01<@Ardweden> [Day: Monday, September 20. Time: 3:50 p.m.] 01<@Ardweden> [Earlier that day, Sydney let you guys know that Natalie's been awfully tired lately, and people decided they wanted to clue Nate in! Oh, and Tyler cornered Tiffany and made her agree TO DO SOMETHING TERRIBLE (probably not that terrible, or is it?). Anyway, people filled Hank in at the lockers when the bell rang, and now you're meeting up in the library, in your now usual study room.] 01<@Ardweden> [Session Start!] 06* Tyler will follow Tiffany inside the library, looking just as smug and flippant as ever. 06* Hank arrives at the library, having been clued in on... something. 06* Tiffany heads in and takes her hood off her hoodie, unzipping it, since presumeably it's warmer in here. 03* CiarAFK is now known as Sydney 06* Sydney heads to the library from the bathroom, having managed to not get too terribly lost this time. 06* Javy heads into the normal room, with a whole lot of bags - his backpack, his sports bag, and his oboe case. He does manage to open the door, though. 06* Tyler just glances at Tiffany, following her. He at least seems good. 01<@Ardweden> [Nate holds the door open once Javy props it. "You sure you don't want me to hold one of those?" he asks, probably not for the first time. Nate, himself, has a jacket on and his backpack. That's about it.] 06* Javy looks at him gratefully. "It's okay. Um. We're here anyway." 01<@Ardweden> ["Yeah." Nate looks around, appreciatively. "I've always liked the study rooms here."] 06* Javy heads in, and starts putting his stuff down. "They're... it's nice. Um. Quiet." 06* Hank happens to be near the door. "'Sup Javy, Nate?" He'd probably tip his hat if he had one. And, y'know, they were girls. 01<@Ardweden> [Nate grins. "Yup." And he waves. "Hey, Hank. How've you been?"] 06* Tiffany sets her backpack in the room as she gets in next to one of the chairs. "Hey. You made it." 06* Tyler slips in around Tiffany moving away from Hank. 06* Javy puts his bag on the table in front of him for now, and settles into a chair. "Hey Hank." 06* Hank shrugs at Nate. "Busy and tired, mostly. Stuff goin' on at home." 01<@Ardweden> [Nate grabs a chair next to Javy. "Yeah?"] 06* Hank nods. "Yup." 06* Sydney enters the study room. "Hey, everyone." 01<@Ardweden> [Nate smiles at Sydney. "Afternoon, Syd."] 06* Javy waves to Syd, as well! 06* Hank also, in addition, takes a seat as well! So why are we here? 06* Sydney sits down at the table. She looks a little apprehensive, but not as aggravated as she was earlier. 06* Sydney looks at Tyler, then at Nate. "Well, for starters... my sister, Natalie... it looks like the same thing that happened to Nate and Tony is happening to her. So we need to stop it as quickly as possible." Means going into her dreams soon. 06* Hank nods. "Aight. Let's do it tonight." I want to go tonight. 06* Tyler frowns looking abit uncomfortable but nods. It wouldn't hurt to actually check it out tonight... 06* Tiffany sighs and scuffles her foot on the floor. Even if it's just to get recon. I still want to go. 01<@Ardweden> [Nate glances at Tiffany.] I guess. What's Nate going to do? Watch... 06* Tyler pauses and looks at Nate and Javy. "er Watch Javy to make sure he isn't harmed? Does it work like that?" Oh he was going to say something different. 06* Javy looks from Sydney to Tyler and then most of the way to Tiffany, and then back to Tyler. "He... no, I don't think, um. It doesn't. Right?" 06* Tiffany glances at Nate for a moment and sighs, shaking her head. "No. He's...actually got some info that we were talking about earlier..but..." Yeah. The other thing is research. 06* Hank looks to Nate. "Yeah? What's up?" 01<@Ardweden> [Nate blinks. "Honestly, I'm not really sure? I just came here because Tiffany was saying something about looking into the Oneiros, and when I asked why she said it's complicated."] 06* Tiffany breathes a bit. "Do you remember a raven in your dream, Nate?" 01<@Ardweden> [He frowns, thinking.] 06* Javy looks at him, curious, and waits. 01<@Ardweden> [And then Nate reaches for his backpack, opening it to pull out some notebooks. He finds the one he wants and starts flipping through it.] 06* Tiffany watches Nate curiously. For a moment, she looks like she might be slightly impressed. 06* Sydney pulls out her own notebook and pen. 01<@Ardweden> [After another minute, he says, "Ah," stops on a page, and slides it towards the center of the table. The picture it's open on is a representation of the Raven, complete with its patented Raven Stare. "I knew I drew one."] Yep, that's the guy. You did see it! 06* Tiffany looks at the Raven. "That's the one. Kind of stands out, doesn't he?" 06* Tiffany frowns slightly. "That's Phobetor. Or a representation of him at least. He called himself an 'aspect'" Phobetor? 01<@Ardweden> [Nate looks at the picture. "Yeah..." He pauses a moment, then adds, "Funny thing, though. I don't *remember* it, really. I drew that only a few hours after. Everything else, I think I remember pretty clearly. Like, you guys, and what you did. And the part at the end, with the-" He stops himself.] 06* Tiffany nods. "With the fire." She says it pretty casually. 06* Javy looks at Nate, concerned. 01<@Ardweden> [Nate nods. "Right, with the fire."] 06* Tyler watches Nate now. 06* Sydney swallows. 06* Tiffany pokes the picture in the center of the table. "This guy brought it. And what we can't figure out is...for some reason, that's a *good* thing." 01<@Ardweden> [Nate removes his glasses and starts cleaning them. "Yeah?"] 06* Tiffany nods and glances at Nate, her voice getting quieter. "Yeah. You're *here*, aren't you?" 06* Javy doesn't say anything, but he turns to look at Tiffany, now, with about the same level of concern, but some confusion, too. 06* Tiffany doesn't respond to Javy's look of concern, too focused on looking at Nate. 01<@Ardweden> [Nate pauses in his cleaning, then goes back to it. "So, you're saying it's not because of you guys?"] Well, it kinda is Well, we helped fight... something. 06* Tiffany shakes her head as he breaks the silence. "Not entirely. We help things along, sure." 06* Javy nods along with the others. If'n this dude coulda done all this by himself, he wouldn't be needin' us small folkes, I reckon. We distracted the minor bads for you to get saved 01<@Ardweden> [Nate checks his lenses in the light, then puts his glasses back on. "Okay, hold up. So you're saying, basically, that you guys go in and help Phobetor, or that Ravenish aspect of him, start up nightmares."] Pretty much. 06* Tiffany tilts her head. "See why I thought it better to explain it here and not in the lunch room?" 01<@Ardweden> [He nods, not particularly weirded out. "Sure. So, what's the problem?"] So...if Phobetor's the one who's on this side...could that mean one of the other Oneiros are on the other side of this, causing people to be trapped in the first place? Oooh. I hadn't thought of that. Could be. 06* Sydney writes it down. 01<@Ardweden> [Nate shrugs. "It'd make some amount of sense. I mean, there's three of them, and if this raven's an aspect... well, it'd be reasonable to assume there's more than one. And maybe more than one for Morpheus and Phantasos, too."] So...let's say it's Morpheus who's doing it. What the hell's Phantasos doing all this time? Backgammon? 01<@Ardweden> [Nate blinks. "Visiting people on LSD and shrooms?" He might not be joking.] wait, what? Or it could be the other way around. Either way... 06* Tiffany bites her lip. "One way or the other, there's one of them unaccounted for...not doing anything..." The third one could be staying neutral, or one of them could have taken him out. Sealed him away somewhere. 06* Tiffany frowns at Sydney's comment, but doesn't respond to that. 06* Javy nods. "Or... or they don't know. Just. They're out of it." 06* Tiffany nods slightly. ...what if it's the walrus? 01<@Ardweden> [Nate clearly has no idea who this 'walrus' is.] 06* Tiffany sighs. "Don't think that thought hadn't crossed my mind too." Doubt it. 06* Tyler looks at tiffany. "Then, please, tell me what it's wrong." He sounds a little desperate. 06* Javy says softly to Nate, "I'll tell you later." 06* Tiffany blinks. "What?" She looks at him. "I don't think you're wrong, Tyler. I just think we don't have enough information." She frowns and bites her lip again. "All of this is just something to think about. And the more eyes we have looking for it, the better." 01<@Ardweden> [He nods to Javy.] And there's still the whole mystery with Scathach to clear up. But...at least it feels like we're *onto* something here... 06* Tiffany glances at Nate. "Look, you seem to know a lot about the Oneiros. Can you kind of gather up everything you know so we can check it out later?" 06* Sydney takes a few more notes. 06* Tyler sighs. "Would those three status help? They said they were gods." 06* Tiffany nods to Tyler. "That's right, you weren't at the table when we talked about it. We think they're the Oneiros. That's why we're here." 06* Tiffany frowns for a moment. "That's right. That means one of them's Phobetor..." What IS that word? 06* Tiffany reaches in her backpack, takes out the book that she dog-eared and slides it on the table over to Tyler. "Pass it onto Hank when you're done. He wasn't there either." 06* Javy looks at Tyler. "It's... that's one. Of them. Um. The Oneiros. Just, um... a name. You... yeah, you'll see." 06* Tyler takes the book and starts looking at it. 06* Tyler will finish up and push it over at Hank. 01<@Ardweden> [Nate's been looking at the raven in his notebook. He looks up, belatedly, and says, "Sure, Tiffany. But I'm not really an expert or anything."] 06* Tiffany smiles at Nate. "You know more than I do, and I've pretty much been looking up this stuff for over a solid week." 06* Hank glances through the book roight quick like. 01<@Ardweden> ["I guess... it's a hobby. Anyway, I'll put together some notes."] 06* Javy nods. "I can... if you want me to come help. Like. Answer anything." Okay, so....what do we do tiff tiff. Do we keep doing this? Is there some one we should look fo? 01<@Ardweden> ["Sure," Nate says to Javy with a smile. He goes back to his pictures, flipping through them.] 06* Tiffany frowns. "I'm not the leader, Tyler." 06* Tiffany sighs. "But if I were to say, I think Sydney's sister takes priority. We look into this when we're not worried about another person falling asleep. Or if anything comes out during the dream." 06* Sydney nodnodnods. Don't you find it odd that only one person at a time is getting this? I think that person at the statues would be good to check out too...if we drop some names that we know now...Phobetor, Phantasos, Morpheus...we might get more info... 06* Tiffany suddenly frowns at Tyler's comment and looks at him. Maybe they can only do one at a time. Maybe... Or only one new person at a time that we know about. 06* Hank folds his arms. "'S pretty clear we're bein' targetted though." Yeah, well I'm not going to let whoever it is scare me off. 06* Tiffany frowns. "That's what I thought too..." I don't think we are. Or we're missing people.... 06* Javy nods, too. "I... no. I don't think, they, they are. It's... there are others. Right? The others that... no?" 06* Tiffany turns to look at Hank for a moment. "I...hate to say this, Hank. But keep an eye on Susanna, would you?" Since we got involved? 06* Hank nods to Tiffany. "Yeah." Look, it's not us. We're not the targets. We got pulled in because we were what he could get at the moment. The town was being hit before us. This is just more of that. It might be stronger since we are us, but I don't think we are being targeted directly. Not yet. 06* Tiffany gets quiet at Tyler's statement. 06* Javy nods at Tyler. "I... yeah. Like... yeah. I agree." And the last three just happened t' coincidentally be close acquaintances, 's that right? If they were targeting us, they wouldn't go for Nate and Tony. They would hit bigger targets... Nate, are you happy? 06* Tyler looks at Hank. "What if they went for the school bus driver." 01<@Ardweden> [Nate blinks, and then says, "What?" Because really, what kind of question is that?] Then there'd be something about it in the news, wouldn't there? I don't think they're trying to *kill* people, Tyler. Lure them into the dream realm, keep them there for whatever reason, sure. But I don't think dead people dream. Look, I know Tony wasn't happy. I know he isn't happy. Are you happy? I'm trying to figure out why you. 'School bus driver succumbs t' mysterious coma, joins other victims in hospital.' or somesuch. So I don't think they'd be trying to cause an accident by making the bus driver really sleepy. 06* Tyler nods at Hank. "Exactly, and that would be a more direct attack on us. Making our friends stay in the dream realm isn't an attack on us. It isn't directed at us. It might be an effect from us being who we are, but that's about it." ...or am I totally running off on the wrong idea here? 01<@Ardweden> [Nate shrugs. "I'm pretty happy, yeah. I've got my comic going, I might paint one of the doors next year, doing pretty well in school, no real problems with my family, and nobody seems to hate me."] 06* Tyler frowns looking at Nate. He's thinking. Wait. Wait wait wait wait wait. My dream. The one the Raven woke me out of... it was pretty good. I ain't convinced. Like... everything that could go right in life was going right. 06* Hank peers at Sydney. "Hey yeah, mine too." It wasn't unusual stuff, either, just good regular stuff. 06* Tiffany frowns more. She doesn't answer the question. Stuff I'd hoped would happen, but not, like, winning the lottery or getting a basketball scholarship or anything like that. Just... a really, really good day. 01<@Ardweden> [Nate pulls out another notebook and flips to a blank page, looking at it thoughtfully.] 06* Tyler frowns not looking up at Sydney. "I...thought of that too." His voice is soft. And I'm not really unhappy. There's things I wish were going better, and things I could use to work on, but on the whole I'd say I'm doing pretty good. That..that doesn't' seem like Tony's dream at all. 06* Tiffany keeps frowning. Then finally speaks up, softly. "Nothing that happened in my dream...could have been real." How you figure? He was pretty happy. That was true in Tony's dream too... 06* Javy looks at Tiffany straight on, and curious. "So... was... yours was... different? Like... worse?" No. It was just a day for us. Tony... tony's wasn't just a day. Nate's wasn't just a day either. He was publishing his comic wasn't he? 06* Tiffany looks at Javy. Then shakes her head. "No...not worse...it was perfect. Unbelievably perfect." 01<@Ardweden> [Nate flips back in the notebook to a page with writing on it, looking at that now.] Wasn't just a day for me. I was startin' a new school. 06* Javy looks nonplussed for a second, and then nods slowly. "Okay. Um... so. Like... dream perfect?" Yeah...it was like... But it wasn't special. That's the thing. Tony's was special. Nate's was special. 06* Tiffany thinks for a moment. "Like...you go into a room, and everything's spotless and gleaming and shiny and you don't remember cleaning it." And it's shining more than you know you could ever possibly get. But that's not what you wanted. That's not what would make you happiest forever. 01<@Ardweden> [Nate speaks up, softly, looking at his notebook, "It might not've started special." He pushes his glasses up and rubs at his eyes. "Ugh. I wish I had a dream journal going regularly *before* all of this."] 06* Javy opens his mouth to reply to Tiffany, but looks at Nate instead questioningly. 06* Tiffany gestures at Tyler. "That's just the thing...it was like a movie studio. It was perfect....and just so...fake." 06* Sydney 's cell phone beeps and she looks down at it. "Ah. Just got a text from my mom. She's waiting to pick me up." She closes her notebook and stands up. "I'll see most of you guys tonight? And you tomorrow, Nate?" 06* Tyler frowns and looks at Tiffany. "Was...was Tony's fake?" He was actually asking. 01<@Ardweden> [Nate looks about ready to explain, then gets distracted by Sydney. "Sure, Syd. See you tomorrow."] 06* Sydney waves and heads out. 06* Tiffany gets quieter. "Yeah...that's what I said...but he didn't...I mean...we couldn't convince him it was fake." Nope. 06* Javy waves back to her, but looks back at Nate after. "Maybe... what were you... uh. Nate?" 01<@Ardweden> [Once Sydney's gone, Nate looks at Javy. "Yeah. Look, I need you to clear up something for me. How long was I out of it?"] 06* Tyler is quiet now just staring at the table, tracing a meaningless pattern out with his hand. 06* Javy thinks. "Just, um... it was... a few days? That's... about that, yeah. 01<@Ardweden> ["Right, and I probably had to spend more time having those... kinds of dreams, caused by whatever, before I actually got that tired."] It's not exactly something you brag about. So. You... it was... did it get, um, better? Over time? "Hey, you know what? I've been having these awesome personal dreams lately." 06* Tyler stands up and shakes his head. "you guys figure this out. I'll see you tonight. Same place. Same time." 06* Tiffany nods to Tyler. 01<@Ardweden> ["Right - see you, Tyler - so, it could have? I remember being confused for a couple of days, about whether or not I was awake or not." Nate chuckles slightly. "And then I was confused because I was just so tired."] 06* Javy waves to Tyler, and then looks back to Nate. "Yeah. So... it, it drew you in. Like that." 06* Tyler heads out away. 01<@Ardweden> ["Maybe." He flips through his pages. "I didn't exactly keep a record."] 06* Tiffany shakes her head. "It's not like you'd be expecting it or anything. It's fine." 06* Hank checks his watch. "Crap, gotta go." He stands up and leaves, waving as he goes. "Catch ya tonight." If... like, that... it starts off like that, then... then you couldn't know. And... so we can't tell... not really. Either. 01<@Ardweden> [Nate nods. "See you later, Hank."] 06* Javy looks up at Hank, and then at the others. Is everyone leaving? 06* Tiffany glances at Hank for a moment. She then frowns. "Well, that's almost everyone..." 06* Javy nods. "I guess... uh. We can talk more, ah, later. If... is there more we... should we talk more now? With Nate here?" I think that's pretty much everything I can think of... I think we should talk to that woman who was looking over the statues when we get a chance though... 01<@Ardweden> [Nate nods and stands. "Okay. I'll see about getting you guys some notes."] Okay. 01<@Ardweden> [He starts gathering his things.] 06* Javy nods to him. "Thanks, Nate." 01<@Ardweden> [He grins at Javy. "Hey, no problem. Just glad I could help without dream walking powers."] 06* Javy smiles back at him. "You... yeah. It's a big help." 06* Tiffany grins. "We're a little preoccupied with things on that end of things." 01<@Ardweden> [Session End!]