Dream Meme

[cityship]

It starts after your character goes to sleep. Or maybe they're already sleeping, in the Pod Caverns, dreaming their fragmented dreams, their minds inexplicably working even as their bodies rest. Maybe they're not on the ship and from somewhere far away, and just happen to be walking the same fog-riddled paths tonight, maybe they're just the figments of someone else's fevered imagination. They're in a forest, mist-riddled, and far too silent, other than the occasional odd creak and unidentifiable noise in the dark, like no animal or bug they've ever heard.



After passing through, they'll see a twisted landscape that resembles nothing like the real world. There are ruins here, older than thought. Some places are darker.



Others are brighter.



But the one thread in common is that none of it makes sense. The landscape shifts and changes on a whim, the denizens of this place are completely mad, up can be down, down can be up, powers may or may not work--which is a problem because there may be something out there in the mists. Something...waiting for them. Waiting for them all to venture deep enough in.

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[playsin-traffic.livejournal.com]

Tony finds himself standing in a forest. It's dark, different from what he's used to. Everything seems to shift, the shadows changing as he moves down the narrow trail. Above, through the branches of the trees he can just make out the shining, round circle of a full moon. He doesn't feel comfortable out here, but as he walks the forest changes, morphing into a city street, overgrown, run-down and abandoned. The shadows still seem to leer at him. He's got that itching between his shoulderblades, the feeling that something is wrong.

It's not pleasant.

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

In some highly mutable corner of the ever-changing dreamscape, a number of signs have been fastened to whatever will hold still long enough, pointing at least approximately towards one place. In that place, Satori leans against a wall, about a foot off the ground, smiling slightly ominously. Written on a sign posted on the awll next to her:

Free dream interpretation
The doctor is IN

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

When she started on the forest path and started walking, she understood immediately that she was walking the path to a dreamscape. This was at least the third or forth time that she had to deal with this kind of strange exploration. She walked cautiously though, a little put off by how quite it was. Every step she took though, she could feel the apprehension rising a little in her. This was a lot like the time she was with Sokka, Aang, and Toph when they were telling ghost stories in the dark, only to come across Hama later. That was not a memory Katara liked to think about too much. Still she walked, barely able to get a glimpse any light. She dispersed the fog as best as she could, but she also felt like her bending was muffled.

When she finally reached the clearing, she exhaled and walking past the lonely forest, happy to find some scenery that might be a bit more inviting. For this she would be sadly mistaken.

Once she left the forest, she came upon a landscape more perplexing than even anything she'd seen in Roxie's dreamscaping (save for Roxie's actual temples). The ground here was uneven and hard to walk on, and Katara had to take care not to trip despite how normally sure footed she was. Ahead she could see what was unmistakably lanterns of some kind, although none of them seemed to be lit. The sky swirled with clouds, but there seemed to be no danger of rain, and. in fact, this place felt more like it was underwater somehow, because the landscape felt as if it were muted somehow. she could see some sort of creatures in the distance too, but whether they meant her any kind of harm she couldn't tell. Of course, the most eye catching thing wasn't any of these things, despite how surreal they were. Even the floating submarine, which Katara did take a moment to observe, took second fiddle to the house in the center of all of this.

It was enormous to say the least, but unlike any kind of home Katara had seen in her travels. It had several tall towers, and a look to it that seemed to give off the vibe of STAY AWAY in capital letters. Despite this, Katara was still very curious, so she ventured closer, willing to see the inside of this house.