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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]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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