01<@Ardweden> [Day: Wednesday/Thursday, September 22/23. Time: Midnight.] 01<@Ardweden> [You awaken in the Haven, one evening before a full moon. There's a hat on the floor and some light coming through the windows. You have a plan - well, possibly. Let's see what it is. Or not!] 01<@Ardweden> [Session Start!] Any one know why it's always midnight? 06* Kali testdraws her sword, then puts it back away at her side, patting her side and glancing at Imp. "Hmm?" 06* Susano-o blinks, and shakes his head. "That's when we're all definitely asleep?" 06* Hien rolls her head on her neck. "The witching hour?" 06* Kali glances a little bit at Hien as she says that and then subconsciously runs her hand (upper righty) through where her hair would be before realizing it and grabbing her hand, holding it sheepishly to her side. "Y-yeah. Probably." 06* Hien lets out a gravelly sigh. "Anyhow, scouting tonight, and hopefully the dreams won't all be mixing together." 06* Imp shrugs. "What are we doing?" You did zay your sister was in ze city, non? That's what it felt like. 06* Kali nods. "Considering what happened last time...should we keep it short?" I mean...in the real world I mean. I think so. If we can help it, that is. 06* Susano-o nods. "If we can. I think we should." 06* Kali rubs her arm slightly. Actually both her arms. With both her other arms. "Don't wanna think like that..." Well, it's more like it's just hard to tell how much time is passing in the real world. 06* Susano-o starts walking towards the door. "But if we do that again, where we wake up so late... I don't want to know what my parents will do. They were scared." 06* Imp frowns. "So if we're going to invade some ones privacy like the mean girls stealing a diary let's fucking do it." 06* Kali glances at Imp for a moment. "What the hell's into *you* today?" 06* Hien rolls her eyes and heads for the door. Maybe I don't like jumping blindly into these dreams like last time. Who knows who we were seeing 06* Kali sighs and turns towards the door. "The Great Imp. Worried about other people. Never thought I'd see the day." She walks towards it. 06* Susano-o opens the door, and holds it open for the others. 06* Joan heads on through. 06* Hien walks through the door. 06* Imp follows through. 06* Susano-o will head through last, after everyone else! 01<@Ardweden> [You step into the mist and into the Square, daylight(?) shining down on you. It looks... normal. Disturbingly so. The buildings are crooked, but only a little. The sky is actually a crisp blue, with no clouds in sight, and a nearly full moon is hanging in the sky instead of the sun.] 06* Imp glances at Susano-o. 01<@Ardweden> [Clarification: Ashgate Square.] 06* Susano-o looks around, and back down at Imp, then at Hien. "Is this right?" 06* Kali steps out and looks around, then frowns a little bit and looks at Hien. "Were you concentrating on where we needed to go?" I don't know. What were you thinking of? You opened the door. I was thinking about Natalie. So... maybe she's moved on? Or maybe this is part of the city in some way? I can't understand regular geography, so I'm not even going to try to understand it in dreams. 06* Hien closes her eyes and concentrates on her sister again. 06* Kali frowns. "Maybe Imp's right and it's the person who opens the door, not the person who goes through first." Did that happen when we were going after Tony? 06* Susano-o blinks, and looks slightly panicked. "I was thinking about Hien, though! And what we were doing!" But you don't know Natalie well, do you? 06* Imp seems to stare at Kali for a bit, then shakes his head. "Hien what do you think?" No... I only really met her once or twice. 06* Hien opens one eye. "I'm not sure. I don't usually open the door. But I'm trying to feel her out right now." Perhaps we should go back in? 06* Susano-o looks off into the distance, hands tight by his side, before looking at Hien pleadingly. 06* Hien opens her eyes. "I feel her. That way." She points in (gasp!) a direction *away* from the door! 06* Kali looks at Hien for a moment and blinks. "Really?" She looks skeptical for a moment (this *is* Hien we're talking about) but follows eventually. 06* Susano-o looks massively relievedly, if not entirely convinced. You are certain? 06* Hien understands the skepticism. "Really." And she heads thatway! 06* Susano-o follows that way, then, still feeling rather relieved. 06* Joan follows. 06* Imp shrugs and moves along with the group, on his own two feet. 01<@Ardweden> [Imp gradually starts to fall behind because he just doesn't walk as quickly as the others.] 06* Imp refuses to say anything just moving along. 06* Susano-o lags behind a little so that there's not too much of a gap. 01<@Ardweden> [You leave the Square but are still surrounded by buildings, gradually switching out to sand and stone, and overrun with plants. The air becomes hot, still and incredibly humid. Huge shapes loom above you. They look like... dinosaurs? Maybe? Yeah, that's what they are, as one cranes its neck to look (way) down at Hien in the lead.] 06* Susano-o wilts slightly in the heat and humidity, but keeps following. 06* Hien looks back at the dinosaur. "Hi there!" 01<@Ardweden> [It roars. Or groans? It's hard to say... dinosaur. But it leans its head down more to peeeer at Hien, coming within only feet of her. Its breath has a powerful, foul smell to it.] 06* Hien blinks a few times and tries not to recoil. "We're cousins or something?" 06* Imp is glaring daggers at the groups back by now ignoring the dino. 06* Kali looks at the dinosaur for a moment, speaking off-hand to Hien. "You speak dinosaur?" I figure I speak dragon and that might be close. 06* Susano-o stops to peer at it, but stays back from Hien. You speak... what? 06* Hien looks at the dinosaur. "We're looking for my sister. She's probably a human right now, though, not a dragon like me." 01<@Ardweden> [Imp catches up with the rest of the group! Go him!] 06* Kali looks over at Hien. "You sure about that?" 01<@Ardweden> [The dinosaur snorts and chews on its tree(?) Whatever it is, it's an enormous plant. Some leaves and vines fall from its dino-mouth.] Well on ze bright side, at least it's a herbivore. 06* Hien looks at Kali. "That's why I said probably." She looks up at the dinosaur. "Guess he's busy." She proceeds onward. 06* Imp just glares more daggers at Joan and tries to keep up with Hien. Yeah. Let's hope we don't run into a dinosaur who's a little less busy. 06* Susano-o nods a couple of times, peering off at it, and then starts following Hien again. "I thought they had feathers." Maybe dream dinosaurs don't always. Dream dinosaurs are probably whatever the dreamer thinks of. Though, I'll be honest, going through this makes me admit I don't know *how* the hell dreams work anymore... 06* Susano-o squints, and nods. "And they might not even work like real dreams," he says, walking along. 06* Kali closes her eyes and rubs her forehead with bottom lefty. "I don't even know if there's such a thing as "real dreams" anymore." Maybe zey're not dinosaurs at all. Maybe zey're animatroniques. 06* Susano-o nods. "But... when we don't come here, we still have normal dreams. There have to be dreams." He looks at Joan, unsure. 06* Joan shrugs back at Susano-no. "And why not? Do you zink no one ever dreams of robots?" 06* Hien keeps on truckin'. She totally knows where she's going, yep! No, I... I didn't know that's what you meant. Some one just watched the old dinosaur movies. Nat did like dinosaurs when she was younger. So did I. I think a lot of kids go through that phase. 01<@Ardweden> [You can trust Hien! She TOTALLY knows where she's going!] What if all dreams are like this though, just not lucid and dangerous? 06* Kali follows Hien. Then it's okay. Right? Dreaming of dinosaurs. It's fine. Or of robots. Or of robot dinosaurs, or dinosaur robots. 01<@Ardweden> [Hien leads the way for an indeterminate amount of time, straight to a sheer cliff. Next to you, inexplicably, is a waterfall, also straight down. And below - like a few hundred feet below - is what looks like even more city, with more vegetation (but probably not dinosaurs). Swirling lights seem to be chasing each other in the streets, but they don't look like cars.] 01<@Ardweden> [Above, the sky is dark again, though lit with an incredible number of twinkling stars.] 01<@Ardweden> [And a nearly full moon.] 06* Susano-o looks around, agog. Okay, this is actually super pretty. Shall we dive down? Sure. 06* Hien looks at the non-flying, non-telemporting group members. "Who wants me to take them down first?" 06* Susano-o looks at Joan. "You can go. It turns out I, uh, can." 06* Kali sighs. "One of these days, I'm going to have to learn how to carry one of you up and down with me." Alright. 06* Kali looks down. "Though...uh...I think that's too far even for me." 06* Hien offers an arm to Joan. 06* Susano-o concentrates for a second, and then straightens his arms by his sides. "So you'll go with Hien next?" 06* Joan takes it. "Going down." 06* Hien gently lifts Joan, spreads her wings, and glides down to the city below. 06* Imp shrugs and just spreads his wings and starts gliding down* 06* Kali nods. "I'm guessing that would probably be best." 06* Hien sets Joan down when she reaches the bottom, then heads back up for the next passenger. 06* Susano-o looks at her for a beat, and says, "Do you want me to wait?" 06* Joan arrives at the bottom and looks around. 01<@Ardweden> [Hien starts gliding down, and after some time she lands only a block away from where she intended. Not bad! The ground is cobblestone and kind of wet due to splashing from the waterfall. There's an iron railing nearby and after that, a river winding alongside the road they're standing on.] 06* Kali gives Susano-o an odd look for a moment. "Uh. I guess. If you want to." She sighs. "Maybe I can work on teleporting further somehow. I don't even know how this works..." 06* Joan shrugs at Hein. "I will be fine." 06* Hien nods, and *now* she heads back up for the next passenger. 06* Susano-o waits, and looks out at the waterfall. "There's probably a way to train. Like anything, right?" 01<@Ardweden> [Susano-O looks, and there's a rainbow in that waterfall.] I'm guessing. Or maybe it's a "growth" thing. I dunno. 06* Kali verbalizes airquotes way too well. 06* Susano-o smiles, and points off at it. "See that?" And he glances back at her. "Maybe. You'll just feel it some time. Like me with the flying. I don't know if I could do that at first, and I didn't notice, or if it was, uh. Growth." 06* Kali turns to look at Susano-o for a moment and gets a slight toothy grin. "Careful. You're starting to sound a little too much like Javy in that form." 06* Susano-o shakes his head, and looks off at the rainbow again. "Sorry. I just do not know that thing with my voice like you can." 06* Hien arrives back at the top of the cliff. 06* Kali loses the grin and tilts her head at Susano-o for a moment. "Like I can?" She looks confused for a moment, then notices her ride's here. 06* Susano-o nods. "The way you said growth, I have no idea how to say it like that." He steps to the edge. "I'm still different here, no worries." 06* Hien lands and waves. "Ready?" 06* Susano-o nods. "I'll follow you. So we end up in the same place." 06* Kali laughs a little. "Oh." She smiles. "That's just because I'm fluent in sarcasm." She goes over to Hien. "Ready." 06* Susano-o nods as well. 06* Hien lifts Kali and takes off. "See you at the bottom!" she calls to Susano-o. 06* Joan is just chillin'. 06* Kali holds on tight to Hien. She's got plenty of arms to hold on tight with! 06* Susano-o launches off, and follows along behind for now. 01<@Ardweden> [Hien heads down! It looks close (but not exactly) like her previous path, but then she's not entirely sure where she's going and she's ALMOST COMPLETELY certain it's that way, if that way means into the waterfall, but really, that's totally where she went. She knows it.] 01<@Ardweden> [Susano-O, following along, spots Joan down on the road.] 06* Susano-o calls out towards the other pair, "Hien? I think I see Joan that way?" Oh? Huh. 06* Hien attempts to correct her course. 06* Susano-o corrects on his own, and goes towards Joan himself. 01<@Ardweden> [Hien corrects but still gets a good backful of water on the way (possibly Kali as well). It's saltwater.] 06* Kali looks at the waterfall and her eyes widen as she starts to yell and cover herself for impact, then glances Javyward and looks relieved as Hien corrects her course. 06* Hien flaps a bit harder to shake off some water and heads towards Joan. 06* Susano-o flies down with hopefully less incident! 06* Kali frantically squirms with her arms, yelling up. "Are you trying to *kill* me, Hien?!? Geez!" Geh, sorry! I thought I was heading the right way! Don't squirm so much, or I might drop you and then I guess I would be trying to kill you! Unintentionally! 06* Kali yells back. "If I teleport just before I hit the ground, it might hurt less than *that*." Warn me if you feel the need to do it! 01<@Ardweden> [Following Susano-O, Hien manages to land only a short distance away from Joan and Imp. Thank goodness.] 06* Kali yells back. "Not something I want to test today, dammit!" 06* Imp looks up at the others. 06* Susano-o lands, and looks rather pleased with himself. "Hey. So you two are okay?" 06* Hien lands and sets Kali down as quickly as possible. "Yeah, let's hope it's not ever necessary." She looks at the others. "Okay, hang on a sec and let me get my bearings." 06* Kali gets back on the ground for a moment and steadies herself, stumbling a bit and muttering. "Thank god..." She breathes out a breath and then lets out a quick "Fine" to Susano-o. 06* Susano-o nods to Kali, and then looks back up the waterfall admiringly. 06* Kali turns away from the waterfall and holds herself with all her arms. Too close to flying into it for death to find it beautiful right now kthx. 06* Susano-o stops after a bit, and looks at Hien curiously, waiting for new orders. Okay. I'm *pretty* sure we need to go this way, along the river. I mean, that's where I feel she's coming from, but... it's me, so... well, for lack of a better idea, we might as well go this way, right? 06* Kali turns to look at the river, eventually then looks at where it leads. "Well...it *should* be harder to get lost if we just follow the river..." 06* Susano-o nods, looking off down the river. "If you think she's down the river, then we should go with that." 06* Joan nods with Susano-o. Sure, that way. How well do you guys think you remember the route to this point? 06* Susano-o considers. "Pretty well. I think I could do it again. If you pointed us in the right direction to start." Well... Maybe we should see what's at the end of the river first. I mean there's no guarentee this is the *only* waterfall here. True. You guys think we've got enough time to keep going? It is up to you. I do not think we 'ave been 'ere long, 'owever. 06* Kali looks around now for whatever made the lights. I don't know, but let's do what we have to Down the river it is, then. 06* Susano-o nods, and makes ready to follow. 06* Kali makes her way down the river as well. 06* Joan goes as well and in addition to. 01<@Ardweden> [You head down. Down by the river. There are boats docked nearby, rocking in the waves, and little shops to your left, but the city looks essentially deserted and overgrown with flowers and vines (even on the boats), if beautiful.] 06* Imp frowns. "You sure she's here?" 01<@Ardweden> [Because the GM is too lazy to bother with rolls right now, over the lot of you ghosts the shadow of a raven. But it's gone as soon as you look up.] Now I'm definitely sure. 06* Kali glances upward for a second then back down levelly and over to Imp. "That answer your question?" Probably. 06* Susano-o looks up, and nods, feeling slightly uneasy. 06* Kali then looks back at Hien. "So...plan is...we rest up tomorrow and meet up at the Fringe, and then go in for sure the next day?" Now that we know where to go, should be easier from here.... 06* Kali pauses. "I hope..." 06* Joan nods. Sounds good I agree. 06* Susano-o nods. See you guys in school. 06* Susano-o smiles. "Yeah. Try to get some rest in." 06* Kali nods and half-smiles. "I suppose so..." 06* Imp sighs. "Yeah. School." Good night! 01<@Ardweden> [And they wake up.] 01<@Ardweden> [Session End!]