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Nightmares offer...

So its been a while...but.

Once again, I'm thinking of offering nightmares for those who want a little assistance in freaking their characters.

If you choose to do this, I get a summary of your canon any important Milliways things that might show up in a nightmare. I then write a couple of paragraphs in Dream's journal, and we play through it like it was any other scene until either I run out of trauma, or you decide your character has had enough and wakes up. The thread is played locked to just you and me, and when its over is unlocked so that it can be linked to.

There are any number of examples from the last go-round on Dream's journal, because I don't delete them. If anyone wants to look at the dreams, here are the warnings (because we do that when people might get freaked):

Moiraine: End of the world trauma, impaled bar-patrons, slavery
Mat: End of the world trauma, best friend eating people trauma
Bartleby: Laughing-while-killing-people trauma
Luna: Severe mother trauma
Akane: Ranma trauma
Anthy: Implied incestuous rape
Gil: Cannibalistic nihilism trauma, and dead angels in the freezer
Joe Dick: Gender swapping trauma
Ophelia: Murderous plant trauma, Hamlet trauma, drowning people trauma
Death: Naked, prancing Constantine. You have been warned.

Edit: Okay, I have ten ~~victims~~ people. So, for now, this thread is closed to new nightmare requests. When I'm done with this round, I'll cast again.

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Oooh, sounds nifty...:-) I'm interested, definitely.

Then, well, I need a canon summary. Because I have no clue, and no time to go out and research all the canons in M-ways at this time.

OK, should I e-mail it to you? I'll get it to you as soon as I can, proly by Monday, if that's all right. Weekends are very limited internet time for me. :-)

Either here or in an e-mail.

Last time they took about a week to play out. This time, er, I have a 40h/week job. So. Yes.

OK, will have that stuff to you by Monday night Eastern at the latest. Thanks! :-)

Since Meg is not getting out of all her accumulated trauma without a few nightmares, and I am sure the whole world is sick of seeing the ones I crank out of my own feeble imagination, I humbly request, yes, yet more breakage for my char.

Meg's canon: Well, you know, but I'll summarize anyways. Meg was a ballet dancer at the Paris Opera before the whole Incident with the Phantom. It has been discovered, since her arrival at Milliways and my extreme warpage of the poor girl, that part of her duties at the Opera included catering to the wealthy patrons. In a very specific manner. This has been going on since she was about twelve or thirteen; she's used to it. She's driven to dance and succeed by her mother, who gave up her career to have Meg and is thus about as Stage Mum as one can possibly imagine.

Important Milliways canon: Her father is Desire of the Endless. Her fiancee is Anthy. Her love interest is Andrew. She recently had a neurochip in her head that made her do bad things while she watched helplessly. She's terrified of losing her identity. She knows about the death of a friend of hers in her own time and believes she is powerless to stop it. She also is terrified of having to choose between her friends and dance, 'cause, um. Choice Talk much? She is secretly convinced that the bar is Scheming to Keep People There but tries not to think about it. She loves flying.

Um. Any questions?

I might be interested. I'll think about it and let you know.

I think I would be interested. Richard is prone to nightmares anyway, it's part of his canon. Let me know how detailed you need the summary to be.

VH, like Richard, is also canonically prone to nightmares. (though the movie is very not-forthcoming with what the nightmares are - I'd assume images of his past or images from the beings he's had to dispense)

I wanna play... I'll write up something.

Mozenrath is in...cause he needs it.

Canon: Mozenrath is Lord of the Land of the Black Sands, which is full of dark magic, black sand, zombies, etc. He was raised by Destane, a rather horrifying necromancer who taught Moze everything he knows...and Moze found out more and killed him and turned him into a Mamluk (zombie slave). He prides himself on his magic, his abilities, and his hard-won power. The glove in which he has most of his magical power was paid for by the flesh of his hand and arm...and more. His body is slowly being eaten by his magic and he's slowly dying. He has plenty of political and magical and scholarly power/knowledge/ability...NO KNOWLEDGE OF SEXUALITY WHATSOEVER! He always has his companioin, a flying eel by the name of Xerxes that speaks in one or two word exclaimations (ex "DANGERDANGER!") who is just about the only one who gives a crap about him in the whole world. He has affection for the little eel, but will also smack him around to relieve stress...standard henchman.

He's got a serious hate on for anyone who gets ahead without doing the work to get there, as well as anyone who gets ahead and doesn't use their advantages to their best ability. Aladdin is an example of both, and pisses him off a lot. He doens't like nobles (self-important snobs who did nothing for their titles) and especially princesses.

Das all.

I was wondering when naked!prancing!Constantine would come up again.

I don't think we ever finished our nightmare scene for Tom. He doesn't need anymore though - I'm letting him be happy for awhile. :P

You know, Andrew's probably due a nightmare or two.

(--oh and I need to talk to you OOC at some point about the whole dreamcatcher thing, which it has been pointed out to me may well offend Dream even if Andrew doesn't get it bespelled ...)

Well, you probably know it, but Ron Weasley, of Harry Potter fandom, is the best friend of Harry Potter, Boy-Who-Lived, the dude who somehow reflected a death curse and hit the dark lord Voldemort with it when he was a wee lil' 'un or something. Ron's sort of reduced to the role of sidekick, and sometimes it does grate on him, being in Harry's shadow. Coming from a poor family, Ron doesn't realize that fame and wealth amount to practically nothing, and he often hates how poor he is and is embarassed by it. He's also a bit jealous of Harry at times, but normally pushed it aside and nearly always rises to the occasion when Harry needs him. He's got the hots for Hermione Granger, Harry's other best friend, but doesn't really know it yet. In Rowling's own words "Typical boy."

Um, as for milliways canon, he's from Grimmauld place, summer after fifth year, around mid-June or so. This is a BAD thing because milliways HP characters could screw with the past of HP canon by accidentally telling him things, and him from the future could screw with the past of milliways canon by telling HP characters things in the real world. Confusing, yes, but that's how it is. He got to milliways through a blood-red door hidden in a closet in Grimmauld place that has a now-extinct magical creature from Africa in it. The creature, if it had form, would appear as a batlike things with lank, dark, long hair, bright red skin, and bloodshot eyes. (It's called a sasabonsam and is from Ashanti folklore). It dangles its legs from the branches of trees to snag unsuspecting passerby, and drains them of their blood.

These creatures are notorious for being able to open ways to strange places, and one of those places is a strange cold dark place where the nastiest creature on the face of the earth--the nundu--can be summoned/born from. (Nundu= "This east African beast is arguably the most dangerous in the world. A gigantic leopard that moves silently despite its size and whose breath causes disease virulent enough to eliminate entire villages, it has never yet been subdued by fewer than a hundred skilled wizards working together").

Dark wizards cut down the trees sasabonsam were bound to/lived in and made them into doors (which can attach themselves to any wall), that, with the proper sacrifice of the blood (and lots of it) of an innocent who's recounted an oath of loyalty, can open the door and release a nundu. The doors can release nundu that are bound to obey specific individuals if certain runes and rituals are carved on them. The door Ron uses, and hence the sasabonsam and nundu it could release, are bound to Mr. Red Eyes himself, the Dark Lord Voldemort. Mr. Black found it dealing with some shady fellows in the dark artifacts black market and had it dedicated to Voldemort. It was meant to be a gift, but then Voldemort fell before they could give it to him, and the Blacks died, and it's been sitting in an upstairs closet ever since.

Ron is currently possessed by the sasabonsam, which needs some incubation time inside a human's bloodstream before it can resume form. It's currently injecting itself into him more and more through a latch on the door that's really more of a stinger. Ron keeps having dreams involving the grasslands of Africa and eating his best friends, harry and Hermione, and all his negative emotions, such as jealousy, are being magnified. Lately, he's pretty much lost most of the control he has over himself. Anakin and Peter are trying to help him, and Tim has realized he's possessed as well, and is trying to figure things out, but alas. To no avail. Ron likes Anakin, despite his past and the fact that he's friends with Pettigrew (who Ron is still angry and distrustful of). The sasabonsam also understands that Peter is on to him and that he's also very powerful, and therefore is trying to set him up--using Ron's voice and body and all that, it told Ginny that Anakin was trying to kill him.

with the proper sacrifice of the blood (and lots of it) of an innocent who's recounted an oath of loyalty,

Is recounted the verb you want to use? Because I'm not quite sure what you mean (and it may be important later.)

Recanted. I meant "recanted." Dang typos...

Val could use a nightmare. Why? because I'm cruel. I'll prepare something on her canon, Milli- and real, and get it to you tomorrow.

Alright. Here goes.

Valentine was born the third of three children to a family in America. She's a brilliant girl, taking to almost anything she puts her mind to. She was born in a time of turmoil, when the earth was in the middle of the fear that a specific alien race, the Formics, which had attempted to attack Eath twice before. When she was three, she got a mechanical device, called a monitor implanted at the base of her brain. This was so that she could be tested for a program called Battleschool, which took brilliant children and sent them off to an orbiting space station so that they could learn how to lead the ships in space. Val was deemed too empathic and too conciliatory for the program, and was dropped when she was four. Her younger brother, Ender, was her closest friend. She would do anything for him, anything at all. Ender also had the monitor, but he had it until he was six. During that time, Peter, her elder brother was quite the little bastard to them. He would manipulate them, threatening to kill them, and such things. One time, Val found a dead squirrel that Peter had killed. Eventually, Ender was accepted into the program Peter and Val were rejected for, taken away, while Val crumpled and swore her love to Ender forever.

While Ender was gone, Peter and Val (under some quite heavy persuasion) teamed up to become political commentators. Val took the name of Demosthenes, and wrote quite inflammatory, but piercingly accurate commentary. The character was so far from her usual benign self that it made her angst. She was frightened that she was going to turn into Peter. However, the commentators took off, until they were internationally known and respected.

A few years passed, and a man from the military came to tell Val that Ender had stagnated in his program. They needed her to write a letter to him to jumpstart him. She did, but felt very guilty about it. Later, they brought him back to earth, and had her see him for similar reasons. She has a medal from that time, a medal that she keeps with her, but hates with a passion.

Time passed, and Val found out that Ender had won the final battle against the Formics. He was not going to come back to Earth, so Val went with him, to colonize a planet. On this planet, Ender found that the Formics weren't annihilated at all. There was one left, who told him their story. He wrote it in a book called The Hive Queen. Later, Peter contacted them to write his story, called The Hegemon, as he had gotten control of the world. Val and Ender went on from world to world, Ender telling stories of those recently dead, and Val writing social and political history.

This is where Milliways comes in. Val is on her way to a new planet, and she ends up in the bar. Ender and Peter are also here, Ender from right before he got to the planet to colonize, Peter from before he became Hegemon. Her first goal, as always, is to keep Ender safe, and thus, has told him nothing about being from his future. Peter, she believes can take care of himself.

As for Val herself, she's been busy in the bar. She has a job as a waitress, and enjoys it quite a lot. She has adopted, or been adopted by a goodly amount of people. Anakin, Peter, Nick, Spike, Jake, Alanna, Kestrel, Hazel the bunny, and Mina are her closest family. She is currently dating Luke Skywalker, and is quite in love with him.

A few weeks ago, she found herself unbound, but chose to stay in the bar. About two weeks ago, she went back to her world on what should have been a simple mission, but she was captured and tortured for three months. She ended up killing her attacker, which has given her no end of angst.

I think that's about it. If you have any questions or need clarifications, please feel free to ping me. My info's in my info page. :)

LaCroix, I'm sure, has lots of nightmares right now. In fact, I've given him several. But to have Dream himself do it, well that would be a great honour.

Let me know what details you need for canon.... he's been Millichanged like never-you-mind, and I'll fill you in on lots of the goodies.

Um.

All of them, bitte?

That can be done!

But it'll take a while. I mean, seriously... 2000 years of history does not a short story make. Especially when I'm telling it. So just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.

Canonically we don't know much about LaCroix before he became a vampire. He was a general in the Roman army under the rule of Titus ... around 79 AD. And he was damned good at his job. He was also ruthless. We know he had his men rape and murder all of the women in the villages he conquered, to 'lower the morale' of the men they fought against. We also know he was conceited, because he had a bust of himself made, and then blinded the man who made the statue so noone else could ever have a copy. Which is funny, because the bust got crushed when Vesuvius erupted, as he lived at Pompeii with his wife, Selene and daughter, Divia. That's the only way we know any dates on him. Divia was made a vampire by Qa'ra who liked that she was pure evil. She killed Qa'ra, then brought LaCroix across to save him from being killed by the eruption. Thus, he is a vampire.

Due to his very negative reactions to father-figures and incest, I have decided that he was sexually abused as a child. Because I like to destroy my characters from the inside out (and, really, no man should hate fathers as much as LC does). So, in 99 AD, 20 years after becoming a vampire, he kills Divia, cuts off her head and leaves her body locked in the same sarcophagus as the remains of Qa'ra, because she wanted to be mother, daughter, and lover to him.

We don't see him again until sometime before 1100, when he's in Paris, and brings across a french prostitute named Janette, who uses her powers to kill her pimp. However, he claims that he "rode with Charlemagne" (742-814) so he was still doing the war thing. In 1228 he finds Nicolas, who he's drawn to inexplicably (we know through Milliways that it had something to do with Nick's supressed psychic powers) and he turns Nicolas. And spends the next 800 years chasing after the Blond Hormone.

To make this brief (too late)...
For the next 800 years LC ruins Nick's life in many amazing and creative ways... to teach him how to be a better vampire by trying to teach him not to get attached to mortal things. He tries to make Nick's sister a vampire, he shows Nick's nephew Andre that Nick is a vampire, which scares poor Andre away. We get to see that LaCroix reeeeeally hates his fater, when he tortures a man for looking like his father, then kills him without feeding on him (very wasteful, if you ask me). He spies on Nick during his first failed attempt to bring over a lover, he spends time with Nicolas trapped in a Spanish prison during the Inquisition for being too wealthy, he spends time with Nicolas in London during the plague (mmm... easy meals), he steals a table and kills a nun to annoy Nicolas, and basically just does lots of things that bother him.

Of course, he had a good reason for all of it. Really.

Anyways! The good bits! About six years ago, he confronted Nicolas to try and get him to start drinking human blood again. Nicolas tries to kill him by staking him in the heart with a flaming stake. It doesn't work. He shows up about a year later. He takes over running the Raven when Janette leaves, he works as a radio announcer called The NightCrawler and he continues to spy on Nicolas. He is almost killed by a fever that kills many younger vampires, and then cures himself. And then Divia shows back up, pissed about him killing her. She beats him like a red-headed step-child, and then is killed by Nicolas, and he has to watch her die again.

This is pretty much where he comes in to Milliways. He's following Nicolas, again, and so ends up at the bar. Divia is there, and he has to face the fact that he may need to kill her a third time... she has not shown up since. He finally confesses to Nick that he loves him, there is nookie. Nick forced LC to accept sharing him with Natalie, there is nookie. LaCroix and Natalie switch bodies, and poor LC spends a week trapped in a mortal's body, there is no nookie. He's been... off ever since then. Shortly after he gets his body back, Nick begins to remember his past, and his powers. LaCroix ends up getting the crap beaten out of him, and now he's vaguely afraid of Nicolas. Because he hates being weak... it reminds him of his mortal father (see how I break my boy?). Then an alter personality of Nicolas shows up and shares all of Nick's pain with LC. Now he's dealing with 800 years of fear, pain, guilt, and all those negative emotions he hasn't let himself feel. To make it better, there is rough nookie. LC is a bit shell-shocked, goes home and has a baby nightmare (you can check the pup's journal for his nightmares). Then Natalie shows up in Toronto, then Nick, then the Enforcers (vampire police who want to kill him for making a psychic into a vampire). At this moment LC is trapped in the bar; angry, confused, guilty, and more than a little scared. Perfect time for a nightmare, I think.

Oh dear God. Did you enjoy the novel?

For a more… concise look at canon, try this site (http://www.loftworks.com/FK/Episodes/FK_Timeline/indepth.html)

HEY! You asked for all the details, didn't you?

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