isocelesmonster: (GSV HSZWLDH OVMTGSVM)
◬ ([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: (I hate it when the donut is a lie)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-19 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
A dream friend. Inside of my head. Great. I really am going insane.

[He's not sure he follows, but he's also not sure it matters as this is all a dream anyway. Isn't it? So after a brief sigh he resigns himself and opens up a bit in a way he wouldn't if he was awake.]

That was July. Right before it was destroyed.
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (Well... shit.)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-20 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
It was rough because I was there. [As Vash thinks back about that day the stars waver. Taking shape into an what appears to be an office.

A man's voice echoes from somewhere. Amused in tone, but with malicious intent hidden underneath.

Oh, hey Vash.

Vash clasps his hands over his ears as if that could somehow stop something that was all in his head.]
No! I don't want to think about this!

[He didn't want to forget those people, but did he really need to relive that moment night after night?]
goldenglasses: (What-a-what?)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-21 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Why? Why would you want to help me? [He doesn't deserve it.]
goldenglasses: (What-a-what?)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-22 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
I don't even know who that is.

[Vash doesn't stop the boop to his head. Sensing no malice in the action. Blinking once when the cane connects.]

Alright then. [He gives up trying to make sense of this.] What's my new friend's name?
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (But Sanji; what do you mean I can't top?)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-23 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Vash is very new to being a lucid dreamer. It rarely happens to him. One step at a time.]

Yes! That's right. You're Bill.




...and a triangle.

[Above average intelligence doesn't always translate in dreams.]
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (Default)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-23 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vash allows Bill to ruffle hid hair. Something he wouldn't normally allow awake.]

You don't need a friend like me, but thanks for stopping this dream.
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (Ideas forming! And that is never good!)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-23 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey! With enough skill you really don't need much to get the right look! And I've been working at this look for awhile now!

[Vash has decided to hit "fuck it" and will be happy to talk hair care to a triangle if it gets his thoughts away from... other things.]
goldenglasses: (You really think so?)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-24 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
[There we go. This is more what Vash was expecting. That's normally what comes from someone wishing to help Vash. This thing does want something in return. Just what from his dream he's not sure.

Vash's guard sky rockets up and the part his subconscious is controlling goes black around the two of them.

And yet the man himself smiles kindly. Almost as if he doesn't realize that he's pissing Bill off. He chuckles in shy embarrassment.]


Oh? Sorry about that. What can I say? We were trying to steer this dream away from the way it started. I thought getting off topic was the way to go.

So what did you want? I should be nicer to someone helping me out like this. [Depending on the what this thing wants.]
tetractys: (OVZIMRMT)

[personal profile] tetractys 2016-07-24 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
EH, WHAT THE HECK! [Bill chuckles.] IT'S ALL THE SAME TO ME, KID! WE ALREADY MADE A DEAL, EVEN IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER!

[Bill sees the subconscious go dark and knows he's lost this one. Doesn't mean the fun is over, though! He blinks, and although nothing about him really changes on the surface, his eye loses its unquantifiable eeriness and goes back to being friendly and bright.]

TO BE HONEST, IT'S PURE CURIOSITY! WHAT GETS A GUY SO TWISTED UP OVER ONE LITTLE CITY?
goldenglasses: (I hate it when the donut is a lie)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-25 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Probably because it was one of the biggest cities of my planet? Or is a city of millions small where you're from?

[He's not even being sarcastic. The humans of his world only ended up on their planet as they had fled Earth due to pollution and over crowding. Whatever this was could be from the same situation and a city that large is a small one.]
tetractys: (OVZIMRMT)

[personal profile] tetractys 2016-07-27 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
IF THAT'S THE CASE, NOTHING YOU COULD HAVE DONE COULD POSSIBLY HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE!
goldenglasses: (I hate it when the donut is a lie)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-27 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah pro-- yeah. [That would have been a bit smoother if he was awake. His subconscious automatically not believing that as if he wasn't there the city would still be standing.

It was something he wasn't comfortable talking about awake. Let alone when his mind is having trouble focusing. So he agrees with Bill in hopes of moving on.]
tetractys: (HVVRMT NV GLMRTSG)

[personal profile] tetractys 2016-07-28 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I MEAN, SHEESH, HOW SELF-CENTERED CAN YOU HUMANS BE? "BOO HOO, EVERYTHING'S MY FAULT." THE UNIVERSE DOESN'T REVOLVE AROUND YOU, YA KNOW!

[Bill cackles, and the tinny, nasal laugh seems to bounce off the walls.]
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (Ideas forming! And that is never good!)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-29 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[And there's the 100% confirmation Vash needed. He would never call himself human. Even in a dream. He was pretty sure by now this guy was an invader and that just sealed the deal.]

You got a point there. Humans do tend to do that sometimes. [There. Not really denying or confirming he isn't human. That works.]

So what are you then my new pointy, yellow friend?
tetractys: (ZMW BLF TVG YORMWVW YB GSV UOZHS KSLGL)

[personal profile] tetractys 2016-07-29 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH, KID! NOT EVEN BETWEEN FRIENDS!

[Bill lounges in mid-air, leaning on his little cane.]

WHY SHOULD I TELL YOU THAT WHEN YOU WON'T TELL ME WHAT I WANT TO KNOW?
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (Not a single clue)

[personal profile] goldenglasses 2016-07-30 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
That's too bad. Who wouldn't love a free lunch? Especially if it's donuts. Mmhmm. I could go for donuts.

I guess that's because I'm confused. What do you want? A free lunch? I think we could dream up one of those! I had a dream about raining donuts once. It was one of my favorite dreams!
tetractys: (KRXGFIV LU)

[personal profile] tetractys 2016-07-30 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
DIDN'T I ALREADY TELL YOU YOU'RE NOT FOOLING ANYBODY?

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