[OPEN] Dreams & Ghosts

[sharpjustice]

Who: Mayaka & you !

What: 2 open prompts (reviewing dreams from last month + attempting to get over her fear of ghosts) and wildcard option

Where: Around Bottlecay Bay + Skull Town

When: Beginning of Feb

Warnings: none atm


a. dream review

Perhaps you're passing through the Archives, or the living hall in Skull Town when you spot a Sneasel sitting at a table furiously scrawling out various drawings on paper. Mayaka's gloves have been set aside neatly beside her for now, because she finds it easier to hold onto the charcoal pencils using her bare claws. She's experienced some weird dreams from last month. Though she doesn't remember the exact details, she's been dutifully drawing out the images that lingered in her mind upon waking up. Now, it's time to try to make sense of them. On the table you'll find the following drawings:

1. What appears to be a spaceship, though Mayaka's drawn it to look more like a truck with four wheels underneath.

2. A primordial-looking fish creature. She has given it a pair of cute, anime-sized eyes to make it look more approachable.

3. A black cat with an extra pair of eyes on its stomach. More cat-like than Mimikyu at this point.

4. The drawing she's currently working on, and struggling to capture. She's trying to remember what the alien beings in the final big nightmare looked like, though the large and erratic shapes on paper may not look recognisable to anyone. Mayaka is finding it difficult because she doesn't have an image in mind to associate with what she saw in the nightmare.

She's too caught up with this to notice if someone were to approach...


b. how to deal with ghosts

If you're wandering around Bottlecap Bay, you'll find Mayaka outside her house in the Lum Berry housing area, rooted on the spot.

Her attention is focused on a small clay sculpture she's placed in the garden of her front porch. It's a little handmade ghost figurine with a hairbow on its head. While it might look strangely cute, the more you look at it, the more you'll notice that it's two eyes seem to be gazing directly at you with an unblinking Stare™.

This is the ghost that's been chasing her in her dreams, but she's too scared to get rid of it! (Also, the fact that it was a gift to her from Catrina doesn't help!)

The Sneasel is shaking a little, and it's not from the cold weather. She's standing a safe distance away from the figurine, muttering to herself: "It's just a doll... it's just a dolll..."

(Dolls are creepy too, though??)

c. wildcard!
for any other threads or ideas that come up!

Comments

and then i don't respond for a week oops

[0dchess]

[Kinger doesn't know what to think of the illusions and Archives right now, but he does know what the mission is.]

Yes, Rotom will be okay, thanks to you. You were very brave.

haha all good!

[sharpjustice]

"Geez, don't say it like that! I'm not a kid that needs encouragement!"

She's blushing despite herself. Hopefully it's not too obvious in the dark tunnels. Mayaka is too embarassed to admit that she appreciates being recognised for pushing herself a bit with today's adventure!

"After we get Rotom to the clinic, one of us should keep the fan. It'd be a shame to throw our hard work away."

Mayaka might have more room in her Lum Berry housing for it, but she's happy for Kinger to have it too since he was the one who figured out how to make it. Would either of them even be able to use the fan?

i'm good to call this a wrap whenever!

[0dchess]

"I think you should hold on to it! If Rotom comes out of it, anyway."

Kinger suspects that the comatose Rotom might not give up their fan so easily. But ingenuity and bravery has saved the day for now.

🎀

[sharpjustice]

Oh, right. Mayaka clenches her teeth as she pictures the possessed fan sitting in her house, but reassures herself that it'll just be a normal fan by then. A nice, pink memento of today's quest.

"Okay, I will!"