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Who: Percy Jackson and YOU
What: nightmares
When: nightmare plot
Where: Percy's mind
Rating: PG-13 for now; Possible spoilers for PJ&O and Son of Neptune

[This is a familiar dream for Percy: he's done it many times before. Percy is in a straitjacket and is being forced to take a standardized test. The teacher supervising him is a harpy-- those who paid attention during Camp Half-Blood will recognize it instantly.

But there's probably going to be more. There usually is in his dreams]

[Confinement | Drowning | War | Death go tag!]

Comments

Confinement/Claustrophobia

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[the room remains the same. The other person who comes in will be in a straitjacket as well. It doesn't seem so bad, right? Except you can't seem to get out of that straitjacket]

Re: Confinement/Claustrophobia

[schrodingersghost]

[Danny falls into the room struggling.]

Will someone get this thing off me!

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Uhh. What are you doing here, dude?

Please remember to use a sharpened number two pencil, children!!

[schrodingersghost]

I don't know. Something seriously weird is going on, okay.

[He struggles some more with the straitjacket.]

Oh, come on! Why can't I phase out of this thing?

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I donno. Evil straitjacket.

[schrodingersghost]

Who even bothers to make ghost-proof straitjackets?

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I donno. Who bothers to make you take standardized tests while in straitjackets?

Remember to completely fill in the circle, children! [yep the harpy is still there ignoring their conversation]

[schrodingersghost]

I don't know. I think a couple of my teachers back home might have have had the thought occur.

[Ignoring the harpy.]

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If I could just get to my sword I could bust us out of these. [wiggles restlessly]

[schrodingersghost]

Where is it? [Squirming.]

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[Percy falls over in his chair. A pen is visible in his pats pocket. The walls have gotten a little closer while they struggled, though not enough to really be noticeable right away]

Urghh... Almost got it.

[schrodingersghost]

...Hurrying might be good?

Drowning

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[the room is strangely dark now. The straitjacket is gone but some kind of watery-muddy substance slowly begins to fill the room. It seems harmless at first but the longer you stay, the higher the substance will rise]

War

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[the scene changes to a street in New York City. It's a familiar car jam, except the drivers are all asleep. The other person may notice their loved one in the driver's seat. There are clear sounds of a battle waging in the distance]

[squartatore]

[pounding hard on the windscreen to no avail -- why is Kyousuke here when he can barely walk, much less drive, why are all the cars not moving...!]

Wake up! Hey!

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[Percy grabs a cell phhone from a sleeping tourist]

Not so loud. You don't want the monsters to get our location.

[squartatore]

Monsters? [...

hey, wait, she hadn't noticed him earlier] What's going on here.

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We're at war. [he checks the cell phone before dropping it back on the ground]

We should keep moving. Someone used that cell phone recently.

[squartatore]

... Alright. [she's seen enough spy movies to understand the reasoning behind that, at least]

Where to now?

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I need to find my friends. I'll take you somewhere safe, first.

[there might be burning smells close by, but Percy doesn't seem to notice it]

[squartatore]

[she does, but just attributes it to the fight that's obviously happening]

I'm fine. What about the people in the cars?

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They're asleep. We can't do anything about them until we stop the Titans.

[squartatore]

I can't [won't] sit around somewhere while you run off doing whatever that is!

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Hey, if you want to take up a weaon and fight with us, you're more than welcome. I can see which team needs an extra hand.

Death

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[this is going to be the scene with the most changes: a junkyard, a hilltop, a forest, an attic, a battlefield... The scenes are different but the results are the same: Percy is forced to watch someone he cares about die. There is an intense feeling of hopelessness]