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| date =  [[July 2011| July 1, 2011]]
 
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''Quote from the plot''
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''"You like to cause fear? And pain? How about your fears?" Jean said, walking over to the man's bedside. "Unable to wake up, screaming. Driven mad. Trapped in his own body. I've got a new one to add to your list."''
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''He found himself paralyzed standing there at the foot of his own bed, unable to move.''
  
Brief teaser.
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''"A link can go both ways." ''
  
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An old enemy comes back to haunt Jean Grey and pulls everyone else in the mansion into his revenge as well.
  
  
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'''Cast'''
 
'''Cast'''
  
[[Jean Grey]], [[David Haller]], [[Doug Ramsey]], [[Crystal Amaquelin]], [[Kurt Sefton]], [[Jubilation Lee]], [[Amara Aquilla]], [[Meggan Szardos]], [[Garrison Kane]], [[Vanessa Carlysle]], [[Dr. Henry McCoy]], [[Sarah Vale]]
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[[Jean Grey_-_Phase_1|Jean Grey]], [[David Haller]], [[Doug Ramsey]], [[Crystal Amaquelin]], [[Kurt Sefton]], [[Jubilation Lee]], [[Amara Aquilla_-_Phase_1|Amara Aquilla]], [[Meggan Szardos]], [[Garrison Kane]], [[Vanessa Carlysle]], [[Henry McCoy - Phase 1|Henry McCoy]], [[Sarah Vale]]
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[[Charles Xavier]], [[Amelia Voght]], [[Stepford Cuckoos - Phase 1|Sophie Stepford]]
  
[[Professor Charles Xavier]], [[Dr. Amelia Voght]], [[Stepford Cuckoos|Sophie Stepford]]
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[[Mesmero - Phase 1|Parker Matthews/Nightmare]], [[Fear Lords|Fear Eater, Dark Man, Straw Man, Aarkus]]
  
[[Mesmero|Parker Matthews/Nightmare]], [[Nightmare's Minions|Fear Eater, Dark Man, Straw Man, Aarkus]]
 
  
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The Fourth of July long weekend started off normally enough. [[Warren Worthington - Phase 1 | Warren Worthington]] had taken a group of mansionites to the Hamptons to enjoy the holiday at the beach, with those remaining looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet. The first small sign that all was not right was when Kurt ran into Jean leaving the Professor's office doing some "last minute work". It was unusual for anyone to go into Charles' office without him being there, but this was Jean, his oldest student and trusted friend. Nothing to worry about.
  
'''Jun 30''' - Kurt runs into Jean leaving the Professor's office doing some "last minute work".
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The nightmare began the next day. A group of men - a technopath, a teleporter, an illusionist and a strongman, all with a disturbing knowledge of the mansion - infiltrated the building and overcame the residents with the sleeping gas that was part of the mansion's own security measures. The captured mansionites - X-Men, students and staff - were carried into the [[Danger Room]] and locked inside. The Professor was isolated from the rest, imprisoned in the [[The Box|Box]] to prevent him from contacting anyone outside. The invasion was quick and terrifyingly efficient.
  
'''Jul 1''' - A group of men, with a disturbing knowledge of the mansion, infiltrate the building and overcome the residents with the mansion's security measures; Haller discovers what is going on when he tries to return to the mansion and receives an ultimatum - four Brotherhood members to be released from jail, no feds, in twelve hours, or they will blow up the mansion; Haller manages to contact Doug, Kurt and Crystal and they discuss options; Kurt teleports into the Box to rescue Charles, but is taken down by an illusionist pretending to be Charles; in retaliation for the attempted rescue, Amelia is killed; Jubilee contacts Doug from inside the mansion and lets him know that the mansion dwellers are trapped in nightmares and that she, Amara and Meggan managed to escape the Danger Room under cover of the distraction of another death; Amara, Jubilee and Meggan manage to get to the Box and rescue the Professor while the illusionist flees the mansion; Doug, Haller and Crystal sneak into the mansion via the escape tunnels and Crystal takes on the teleporter while Doug hacks the system and Haller shields them psionically; the group returns to the Danger Room and come up with a plan - Haller and Charles will try to wake the sleepers while Crystal and Meggan tend to the injured and act as guards, while Jubilee and Amara create a distraction; having second thoughts, the technopath reluctantly arms the bomb, and is killed by one of his co-hostage takers; Charles and Haller find the sleepers are all linked together and to Jean and that simply trying to cut the connection between her and their attacker will lobotomise everyone; Haller also tells Charles of Amelia and Sophie Stepford's deaths.
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Returning to the mansion from an overnight trip to the city, Haller discovered what was going on when he tried to open the gate. He received an ultimatum - four [[Brotherhood of Mutants - Phase 1|Brotherhood]] members to be released from jail, no feds, in twelve hours, or the the mansion would be blown up with everyone in it. In a panic, Haller began calling anyone and everyone, managing to contact Doug, Kurt and Crystal. Meeting in a motel in [[Salem Center]], they discussed options and came up with a plan - Kurt would teleport into the Box to rescue Charles. What they hadn't anticipated was the illusionist (Straw Man) was also in the Box, pretending to be Charles, and Kurt was taken down and locked in the Danger Room with the rest of the mansionites.  
  
Kurt runs into Hank and Sarah, on their way to disarm the bomb in Cerebro and joins them; Sarah manages to shut down the bomb, although suffering from electric shocks in the process; Jean fights Nightmare on the astral plane and defeats him, but nearly destroys her mind in the process; Garrison and Vanessa go to help Amara and Jubilee battling the two remaining men in the mansion, only to have the teleporter escape and the other, calling himself the Fear Eater, collapse unconscious as his link with Nightmare is cut; Charles and Haller discover Jean's mind is too damaged to contact her; the mansion dwellers regroup and discover what has happened, to Nightmare and to Jean.
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In retaliation for the attempted rescue, Amelia was killed by a psionic attack, the backlash also killing [[Stepford Cuckoos - Phase 1|Sofie Stepford]]. Horror-struck, Haller, Crystal and Doug were unsure what to do next, when Jubilee contacted Doug from inside the mansion. She let him know that the mansion dwellers were trapped in nightmares and that she, Amara and Meggan had managed to escape their own shared dream. The three escaped the Danger Room when someone came to retrieve the dead body of Sofie, Jubilee choking him out. They managed to get to the Box and rescue the Professor while the illusionist, realising the plan was starting to unravel, fled the mansion.
  
===The Lamb And The Knife===
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With Charles freed, Haller and Crystal sneaked into the mansion via the escape tunnels and Crystal took on the teleporter (Aarkus) while Doug hacked the system and Haller shielded them psionically from detection. Returning to the Danger Room to come up with a plan, it was decided that Haller and Charles would try to wake the sleepers while Crystal and Meggan tended to the injured and acted as guards. Jubilee and Amara would create a distraction and draw attention away from the Danger Room, in order to allow Charles and Haller to work undisturbed for as long as possible.
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Meanwhile, the hostage-takers were having their own troubles. Having second thoughts, the technopath (Dark man) reluctantly armed the bomb, but was killed by one of his co-hostage takers (Fear-Eater). Charles and Haller discovered the sleepers were all linked together and to Jean and that simply trying to cut the connection between her and their unknown psychic attacker would lobotomise everyone; they began the slow task of removing minds from the net, one by one. Others, such as Garrison and Vanessa, appeared to wake on their own and revealing that Parker Matthews was the one responsible. Kyle awoke with a trigger implanted by Nightmare that set him to attack Meggan, injuring her before Kurt teleported him into the Box. The reminder of the White Room drove Kyle into a worse frenzy and Kurt was injured as well before teleporting back out.
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Kurt, returning from depositing Kyle in the Box for safety, ran into Hank and Sarah, on their way to disarm the bomb in Cerebro and joined them. With Kurt prepared to teleport the bomb away and potentially sacrifice himself and Hank providing support, Sarah managed to shut down the bomb, suffering from electric shocks in the process. Garrison and Vanessa went to help Amara and Jubilee battling the two remaining men in the mansion, only to have the teleporter escape and the other, Fear Eater, collapse unconscious as his link with Nightmare was cut.
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Inside her mind, Jean fought Mesmero(now calling himself Nightmare), on the [[Psionics|astral plane]] and defeated him, but nearly destroyed her mind in the process. In the aftermath of the battle, Charles and Haller discovered Jean's mind is too damaged to contact her, and  the mansion dwellers regrouped, they discovered what has happened, to Nightmare and to Jean, and the cost paid by several.
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====Dream1: The Lamb And The Knife====
  
 
'''Cast'''
 
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[[Meggan Szardos]], [[Amara Aquilla]], [[Jubilation Lee]]
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[[Meggan Szardos]], [[Amara Aquilla_-_Phase_1|Amara Aquilla]], [[Jubilation Lee]]
  
 
[[Selene|"Selene"]]
 
[[Selene|"Selene"]]
  
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Meggan, Jubilee and Amara are trapped in a dream where Selene has taken New York and Meggan is her apprentice; Amara is forced to generate a volcano in which Meggan is sacrificed while Jubilee watches; the dream repeats, only this time the girls manage to overwhelm Selene and escape the nightmare.
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''Meggan, Jubilee and Amara are trapped in a dream where Selene has taken New York and Meggan is her apprentice. Amara is forced to generate a volcano in which Meggan is sacrificed while Jubilee watches. The dream repeats, only this time the girls manage to overwhelm Selene and escape the nightmare.''
  
===Après moi le déluge===
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====Dream 2: Après moi le déluge====
  
 
'''Cast'''
 
'''Cast'''
  
[[Jean Grey]], [[Garrison Kane]], [[Vanessa Carlysle]]
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[[Jean Grey_-_Phase_1|Jean Grey]], [[Garrison Kane]], [[Vanessa Carlysle]]
  
 
[[Scott Summers| "Scott Summers"]]  
 
[[Scott Summers| "Scott Summers"]]  
  
[[Not So Plain Jane| "Jane"]], [[Colonel William Stryker|"Colonel William Stryker" ]]
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[[Not So Plain Jane| "Jane"]], [[William Stryker - Phase 1|"Colonel William Stryker" ]]
  
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Vanessa and Garrison are trapped in Jean's nightmares with a version of Scott, first experiencing her memories of Alkali Lake and then her memories of having a miscarriage in California, while they are betrayed by Jane; Jean realises who is responsible - Parker Matthews, also known as Mesmero, now calling himself Nightmare; Jean shoves Garrison and Vanessa out of her mind and when they wake up, they tell Charles and Haller who is pulling the strings;
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''Vanessa and Garrison are trapped in Jean's nightmares with a version of Scott, first experiencing her memories of [[Alkali Lake]] and then her memories of having a miscarriage in California, while they are betrayed by Jane. Jean realises who is responsible - Parker Matthews, also known as Mesmero, now calling himself Nightmare and shoves Garrison and Vanessa out of her mind.''
  
===The Devil's Science===
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====Dream 3: The Devil's Science====
  
 
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[[Angelica Jones]], [[Klara Prast]], [[Sarah Vale]], [[Yvette Petrovic]], [[Kurt Sefton]]
 
[[Angelica Jones]], [[Klara Prast]], [[Sarah Vale]], [[Yvette Petrovic]], [[Kurt Sefton]]
  
[[Szardos Clan|"Stefan Szardos"]], [[Dr. Henry McCoy| "Dark Beast"]]
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[[Szardos Clan - Phase 1|"Stefan Szardos"]], [[Henry McCoy - Phase 1| "Dark Beast"]]
  
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In their shared nightmare, Angel, Yvette, Sarah and Klara are vacationing in a small seaside town where things seem a bit off; discovering they are being followed, Angel and Yvette move to accost their stalker, only to have the crowd attack Klara and Sarah for being witches; Yvette's suit fails and she injures several of the crowd before she and Sarah are overwhelmed and taken by Dr. Henry McCoy, seeking new mutants to sell overseas; Hank tortures and disfigures Sarah while Yvette is locked in a crate nearby, helpless to save her.
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''In their shared nightmare, Angel, Yvette, Sarah and Klara are vacationing in a small seaside town where things seem a bit off. Discovering they are being followed, Angel and Yvette move to accost their stalker, only to have a crowd attack Klara and Sarah for being witches. Yvette's suit fails and she injures several of the crowd before she and Sarah are overwhelmed and taken by Dr. Henry McCoy, seeking new mutants to sell overseas. Hank - the Dark Beast - tortures and disfigures Sarah while Yvette is locked in a crate nearby, helpless to save her.'''
  
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''Angel tries to save Klara from being burned at the stake, but her powers go out of control and set fire to the town. Kurt enters the dream and has to kill his brother, Stefan, in order to save Klara. Chased down to the docks, they see Hank sailing away with Sarah and Yvette, but Angel's powers fail as she pursues him. As the mob draws closer, Kurt is ready to kill Klara to stop her being burned to death, but Charles and Haller manage to sever the link to Jean at the very last minute.''
  
in their dream, Angel tries to save Klara from being burned at the stake, but her powers go out of control and set fire to the town; Kurt enters the dream and has to kill his brother, Stefan, in order to save Klara; chased down to the docks, they see Hank sailing away with Sarah and Yvette, but Angel's powers fail as she pursues him; as the mob draws closer, Kurt is ready to kill Klara to stop her being burned to death, but Charles and Haller manage to sever the link to Jean at the very last minute.
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====Dream 4: Devour====
 
 
===Devour===
 
  
 
'''Cast'''
 
'''Cast'''
  
[[Monet St. Croix]], [[Kyle Gibney]], [[Piotr Rasputin]], [[Meggan Szardos]], [[Kurt Sefton]]
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[[Monet St. Croix_-_Phase_1|Monet St. Croix]], [[Kyle Gibney]], [[Piotr Rasputin]], [[Meggan Szardos]], [[Kurt Sefton]]
  
 
[[Marius St. Croix|"Marius St. Croix"]]
 
[[Marius St. Croix|"Marius St. Croix"]]
 
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Monet, Kyle, and Piotr wake up in an abandoned stadium in Sydney; Monet is horrified to discover herself in the body of Marius St. Croix; Kyle, recognizing his old foe, attacks her while Piotr tries to stop them but cannot understand what they're saying; eventually Kyle realizes Monet is trapped in Marius's body but he suddenly loses control and starts to attack people; they are soon rescued from the nightmare by Xavier and Haller; Kyle might have woken, but a trigger implanted by Nightmare sets him to attack Meggan, injuring her before Kurt teleports him into the Box; the reminder of the White Room drives him into a worse frenzy and Kurt is injured as well before teleporting back out
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''Monet, Kyle, and Piotr wake up in an abandoned stadium in Sydney; Monet is horrified to discover herself in the body of Marius St. Croix. Kyle, more feral than usual and recognizing his old foe, attacks her while Piotr tries to stop them but cannot understand what they're saying; eventually Kyle realizes Monet is trapped in Marius's body but he suddenly loses control and starts to attack people. They are soon rescued from the nightmare by Xavier and Haller.''
  
  
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'''Cast'''
 
'''Cast'''
  
[[David Haller]], [[Professor Charles Xavier]], [[Dr. Henry McCoy]], [[Jean Grey]]
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[[David Haller]], [[Charles Xavier]], [[Henry McCoy - Phase 1|Henry McCoy]], [[Jean Grey_-_Phase_1|Jean Grey]]
  
 
"Jane", "Jeannie", "Nightmare"
 
"Jane", "Jeannie", "Nightmare"
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After weeks with no change, Xavier and Haller went inside Jean's mind to attempt to heal the damage, finding Jean's mindscape a half-flooded wreck with the corpses of friends and family floating in the waters and every pitfall a painful memory. Splitting up, each telepath met a different version of Jean - Haller with Jane, Charles with a teenaged Jeannie before returning to the mansion. They attempted to enter, but a memory of Nightmare attacked them, forcing them to retreat to the centre of Jean's mind where they found an untouched child version of Jean. With encouragement, Jane and Jeannie join with the child Jean to become the adult Jean and they banished the memory of Nightmare from her mind, allowing her to wake and continue to rebuild the damaged parts of her psyche.
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===Finding Amelia===
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'''Cast'''
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[[Jean Grey_-_Phase_1|Jean Grey]], [[Charles Xavier]], [[Amelia Voght]]
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Recovering from her own ordeal, Jean 'felt' traces of her co-worker's mind and summoned Charles to help her look for the Russian doctor. It was difficult, Amelia's mind being fragile and reluctant to leave the 'safety' of the astral plane, but gradually, using their memories of her, Jean and Charles were able to bring her mind back. From there, it was a simple enough matter for Amelia to recompose her gaseous form and return to her old acerbic self, much to the relief of the mansion.
  
 
==Related Links==
 
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==External Links==
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[https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/tag/z+p1:+p:+don%27t+close+your+eyes Don't Close Your Eyes]
  
==External Links==
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[https://xp-journal.dreamwidth.org/tag/z+p1:+p:+don%27t+close+your+eyes xp_journal posts]
  
[http://x-logs.livejournal.com/tag/don't%20close%20your%20eyes Don't Close Your Eyes]
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[https://x-team.dreamwidth.org/tag/p:+don%27t+close+your+eyes x_team posts]
  
[http://x-journal.livejournal.com/162810.html Charles' post to x_journal]
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[https://x-grads.dreamwidth.org/tag/p:+don%27t+close+your+eyes x_grads posts]
  
 
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IC notes stemming from the plot. Eg: "As a result of this Character A developed a crippling fear of ottomans".
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Revealed during the shared nightmare in Jean's mind was the fact she'd suffered a miscarriage in California as the result of a mission.
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Those who had stayed in the Hamptons returned from their trip several days after the events, as the mansion needed repairs.
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Injuries that were suffered in the dreams carried over as pain in the waking world.
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Several weeks after the death of their sister, the remaining Stepfords transferred to the [[West Coast Annex]], to continue their university studies there.
  
 
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'''Plotrunner:'''[[Mackinzie]]
  
Links to comic/movie/etc influences on the plot (if any), or other OOC notes that are important to the plot. Eg: With Malice Aforethought is a reworking of two Marvel plotlines - Malice and Forge's Neutraliser.
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Mack created [http://youtu.be/4lb8S5jo7_E a video] and [http://x-journal.net/Wiki/index.php?title=Don%27t_Close_Your_Eyes_poster two] [http://x-journal.net/Wiki/index.php?title=File:Sleeping-beauty-poster.jpg posters] for the plot.  
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PHASE 1


Don't Close Your Eyes
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Dates run: July 1, 2011
Run By: Mackinzie
Read the logs: Don't Close Your Eyes


"You like to cause fear? And pain? How about your fears?" Jean said, walking over to the man's bedside. "Unable to wake up, screaming. Driven mad. Trapped in his own body. I've got a new one to add to your list."

He found himself paralyzed standing there at the foot of his own bed, unable to move.

"A link can go both ways."

An old enemy comes back to haunt Jean Grey and pulls everyone else in the mansion into his revenge as well.


Timing

July 1, 2011


Plot Summary

Don't Close Your Eyes

Cast

Jean Grey, David Haller, Doug Ramsey, Crystal Amaquelin, Kurt Sefton, Jubilation Lee, Amara Aquilla, Meggan Szardos, Garrison Kane, Vanessa Carlysle, Henry McCoy, Sarah Vale

Charles Xavier, Amelia Voght, Sophie Stepford

Parker Matthews/Nightmare, Fear Eater, Dark Man, Straw Man, Aarkus


The Fourth of July long weekend started off normally enough. Warren Worthington had taken a group of mansionites to the Hamptons to enjoy the holiday at the beach, with those remaining looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet. The first small sign that all was not right was when Kurt ran into Jean leaving the Professor's office doing some "last minute work". It was unusual for anyone to go into Charles' office without him being there, but this was Jean, his oldest student and trusted friend. Nothing to worry about.

The nightmare began the next day. A group of men - a technopath, a teleporter, an illusionist and a strongman, all with a disturbing knowledge of the mansion - infiltrated the building and overcame the residents with the sleeping gas that was part of the mansion's own security measures. The captured mansionites - X-Men, students and staff - were carried into the Danger Room and locked inside. The Professor was isolated from the rest, imprisoned in the Box to prevent him from contacting anyone outside. The invasion was quick and terrifyingly efficient.

Returning to the mansion from an overnight trip to the city, Haller discovered what was going on when he tried to open the gate. He received an ultimatum - four Brotherhood members to be released from jail, no feds, in twelve hours, or the the mansion would be blown up with everyone in it. In a panic, Haller began calling anyone and everyone, managing to contact Doug, Kurt and Crystal. Meeting in a motel in Salem Center, they discussed options and came up with a plan - Kurt would teleport into the Box to rescue Charles. What they hadn't anticipated was the illusionist (Straw Man) was also in the Box, pretending to be Charles, and Kurt was taken down and locked in the Danger Room with the rest of the mansionites.

In retaliation for the attempted rescue, Amelia was killed by a psionic attack, the backlash also killing Sofie Stepford. Horror-struck, Haller, Crystal and Doug were unsure what to do next, when Jubilee contacted Doug from inside the mansion. She let him know that the mansion dwellers were trapped in nightmares and that she, Amara and Meggan had managed to escape their own shared dream. The three escaped the Danger Room when someone came to retrieve the dead body of Sofie, Jubilee choking him out. They managed to get to the Box and rescue the Professor while the illusionist, realising the plan was starting to unravel, fled the mansion.

With Charles freed, Haller and Crystal sneaked into the mansion via the escape tunnels and Crystal took on the teleporter (Aarkus) while Doug hacked the system and Haller shielded them psionically from detection. Returning to the Danger Room to come up with a plan, it was decided that Haller and Charles would try to wake the sleepers while Crystal and Meggan tended to the injured and acted as guards. Jubilee and Amara would create a distraction and draw attention away from the Danger Room, in order to allow Charles and Haller to work undisturbed for as long as possible.

Meanwhile, the hostage-takers were having their own troubles. Having second thoughts, the technopath (Dark man) reluctantly armed the bomb, but was killed by one of his co-hostage takers (Fear-Eater). Charles and Haller discovered the sleepers were all linked together and to Jean and that simply trying to cut the connection between her and their unknown psychic attacker would lobotomise everyone; they began the slow task of removing minds from the net, one by one. Others, such as Garrison and Vanessa, appeared to wake on their own and revealing that Parker Matthews was the one responsible. Kyle awoke with a trigger implanted by Nightmare that set him to attack Meggan, injuring her before Kurt teleported him into the Box. The reminder of the White Room drove Kyle into a worse frenzy and Kurt was injured as well before teleporting back out.

Kurt, returning from depositing Kyle in the Box for safety, ran into Hank and Sarah, on their way to disarm the bomb in Cerebro and joined them. With Kurt prepared to teleport the bomb away and potentially sacrifice himself and Hank providing support, Sarah managed to shut down the bomb, suffering from electric shocks in the process. Garrison and Vanessa went to help Amara and Jubilee battling the two remaining men in the mansion, only to have the teleporter escape and the other, Fear Eater, collapse unconscious as his link with Nightmare was cut.

Inside her mind, Jean fought Mesmero(now calling himself Nightmare), on the astral plane and defeated him, but nearly destroyed her mind in the process. In the aftermath of the battle, Charles and Haller discovered Jean's mind is too damaged to contact her, and the mansion dwellers regrouped, they discovered what has happened, to Nightmare and to Jean, and the cost paid by several.

Dream1: The Lamb And The Knife

Cast

Meggan Szardos, Amara Aquilla, Jubilation Lee

"Selene"


Meggan, Jubilee and Amara are trapped in a dream where Selene has taken New York and Meggan is her apprentice. Amara is forced to generate a volcano in which Meggan is sacrificed while Jubilee watches. The dream repeats, only this time the girls manage to overwhelm Selene and escape the nightmare.

Dream 2: Après moi le déluge

Cast

Jean Grey, Garrison Kane, Vanessa Carlysle

"Scott Summers"

"Jane", "Colonel William Stryker"


Vanessa and Garrison are trapped in Jean's nightmares with a version of Scott, first experiencing her memories of Alkali Lake and then her memories of having a miscarriage in California, while they are betrayed by Jane. Jean realises who is responsible - Parker Matthews, also known as Mesmero, now calling himself Nightmare and shoves Garrison and Vanessa out of her mind.


Dream 3: The Devil's Science

Cast

Angelica Jones, Klara Prast, Sarah Vale, Yvette Petrovic, Kurt Sefton

"Stefan Szardos", "Dark Beast"


In their shared nightmare, Angel, Yvette, Sarah and Klara are vacationing in a small seaside town where things seem a bit off. Discovering they are being followed, Angel and Yvette move to accost their stalker, only to have a crowd attack Klara and Sarah for being witches. Yvette's suit fails and she injures several of the crowd before she and Sarah are overwhelmed and taken by Dr. Henry McCoy, seeking new mutants to sell overseas. Hank - the Dark Beast - tortures and disfigures Sarah while Yvette is locked in a crate nearby, helpless to save her.'

Angel tries to save Klara from being burned at the stake, but her powers go out of control and set fire to the town. Kurt enters the dream and has to kill his brother, Stefan, in order to save Klara. Chased down to the docks, they see Hank sailing away with Sarah and Yvette, but Angel's powers fail as she pursues him. As the mob draws closer, Kurt is ready to kill Klara to stop her being burned to death, but Charles and Haller manage to sever the link to Jean at the very last minute.

Dream 4: Devour

Cast

Monet St. Croix, Kyle Gibney, Piotr Rasputin, Meggan Szardos, Kurt Sefton

"Marius St. Croix"


Monet, Kyle, and Piotr wake up in an abandoned stadium in Sydney; Monet is horrified to discover herself in the body of Marius St. Croix. Kyle, more feral than usual and recognizing his old foe, attacks her while Piotr tries to stop them but cannot understand what they're saying; eventually Kyle realizes Monet is trapped in Marius's body but he suddenly loses control and starts to attack people. They are soon rescued from the nightmare by Xavier and Haller.


Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping-beauty-poster.jpg

Cast

David Haller, Charles Xavier, Henry McCoy, Jean Grey

"Jane", "Jeannie", "Nightmare"


After weeks with no change, Xavier and Haller went inside Jean's mind to attempt to heal the damage, finding Jean's mindscape a half-flooded wreck with the corpses of friends and family floating in the waters and every pitfall a painful memory. Splitting up, each telepath met a different version of Jean - Haller with Jane, Charles with a teenaged Jeannie before returning to the mansion. They attempted to enter, but a memory of Nightmare attacked them, forcing them to retreat to the centre of Jean's mind where they found an untouched child version of Jean. With encouragement, Jane and Jeannie join with the child Jean to become the adult Jean and they banished the memory of Nightmare from her mind, allowing her to wake and continue to rebuild the damaged parts of her psyche.


Finding Amelia

Cast

Jean Grey, Charles Xavier, Amelia Voght

Recovering from her own ordeal, Jean 'felt' traces of her co-worker's mind and summoned Charles to help her look for the Russian doctor. It was difficult, Amelia's mind being fragile and reluctant to leave the 'safety' of the astral plane, but gradually, using their memories of her, Jean and Charles were able to bring her mind back. From there, it was a simple enough matter for Amelia to recompose her gaseous form and return to her old acerbic self, much to the relief of the mansion.

Related Links

X2

Not So Plain Jane

X-Men Mission: Wildchild

Carmen Animi Vermium

Revenant


External Links

Don't Close Your Eyes

xp_journal posts

x_team posts

x_grads posts

Trivia and Meta

Trivia

Revealed during the shared nightmare in Jean's mind was the fact she'd suffered a miscarriage in California as the result of a mission.

Those who had stayed in the Hamptons returned from their trip several days after the events, as the mansion needed repairs.

Injuries that were suffered in the dreams carried over as pain in the waking world.

Several weeks after the death of their sister, the remaining Stepfords transferred to the West Coast Annex, to continue their university studies there.

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Plotrunner:Mackinzie

Mack created a video and two posters for the plot.