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Topher Brink ([personal profile] brink) wrote in [community profile] applesaucedream2014-02-01 02:48 am

Hijacked dream party

Tonight's dream party is, unconventionally enough, not organised by the rift, but by Topher!

Thing is, he was sort of supposed to only pull in a few very specific, targeted people, and all of a sudden, this whole lot comes pouring in. See, he's working with someone with the power of ability amplification, making Topher's dream abilities obscenely powerful for tonight, and he's not quite used to it.

The dreamers will find themselves in an old mansion at nighttime. Lots and lots of rooms; several bedrooms and bathrooms of various sizes, studies, library, sitting rooms, kitchen, dining rooms, games/billiards room, even secret passageways... There's a fire roaring in every grate, everything is warmly lit, with lots of dark corners to sneak off to, comfortable couches, plenty of drinks tables. There's also a pervasive feeling that you're safe, that you can relax. That whispered secrets in the dark will be kept. And everyone will feel much less compelled to judge or mock upon hearing those secrets. A night for confessions. All of a sudden, it's hard to resist opening up...

Of course, the dreamers don't know there's someone listening in, seeing everything that goes on, sometimes even manipulating things to go the way he wants. Certain people with psychic/telepathic/dream abilities may eventually cotton on, though. But it'll take a while. But the secrets you tell in the meantime may not remain secrets for that long. Especially if those secrets are useful to certain other important players in the city, quite apart from the two factions our rifties have become familiar with.

[Mod note: Usual dream party rules apply. All players and characters are welcome, current members or no. Characters will remember or forget all dream events at players' discretion. Bear in mind that any events or information shared in this dream will be available to Topher, and, by extension, probably his bosses, such as Beatrice.]
stronglikebear: (misc | shirtless and squinty)

[personal profile] stronglikebear 2014-02-01 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
A young man lays sprawled across a couch, a beer set on the floor in easy reach. Yuri's got a pad of paper in one hand and a pencil in the other, but he's not writing anything just now. The pad shows a few scrawled sentences, but right now he's just chewing on his pencil and staring thoughtfully at the ceiling while he listens to the sound of the fire in the grate.
has_a_horn: (smirk | welp)

[personal profile] has_a_horn 2014-02-01 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Gabriel plops himself down into the chair next to the couch, drink in hand, and leans over to see if he can glimpse how much Yuri's written on his tablet. "Writing the next Great American Novel?"
stronglikebear: (smile | friendly)

[personal profile] stronglikebear 2014-02-01 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yuri snorts and lifts it up so Gabe can see. "I doubt it. It's pretty dumb."

Look at that, the start of an outline for a story -- Gabriel guessed at least partly right. It's historical fiction, by the look of it; he's got notes about Russian serfs and some kind of escape story. The setting might be unusual, but there's nothing to indicate he has a similarly creative plot to go with it.
has_a_horn: (look at the mask | smile)

[personal profile] has_a_horn 2014-02-01 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Gabriel scans over the page when Yuri holds it up, and smiles to see he was right. He won't comment (yet) on the lack of an actual plot. Maybe he just hasn't gotten there yet. "So, Tolstoy, why the sudden interest in writing? Or is it not so sudden?"
stronglikebear: (interested | sympathetic)

[personal profile] stronglikebear 2014-02-01 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
"I've been freelance writing, but I'm getting kind of tired of reviewing dating websites and crap no one uses," admits Yuri. "I kind of thought being a journalist was going to be cooler than that."
has_a_horn: (considering)

[personal profile] has_a_horn 2014-02-02 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Find something interesting enough to write about and people will buy it. Don't you have enough material down at the rebel base?" He raises an eyebrow, thinking of the weirdness going on there. But Yuri probably wouldn't want to expose anything going on there.

"You know plenty about ROMAC, right? Why not do an exposé? 'Ten things ROMAC doesn't want you to know and why you should care.' Good, right?"
stronglikebear: (annoyed | seriously dude?)

[personal profile] stronglikebear 2014-02-02 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"And who's going to publish it?" asks Yuri. He asks it sarcastically, but it's a real question -- even if he could talk the rebels into putting it out and find some way to keep it from being linked back to them, there's a reason others haven't already done similar things. "ROMAC's pretty good at shutting people up, if you hadn't noticed."
has_a_horn: (smirk | welp)

[personal profile] has_a_horn 2014-02-03 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't remind me." Yeah, he definitely knows that part. That doesn't mean that he wants to actively help to create a pamphlet or something. The rebels have their own moral failings and while he might like them a bit more than ROMAC, but that doesn't mean he's picking teams.
stronglikebear: (interested | troubled)

[personal profile] stronglikebear 2014-02-03 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Did Daine tell you how she had to break me out after the bear thing? I'm kind of surprised no one's recognized me on the street and shoved me in an unmarked van." If he'd stayed long enough to get registered and fingerprinted, he doubts he would have ever got loose of them.
has_a_horn: (look at the mask | smile)

[personal profile] has_a_horn 2014-02-08 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Daine broke you out?" No, he hadn't heard that part. He hadn't really thought much on the issue at all, once he found out that Yuri had also escaped. He's a bit impressed with Daine, now that he knows.

"I don't think you'll have to worry about being kidnapped." Understandable, ROMAC should be taking a more tentative approach to anything surrounding Gabriel, after his attack on ROMAC. They know he knows Yuri because they brought them in together that first time. "You're with me, bub."
stronglikebear: (surprised | incredulous)

[personal profile] stronglikebear 2014-02-10 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"She turned into a buffalo," chuckles Yuri. "I don't think they knew what hit them."

He gives Gabriel a curious look, not entirely understanding. "What, you're going to come get me next? I think I'd rather just not get taken in the first place."