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[lord-of-dreams.livejournal.com]

I am home now.

Dream is not.

The absofreakinglutly amazing Peter, Will, Moiraine, and Liz muns are about half-way done with The Plot With A Life Of Its Own.

The summary is currently 2 pages long, with 38 links spanning about nine threads. When its done I will post it behind an LJ cut.

But, guys? Read what they've done when you can. These people are so good its scary.

I am in awe. Total awe.

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[sign-seeker.livejournal.com]

The Plot With A Life Of Its Own is absolutely true, y'all. But, oh, so much fun!

And you count as an equal participant in my mind, by the way. The original steps are fantastic bases.

[lord-of-dreams.livejournal.com]

Peter!mun wrote four through seven, and those are the best IMNSHO. And y'all are the ones who have put flesh on the bones. And...and...and I still don't feel like I can live up to what you've done.

*hides under the desk, wibbling*

[muddypetticoats.livejournal.com]

*swats you with a pillow, offers up hot chocolate and warm gingerbread*

You are brilliant, dear. Stop making me repeat myself. We've fleshed it out, but this whole insanity was your idea in the first place.

[lord-of-dreams.livejournal.com]

[muddypetticoats.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how hilarious it is to see that with the Dream usericon attached.

[lord-of-dreams.livejournal.com]

[muddypetticoats.livejournal.com]

I dunno. Somehow that just doesn't have the same effect with Nylarthotep as with Amano!Dream.

[lord-of-dreams.livejournal.com]

*would worry if it did*

[sign-seeker.livejournal.com]

*snickers*

[blue_ajah]

*points upward* What she said. Exactly what she said. Brilliant. :)

[sign-seeker.livejournal.com]

*thirds*

[pjpettigrew.livejournal.com]

*fourths*

Confused. Muchly.

[thedarkenedhalf.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I hate to butt in, but I would gladly *fifth* if I had any idea what was going on.
On Milliways I only see these great fragmented posts, and I think the only gist of it I get is Dream has set... a challenge of some sort . . . ?
Apologies, mais je ne comprends pas. [Also, I can't seem to dig out the first conversation my character had with you - brief though it may have been - and when (I think)I did find the post I thought it was, it didn't appear to have any comments at all...] Oh, je ne sais quoi.

Re: Confused. Muchly.

[muddypetticoats.livejournal.com]

I believe Madb will be posting her summary soon, but the very abbreviated version of it is this:

Morpheus has been brought to be the Milliways Dream after being dead for nine years. He spent that nine years in the midst of sheer nothingness. It was a little mind-breaking, to say the least. Merely mentioning it was enough to make him Very Unhappy.

Moiraine has been trapped in Milliways. Prior to coming here, she'd been held captive in the World of Dreams. She couldn't figure out how to return to her time without being sucked back into that place with her captors. Morpheus offered to try to bridge the space for her to bring her back to her own reality.

He tried, and it was a Very Bad Idea. Basically, when he made the attempt, he opened something else, and wound up reliving his nine years of agony in the space of a few moments (as did Liz, because she was dreaming at the time, and her consciousness got sucked along and linked to his). He wound up lost inside himself, in what can best be described as a wreck.

Dream has many aspects, not just Morpheus. Nylarthotep is a very ancient and very dangerous one of these. When Morpheus died, something changed in him that made this particular aspect, which should have been long gone, more prominent. Now that Morpheus is weakened, the Nylarthotep aspect is fighting for control of Dream. He's basically at war against himself in his own mind. (And that's why the Iweme stuff that pops up in the fragmented posts. Black is Morpheus, red is Nylarthotep, and the brownish colour is the blend of the two.)

When Morpheus disappeared, Peter and Moiraine decided that the only thing they could do was mount a search-and-rescue mission. They had been given keys to allow them easy access to the Dreaming in previous weeks, and planned to use those to take them in to look for Morpheus. They enlisted Ender Wiggin and Will Stanton to assist. Liz was not around, being back in 1811 at the time, but they left a note for her to come after them, as she had the third existing key to the Dreaming. She did so when she returned to Milliways. Now, Ender is standing guard over the sleeping bodies of Peter, Moiraine, Will, and Liz, and the other four are here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/lord_of_dreams/6682.html), searching for Morpheus in the still-unformed and very dangerous Dreaming. As they work through each step, they get closer to Dream, and something changes in the internal battle between Nylarthotep and Morpheus. That's what the fragmented posts (which I utterly adore) update on.

I think that's everything, and considering it was so rushed, I hope it makes some kind of sense. Like I said, I know Madb's working on a summary, complete with handy-dandy linkage, but I don't know when she'll be done with it and post it. If matters are still fuzzy, I can try to explain further. :)

(Oh, and huzzah Steerpike! The Gormenghast books are next on my reading list, and I can't wait.)

Re: Confused. Muchly.

[lord-of-dreams.livejournal.com]

I could post part the first now...up through step 5.

Re: Confused. Muchly.

[thedarkenedhalf.livejournal.com]

Ah. Muchos gracias, both of you. As for reading Gormenghast, it is unfortunate that the writer (Mervyn Peake), gradually progresses to madness, but if you give it some patience and understanding, you'll possibly wind up loving it half as much as I do(!)