Nightmare # Many

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Ever since the temporal anomalies, Deimonea's been nowhere to be seen. At least in the waking. She's been prowling the dreams of C.O., seeking to make heads or tails out of it all. She's learned something very, very important. There is no Dream Queen here.

The very night this discovery is made, there is a sudden plague of nightmares. Many of them drawn from your fears, but others're just strange. Experimental pieces designed to see what kind of reactions and mental states they might cause.

((OOC: Might want to check Deimonea's permissions post. If you don't want a custom-engineered nightmare, you can just get a really random and bizarre experimental one that might not even be that scary, even if it kinda hurts the brain.))

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And she does, with a smirk.

So you're a Lucid Dreamer.

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

"Love is my weapon, Trust is my Armor." Ringing any bells, Nightmare?

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You think that crap'll protect you or something?

There is no sign of recognition in her voice.

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

(She shrugs off her jacket, leaving armor - mechanized armor, that wasn't there before - with a curious hexagonal insignia on it. And draws a small rod from her other hip.)

I used to be a Nightmare hunter on my world. This was my ge-

- Deimonea! Of course. You've regressed.

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You know me? 'Regressed'?

Her voice is filled suddenly with more curiosity than anything.

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

Some moron broke a time-controlling artifact. I used to know you, but I'm late to the party and you're early, from what it looks like.

Think we met when I was, what, 17? Hmmn. Does the word "Dream Saviour" mean anything to you?

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So I'm early and you're late.

What's a Dream Savior? Did I make something like that, or is that some weird creation of the Queen's?

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

I don't know their history that well, just that they shared my profession. Course, they used magic, and I used what I really hope is tech.

You told me they were friends of yours. Eventually. Once you stopped trying to eat the ground you were standing on.

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So I'm friend with people that fight Nightmares. And wouldn't I starve?

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

They don't fight Nightmares, exactly. They fight... there are Nightmares and there are monsters that used to be Nightmares.

And I'm relaying what you told me imperfectly, so...

...That's right. You actually need to eat fear to survive, don't you?

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I must have a very interesting future ahead of me. And more or less I do.

She's not mentioning that she's doing far more than she really needs to. This fussbucket would just create trouble.