songerein | Second Spell [Open Log]

Who: Magilou and Magi-you?
Which: Open Log,one dream-related part
Where: Around town
What: A series of Dream Board shenanigans! Plummeting through portals, reasoning with owl-cats and dealing with a Baku!
Warnings: Include any content warnings

A. Flunking with Portals

[There's an unusual sight around town at the moment. It's hard not to notice a pair of black portals in the middle of town: one on the ground and one above it in the air.

Someone keeps on plummeting from the upper portal into the lower one, then coming right back through the upper portal again! All the while letting out a scream. Though the continuous scream starts to wind down as she gets used to the situation - and tries looking around for anyone who can help her out of this perpetual freefall.]

Little help?! [She shouts out at anyone nearby!]

B. Too Hoot To Handle

[Magilou's found herself stuck with an owl-cat. One that just won't let her sleep! She's tried giving it food, but it's just not satisfied. So she tries going out for a walk... only for the creature to keep on following her and making noise.

Someone else might be out at night, or stirred awake by the owl-cat's loud hooting. Or perhaps one will instead by awakened by Magilou knocking on their front door. It doesn't matter if she knows the person or not, she might just be knocking on random doors out of desperation. In any case, once she finds someone, the tired witch will gesture towards the hooting owl-cat with a fatigued groan.]

Make it stoooop....

C. Baku-Gone

[On other nights, when Magilou can sleep, she's been haunted by these strange dreams where the delightful parts fade away in favor of nightmares. After doing some research, she's learned that she might be haunted by a Baku. She'll have to dreamwalk into her own dreams in order to get rid of the monster before it consumes all of her positive and neutral dreams!

So here she is, stepping into her own dream, where she's putting on an elaborate magic show to an exuberant crowd of Normins! She's trying to keep her eyes peeled for any signs of the Baku, but it's hard not to just get caught up in the energy of the dream.]

We have a very special show for you all tonight! Now, let me call up my first volunteer~!

[She will gesture towards one person in the audience who is probably the only non-Normin creature around (unless they've transformed within the dream!). Now, Magilou hasn't told anyone else about this, not wanting to risk anyone seeing parts of her mind she wanted to keep private, but maybe someone else managed to stumble or dreamwalk into this dream anyway. After all, she'll need all the help she can get!]

D. Wildcard

[Feel free to come up with an alternate prompt or hit me up for plotting!]

Threaded | Flat

[Theoretically, Nuadha COULD choose not to be a jerk about this. But, if asked, he would defend his decision by pointing out that reaching out and attempting to physically grab her might not have been successful on the first or even second try, and the method he chose was guaranteed to work.

It's far more reliable to simply exoflect a padded mat (because he's not a complete jerk) and slide it over the bottom portal once she's disappeared through it again in order to block the hole.

Hopefully it won't be too uncomfortable to crash-land on?]

[ A knock is easy enough to ignore. Two, and hell, even three. As it is, the concept of sleep is a little different for beings like Sandalphon, not something he particularly needs but a sort of rest he has grown used to in recent times. Perhaps facilitated by the world ruled so much by sleep and dreams, too. He lay there with his eyes closed and would drift, even fully lose himself to sleep just as any normal person might.

Which just means he wasn't particularly keen to open the door at such an hour and in the midst of that, at least not in a situation where it's not someone like Lyria wanting his help or another voice he recognizes on the other side in urgency.

The more incessant Magilou's knocking turns, he'll go from silently ignoring her to almost bursting the door open, hissing out. ]

Do you mind? [ Who, why, what and for what reason?? Hoot. ] What. Is that... an owl-cat?

[It's so unfortunate that it's Venti of all people who sees the poor lady perpetually falling over and over and over...

He simply stands there with a mildly amused look on his face and a finger on his lip. And every time that she falls Venti's head nods to watch her go.]

Oh... How did you end up like that? How curious!

[Can he watch just a bit more?? It's kind of hilarious!!]

[why. why is he here. why are there little tiny creatures all around him. why are they all watching magilou perform.

the answer is obvious enough: this is a dream and one very much not his own. all he can do is just remain here for as long as the dream ends up lasting. so be it. he'll just sit and watch the show in that case. alas, fate has other plans for him since magilou ends up beckoning him up to the stage. kratos remains firmly seated.]

I'll pass.

[and it's not really volunteering if magilou's the one calling people up. just saying.]

Flunking with portals

too hoot to handle.

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