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Bastien ([personal profile] cozen) wrote in [community profile] faderift2022-06-17 10:37 am

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


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.
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[personal profile] notathreat 2022-07-12 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sh'yeah, and it'll cost you half a year's stipend." Ellie rolls her eyes with a smile; she knows exactly how much those fancy pastels cost. She's looked. She's going to have to get in with the nobles around here, do some favors, like she did for a few bolts of silk cloth a while back.

Ellie shrugs a little bit, considering.

She was protected, in order to pursue her art. Nathan became that career gladiator with the sparkling smile. Sam became a bet runner, finessing everyone into buying in, and it was through them that Ellie gained smaller, reliable contacts that asked little of her other than her appearance at their events. She was able to stay out of danger while Nathan and Wade took turns collecting scars in the Quarry. It was carefully cultivated, and now that she's an adult, she understands how lucky she was.

"There'll be plenty of time after the war to figure things out, assuming I don't bite it before then."

The last is said with a laugh in her voice, an old attitude forged in an apocalypse. May they all die of old age.
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[personal profile] favoriteanalyst 2022-07-13 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"After the war," he murmurs, musing on the subject. What does the end look like? Slay Corypheus, a dragon, a bunch of venatori. And then what? And then you deal with the mage war, finally. It never officially ended, even if a very large explosion put a halt to most open hostilities. And then when that's done? There will be another war, likely.

One thing at a time. Focus on ending this war, before the whole of Thedas ends up in flames, covered in red lyrium.

"I'll drink to that. Later tonight."
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[personal profile] notathreat 2022-07-17 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Later tonight," Ellie agrees, reaching out to tap her cup against Mobius's cup, like a toast, or a promise.

For now, she's got a blanket and a friend.