wetdreams | In the Dark;

And then that morning, some of the kidnapped in Somarium and some of the kidnapped in Vatheon found themselves again drawn to another location, another world, perhaps. They would wake up, scattered amongst the ruins, Vatheon architecture colliding with Somarium’s in a decrepit, mismatched way.

Those originating from Somarium might recognize the castle that had once been in the sky from the shadowy corridors. Those from Vatheon will surely see hints of the church in the columns and the curving doorways.

But regardless, it seems somehow they are now inside--and they are trapped there.

Opening doors leads to more shadowy corridors, monsters of rotting fish and shadowy, deadly noctaere. Some parts of the flooring are rotting as well, crumbling underneath the slightest of weight to reveal dark, cold, black water beneath.

Watch your step in this strange place--it seems to be hostile. Thankfully, it looks like you’ve got help, and from another world.

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Welcome welcome Sommunists and Vatheonites to the crossover portion of this week!

As the signal post above indicates, everyone will be arriving in a mix-matched setting apart from Vatheon and Somarium which resembles a mash up of the Church and the Floating Castle, only now they’re trapped inside. All SFCs and Dreamberries appear to be missing as well. Everything will be face-to-face interaction here, but thankfully that’s not hard, as everyone is trapped in the same place. They will no longer be in Somarium or Vatheon, so you cannot post or tag things in game from 4/28 to 4/29. ICly that is how long the crossover will last, though backtagging is always acceptable and encouraged! Watch out for the monsters, and feel free to post and mingle around!

Please use this format to title your thread, so people can know what to tag:

Character Name | Game Played In | Open/Closed

More information can be found, again, at the plotting post, and questions can be asked here!

Most of all, have fun!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

As I thought.

We had the Starfish Communicators instead of the Dreamberries—the phones you had.

Somarium has had...interesting changes before. The one I personally experienced was when everything seemed to go back in time to the 1920s. But to connect to another world...? [absentmindedly reaches up to pet Pip as he thinks.] Do you know how everyone comes into Vatheon?

They're brought to Vatheon by the giant coral that sits in the Plaza, that's as much as any of us know.

[This is weird and it's certainly not getting any clearer.]

[...yeah that's weird. this is probably not going to help:]

Apparently Somarium is part of a planet called Hypnosia. This planet is able to connect to every world and universe through dream energy and dream gates. This dream energy can connect to people from other worlds while they are sleeping or in some kind of meditative or unconscious state. Once the connection is made, the person is essentially pulled into the world.

However, those who are in Somarium also exist within our own worlds at the same time, but our actions in either location do not affect the other.

[sighs.] It's a complicated situation that's hard to explain, and I'm still trying to figure out how it works. But it does make me wonder if somehow the power of Vatheon's coral and Hypnosia's dream energy collided and created this strange nexus.

...Complicated is a gross understatement, Kid.

[Her head is pounding right now.]

But for the record, the explanation we're given for our time spent in Vatheon is that time is stopped from the point that we're taken from until we go back home. Since there are...apparently several different timelines existing at the same time, this gets about as complicated as you'd expect. How on Earth Vatheon's hold on the timelines got mixed up with Somarium's dream energy, though, I can't even begin to comprehend.

And if we consider the possibility of other worlds capable of doing the same thing—[the results are endless. he's just going to shake his head and sigh.]

Regardless of how this happened, we need to find some way out. [if there even is one. even though he leaves that statement left unsaid, it's not that difficult for someone to pick up on it.]

Of course...there has to be a way out. But...

[It's going to bother her if she doesn't mention it, she'll just hope he doesn't take it the wrong way.]

But we can't look together, can we? The way out might not be the same for the two of us, I need to go back to Vatheon and you need to go back to Somarium.

[he's a little surprised, honestly. not so much about the different exits since that was highly plausible, but suggesting they couldn't work together.]

Even if that were the case, splitting up may not be a wise decision right now. Do you even have a means of fighting against the monsters here?

Hmm...[this is when she holds up the piece of rebar she had been using to bludgeon anything she's run into.] And, for whatever reason, the species Pip belongs to is used for battling in the world he originates from, so he's been helping me out.

I just don't want to get in your way, Kid.

... [really, Maka. really. and he is also skeptical about Pip's battle prowess.]

You wouldn't be getting in the way. Frankly I'd be more concerned if I knew you were running around this place with only that as your means of defense. I don't know about those other creatures, but neither will be very effective against the noctaere.

[You know what sounds great? A diversion.]

What are the noctaere?

[stop that.]

They're creatures that are aligned with nightmare energy and usually appear like dark, shadowy creatures. Of the few times I've encountered them, they have been very hard to kill. I actually ran into two of them not too long ago.

[Never.]

Great. I guess it's only a matter of time until I run into one of them too.

[And it'd be really stupid not to ally with someone when your status is effectively "sitting duck."]

I guess you're stuck with me for now.

[:|]

I wouldn't call it being "stuck" with you.

[though now he really was getting a bit annoyed. even though he could understand the reasons why, it was like he was being blamed for something that his twin did. but he just sighs and starts walking.]

Come on, we should probably keep moving.

[...8|]

Right behind you.

[If by "behind" she means "beside" anyway.]

...Listen, that's the furthest thing from my mind right now. All I really want is for you to be in a safe place.

The same goes for me, but you don't seem that willing to take my help.

Because I don't want you to get held up. I'm not very concerned with what happens to me right now, it's not like there'd be anyone back in Vatheon missing me.

[She won't say it since that would just start another completely different argument, but dying has made her numb to the concept. Why be concerned with it when you're going to be revived anyway for the sake of carrying on the experiment?]

I just want you to be sure that there isn't some phobia of being around you going on with me, okay?

[and he is going to stop in front of her and just look at her.]

I don't know who you know in Vatheon, but I'm sure there would be someone who would be concerned about you. And while I still don't know the full details about that world, I'm going to be concerned whenever we return. Frankly I'd prefer if we didn't separate again or at least returned to our own world because Vatheon is sounding much worse than Somarium and you do not deserve to go through that alone.

As for me, the only thing I want is for you to trust me. I'm not saying I'm different from the me in Vatheon [damn this was like something from a convoluted sci-fi novel.] but how I was there and how I am now is different. Just like I am treating you no differently than the Maka I know from Somarium. You are Maka, no matter where or what version.

[SCREECH--wow, don't do that, you surprised her!]

I do trust you! I hardly think you're about to lead me off somewhere and kill me [again] or hurt me!

I'm just...not the same Maka. Not entirely. I'm sorry.

[it's a habit of his.]

I know that. [small sigh.] And I've already had some practice with dealing with you from different times, so I suppose that's why it's not so hard for me to adjust. [just...not with one who has experienced so much. and he's still bothered by one particular experience she had.

so he's just going to turn back forward.]

Anyway, let's continue forward and see if we can find a way to get you back.

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