1:11 AM: NIGHTMARE

[goosemods]

EVERY SENIOR ON CAMPUS...

You’re falling, and it shocks you into wakefulness. Except you’re still in your bed, you haven't moved, but your heart beating too fast. It's making you feel feverish, both sluggish and anxious, alcohol and caffeine. All you can recall from the nightmare is a scream, but it wasn’t from a human. It was deep, anguished, and indescribable. Trying to call it back to your mind only feeds the panic.

You’re not alone. You can hear your roommates stirring, and your familiar is wide awake with you, agitated and frightened. There’s static in the air, making you nauseous. You want to cry, maybe you do cry. The feeling sticks to you either way, like a film you can’t wash off.

This feeling slowly recedes as the sound of rain picks up outside. A drizzle at first, then a downpour.

HOW THIS WORKS

• This takes place at 1:11 AM, 6/22, but we’re posting it early so you can write some scenes.


• Only seniors experience the nightmare. Congratulations on winning the water balloon fight!


• Seniors haunted by the uneasy feeling that something is very wrong, but they don’t know what. Falling back asleep will be difficult, but the panic does wear off within a minute or so. They may feel prone to nausea and/or crying, though.


• A rainstorm begins and lasts until mid-morning the next day.


• Animals all across campus are agitated and frightened, so younger years might be woken up if they sleep with their pet. Younger years won’t get the supernatural sense something is amiss, but wow Fluffy sure is upset.

» IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT: You're awoken by a nightmare, or by an upset animal.

» OOC - Discussion

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IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

[goosemods]

Big Fish Ladies

[un_kept]

Falling. Usually, that only happened when she was about to fall asleep. Not when she'd been asleep for a while. Waking up, she felt sick - nauseated and tears pricked her eyes. As she sat, shaken and feeling anxious - her cat Binx tore out from under the bed, racing all over the room before jumping in her lap, clearly frightened. She could feel his heart beating too fast. "It's okay, it's okay, shh." She says quietly, trying to pet him as he shook, trying to break from her grasp and find a better hiding spot.

Eventually, he burrowed under a blanket, and Avery sat up still feeling disturbed and a little sick. Around her, she could hear her roommates stirring. "Sorry..." She apologized, thinking it was Binx's fault that everyone was awake. "I don't know what's gotten into him..."

Big Fish Ladies

[browbeats]

Rosy has a hard time falling asleep most nights. Falling asleep before midnight, like she managed to tonight, had been a miracle. She must have been worn out from the presentation today, all that was left was some stress over a speech. Seeing her parents. Moving on with the rest of her life.

God, okay, maybe that was why she had that dream. Ugh, that scream, it all felt so close, she could taste it in the back of her throat when she woke up.

"What—did—" Avery was talking, she yanks back her privacy curtain to see the rest of the cabin. "Was that—that wasn't a cat." She's a little groggy.

Ebonhide Senior Boys

[iliya]

Iliya awakes with a jolt, his heart hammering, his skin hot and prickly. It's hard to breathe. There's squeaking underneath his pillow, he twists, still half-blind in the darkness, to find Yo-Yo and scoop the mouse into his hands. Iliya has had nightmares before, but none of them have ever woken him up like this. He never wakes up like this.

Something's wrong. Something is wrong.

He can hear the others stirring in the other corners of the cabin. Iliya grabs his bed curtain, and pulls it aside.

Ebonhide Senior Boys

[ulixes]

There are a few small, sad noises coming from Ulysses' corner of the cabin — an almost pig-nosed grunting of a very frightened lizard and then, underneath that, the softly hitching breathes of his equally petrified boy. Ulysses is no stranger to waking in a panic, but there's something about this night that feels different, worse. Sick sweat on his forehead and a too-small feeling in between his ears that make him feel like he's four years old and under the weather again. Makes him want to cry out for his mama.

Somehow, he manages to remember where he is, remember that he's grown now and at school and he can't do that sort of thing anymore. The realisation does nothing for hummingbird flutter in his chest and he sniffles and wipes his eyes with the back of one trembling hand. Oh god, he wants to go home. He wants to go home.

There's another upset hiss from Rex's enclosure and it mobilises Ulysses into action. He throws back his covers and runs for his pet, grabbing for him with the urgency of a parent pulling their baby from a fire. Rex, uncharacteristically, wriggles and squirms; Ulysses just holds on tighter, cradling him to his chest as he throws back the curtain and skitters, barefoot and in his button-up pyjamas, for the cabin door.

Senior Azurcrest Ladies

[sovain]

Sofia jolts up from her bed, breathing hard and quick as if she'd just been running. Freya, her familar, claws her way under the blankets from the end of the bed and snakes her way up to her mother's side, clearly spooked by something by the way she lets out tiny mews. She never does that, she's never scared. Sofia looks under the blanket and sees the cats eyes looking back at her, wide and terrified. Something's definitely wrong, she can feel it.

"W-was there an earthquake or something?" She asks her stirring roomates, her voice shakey.

Senior Azurcrest Ladies

[riledup]

Riley is a tornado in her sleep, her covers twisted around her legs and hanging off the bed. When she springs up and tries to tear her curtain off her bed, she had managed to curl herself into a little ball at the very foot of her bed, nearly slipping down the ladder. The fact that she doesn't kill herself when she wakes up is honestly a fucking miracle.

"Oh my god," she squeals, pushing herself back onto her bed. "Oh my god, no, that was—" She goes quiet, pulls her knees close, and shakes her head. She doesn't know what it was, but she hates it.

OOC 🌑 QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION

[goosemods]

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[sheepish]

SPOOKY

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[browbeats]

real worried bout nonny yall

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[odder]

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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[godzillabutworse]

jesus fuck

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[browbeats]

why are my seniors losers who don't have cabin pets

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[magitechnically]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh shit

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[lilwitchhazel]

oh mmmmyyyyyy gooooooddddddd

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[browbeats]

oh my god i hate playing three fuckiung seniors you guys

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[princeprincess]

We should've let the sophs win, we all play fewer of them.

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[foxpaws]

yeah I'm...... sorry to my other seniors that are getting v much neglected right now

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[ulixes]

extremely same kdjdsflkdsl

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[lilipad]

K! I gotta run away again to do sun salutations and witch shit but rest assured that Lilika is being a menace and loves everyone way more than she lets on. K byyyyye!!! 💋💋💋

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[foxpaws]

have fun with witch shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ♥

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[casperkim]

I'm glad I got to bother her a bit~ :') Byyyye!

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[browbeats]

jesus fuck you guys i forgot to eat dinner

Re: OOC 🌑 QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION

[goosemods]

Meggie and I are now off for the night to watch D&D and work on endgame prep so be good!!!! Stay in your cabins!!!!!!!!! DO NOT throw up on your friends!!!!

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[gonnabefamous]

Hey are all the copperjuniors actually sleeping in one cabin and did they bring all their pets. Did they have like ten pet freakouts all at once.