Deep Dreams Are Made of These - Open

[tempredmental]

Who: Keith, Huntress crew, Shiro, open text message
Broadcast: Text
Action: Huntress
When: The night of and morning after the visions/nightmares

[Darkness. Stars. It’s nighttime and the ground trembles. A deep underlying sense of panic permeates everything, tangible in the way your limbs shake and the expressions on people’s faces, though specific features seem to melt away. The darkness turns to red, and the red turns to fire… fire everywhere, uncontrollable and hungry. It burns at your limbs and for a brief second, you see a world-- a planet-- engulfed in a wave of red-orange death.

The background noise is a strange alien wailing, neither male nor female, but it is deep and you find you can almost understand the words. They are strong enough to be word-feelings, which makes them a little hard to concentrate on with the chaos otherwise found in the vision.

<Fire.> <Run.> <Help.>]

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on the huntress

[Keith jumped up in bed with a yell, breathing hard. He didn't have nightmares often, but that sure was one. He rubbed his face. Was that... tears? He looked at his hands for a moment, noticing that they were trembling. Keith hesitated, but then eventually reached for the communicator.

After speaking with Shiro, he made his way out to the common area for a bit. He needed to get out of his room. After the common area, he went to the shuttle bay to beat up the punching bag for a bit.]

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private to Shiro

hey

are you awake

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next morning, after seeing a few posts on the network

so a few people had these nightmare vision things

i think we should compare what we saw

Comments

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[deviances]

I'm cool with sharing
especially since this seems less and less like a coincidence when it's this damn many of us

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[tempredmental]

yeah

im just wondering how that would work best

we have a stash of information in the lecture hall on the iskaulit

maybe we could meet there

[tsunergy]

[One would think that, it being the middle of the night (or perceived night anyway, since they're back in deep space with no real day-night cycle), the ship would be quiet with everyone asleep. But Keith's not the only one who gets awoken by bad dreams sometimes, even if they're not sent from an outside source. Usually Mikleo prefers to stay in his room, let Sorey keep him company or just try to get back to sleep, but some nights are spent elsewhere: in the kitchen, in the water room on the Iskaulit, or sometimes, like tonight, in the lounge.

He's tucked away in the corner, reading a book so quietly his presence could easily go unnoticed at first. He looks up as Keith enters, however, surprised at first, then concerned. What's he doing up so late?]

Are you okay?

[tempredmental]

Hm?

[Keith definitely looked... off. He was pretty shaken and, having woken up in the middle of the night, he was tired, but there was no way he was getting back to sleep after that. He shrugged, trying to make it seem less like he was off balance from this.]

Weird dreams, I guess. Not one I've had before, though.

[padadin]

[He's been avoiding the network since the noticed the nightmare talk, only glancing at it just in case something important may come up. He has his own issues with the topic, so this is one of those few occasions where he won't ramble an inspirational speech when someone needs it.

So yes, he's awake. And a private message, especially one from his dear teammates, won't go unnoticed. He replies pretty quickly.]

Yes, I am. Is everything ok?

[tempredmental]

have you seen the messages

you know

about the dreams and stuff

[Sorry, Shiro. Keith had a feeling this was going to be tough, but he didn't know who else to turn to.]

[moseyin]

It was a planet dying.

I've seen something like that before

[tempredmental]

in person?

[hollystrike]

[Katie's just going to attach a picture of a planet engulfed in a fiery red-orange death. It's easier than explaining.]

[tempredmental]

[That... that was his dream... like, exactly. It took him a moment to get over the shock.]

we had the same dream

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[musicalhost]

I agree.

I'd like to compile a complete list of each dream that seems to be out of place. The more details we have, the better chance we have of understanding.

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[tempredmental]

it seems some people are having the same ones as each other

like there are only a certain number

but some people are having the same ones and some people are having different ones

[luxoraculi]

The dream I had involved a forest, and creatures watching me.

[tempredmental]

what kind of creatures

could you tell

[video]

[the_tailor]

[That's right, not text. Video, so you can see Lance's concerned expression and hear the tone.]

You okay, Keith?

[private video]

[tempredmental]

[Keith debated answering via text again, but he didn't... he did make it private so only Lance could see, though.

He didn't look great... he clearly hadn't gone back to sleep after the nightmare woke him up, and he looked a bit shaken.]

I don't know. There seems to be a few of these things going around.

[At least he wasn't the only one. He hated the idea of him being the only one seeing this stuff or experiencing it. Sensing strange energy in the desert had been one thing, but now weird energy on the Marsiva, and nightmare visions that spelled doom... he was starting to wonder just how much more he didn't know about himself.]

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[alwayscomeback]

Yeah, I thought it was my fungus on a stick, but I guess it's an actual Atroma Thing. So. Wee. I can talk about it.

[tempredmental]

[ ... ]

fungus

on a stick

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[hollystrike]

[......hoooow does she put this. Without getting a massive headache.]

Are you sure it's an Atroma thing? This feels very different, doesn't it? Hasn't the Fleet been hit by outside forces before?

[When all else fails, phrase everything as a question.]

I am only a little bit sorry; Action. Sort of.

[bythewaves]

[ Hey Keith hey.

Did you want some company while you punch that bag.

Because you have it

Of a sort.

The vuvuzela is lonely. ]

omg

[tempredmental]

[Keith didn't notice it at first. That is... until it made itself known with a blast. It startled him wholeheartedly, and he fell back on his rear with yelp.]

What the quiznak?

[He turned to look back over his shoulder, spotting the horn near the door.

He was pretty sure that hadn't been there before. Had someone just blasted that thing at him and left? He frowned, glaring at it. Getting up, he stalked over, snatched it up, and put it out the door into the corridor beyond, then let the door close before going back to the punching bag.]

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[scanninggaydis]

Had one too, I'm not sure if it matches up with any others so far.

There was a planet. It seemed like it was dying. There were these shadows. I heard words. Or felt them. Mine had a lot of words, in bursts:

Come home together
wake together stay
sick death stop
sister

[This is all very bullshit. It might not even be the Atroma, but it's bullshit. Leave his dreams alone they're bad enough when they're just his.]

Re: text

[tempredmental]

i think i havent heard that one before

and thats a lot of words

helpful tho

i only got three words

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[pickingupgoodvibrations]

i had one

Re: text

[tempredmental]

[Shay...

Keith hadn't expected that. He almost felt bad she had one.]

are you ok with sharing it?

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[legs4days]

Yeah, I had one of those weird dream thingies. I thought I just ate something funny before bed.

It was super unsettling. Like, I saw a planet in my dreams and there was bunch of strange voices. Then I was in a forest surrounded by petrified plants with something watching me. Last thing I remember was running before I woke up.

Super creepy. No idea what any of it means.

Re: Text

[tempredmental]

did you get any words?

some people were getting words in theres

like feelings and stuff

[Oh, Hunk. Keith was honestly so relieved right now. He felt guilty about feeling relieved, and he also felt bad that Hunk had one of these stupid dream vision things, too, but damn... this meant it wasn't just because Keith was part alien, and that made him feel so much better.]