[Event!]

[vitaelamorte]

Who: Everyone!
Where: Dream bubbles
When: 9/15-9/16
Rating: PG
Summary: Everyone is stuck with their memories. And some other people.
The Story:
This log's pretty straightforward. There is one thread per group for the first day or two of the event, before people are able to leave their initial dream bubble groupings. ♥ If you have any questions, grab a mod on AIM.

EDIT: The mods have decided to let everyone continue with phase two of the event in this one log, since there's overlap between being stuck in the bubbles and moving between them.

So if you're posting to a group thread that isn't your initial group, just your thread with what day of the event it takes place on so people will know it's not from the first day or so.

Comments

George Lass; Der Waffle Haus

[akapeanut]

Oatmeal with raisins. Every day, or at least nearly every day. What can she say, she's got a pattern. Just like how she sits in the same booth every day and talks to the same people every day and gets the same post-it notes (well, not exactly the same). She does the same job and then, when that's done and she's washed the blood out of her hair, she does her other one. And then she goes home and she kisses a girl with full lips and strong fingers.

...Wait, uh. Wait, no. That's in the mansion. If she was really home, she wouldn't remember any of...that.

"Fuck." George stares openly at her memory of Rube, hands shaking. After the last event, she's actually even less ready for this.

After all, what would be worse? Getting killed two events in the row, or getting killed by her own memory of Rube?

George shakes her head sharply, vaults out of the booth and out the door. Anywhere but here, with them. Kill me in the parking lot, just don't kill me in there.

day 3 if it's okay

[eatsyourscience]

Souji's memory of visiting an empty Der Waffle Haus with George has led him into this dream bubble. He stands in the parking lot for a minute and just his presence has altered the surroundings. Behind him the street drops off into the entrance of a somewhat risque club. Fog creeps along the ground around him as he looks around for any sign of George.

y!

[akapeanut]

And George does her part by stumbling right into him in her hurry to get away from the building. She steps back, curses, shakes her head again, then finally realizes who it is and immediately starts to clam up again.

"Souji." Her hands rise up, brushing back her hair. "I-- um. I guess we're still in the mansion."

Calm down. She can't be weak about this.

:D!

[eatsyourscience]

Souji reaches out to steady her.

"Wonderland, yeah."

He glances at Der Waffle Haus and sees the people inside, then glances behind himself at the club.

"Do you want to go this way?"

[akapeanut]

George doesn't look back at Der Waffle Haus. Her eyes do flick to the club, but even that is brief. Her gaze seems to want to stay on the ground.

"I guess." She forces herself to look at him. "Yeah, okay."

[eatsyourscience]

Souji walks beside her, oddly feeling like she might dart off if he walks ahead. He takes her down into Rise's club with the purple and the music and fortunately not the shadows around.

He pauses, trying to get his bearings in the dim, flashing lights.

"Are you okay?"

[akapeanut]

She makes an affirmative noise, not trusting her voice just yet. She feels weak and almost sick and honestly she wishes she could just go off on her own and pretend she doesn't exist, which is probably an odd reaction to death if she thinks about it hard enough.

She wonders if this place belongs to Souji but...it seems rude to ask.

[eatsyourscience]

Souji takes her to one of those square rooms and takes a seat on one of those plush looking stage things. He pointedly ignores the stripper pole at the center of it.

"What happened?"

[akapeanut]

George hesitates before sitting. Her adrenaline is running and she's close to flight-or-fight mode. But she does trust Souji. She does. As far as she can tell, this event isn't like the last one. So eventually she sits.

And eventually she manages to mumble out a response.

"Last event I, um. Died. For the first time." She picks at her nails to hide the fact that her hands are starting to shake from the excitement. "In the mansion, anyway."

[eatsyourscience]

Souji's surprised by that and actually looks it for once as he turns toward her. It's not hard to think back to the last event and the chaos it caused for a lot of people. It isn't hard to imagine dying there.

"...You're safe now. Here."

It isn't a promise he makes lightly, because he isn't sure he can keep it no matter the circumstances. But he's making it anyway. He'll do what he has to.

[akapeanut]

George bites her lip. "I feel like such a wimp."

She's seen so much death. Died once before. And she can die four more times without any real trouble. Why is this so hard?

[eatsyourscience]

"It's understandable." Generally, people don't want to die and he knows from experience now that it's unpleasant.

[akapeanut]

"Feeling like a wimp or..." She trails off, knowing he'd only mean the nice thing. He isn't the type to judge her for feeling afraid.

She looks down.

"He killed me because I didn't tell the truth about my event."

[eatsyourscience]

"...Who did?"

[akapeanut]

Shit. Maybe she shouldn't have said.

"I...think his name is Buckingham."

[eatsyourscience]

"...I know who he is." Though he doesn't really know him well.

[akapeanut]

She shrugs a little. She doesn't know him that well either but...

"He seemed okay at the time. I mean, he seemed to understand that it was-- that I had my reasons for not telling everyone."

And she thought they were plenty good reasons.

"So when I told him he should wear a mask and he was already screwed up from the gas he just...kinda...he didn't trust me."

And therein lies the conflict: is it her fault for getting close to humans at all, or is it her fault for being less than completely honest? Either way, it's her fault. But she doesn't know which thing is the problem and therefore doesn't know how to solve it.

[eatsyourscience]

"It was because of the event."

[akapeanut]

George looks away.

"Still."

[eatsyourscience]

"You might not believe it, but it isn't your fault."

[akapeanut]

"I don't know. If I'd told the truth before, it wouldn't have happened. If I just...didn't talk to anyone about it..."

She sighs.

"Rube said we shouldn't associate with the living."

[eatsyourscience]

"In your world, that's probably true. Here, things are different."

[akapeanut]

"Are they?" George rubs at her temple, sighing. "I don't know. Maybe I'm dangerous."

[eatsyourscience]

"Then so am I."

[akapeanut]

"You help people. I don't."