(open dreamshare log) (muffled twilight zone playing in the distance)

[hackitude]

WHO: EVERYBOOOODYYYY (yeaaah) (rock your booodyyy) (yeaaah)
WHERE: DREAMSPACE
WHEN: The night of November 1st (slightly forward-dated to give people more time to play out threads mmk)
WHAT: DREAM SHENANIGANS (event info here!)
WARNINGS: None up here, but players please tag the subject lines of your dreams if they have NSFW or triggering content in them.

It's Saturday evening. What are you dreaming about, imPorts?

Some of you might find strangers intruding on your regular dreams. Others might find themselves suddenly in the dream of someone they've never met before. Or perhaps someone they're close to...? Either way. Seems like you're in for a bumpy night.

Comments

[runningstart]

Because I didn't mean it. [Wally sighs hard and rubs at his face, getting sand everywhere.] I didn't mean it and he meant it, he meant it a lot. Oh my god. This is a wreck, he's gonna live in the ocean with Kaldur and date sharks and hate me forever.

[real_archer]

What.

[Even in a dreamscape, that sounds insane. Artemis sits back on her heels and shoves her hair out of her face, getting sand in her ponytail in the process even as she gets unreasonably annoyed at Wally for getting sand on his face.]

Why would Robin date a shark?

[She smacks him in the shoulder.]

I don't care if he hates you or if he wants to date an octopus--we're supposed to be a team! We can't just give up on him! Keep digging!

[runningstart]

[Whether it's the smack or the yelling -or the word team< because yeah, god, duh, what kind of friend-abandoning loser is he anyway- Wally seems to come to a conclusion, eyes widening before he nods and shoves himself up to his feet.]

He's not gonna be in there. But I think I know where he's at, and we're gonna go find him.

[real_archer]

[Ugh, finally. There's nothing worse than seeing Wally looked defeated. She likes him best when he gets that angry set to his mouth and his face turns as red as his hair while he tries to think of something smart to say.

As long as she gets the last word, of course.

She automatically grabs his arm to pull herself up.]

Okay, so where is he? And this time you'd better make sense.

[runningstart]

[Wally scoops her up into his arms like they've been doing this for years, and he's away from the beach in seconds. There's no wind, not like when he normally runs; it's almost as if he's standing still and the world is roaring past them until they reach Gotham-

And Wayne Manor.

Wally jogs to a stop and sets her down right outside the front gates.]

Here. He'll be here.

[real_archer]

[In a dream she can't even be bothered to get indignant, she just accepts it as her lot. The world seems to move by so slowly though, and she's not sure if it's her eyes or the world itself.

She straightens and finally brushes the sand from her knees as she stands in front of a very familiar building. She grew up in Gotham, how could she not know the facade of Wayne Manor?]

I know this place. This is Wayne Manor.

[Artemis tilts her head to the side as she studies it, then shakes her head. It's not important right now, is it?

... Is it?]

Come on, if Robin is inside, we need to go get him.

[She starts jogging towards the gates. She slows in preparation to climb them, but instead they open as if someone inside is waiting for them.]

... Oh.

[Another shake of her head and this feels normal. Why wouldn't the gates of Wayne Manor open for her? She's a Wayne Scholar and she has Wally with her, Robin's best friend in the world. She's a little surprised they haven't sent the butler out to greet them.]

It's a lot bigger in person, [she murmurs before crossing perimeter and running up to the door. Here she stops again and waits for Wally.] You'd better knock.

[She's not shy. Just... well, she's a Wayne Scholar. Scholarship recipients aren't supposed to just show up on Bruce Wayne's very impressive doorstep. Especially not scholarship recipients with criminal parentage.]

[runningstart]

It's okay, we don't have to knock. He'll be here. [Wally just lets himself in like he's come to Wayne Manor a thousand times before, despite never being so much as outside the gates. The inside of the manor looks nothing like the real-life manor, full of ostentatious decorating choices that belong more in an old Victorian home than a modern mansion, and about fifty more maids and butlers than the place needs. There's also an obvious bat motif, with ridiculously gaudy gold bat statues fixed onto almost every piece of furniture.

Wally walks through the house in his swimming trunks and sandy feet, ignoring everything as he heads over up the stairs, then down the hall and down a long, winding staircase into what is very clearly a cave. Again, looks nothing like the actual Batcave, but instead an exaggerated replica of it with very obvious Bond-influenced elements. There's Robin standing in front of a computer, but when he turns around he has no eyes or eyebrows despite his maskless face and when he speaks he sounds like nothing.]

You don't know him like I do, [Wally sulks.] He's gonna be so mad.

[real_archer]

[Artemis follows Wally, squinting with mild irritation at some of the more ostentatious bat designs. Honestly, it's like they're not even trying to hide it.

To hide... what exactly? There's something nagging her, something that her subconscious clearly feels she should have figured out by now but she can't quite put her finger on it.

The Batcave looks pretty much exactly they way she always imagined the Batcave would look, though she'd never thought it would be under Wayne Manor. Odd choice. What if Bruce Wayne or that kid, Dick Grayson, came down here and saw all this?

... Oh! Oh? No, she thought she had it, but she lost it again. In part because she was distracted by the creepy almost-Robin at the computer. Unconsciously, she takes a step closer to Wally and puts a hand on her bow. Not that she's going to draw it on Robin--just for the comfort of knowing it's there.]

What did you do to make him so mad?

[Mad enough to lose his mask and eyes.]

[runningstart]

I lied to him. He hates being lied to. [You thought Wally had control issues, don't even talk about the Boy Wonder.] Things are gonna be weird.

[The eyeless Robin is still trying to talk, getting more and more frustrated when Wally and Artemis don't hear him. He fishes a mask out of his belt and starts smoothing it onto his face and Wally hisses through his teeth.] I hate it when he does that. Why does he think people only want Robin around?