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◬ ([personal profile] isocelesmonster) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-06-22 04:37 am

the devil in the details

Who: Bill Cipher
Broadcast: none
Action: Anywhere in the fleet
When: The night of the 22nd, and ongoing.

Although ostensibly the Golden has a new crew member, there's no new person in attendance at any meals. No new faces in the hall, nothing additional in the laundry. One of the standard crew cabins has been sealed up as tight as a tomb, the brass nameplate on the door unhelpfully scratched out with something sharp. No noises at all come from inside.

It'd take a careful eye to notice the only other change: the same sharp instrument has been used to carve little eyes of providence, no bigger than a fingernail, in strategic public places around the ship. They're shallow markings, not deep enough to interfere with any of the working parts of the craft, and no great works of art - each little scrap of graffiti is a matter of five lines at most. But they're there - and if sometimes the way the gold of the metal hull glints in the pupil is strangely canny, it's probably nothing to be worried about.

(It's not that Bill doesn't care about the flesh puppets that make up his new crew - oh, he does, they're all going to get very careful scrutiny over the coming days - but more important is finding out what his new playground looks like.)

When the fleet sleeps, their minds open and blossom like night-blooming flowers, each one illuminating a new section of the shared dreaming plane. For all of their poetry, few humans realize that the state of dreaming is as real an exploration as whatever meaningless actions they take while awake. It's irrelevant to their survival, most days, so evolution has never sought to provide that particular revelation. They're a young species. Five senses, auditory languages, limited psychic potential, and as far as they know when they dream they're just watching random electrical impulses fire in their brains. Ha!

(There's an expression about a one-eyed man's status in a land of the blind, and Bill intends to make it a reality.)

He steps sideways out of the material world into the closest dream as easily as a three-dimensional being can move along any of their limited axes. He makes himself invisible, at first, just to get his bearings.

[Bill is visiting dreams, as a way of saying hello! His permissions post for this ability is here. I am treating this ability on an opt-in basis. If you didn't give me the okay, he won't be spying on your character at all tonight ~but where's the fun in that~?]
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goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (Serious eyes are serious)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-06-26 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maybe if he wasn't dreaming Vash might have hesitated or asked what he would owe if it did work. But, it was a dream so he didn't question the hand, the magic, or the cost. He reaches out and grasps Bill's hand.]
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (At peace - halfway there)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-06-28 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Air, pressure, warmth. There are a lot of things people need in space. Surprisingly enough. Luckily this is a dream so Vash is able to take a deep sigh and let the stress start to leak away.]

Thank you. [Of course now that his mind is off the overwhelming feeling of doom its trying to catch up with him. Space is lonely. He won't like space, but then the "bad" thing won't happen.

Right now, he doesn't want to focus on reality. Happy to just be in space for a bit.]
goldenglasses: (And that one looks like a bunny!)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-06-30 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
I-- I'm not sure. [Vash stares down at his right hand. Flexing the fingers. Making a fist then un-clenching.]

Just a feeling, that if I went in there the whole city would be destroyed.
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (Down but not out)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-06-30 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
The Plants? They're the reason people can survive here.

[In space. No wait, not in space. On the planet. He can't be in space. As Vash's mind starts picking apart the logic and reality of the dream Bill may notice the dream becoming a bit unstable. Someone may be starting to wake up. Or at least becoming a bit more of a lucid dreamer.]
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (But Sanji; what do you mean I can't top?)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-04 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
[It works well enough to keep Vash from waking up.] Heh, kid. I doubt th-- [Wait. How long do talking, floating, teleporting triangles live for? Maybe he has found something that lives longer than him and... he's in space... breathing.]

I'm dreaming.
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (Very pleased!)

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[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-05 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Half a puppy? [Oh hey, it's half a puppy. At first Vash stares down at the dog. Automatically reaching down to pet it with the foggy response his sleeping mind wants to do. It's a dream. Half a dog is fine. Perfect dream sense.]
goldenglasses: (I just stepped in WHAT?!)

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[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-05 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Then he jumps as the more lucid part of his mind catches up.] Ahhh! [He's suddenly very glad he's dreaming or he'd be a lot more concerned.]

Nice puppy. I hope that didn't hurt.
goldenglasses: (I hate it when the donut is a lie)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-05 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Never been out in open space before. That and I've never run into something like you before. No more junk food before bed.

[Mostly it was the lack of kaboom that destroys July. Not that he would admit that.]
goldenglasses: (Why'd I have to get the hicky there?)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-06 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'd rather not think about it. [He doesn't want to run the risk of his dreaming mind starting everything over again. He'd never willingly forget that day again.]
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (Change my attempt good intentions)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-08 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Normally Vash wouldn't sit automatically down on a suddenly appearing chair, but his dream body sees nothing wrong with this and sits down.]

Rem? Well, I suppose she wasn't really my mom, but she was- [Vash shakes his head as if the action will shake the haze from his mind to force out the unfocused dream logic trying to cloud it.]

I know what this is. It's nothing that can be resolved. And it certainly had nothing to do with my mother.

[Vash won't notice right away, but Bill might. As his mind thinks about Rem, red geranium petals start to drift around them. Being in space doesn't seem to matter to these petals in a breeze.]
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (Serious eyes are serious)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-13 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
But aren't you my subconscious or something? You should know.

[He's in space right now. Not just in this dream. Far away from his planet maybe someone from... from... the fleet. Project SEEDs. No, wait, not project SEEDs. From the-- maybe someone could-- the fleet--

And just like that the thought slips away in the dream. His seat trying to slip away as well also helps to distract him as he jumps off the couch.]


Of course not. It can't be resolved.
Edited 2016-07-13 00:17 (UTC)
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (Meryl has her man whipped good)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-14 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Well, can't say I've had stranger guides. [He liked the violent priest much better and use to think he was odd.]

And yeah. Thanks for that. [Although part of him isn't so sure he should be allowed to escape the memory of what he did.] Why'd you do that for me anyway?
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (Just smile and nod)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-14 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Vash decides not to question the extending arm. It's a dream after all, isn't it?]

Thanks. Maybe I'll actually wake up feeling like I slept today.

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