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lostcompass2023-05-12 07:08 pm
ARC VI: THE SUNKEN
Happy Friday! Curtains are drawing on the Dream a little dream of her... travel arc, with the conclusion one cut away — warning for spoilers, if you're still threading out the mysteryIT WAS ALL A DREAM
Seeing her spouse mired in conflict, Prassenze emerges from where she has been changing appearance in the passenger crowd. A blank slate more than a person, she confesses she is also living dream, forged as a companion to Firo. As the party suspected, she has been using a dream thief to recreate herself on each wedding day and better suit beloved Firo and her companions. Sadly, Prassenze and the dream thief ran out of dream tokens to power their efforts, and Prassenze chose to hide away. Hugo — Natasha has learned, of the Merchant's homeland Ellethia — bashfully admits he is the dream thief, who created the perfect hero (Firo), her stalwart sister (Lita) and the blushing bride (Prassenze).
While the Conductor should remove living dreams from the train, Hugo patiently reminds him of the many years when he and his team allowed dream thieves to continue their work undeterred on the Sandman, for a price. To protect the train's reputation, the Conductor calls the incident closed. The group retires to their compartments — Firo and Prassenze agreeing to talk, Lita a little shattered, and Hugo... telling the Merchant's party that, if he had known what trouble they would cause, he would not have procured their tickets.
Betting results: 40,000 coins to Wei Wuxian and Dean each, 20,000 to Beitang Moran and Lan Sizhui each, 30,000 to Five.
We officially enter Arc VI on 15 May, when the group arrives in sunken village Yancai during a first log event — which doubles as a test drive meme.
- ■ Yancai location details are now live!
■ Courtesy of the Merchant, characters are assigned false identities/occupations and dwellings while in Yancai. Unrelated to the Merchant, they might be haunted. CTRL+F your character's name to learn their fate. The haunting & atonement are entirely optional — feel free to ignore or tweak.
■ A new NPC inbox will follow shortly.
■ Characters are coming into Arc VI with varying levels of false memories of being native to Yancai. These false memories are temporary and will dispel within days of arrival. During this period, characters can still sense they have a connection with their CR (as deeply or shallowly as you want), even if they have a diffuse sense of how it was formed. Ex: character A might know they love B, even if they don't recall B is their spouse of 50 years. They would (and should) be startled by this discrepancy in their memories.
■ the first Arc VI log will cover: a few days of acclimating to the village (and fully recovering character memories, where applicable), getting optionally haunted, exploring the lakes and and searching sunken territories for clues about the time-warping decay.
■ QUESTIONS
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CONTACT INFO:
CHARACTER | CANON: America Chavez | MCU
WHO IS YOUR CHARACTER IN YANCAI? A blessed child whose presence should bring good tidings, and she is more than down to visit you if you offer goods, but especially good. She is residing with Ignacio Varga, Mo Ran, Xie Lian and Kumoi Yuuri in The Dancing Seagull.
MEMORY STATUS: She will think she's been a person living in Yancai for some time now, at first. Her memories will return after a few days. She will still recognize her current CR as part of her life, but find holes instead of answers to HOW she knows them. Unless you want to weave current CR in with me? Which I'm down for.
GENERAL PLANS:
- if you want to be one of the people America is taking goods/food from to bless your residence with her presence lmk.
- Being haunted by the White Woman, so if anyone wants to either hear of America's regrets or be part of her efforts to show kindness or sympathy or offer comfort I'm down
- down for her to return the same for others
- exploring some lakes
- once she gets her memories back? She's using her powers and finding out, whoops, no, you don't get to back to Wong, America, but she has a fast track way to warp around, instead, if anyone wants to part of that, or have her run to them to go on about it after the fact
- definitely will be talking to the locals
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Also he is haunted by the white woman as well and the reason why is... really bad, but he would appreciate a kind word and even maybe a hug and he would offer the same especially to a younger girl reminding him of his adopted daughter.
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And that white woman is getting around, so rude. I would like to attempt kind words and hugs if they pan out, for sure.
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Are you going to have a TL?
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Wtf is a blessed child?? Everyone likes to be quizzed by Five, it'll be a good time.
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She might just charge him a food item every time he asks a question. Charge him before she answers, or something. And start asking questions right back. In other words, this could be lots of fun.
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lsmf He will be like the nerve of this girl, that's not how this works! But very enterprising of her, so he'll have to give her credit. I'm here for it.
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And yes, I like this. Will you have a TL this go around?
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ALSO I JUST WANT ROOMMATE SHENANIGANS WITH THEM.
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Either way, there will be shenanigans!
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Oh, idea! WHAT IF he has sort of appointed himself her sorta-kinda guardian. He knows that he's himself, not a native, but he meets this little thing running around and feels sympathy... decides she needs someone keeping an eye out so nobody tries to take advantage of her blessed... child... ness...
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She will share all of her gains.