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dc_eldritch ([info]dc_eldritch) wrote in [info]dc_nextgen,
@ 2009-12-15 13:40:00


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Entry tags:cait curry, corinna prince, dinadan palmer, inactive - jane doe-smith, inactive - jeannie zukov, inactive - lian harper, inactive - teddy knight, iris west, jon kent, npc - batman, npc - jai west, plot - "call of cthulu", tyler darnell

It happens at mid-night all over
No one in the world on this night escapes it. They find themselves wanting to just curl up for a few minutes for some sleep. Weather it is just a nap or actually going to bed they find themselves sleeping. They do not get to sleep well. Screams of hosts long since dead haunt them and many of the dreamers find themselves herded up like cattle by strangers in heavy robes carrying pitch forks and guns.

"Where are we going," a man asks.

One of the robed men speaks. "To see our lord. You do not know the way. We shall guide you."

A child cries that she wants her mommy as they are separated. A man is shot for trying to run away and the smell of something burning fills the air.

The world is on fire and no one can escape it. They must go with the strangers to see their lord.

The dreamers are brought to a boat that goes across a sea of blood and gore. They find themselves marched across an island and they enter a tall nd terrible temple. When they try to really look at it a few go mad and start to gibber nonsense as their hair turns white and their skin wrinkles and shrivels up. They are suddenly very old.

The chanting is heard as the dreamers enter the temple.

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn," the terrible chant is burned into the minds of people who are truly insane. People who are blessed or cursed with knowledge of the magical world find themselves puking both in the dreaming and the real world. For reasons they can not explain in the dreaming world they know that this place is terrible.

And then they are brought into the main chamber of the temple. A scream goes out as a great clawed hand comes down and begins to grab people by the dozens and brings them into the mouth of a terrible creature. The people who are eaten are lucky if anyone who can be called that. They wake up.

The are not so lucky. They think they are awake. They think are safe. But there are things lurking in the darkness of their dream world, waiting.



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[info]young_swimmer
2009-12-15 07:33 pm UTC (link)
Cait woke with a scream and was shaking. There was vomit over the front of her pajamas and she was drenched in sweat. Without thinking she mentally reached out and found Ty's mind.

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[info]all_powerfull
2009-12-15 08:01 pm UTC (link)
At first he wasn't aware of it. He doesn't sleep, doesn't need to. But then, even with his telepathy down to the 'danger sense' level, he couldn't help but feel the rising tide from all over the world, and it turned into an assault, millions of minds all screaming at once.

When Cait reaches out for him he's on his knees, quivering and shaking hard. He reaches back for her, aching for something familiar.

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[info]young_swimmer
2009-12-15 08:10 pm UTC (link)
Cait could feel Ty's distress and knew this could get bad very quickly.

I'm coming.

Cait got out of bed and stumbled toward the door. She had the sense to pull off her pajama top and pulled on a tee shirt before going next door to Ty's room. She knocked a second before entering. She was at his side and her arms went around him.

Right now she needed him as much as he needed her.

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[info]all_powerfull
2009-12-15 08:17 pm UTC (link)
His arms go around her, both protectively and needy. His whole body is quaking hard.
"What was that? It... it was everywhere. The whole world."

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[info]young_swimmer
2009-12-15 08:20 pm UTC (link)
"I don't know," Cait said quietly. "But by Neptune's bead, it scared me." She held him tightly and tucked her face into his neck.

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[info]all_powerfull
2009-12-15 08:22 pm UTC (link)
"It scared everyone, Cait. Everyone, everywhere. Not just this building, not even just this city. Its like the Tower of Babel in a hurricane out there right now."

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[info]young_swimmer
2009-12-15 08:39 pm UTC (link)
She strengthened the mental link with him. She needed the feel of his presence inside of her mind. "We need to figure out what's going on."

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[info]all_powerfull
2009-12-15 08:42 pm UTC (link)
He extends his mind out to her. "I... I don't know if I can. Its horrible out there, Cait, all those minds panicking. If you want me to try and track where that came from, for you, I will, but I don't know what might happen."

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[info]young_swimmer
2009-12-15 08:47 pm UTC (link)
"No. Not right now," she said. "Let things calm down a little, including us." She wasn't shaking as much as she had when she woke up, but she wasn't completely calm yet. "Focus on me, Ty. Focus on the link right now."

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[info]all_powerfull
2009-12-15 08:51 pm UTC (link)
He does exactly that, struggling to keep the other minds and impressions out as best he can. "Good idea, I think. Then we should check on the others."

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[info]young_swimmer
2009-12-15 09:05 pm UTC (link)
Cait nodded. "Yes. In a little while." She unwrapped her arms and put her hands on his cheeks. Mental contact was helping, but physical contact was just as important. She kissed him.

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[info]all_powerfull
2009-12-15 09:21 pm UTC (link)
He kisses her back, starting to recover from the shakes a little. "Right, in a little while."

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[info]young_swimmer
2009-12-15 10:09 pm UTC (link)
She smiled just a little. "No matter what, I'm always here for you."

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[info]imperiousamazon
2009-12-15 09:02 pm UTC (link)
Corinna hadn't known how to react. She had puked after she woke up. She had rinsed her mouth out and shuddered in fear. Them went to the kitchen to fix some tea and distract herself.

"What blasphemy was that," she muttered to herself. That dream had been dark and twisted. Nothing she had ever dreamed of before had been so disturbing. She sat down by a window and stared out at the bay.

Then it hit her. The bay was the same place the boats had crossed only there was no gore here. She clamps a hand over her mouth and gulps in deeply trying to calm herself. It was just a dream.

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[info]jdoesmith
2009-12-16 12:18 am UTC (link)
In Star City Jane woke up. Then she fell out of her bed onto her knees. Her body shook and she touched her hair expecting to feel slime. Nothing was there and it was just a dream.

Then she was struck by something, this was the first dream she had ever recalled upon waking up. That was strange and also disturbing for the detective. She got up and moved to her bedroom window and stared out. It looked like other people were waking up.

It had her frown and watch them move around before she shook her head and went to take a shower. She would not be going back to sleep.

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[info]teddyurastar
2009-12-16 09:22 am UTC (link)
Teddy wakes up screaming and flailing, now trapped underwater and drowning. In his sheer terror to escape, the cover of his prison shifts, and--

He realizes it's only his bedsheets.

"Jesus Christ," he swears loudly, looking around. He checks all of his limbs, pulls up his sweat-soaked tank to check his abdomen, and then feels his head for any blood or wounds. He's safe. Not dead. He's on the floor of his bedroom, not-- not--

He's untangling himself from his sheets when he hears his father's frightened voice call out his name. "I'm coming, dad!"

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[info]newimprovedbat
2009-12-16 02:09 pm UTC (link)
Terry woke up in a cold sweat. "Damn." He was panting, sweat dripping down his forehead. Getting out of bed slowly, he stop as he heard the screams of his mother and younger brother Matt down the hallway. Terry pauses biting his lip. Was it possible that they had all had the same nightmare?

Terry looks over at his alarm-clock. Three a.m. He has to be at school in a few hours. Thinking nothing of it, Terry grabbed the Batsuit out of its hiding place in his backpack and slips into it. Luckily, the door was locked and Mom and Matt seem to preoccupied to be worried about him. Something about this whole thing didn't feel right, either.

Effortlessly leaping out of his window, Terry took off into the night sky. Batman had work to do.

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[info]catchmeifyoucan
2009-12-16 05:54 pm UTC (link)
A scream wakes up Iris, shaking and sweating. She was scared. She'd never felt this frightened before in her entire life. Almost as if she's never going to be safe again.

Her legs shaking, Iris makes her way towards her bedroom door. Her hand trembling, she opens it and makes her way down the hallway, tiptoeing carefully not to wake her parents, unaware that they had the same nightmare she did. Reaching her brother's door, she knocks, quickly and loudly.

"Jai?" Her voice shakes.

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[info]dc_misc
2009-12-16 05:59 pm UTC (link)
Jai had had a nightmare of his own. He didn't wake up screaming, thankfully, but he was sweaty and his heart was racing. He sat up in bed with a start when he heard someone knocking on the door...they were here for him...they were going to take him away....

The frantic beating of his heart then slowed when he heard Iris's voice on the other side. Getting up and pulling his bathrobe on, Jai made his way to door, opening it. The first thing he noticed was his sister's panic face, her eyes full of fear.

"Iris? What happened? Are you okay, did something-" he pauses, letting her come in so he can close the door behind them. Putting an arm around her shoulder, he steered towards the direction of his bed, sitting her down on the edge.

"Iris?" he brushes a strand of her read hair out of her eyes. "What's the matter?"

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[info]catchmeifyoucan
2009-12-16 06:01 pm UTC (link)
Iris allows herself to be led into her brother's room, nearly tripping over the rug on her way in. There wasn't really anything else for her to trip over. Jai had always been so much neater than her.

Sitting down on his bed, she puts her head on his shoulder. "I had a nightmare."

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[info]dc_misc
2009-12-16 06:02 pm UTC (link)
Jai puts an arm around her, his throat tensing when she tells him of her nightmare. "Tell me about it."

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[info]catchmeifyoucan
2009-12-16 06:09 pm UTC (link)
Iris shivers. She doesn't want to tell it to him. "It was awful." She stares down at her knees. "We were all herded up like cows by these people with guns and pitchforks...and they took us to this terrible place...and they all started chanting this weird chant that I couldn't make out...and there was this creature...this horrible monster that started eating people...." A pause as she chokes back tears. "I wanted to run. I wanted to run so badly, but I couldn't."

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[info]dc_misc
2009-12-16 06:14 pm UTC (link)
Jai rubs her back. He won't tell her that he had the exact dream. She doesn't need to know that and he doesn't want her to worry. Right now, he's going to comfort his sister. He'll worry about the similarities of their dreams later. It was probably nothing anyway. They've had similar dreams before. Something about being twins caused that to happen.

"It was just a dream, Iris," he says in a soothing tone, "A really bad dream."

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[info]catchmeifyoucan
2009-12-16 06:15 pm UTC (link)
"I know...." she sniffles a little, "But it didn't feel like a dream, Jai. It felt so real...I thought I'd never wake up."

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[info]dc_misc
2009-12-16 06:18 pm UTC (link)
"These things happen sometimes," he says managing a small smile. "Best you can do is just remind yourself that it's only a dream." He stands up a for second, walking over to his closet and pulling out a sleeping bag. "Come on," he offers a hand to help her up, "I'll sleep on the floor in your room tonight. If you have another nightmare, you can just wake me up, okay?"

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[info]catchmeifyoucan
2009-12-16 06:20 pm UTC (link)
Iris nods silently, taking her brother's hand and holding on to it firmly. "Okay. Thank you, Jai."

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[info]dc_misc
2009-12-16 06:21 pm UTC (link)
He gave her hand a squeeze. "Think nothing of it. It's what big brothers are for."

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[info]first_son
2009-12-16 08:53 pm UTC (link)
Jon is up, blinking awake in surprise. Nightmares aren't new, but nightmares that vivid are, and usually it involves other people in danger that he can't save, but not on that scale.

As realization and reality hit, his hearing picks up screams... from everywhere. Can it be he wasn't the only one?

After that, there's no hesitation. He's off to help do what he can in the wake of the mass dream to calm the panic and save the city, just like his family always has. At the very least, the sight of someone in the skies usually reassures Metropolis.

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[info]dreamsofjeannie
2009-12-17 11:26 am UTC (link)
Jeannie's screams carry through from dream to reality. Frantic and unsteady, she climbs on all-fours out of the armchair where she fell asleep. She got sick. It's everywhere.

That terrible, terrible feeling is still lingering with her, too. It's painted minutely on everything in her vision, like a sheet over the entire world.

She climbs into the shower still in her pajamas and shaking. She'll go back to sleep when it's light out again.

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[info]lil_redhood
2009-12-18 03:38 am UTC (link)
Lian thrashes awake as she vomits over the side of the trapeze platform, not realizing as she reaches over the edge of the platform to steady herself. Her hand meets empty air, though, and even as Lian is trying to orient where she is and what just happened, she's falling from roughly fifty feet in the air.

Only instinct prompts her to grab a wire as she falls, killing enough of her momentum so that when it flips her around, she doesn't break her spine on the next wire down. The grab costs her a dislocated shoulder, and the landing on the wire takes the last of the wind out of her, though, and the final ten feet is complete free-fall onto the workout room's padded floor.

On impact Lian sucks in air, her stomach throwing up the last of her dinner as she inhales the puke in her mouth. She barely registers the pain of her dislocated shoulder, and whimpers slightly as she remembers the feel of the monster's teeth tearing into her. Her only thought is the communicator interface on the wall, but as soon as she tries to push herself off the floor her right arm gives out, and she falls back to the floor with a scream of pain.

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[info]dc_misc
2009-12-18 04:34 am UTC (link)
When Aiden finds his big sister, it's after searching a few rooms already. He woke up shaking and clutching his pillow, which is now just little pieces all over his bedroom floor. The nightmare scared him, but now something's happened to Lian, and somehow he knows she saw the same awful things he did.

He rushes to her, turning her on her side so she doesn't asphyxiate, like Aunt Bette taught him. Lian's still breathing, too. He looks for head wounds and then gently feels her neck without moving her. She's okay.

"Lian?" He pats her cheek with the back of his hand. "Wake up, somethin' happened."

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[info]lil_redhood
2009-12-18 08:11 am UTC (link)
"Ah'm nah 'sleep" Lian says, her voice muffled by the mat that just saved her life. With some effort she rolls onto her side, looking up at Aiden.

"Help me get to the communicator," Lian tells him, trying to help as her brother helps her to her feet. After all these years, the next step is second nature.

"Gotta get a hold of Dad." Lian can feel the stabbing pain in her shoulder with every breath, and her thoughts are just fuzzy enough to make her question whether she has a concussion. "Then we gotta get down to the med bay."

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[info]sonoftheatom
2009-12-20 12:11 pm UTC (link)
Dinadan wakes choking on his own puke and when he rolls over on his side to clear his airway, he rolls right out of his bed. He has the presence of mind to reach up and grab the knife he keeps tucked inside his bed frame, but his room is empty of all attackers. He's on his feet a few seconds later and running to his dad's bedroom, only slipping a little in the vomit -- he can worry about being a scaredy-cat once he's not alone.

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