yumemigaoka | June catch-all (and also some of May lmao)

June catch-all (and also some of May lmao)

⭐ Who: Bruno & OPEN
⭐ When: post-event and also throughout July
⭐ Where: Around Yumemigaoka/the Dream Sphere
⭐ What: Sure did fight a big horrible Thing didn't we? It's cool though it's fine it's fine

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[Well. That was a disaster. Bruno has caused - contributed to - been involved with plenty of disasters in his day, but that whole thing really took the cake.

Back in the Waking World, the rats are overjoyed to see him up and about again. He knew, when he last went to sleep, that he might be out for awhile, so he'd stocked them up with plenty of food and water, and explained once again that they needed to be very very careful if they went out into the DU to forage. It's impossible to say that they understood. Bruno thinks rats are a lot smarter than people say, but he also knows that he just got used to talking to them during his lonely years.

For himself, he just tucked himself away in his basement hidey-hole and hoped against hope that no one would find his sleeping form there. Fortunately, it doesn't seem like anyone did.

It's been much too long. He feels faint from hunger and thirst, and weirdly sore besides. Must've been sleeping weird. The kids had people to look after them, so hopefully they're doing a little better...stiffly, he limps his way back upstairs to the common areas. He's just looking for something to eat and drink, but if anyone else comes into the cafeteria, he forces himself to slow down and act nonchalant. He's just a regular guy! Not a Dreamer, no reason to fuss!]

So...all that stuff's over now? With everyone being asleep for ages? They're all - they're all okay now, right?

[He's more or less fine, but he's still sort of worried about the kids.]

[He doesn't feel so comfortable in the Dream Sphere anymore, though.

It was nice for a while. Getting to talk to other Dreamers, and not be recognized or even really questioned that much. But he's mucked it up now. People must know that he has some kind of prophetic abilities, after what he did at the party, and then later on in the fight against that big...thing. He's ashamed, too, of how badly he was affected by it there. He's the adult in the room, most of the time. He should've been helpful, not just cowering on the ground while the kids took care of everything!

Granted, it's not exactly his first time being useless in a fight.

At least now it's broken down into Torments. A lot of Torments, yeah, but he can handle some of those. Omen doesn't go searching for help anymore. He just searches the future for groups that he's pretty sure he can defeat solo, and takes care of things himself. If he gets knocked back awake, he gets knocked back awake. Whatever, who cares.

In the Reverie Necropolis, one of his typical haunts, he finishes off the last of a trio of Torments with a well-timed attack, and immediately lets his rats crumble back into dust when it's gone. It's tiring, fighting alone. He's gotten too used to being able to recruit help in this Dreamer-packed zone. Yumemigaoka's getting him too used to...well, a lot of things, probably.

He's too lost in his thoughts to notice there's someone else around. But when he sees another Dreamer, he starts, and then quickly begins to glide off down the tunnel in that spooky shadowy way of his.]

[Of course, the Slumbering City is a mess. They basically just had a whole Godzilla experience. Bruno picks disconsolately around in the rubble. It still feels a bit like his fault.]

Maybe if we just...

[He gestures, and a few of his rats shove a piece of wall back on top of its own crumbled remains. It's. Sort of standing up?]

You know I bet if I could get some Dream Plaster, I could patch this up.

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immediately post-event, Dreamer's Union

post-event, the Dream Sphere, Reverie Necropolis