【EVENT】 New Year's Wishful Dreaming

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Wishful Dreaming Event

On the Eve of the New Year, the city of Starsand is surprisingly quiet. For a place so eager to throw parties, you might think that the streets would be full of life. But instead, Starsand’s streets are quiet and it’s citizens shutting down shops early. In this city, the last night of the year is contemplative and quiet. Citizens might make their last shrine visits, but it’s uncommon to see them out past 11.

They say that it’s important to fall asleep before the New Year, because you want to treasure your first dream of the New Year. Supposedly it’s lucky and prophetic. If you write it down and remember it, that dream can even guide you to your greatest desire. And rumors are always good ideas in Starsand.

Sleep comes easy on this night. Characters will find themselves getting drowsy by 4am at the latest. When they do fall asleep, they fall into a deep and elaborate dream.

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OOC NOTES

The first dream of the New Year will show characters their wishes come true. They will get to enjoy the life they long for. But strangely, they may find other Fallen Stars wandering into their dreams. These encounters may shake them out of their dreamlike state and make them aware that the dream is just that: A dream. If the dreamer denies their dream or has doubts, then the dreamscape will fall apart into a nightmare before both dreamer and visitor wake up.

It is possible to have multiple dreams: Characters must wake between dreams, even if just briefly, then fall back asleep in order to change their dream. There can be multiple visitors before the dream ends for good.

On the morning of January 1st, all characters who had a dream will find a prismatic crystal clenched in the palm of their hands. The crystal will reflect the contents of their dream, so long as they hold the same wish. If they change wishes or lose faith, then the crystal will turn black and melt into Rumor goo.

NPC characters may reply to dreams with clues. Please indicate which characters you want to receive clues by putting a “*” in their toplevel title. You may request clues for up to 3 characters. Thank you for your help!

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[myturf]

[ And that's where it snaps on her end. Suddenly, that flippant, smart attitude's gone, and she can feel her blood starting to boil. ]

Yeah? So what about the ones who need you but y'can't hear? The ones who need a "hero" but don't wanna bug anyone? The hell does "need it" mean? Did this one tell you they needed help?

Strength's everything. Your turf, your home, your family, your gang, it's all important. Someone bein' a hero just to be a hero makes me sick.

[nightwild]

[Fauna's own anger flares up. She knows, better than anyone, the pain of needing a hero when none exist. But it's not like she has the answers.]

And all you're doing with your strength is pretending like you know me to pick a fight. What do you know? Just stop talking before you embarrass yourself.

[myturf]

[ Hmph.

Well, there's an alternate way for this to go, then. ]

Y'know what? My bad. Sorry about that. S'rude of me to talk so much an' not offer to help out.

[ She decides to turn... and head towards the person laying unconscious on the ground. Kneeling and then, summoning her bokken.

She whispers something under her breath, before standing up straight, the tip of her wooden sword at the person's throat. ] ]

Tell ya what. I'll help ya now.

I'll make them beg for you to help. That sound good to you?

[nightwild]

[As soon as Karin makes her threat clear, Fauna's already gone.

The only warning Karin gets is a machine's voice calling out "Owl Night", and then a purple blur slams into Karin at incredible speeds, dragging her along far away from that unconscious victim.]

[myturf]

[ She's fast--

Karin has a split second chance to brace herself hearing the machine call out, before she's struck by a surge of purple, grunting as she attempts to put some force behind her resistance. Looks like she's trying to get her away from the body...

Fine by her, then. Her body'll ache, but she can start in on heating up, steam emerging from her body. ]

[nightwild]

[The blur ends when the two of them come to a stop in a bizarre rocky quarry, Fauna's red armor being traded out for purple owl-looking gear.

She's taking her distance, though, hovering over the ground with twin swords drawn.]

Fine. If this is what you want, then come at me.

[myturf]

[ Finally. The new setting popped in and while she took notice, she hardly cared. Sure. Bring her somewhere away from the city.

The truth was, she had only expected the one set of armor, with the one set of abilities. Now that this new set has appeared, with a speed that'll absolutely be hard to keep up with, it's made her that much more excited.

Drawing her bokken, she takes off. Karin's fast, not nearly as fast as Fauna just was but she can bound towards her with a sense of speed that'd throw off someone not expecting anything superhuman.

Her eyes focus directly on Fauna, trying to gauge where she'd move if she jabbed at her midsection. It's not intended to be anything like a heavy blow, more like determining how she moves in that armor, how she reacts and may counterattack.

Really though:

She's just here to have fun. ]

[nightwild]

[As Karin swings, it... connects? Solidly. Like she struck...

A log, in fact, which falls to the ground in Fauna's place.

Instead, Fauna appears out of dark smoke behind Karin as she dives in. She can't use her swords- Karin is, as far as Fauna can tell, human. She can't just attack like she would a monster.

Which is why she's trying to just strike Karin on the back of the neck to take her out in one shot.]

[myturf]

[ Oh.

Ninja.

Karin tries to swivel to little success. She'd like to have turned her hips to catch her and slam her into the dirt, but the timing was off. Instead, the strike connects, but not clean enough to actually knock her out. Only send her to the ground.

At least, it felt like it. Karin tries to keep herself stable using her bokken, but damn did that hurt. Sucking her teeth, she tries to regain her footing, casting her weapon aside. ]

You... you takin' me lightly...?

[nightwild]

[Ninja is something Karin probably should have thought about earlier.... as now, three of Fauna split off, circling Karin.]

Call it what you want. I'm not going to let you hurt anyone here.

[All four of Fauna go in- Punches to the gut, chops to the neck. Trying to take her down without actually injuring her.]

[myturf]

[ Damn it. She really did wind up over her head. But this trick just pissed her off, more than anything. There was no way she could dodge all of these attacks, covering up, trying to deflect what she can and counter where she had a chance.

As she's attacked, as she's attacking, she yells out. ]

You... goddamn... coward!

[ A hero, resorting to cheap tricks, trying to just subdue her instead of fighting her-- and she can feel these blows taking their toll on her, as her body began to overheat in frustration. ]

[nightwild]

I'm not the one who threatened an unconscious victim.

[Fauna hesitates, though. Not from her words, but because she's not sure if she can attack again. If Karin hasn't gone down already... would one more attack do it? Or would that be going too far? She doesn't want to kill her, or even seriously injure her.... What should she do?]

[myturf]

And just who the hell was going to leave the victim there? You don't think anyone would've mugged 'em or killed 'em where they were?

[ She takes a step, but winds up falling to a knee. Goddamn it, her body's stronger than this, why can't she keep going-- ]

All of you, always talking about protecting the innocent and keeping others safe, but the second you think your work's done, you just fuck off! You're a coward! A half-assed excuse of a fighter!

[ It's the loud barking of an angry, low on fumes girl, trying to will her legs to let her stand back up. If she loses here, she might as well be dead. It just reaffirmed how weak she actually was.

How she couldn't amount to shit without Onee-san. ]

[nightwild]

Of course no one would have. This isn't Earth. The spirits were watching them.

[... All right then. One more shot.

The same mechanical voice from earlier calls out: "Owl! Finisher!" And Fauna approaches, darkness swirling around her.

The darkness gathers around one foot...]

They'll look out for you, too.

[And one kick, square to the chest.]

[myturf]

[ She can only think for a moment, "good for the people here". That wasn't who she's talking about. If she were conscious, she'd try to wave away their help-- she doesn't want it.

But, as Fauna's kick hits straight on, that consciousness fades. The steam fades from her body and she's back to a normal temperature, and she's out like a light.

--Waking up, outside of the dream with a startle. ]