(open) rough seas will be calm

[scythegun]

WHO: Jaeger (eventually) and you!
WHERE: Dreamscapes.
WHEN: 8/25.
WHAT: Dreamdives!
WARNINGS: Suicidal implications, threads are warned accordingly.

[You find yourself on a grassy plain. It's nighttime, and while this whole thing is probably incredibly surreal, the scenery is at least peaceful. You can see a dark building ahead of you.

If you look behind you, you'll notice that there's a large, thick forest. Listening for a moment will tell you that there's plenty of wildlife there, and it doesn't sound happy to see you. It's probably not a good idea to head that direction. But hey, if you really want to, there's nothing stopping you.

If you choose to approach the building, you'll hear the distant sound of waves crashing, but otherwise all is silent. It would almost be serene, if not for the ominous look of the building. It appears to be a very large manor. There are plenty of lights on inside despite the late hour, which gives you a little more light to see the building itself. For some reason there are massive chains decorating the left side of the building that don't actually seem to be there for any specific purpose, and above that are flags for... some reason. The whole thing is kind of an experience, and the gloomy atmosphere and isolated nature of the house probably aren't doing much to make you feel at ease.

Since the manor is most likely where you're headed, you might want to get a bit closer to the front door to check it out. Be careful, though - you won't be able to get too close without two guards spotting you. They're dressed in yellow uniforms complete with masks that hide the upper halves of their faces. They don't exactly look friendly; one of them has a crossbow in hand and the other has some kind of large daggers that look like they're attached to the back of his hands.

You'll find that there's a solid wall around the perimeter of the manor; you can hide here for a moment if you'd like. Climbing over the wall seems to be out of the question given the height of it and the spikes on top.

How do you want to proceed?]

Comments

[scythegun]

[It's an expertly done painting of a bustling seaside town! It's very pretty, but touching it will not give you any sort of feelings.

As for the weapons... there are a lot of them? There's an alarming amount of weapons here, actually. They're spread out on the table so you can see all of them, it's not like someone just dumped them all here or anything.

The different types of weapons on display are as follows: swords, greatswords, axes, battleaxes, knives, staves, chains, scarves...?, spears, bows, crossbows, and those knives the guard had. There's more than one of each type of weapon, so again, that's a lot of weapons. They all look brand new and each of them are different - unlike the (rather plain) sword you picked up, these are almost all unique and interesting.]

[manufactured]

[He's got the sword with him for the sake of protection, not so much for the sake of being fancy with them, and it'll serve that purpose well enough; he'll leave these where they are, unless there's something particularly important-seeming about any of them that he should take a look at.

Otherwise, might as well check out the clothes?]

[scythegun]

[Nope, nothing particularly important about any of them! You don't want to trade out your sword for something that looks like this, though???

The clothes are actually very familiar - they're the uniforms Jaeger received not all that long ago from Retrospec. The yellow one in the center is what all the guards have been wearing here, but there's also the dark blue one on the left and the white one on the right.

...Strangely enough, they appear to be in your size.]

[manufactured]

[...NO, BECAUSE THAT LOOKS STUPID AND IMPRACTICAL-

...

please tell him he isn't supposed to

oh god

please tell him he doesn't have to wear this shit]

[scythegun]

[did you really expect to enter jaeger's mind and not suffer wearing an incredibly stupid outfit

did you really]

[manufactured]

[YOU CANNOT MAKE HIM WEAR YELLOW]

[scythegun]

[WHY THE FUCK NOT!!!!!!!!!! PUT IT ON!!!!!!!!!!]

[manufactured]

[NO

look is blue acceptable, he'll compromise for blue]

[scythegun]

[yes, you can wear the blue one, that is fine

are you going to wear the stupid face mask thing with the red eyes too]

[manufactured]

[no?????????]

[scythegun]

[why not!!!!!!!!! your disguise won't be complete without it!!!!!!!!]

[manufactured]

[LOOK AS FAR AS ANYONE HERE NEEDS TO KNOW HE'S THE NEW GUY

HIS NAME IS BRAD

HE MISPLACED THE MASK

IT'S FINE]

[scythegun]

[you're such a killjoy!!!!!

you aren't even going to wear the hood, are you????]

[manufactured]

[............................

the hood is acceptable.]

[scythegun]

[that is a step up, good job, wesker.]

[manufactured]

[you're so lucky we're dating.

anyway, now that he looks good and stupid, time to go back...out there, i guess? hopefully the guy he knocked out before he could deliver the plot isn't dead or anything, might as well continue down into the next door on the right.]

[scythegun]

[The guy isn't dead, don't worry! He's still there and still very unconscious.

The second door on the right leads you into somewhere very familiar - it's Leviathan's Claw! The shop, not the guild. The transition is probably a bit jarring because this doesn't look like it belongs in the manor at all, it's like you've quite literally stepped into Jaeger's shop.

Everything looks exactly as it always does, the shelves are arranged with a variety of strange and unique items and the whole place feels just as familiar as always. You won't find anything too interesting or out of the ordinary on the shelves, so do you want to check further back?]

[manufactured]

[He'll take a moment to look around, because this is...a little on the surreal side and he wants to see if it's like he remembers it being; once he's confirmed that, though, off to the back we go.]

[scythegun]

[It's not an exact duplication of what you remember unless you've been into the store within the past few days or so, it's a very accurate representation of what the stock looks like now!

Everything looks mostly the same in the back - there's the door to the back room and uh... hang on, was there always a chest right next to the door? No, definitely not, that's new.]

[manufactured]

[Interesting... Is it openable?]

[scythegun]

[It is! There doesn't seem to be a lock on it or anything!

You'll find a lot of items inside - the two on the top appear to be photo albums. Do you want to start with the one on the left or the one on the right? Or you know, ignore them and dig through the chest, whatever.]

[manufactured]

[Let's start with the left.]

[scythegun]

[It looks like you've found Jaeger's baby pictures! Well, some of them, anyway. There are a lot of pictures in here of Jaeger's early life, including pictures of his family and the various things they did - family vacations and outings, school events, all that sort of stuff.

Most of the pictures show Jaeger with at least one of his siblings, though there are a lot of them. Six, in fact! The earliest pictures show him with four other siblings, though later on the other two start showing up. There are also plenty of pictures of Jaeger with an older woman who is probably his mom, given the striking resemblance and the fact that she's almost always smirking. Apparently that just runs in the family...?? His dad is only in a few pictures, but he seems much more serious and stoic.

Keep flipping through?]

[manufactured]

[Oh, this is...

Yes, of course.]

[scythegun]

[The family pictures start becoming less frequent the further in you go, there are still some pictures of family gatherings and the like, but not as many as there were in the beginning. Instead you're seeing a lot of different people - typically they're in school uniforms, but as you get to the end it looks like they were swapped out for a much rougher-looking crowd. Most of them are probably older than Jaeger in the pictures, though he doesn't seem to be much younger than he is now in those photos.

There are also quite a few pictures of Jaeger with a woman. She was probably pretty beautiful, but her face has been blacked out in every single picture she appears in, even if it's a group shot.

That's all there is to this one. Move on to the next one?]