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Dr. Frederick Chilton ([personal profile] slightlyoffchilt) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2015-05-31 09:27 pm

Pestilence: Horsemen of the Apocalypse Log #1 - 1st to 3rd of June

WHO: Pestilence AND YOU
WHERE: All around MoM's America and beyond
WHEN: 1st to 3rd of June
WHAT: Part One of the Horsemen Plot, this is the time for Pestilence to take hold. Pestilence will spread randomly, like an illness born by thought, as well as pass by direct proximity with the ring, held by Frederick Chilton, and those who become affected will swiftly fall into a death-like sleep. After that, characters will find themselves in a shared Dreamscape (see text of this post) populated by their own and other people's psyches, dreams and nightmares. Outside of this Dreamscape, others will try to wake them - but short of waiting for the illness to subside, there's really only one cure: sharing their true feelings about the affected person.
WARNINGS: Warning for everything here in advance, sex, violence, death, gruesome images, etc. If you have any specific warnings for your thread please add them to the comment headers.

When you do succumb to sleep, whether violently, immediately, or beneath the slower snowdrift duress of cognitive slurring, you will soon wakened to an onyx dark landscape. Bright, searing lights above will pinprick as you look upwards, even while the darkness disorientates you. This is the Dreamscape. Intuitively, some small part of you will know that you've been brought here because of a disease. Some part of you might ever vibrate with the whisper of Pestilence.

As you think within this atmosphere, your thoughts conceive manifestation -- the environment you witness swirls and shifts to your subconscious. You build your setting, and your setting may clash with other dreamers. This Dreamscape was born from the inclinations of Frederick Chilton, and the subconscious is its crowned king. That conceptional influence gives you a mountain of power, along with a corrosive fault line of responsibility. Every passing idea in your brain serves to flesh out the Dreamscape of Pestilence. It is highly likely that your darker fears and cruelties will find their opportunity to breathe, and they are just as "physical" in this astral plane as you are.

Because your environment is ultimately the subconscious creation of a pestilence Chilton, there are three stages that the Dreamscape can become -- though it's all according to your emotional and mental state. Morpheus is the mildest of the three. This level concerns the people in your life, and their cruelty or kindness you interpret. Phantasos is the middling range. The victim will suffer surrealistic fantasy dreams that are weird and absurd. This is the strangest of sleep, the unnerving nature of your mind. It can go dark, or funny, and the setting of a Phantasos level will involve woods, caverns, mountains, and other natural settings. And Phoebetor serves as the nightmare level. This is where catastrophe comes true. Everything you most dread, every little horrific whisper in the back of your mind, that's going to happen with a Phoebeter severity.

Sweet dreams.
maglevflash: (I can't with this stupidity)

[personal profile] maglevflash 2015-06-05 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Haven't you ever heard of a four wheeler?
maglevflash: (Can't let a man do a woman's job)

[personal profile] maglevflash 2015-06-05 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
If only I had the supplies. I could build you one. It's theoretically similar to a golf cart, but made for dirt trails and better steering. Faster, too.
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[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-06-05 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, really? Would you?
maglevflash: (Let Gogo show you how it's done)

[personal profile] maglevflash 2015-06-05 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Of course. Mechanical engineering is a specialty of mine. I've been making fixie bikes since I was your age.
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[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-06-05 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
The Mystery Shack probably has... some stuff.

[It certainly has stuff. Like mountains and mountains of tourist trash.]
maglevflash: (Beat that I dare you)

[personal profile] maglevflash 2015-06-05 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
That's the weird building with the pointy goats, right?

[Thumbs back at the shack.]

Let's check it out. Maybe we'll get lucky.
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[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-06-05 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, we live there! For the summer, at least.

Usually the goats aren't that pointy.
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[personal profile] maglevflash 2015-06-05 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Great, then you'll know where to look. [No comment on it being weird. Cause it is. Even you can't deny that, Dips.]

...why are they pointy, now that you mention it?
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[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-06-05 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
I... dunno. There seem to be a lot of triangles around.

[He leads her into the Mystery Shack's shop area, anyways. The usual tourist trap stuff looks a lot more... realistic for some reason.]
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[personal profile] maglevflash 2015-06-05 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Gogo's never...seen tourist trap like this before. She's seen big city museums and fairs, but never been in a small town's version of excitement

But despite being a shop, some of this looks...absurdly eerie. She pauses to peer at a plaque, head tilted in curiosity.]
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[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-06-05 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
[The letters on the plaque shift and reform into "YOUR EXISTENCE IS A LIE."

They glint for moment before settling on, "BUY GOLD."]
maglevflash: (is anyone else hearing this?)

[personal profile] maglevflash 2015-06-05 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[She jerks back, a twitch of fear leftover from others dreams she's sharing, had, will have. But then the words settle and she shakes her head.]

'Buy gold'? What does that even mean?
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[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-06-05 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Dipper's messing around in Soos's toolbox behind the counter, so he missed the plaque.]

I think it's a stable currency? Why?
maglevflash: (I can't with this stupidity)

[personal profile] maglevflash 2015-06-05 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
You guys still trade gold?

[She steps uneasily away from the plaque, joining him at the counter.

What would she even say about it anyway? Plaques don't just change.]
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[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-06-05 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
Not as like, every day currency. But people still like it.
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[personal profile] maglevflash 2015-06-06 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Huh...weird. I guess so.

[She catches sight of a statuette that was staring at her and stood there for a moment, staring back. Steadily growing more creeped out.]
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[personal profile] ursawhiner 2015-06-10 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Do you not have gold in uhhh, San Fransokyo?
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[personal profile] maglevflash 2015-06-10 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe? Admittedly I don't really get into that sort of thing. Geology isn't my field.