Player Plot: Anakin's Explosive Adventure

[alphaophiuchi]

As of day 261, the odd team of Draco Malfoy, Anakin Skywalker, and Boyd Crowder will have created something of an explosive device with the intention of flinging it up into the sky and detonating it in hopes of 'making some noise' and breaking through the barrier between the Wyld and Niflheim at least temporarily. After all, wasn't that part of the reason they couldn't use the earpieces to get word out that they were stuck?

Maybe. Maybe not.

At any rate, the Wyld is already known to not take terribly well to things, especially when they might be perceived as a threat. Surely everyone remembers the storm in response to the magic use! This is much of the same, more of the Wyld responding to a threat before it gets out of hand. And while the use of too much magic might not be an immediate threat, a explosive device definitely is.

That's why, not moments after the explosion goes off, a rather large swarm of bees will come down from the direction of the rainforest, and drop down on whatever candidates they may find. They don't distinguish between those who participated and those who didn't, but there is one silver lining to it: they only affect those outside in the Meadow at the time of the explosion, mid-day on day 261. Anyone who gets stung by these bees will fall asleep immediately, right where they are, and dream of home. People can also get caught in dreams together, and as in most dreams, nothing will seem amiss - you don't usually notice weird things in dreams until you wake up, after all. Why should you notice that your friend is home with you? That's perfectly normal!

It'll be up to your fellow PCs to analyse the bees, which will drop dead after stinging someone, and maybe find a cure to wake people up again. Should anyone take a look at them, they'll find a particularly interesting neurotoxin causing the sudden sleepiness. There's a good chance that an antidote can be made from what's available in the Wyld, but they will wake up sooner or later. Just give it a day or so.

This is a player-run plot, running with mod team permission.

FAQ

- How long is this plot running for?
It begins on day 261 and ends on the morning of 263. By then, everyone who wasn't already woken up by science will wake up on their own. OOCly, it runs from May 18 - 24.

- When will people wake up naturally?
In the morning of the third day after getting stung, PCs will slowly wake up, just like they had a really long nap. They may or may not remember the dreams they had, or they may remember just pieces of it. It's completely up to you.

- How long are the bees sticking around for?
Just a couple of hours, and then they're back off in the direction of the rainforest. If anyone should go try to find them, though, they'll have disappeared, almost as if they never existed before.

- My character is allergic to bees! What will happen to them?
These bees are special, and no allergic reactions will occur. The only adverse reaction is falling asleep and dreaming of home.

- What do the bees look like?
You know how normal bees look? Not like that. These bees are a little larger than usual, and though they're not quite ominous, they don't exactly look friendly either. Maybe it's that really loud buzzing that precedes them, or maybe it's the fact that the yellow stripes seem to be tinged with just a bit of bright orange. Either way, they're not something you want to mess with.

- Is there a limit to how many dreams a person can be in?
For the sake of how short the plot is, two or three is probably a good number to get involved in. Three is the maximum for now.

- Can a character be an NPC in other dreams, even though they've hit the limit for how many dreams they can be in?
Yes, providing you don't mind the other player whose dream they're in writing for your character. If you want to have your character present, definitely talk to the other player involved and make sure that they have a clear grasp on what you will and will not allow to happen in regards to that. Communication is key! In this case, the other characters may be aware of their being in the dream with your character when they wake up.

- My character isn't asleep! Can they still be in people's dreams?
As with the above, if you want your character to be a present NPC in another character's dream, please talk to the other player involved and make sure they know what they're allowed to assume for your character. In this case, your character will not remember what they went through in the other character's dream. They weren't really there, after all!

- My character is dead or believes themselves to be dead back home. What happens to them? Are they required to go 'home' with someone else?
No, they aren't required to go 'home' with someone else! It's up to you as a player, but if you'd like to have them return to a point where they weren't dead, then that's an option as well. Otherwise, you can have them go 'home' with someone else.

- Am I allowed to tweak my character's 'home' to make it more appealing to my character?
You are! Within reason, of course. For example, Draco wouldn't necessarily be happy with his home world when he left it right after the Second Wizarding War, but maybe there's been enough time between the war and when he 'returns', so he can actually enjoy it again. It's up to you, but try not to create too much of an alternate universe if you can help it.

- This sounds like the mindscape plot.
The one big difference between this and the mindscape plot back in the Temple is that characters will not be aware that anything is strange. They will think that being 'home' is a perfectly normal thing, even if it isn't actually their home. If your character goes 'home' with another, they will imagine themselves as always having lived there. The details of it aren't that important, though - it's a dream, remember!

If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask! Also, please use this post as a plotting post!

Comments

[alphaophiuchi]

Any further questions can be asked here!

[envy_the_sinners]

Super late question, here! If the dream the character is having is a completely normal occurrence, including the other character(s) involved, could/would the character be aware that it's a dream?

Draco Malfoy / Lydia Martin

[alphaophiuchi]

Draco Malfoy will obviously be falling asleep, right in the middle of the meadow. Poor boy spends so much time asleep lately.

His dream will be a picture-perfect version of his home post-War, a couple of years after to reflect the fact that he's not been home in roughly two and a half years now. It will also be his birthday, in order to accommodate the fact that Malfoy Manor is sort of in the Middle of Nowhere, England, and there will be a paaaarty. Because only in his dreams does he get massive birthday parties now, apparently. I'm open to having anyone come in and party hard with him, or to be NPCs.

Lydia Martin will also be falling asleep somewhere near the castle.

Her dream will feature Beacon Hills prominently, and will generally be a normal day of high school for anyone involved. That means no ridiculous supernatural goings-on for a change, save the fact that she goes to school with a bunch of werewolves. I'm open to anyone coming in and hanging out with her.

[lookingforhope]

Charles wants to go 'home' with Draco. Feel free to do as you wish. I trust you /hugs!

Christine and Ruby

[hypospraying]

Christine will fall asleep and dream of San Francisco. I'm going to skip ahead a bit of her AUed canon point to the end of Into Darkness and the re-dedication ceremony for the Enterprise. Your character can be a Starfleet officer too! Then (since it's a dream) we can skip ahead to the ship going out on its five year mission and our characters can hang out on the ship and do fun stuff.

Ruby will fall asleep and dream of Storybrooke. Your character can assume they're from the Enchanted Forest too and they're all trapped in town because they'll lose their memories if they cross the town line. Ruby has to work at the diner (lame) but she'll sneak your character free milkshakes and hang out when she can and then they can go to the White Rabbit (or is it The Rabbit Hole? I can never remember the name of the bar!) for drinks later.

I'm undecided if I want them cured early or to awaken on their own so I'm open to being persuaded one way or the other!

[investigatetime]

Sarah Jane Smith

I think I'm going to leave Sarah Jane out of this one. Perhaps have her chase the bees and try to wake people up? I'm open to have her appear in other dreams as a cameo or whatever.

Robb Stark

I've been playing him here with vague memories of the end of his time in canon. That being said, I think this would be an excellent plot for him to realize he's dead. /Sob does anyone want to do a retelling of the Red Wedding or a version thereof?

[ka_mai]

Heavily tempted by the idea of pitching Bert into Robb's dream.

[diana_abel]

Diana is going to be dreaming with Bucky, probably playing house either in the 2000s or the 1940s? She can cameo in other dreams, maybe?

Garmay will not be falling asleep. She's going to be around to aide in whatever version of TEAM SCIENCE is left to try to fix the rest of your sorry butts. She's not very smart, no. But she's great when it comes to fetching and carrying.

[andthenbriarrose]

Aurora will also not be falling asleep so her and Garmay can hang out and be all "WTF" together.

[thegreenwitch]

Nott Is avoiding anything to do with breaking out, so she'll be safely tucked away inside her house with the door locked. Any sounds of people getting stung, she'll be ignoring as she thinks anyone who wants to leave foolish.

Reinette She has a brand new house but is likely always working in her garden. For the sake of convenience, she'll be sitting out of this plot.

Margaery Oh boy, a brand new plot and something going horribly wrong! It's perfect! I'd like for her to specifically be part of someone's dream, as she did just come from home. Feel free to hit me up.

Tara I'd like her to be involved with someone's dream as well. She's long ago forgotten what it's like to have a home of her own.

[somepartsbroken]

DIBS ON REINETTE! Would you like his 'home' or hers?

[handymetacrisis]

Handy is going to wonder what the hell is wrong with all of you and try to fix this mess by analyzing a few bees.

Kenshin will be out of the plot mostly, but he'll be around to interact with those who are awake.

[kingofthenorth]

Sarah Jane wouldn't mind teaming up with the Doctor!

[solus_unus]

Caius is going to be travelling back home with Devi. He's available to tag along in someone else's trip home, as well.

Charles will be out analyzing bees! Because he's pretty damn good with that sort of stuff. Anyone want to tag along with him?

[andthenbriarrose]

Oooh, Aurora will be awake and this would be a fun semi-awkward way for them to finally meet.

[somepartsbroken]

Dorian Will be messing around in the garden when the bees come. So. he is going back to where he views 'home' more then anywhere else. Barwick Gerogia in a kind of run down plantation house It will be night because, well vampire. It is going to be the early 1930's because that was when he was happiest in the house. Just before he found Elisa

Zach will be open for npcing or waking people, since he will be in the castle when it all goes down.

[kingofthenorth]

I know we talked on plurk, but I wanted to post here too that Sarah Jane will make an appearance in his dream

[artistwithasickness]

Devi will be off dreaming with Caius, but if you want her to show up in yours, let me know. I'm totally down.

Matthew is open game to come into someone's or have someone come into his. His dream will be in Germany, early in his vampiric life.

Come at me bro.

[madame_de_pompadour]

I don't know if I can resist having Nott show up in Matt's dream

[abetterhappyending]

Maria will probably still be hiding safely away in her house with Ming, unless I find a way to get her out to help people after the bees are gone, but if anyone would be interested in having her as an NPC of sorts in their dream, I'd be up to talking about that. o7

Kate Cordello

[katerrifically]

Kate will be falling asleep outside of her cabin in her garden.

She will dream of eitehr New York, Westchester, the Danger Room. I'm not sure which. There will be Sentinels, however.

[somepartsbroken]

Zach might not go in her dream but he will likely go and put her back in bed in her cabin and leave... cause he's still hiding from Her, Charles and Draco. But if its okay I'd like him to find her.

[suspecteverything]

Joan: Definitely falling asleep. Because why not torture her a little bit more? Home for her will be the CIA more than her actual house though. If anyone feels like randomly turning up in the agency let me know.

Mary: Will not be falling asleep. She won't even know about the bees. However, it would be hilarious for her to wander into the meadow and find a lot of people looking like dead bodies. If anyone is interested in joining what is bound to be chaos with that and Mary, let me know!

[notimmortal]

Jansen here is new to the game but I'm up for some plotting since it might be an interesting way to meet this goofball. I'd definitely be up for him ending up in someone else's home and that would be better, but am open to someone ending up with him in Uhra as well (which is pretty much a normal RPG city but with magic energy powered technology).

[envy_the_sinners]

Hey! I thought it might be cool for Scar to meet Jansen. He's Kaim-style deathly serious, and... basically has no sense of humor. Would you maybe be interested in doing something? Scar's world is a steam-punk(ish) alternate version of Germany in the 1920s, and Scar is basically public enemy number 1, so that could make for some action if you want. Or they could go to Uhra, if none of that floats your boat!

[demolitions]

Boyd Crowder will be falling asleep, being directly on the spot, as it were. Tentatively (unless I think of something better), he'll be dreaming about blowing up meth labs with a rocket launcher, if anyone wants to help, or digs explode-y stuff.

[andthenbriarrose]

Aurora will actually not be falling asleep, because by god she is so sick of that nonsense. So she can be part of whoever remains, trying to figure out what's going on and take care of the sleepers, if anyone wants to plot for that. Also if you want to have her doing something with your character before to explain why she isn't in the meadow when the bees happen, I'm also up for suggestions there.

Frigga will be going home to Asgard slightly before the time of the films' canon - so when her family was still in ignorant bliss, she and her husband were actually speaking to one another, Thor was approaching a looked-forward-to coronation, and Loki as far as anyone knew was more or less well-adjusted and content with his lot in life (LOL!). Anyone who goes with her would probably be placed as an Asgardian noble to give them an excuse to hang out around Frigga. So any takers?

[thegreenwitch]

Tara will be falling asleep, if Aurora would like to look after her.

Bert, Ming, Rush, and Lust!

[ka_mai]

Bert: Is definitely falling asleep! He's going to be showing up in Robb's dream, and I am totally open to people going 'home' with him - there was some vague talk of maybe Jane for one? His dream is going to be fallen In-World, so basically post-apocalypse old west ghost towns full of weirdness.

Ming: Is definitely falling asleep! She's going to be sharing dreams with Draco and Christine. Her dream will be Numara, in the paradisaical perfection she sees it as. I am open to whatever else!

Rush: I am totally open to Rush falling asleep and sharing a dream! He'll be back on Destiny. Open to people coming home with him, him going home with someone else!

Lust: No plans, but open to dream sharing either way! She's still pretty new and definitely needs the CR. Her dream will be a vaguely steam/diesel-punk alternate Germany in the early 1900s.

[alphaophiuchi]

I'd love to have Draco show up in Numara as well as our current plans. Swap them both, just because we can. c:

Aileen, Seth, and Scar

[envy_the_sinners]

Aileen will be going to Amestris with Lust, but I'm open to her doing more! Her world is in pretty rough shape, think post apocalypse cowboys with all sorts of horrible creatures and critters and mutant things about. I'd especially like for her to get into a fight with a not-man, which are beastly, humanoid things with gear that makes them invisible. I'd be open to her visiting another world, as well!

Seth is completely without plans. She'll be dreaming of Numara, which Faye so aptly describes as "JRPG Greco-Hawaii," particularly the ocean, since it's such a big part of Seth's life.

Scar doesn't have anything set in stone yet, but I would be open for him to visit another world or have a visitor in his own. Scar's world is based on an alternate version of 1920s Germany, where he is basically the most wanted man in the military-ruled country, so that could prove interesting.

Ben

[mini_dean]

Since I skipped the species swap, I'm going to toss Ben into this.

So who wants to come to a zombie apocalypse? Anyone? You know you want to...

[thebetterto]

I'd love to send either of mine there! Chris would of course still be a nurse, but would know her way around a gun. And Ruby wouldn't be a wolf, just a badass former waitress.

Martha/Mal

[notrosesshadow]

At the risk of overwhelming myself even more...

Mal: Mal will be asleep. He'll be dreaming of his ship, though it might skip from normal every day life on the ship to the ship from Out of Gas. Let me know what you'd rather.

Martha: Asleep with a dream of London either just after the Paradox Year starts (so tons of spheres) or when she gets "captured" by the Master again. Let me know which you'd rather.

Blaine

[strategic_guile]

Blaine has no plans right now. I'm up for him going into someone else's dream because everyone wants a random blonde lurking around? Alternately he can pull you into one of his dreams. It'll either be him during his year abroad, where he was happily getting on the job training assassinating people picking up contacts for his Organization with his mentor Russell, or at home in Atlanta a few years later. After work drinks [at his legit job] or talking with Family and shooting the breeze.

Or I can not send him to dreamland and he can see what looks like a field of dead bodies and wonder if he stumbled onto so abstract battlefield again.

[inlovewiththedarkness]

Would Blaine like to come into Charlotte's dream? :D

[inlovewiththedarkness]

Charlotte will be stung and fall asleep because I need to subject her to something. People are more than welcome to come into her dream. They will find themselves in a rather richly decorated mansion house located in Westminster, London, England around 1740. The mansion was just recently restored after it was partially destroyed in the vampire hunts that had only come to an end six years previously. Charlotte is in a darker period of her life, being deep in mourning for the loss of her hive members that perished, but also for the loss of the last Queen and her sire.

Helena is probably going to remain unaffected because woman needs some reprieve here. But she'd gladly try to help find an antidote/cure for this!

Susan's boys

[rumchocolatesouffle]

Putting this here to help myself keep track:

Scott and Lydia are heading back home and will experience what it's like if they had been together.

Kurt is a) Going home to be a page with Ming
b) Going home with Matt

I'd be open for maybe one more with Scott with someone he isn't familiar with.