lloyd is treating them too, etc.
II. ROOM SHARE: Does the thought of sleeping in the dining hall with all of your coworkers make you break out in hives? Have you missed the ferry on any other evening of the month? Lowtown has inns, and Riftwatch has a docks-side warehouse with a few side rooms outfitted as bedrooms. But there are only so many rooms available, so you might wind up sharing a room (or a bed) with a friend or whoever is nearby and desperate.
III. CAT NAP: A lack of sleep—whether it be from the nightmares, the workload, routine insomnia, or staying up too late playing Truth or Dare during the Antivan Flea Incident—might make a cat nap on a desk, in a reading nook, or over breakfast particularly appealing. And bad dreams don't need more than a few minutes to get rolling.
IV. CAMP OUT: Investigating reports of enemy scouts in the mountains, traveling along the roads to a neighboring city-state on a diplomatic errand, looking into reports of weird magic on the Wounded Coast, or heading north to provide some assistance to the war effort? All might require pitching a tent and bunking down for the night with your colleague, whether you like them or loathe them.
V. NORMAL NIGHT: If you’re already sharing a room or bed with someone, you don't need this post. But you can still use it for your nightmare threads.
VI. BETTER IDEA: Do whatever you want. Live your dreams.
I. SLUMBER PARTY: Mid-month, an infestation of hardy, prolific Antivan fleas requires everyone to avoid spending prolonged periods of time in their bedrooms while local alchemist Lloyd Meyers eradicates the bugs with his proprietary smoke bombs (and an equally proprietary flea bath for the Gallows' many pets). While the rooms air out for two or three nights post-treatment, bed rolls are available on the floor of the unstaffed dining hall. Sleeping outside in the courtyards is also an option, but a sudden squall of a thunderstorm will drive people inside on the second night.
Footnote: Characters who live in the city are welcome to join this slumber party anyway. Maybe they miss the ferry ashore, maybe they're afraid of tracking fleas into their own homes, maybe they already did track fleas into their homes and Lloyd is treating them too, etc.
II. ROOM SHARE: Does the thought of sleeping in the dining hall with all of your coworkers make you break out in hives? Have you missed the ferry on any other evening of the month? Lowtown has inns, and Riftwatch has a docks-side warehouse with a few side rooms outfitted as bedrooms. But there are only so many rooms available, so you might wind up sharing a room (or a bed) with a friend or whoever is nearby and desperate.
III. CAT NAP: A lack of sleep—whether it be from the nightmares, the workload, routine insomnia, or staying up too late playing Truth or Dare during the Antivan Flea Incident—might make a cat nap on a desk, in a reading nook, or over breakfast particularly appealing. And bad dreams don't need more than a few minutes to get rolling.
IV. CAMP OUT: Investigating reports of enemy scouts in the mountains, traveling along the roads to a neighboring city-state on a diplomatic errand, looking into reports of weird magic on the Wounded Coast, or heading north to provide some assistance to the war effort? All might require pitching a tent and bunking down for the night with your colleague, whether you like them or loathe them.
V. NORMAL NIGHT: If you’re already sharing a room or bed with someone, you don't need this post. But you can still use it for your nightmare threads.
VI. BETTER IDEA: Do whatever you want. Live your dreams.
no subject
"Maybe you can help me try to paint it sometime."
no subject
Artistic ability is not in Derrica's toolkit.
Ellie's fingers are calloused. It's no unusual, or even surprising. Derrica is familiar with Ellie's hands by now, and even if she weren't, it would only make sense. Evidence of Ellie's bow, her knife, all other things she employs in the course of Riftwatch's work.
"Maybe we could find a wall, or a staircase for you to make it a mural."
no subject
Ellie grins at her. Even tired, and shredded to hell by nightmares, they have stories. It's good to be able to make plans for something else. For when morning inevitably comes.
"That would be awesome on one of the circular stairwells."
no subject
Not that Derrica believes anyone would object, sleep or no sleep. What is there to object to? Anything that distances the Gallows from it's former occupants is a positive thing. The incremental improvements they've made have softened it, degree by degree. Ellie could only help with that.
"You should get an assistant. Someone to carry your paint buckets."
no subject
"Wanna help me vandalize the Gallows?"
no subject
When Ellie puts it that way—
"And maybe we could get Matthias to help," might not be what Ellie intended exactly, but Derrica's voice is still warm over the words. "Astarion would join us, if you ask him."
Who doesn't like a little light vandalism? It's not quite a party, but it's close to it. And Ellie's work deserves the attention, as much as Derrica wants to draw people they care about closer, enjoy Ellie's artwork together.
no subject
She's laughing under her breath, relaxed, settling as she thinks about it. Some rainy day in the future, when they have a moment to breathe, and something horrible isn't happening.
"Will you run distractions?"
no subject
Obliging, even though Derrica doesn't really think it would be necessary. Who would stop them? Compared to the normal day to day in the Gallows, a little mural would be nothing.
But it is nice to think about. It's nice to think on something easy and sweet in their future. Derrica is resolved to make it happen. The paint will be easy enough to gather, and the library must have something she could find, some illustration of a Cetus that would be close enough for Ellie to work with.
"But first, you're going to need to try to sleep."
no subject
With luck, anyway.
"... fine."
Ellie softly muffles a yawn.
"But you, too."
bow on this y/y?
"I will," she promises. With every intention to do so, once she's certain Ellie's dropped off properly.
"Good night, Ellie."
Y! <3
She keeps her hand on hers.