ARC VI: THE SUNKEN

[groundrules]

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 mystery

IT WAS ALL A DREAM

As the team has been piecing together, there is something amiss with good Firo, and the numerous suggestions in answer to his ransom offer push M. le Bagade to accuse the renown heroine that she might be... a living dream. The Conductor threatens her expulsion, to the anguish of her sister Lita, who takes full responsibility. Firo, she says, was unaware — Lita, also a living dream, has been secretly feeding her stolen sedative herbs to induce sleep and make Firo think herself a 'normal' person.

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.

ARC VI

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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<b><small>PLAYER</small>:</b> <b><small>CONTACT INFO</small>:</b> <b><small>CHARACTER | CANON</small>:</b> <b>WHO IS YOUR CHARACTER IN YANCAI?</b> ...and how will they cope with it? <b><small>MEMORY STATUS</small>:</b> <b><small>GENERAL PLANS</small>:</b>

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Daenerys Targaryen | A Song of Ice and Fire

[thebrideoffire]

PLAYER: Lils
CONTACT INFO: PM

Daenerys Targaryen | A Song of Ice and Fire:

WHO IS YOUR CHARACTER IN YANCAI? Bird Dispeller, she and Drogon keep the birds away from the fish, and the Drogon away from the fish. She's living in the Mayor's house with Jon Snow, River Song, Ren Amamiya, and Kahl. She'll be haunted by a milk-toothed child and probably calling him "Rhaego" whenever she sees him, chasing after him at night. She'll promise she's not crazy.

MEMORY STATUS: Dany knows who she is, but thinks she made a decision long ago to settle in the village. She'll start to remember things quick, she's got too many people waiting for her to stay in this false illusion. Thanks House of the Undying.

GENERAL PLANS:
At the moment, deal with ghosts and just make new cr, Dany's kind of been floating for awhile. I'd love for her to make new friends and adventure buddies.

Re: Daenerys Targaryen | A Song of Ice and Fire

[northerndragon]

Is this why we don't have kids?

[thebrideoffire]

Excuse you, they have Drogon

[northerndragon]

a large son

there's also that giant undead dragon hanging out a few miles away but I think it's more like a distant relative or something

[thebrideoffire]

Some sort of cousin once removed

[northerndragon]

implications about Targaryen bloodlines notwithstanding

[somebadnews]

Here for random encounters! Five is of the opinion that Dany is a try hard who will get in over her head helping if she's given half a chance. Worth at least a check in while he's taking a tally of how crazy the group is. (Also he likes Jon, but I don't think he's put together that they're... together. Probably unimportant, but I feel like he should know who his dad is dating.)

[thebrideoffire]

Yes please! She is too much of a try hard and yet still keeps at it despite bad outcomes. And it will be hilarious when he figures out they're dating.