lostcompass | 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 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.

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PLAYER: Brandon
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Dean Winchester | Supernatural:

WHO IS YOUR CHARACTER IN YANCAI? Dean is a noted brewer of the world's tiniest bar, the Teeth Breaker. Roughly three people can sit in this glorified wardrobe. The alcohol is vilely strong and self-replenishing.

Residing with: Kamala Khan, Natasha Romanoff, Red, Nynaeve

He's also living as one of the former crime lord's successors so huffy buff men come at night and basically fold his underwear and do his laundry and it's just kind of a thing. Dean will experience very confusing feelings.

One of Dean's dreams is to run a bar and he's doing just that. He's not big on boats (or planes), but he is where he is so he makes do.

His haunting is a witch he's never seen in person, but only heard about so he's going to think he's the only one with a stranger haunting him. Just. His. Luck.

MEMORY STATUS: 2. Dean will be confused for the first few days, thinking he arrived with everyone, but ages ago. And why wouldn't he stay here. He's "dead" after all and finally has a bar to call his own. It's not home, but it's as good as for the time being.

GENERAL PLANS: I really would love some established CR for those that are either 1. or 2. Patrons of his bar. Guy friends. Flirtationships. He would even be open to a fling (that's not really a fling, thanks false memories.) He'll spend his off time fishing.

It may also be a good time for someone to really learn what he went through before ending up here. It's been long enough in his "mind" that he might emotionally open up.

Also, he's gained a mafioso valet at his stead. So, please to be recognizing he's important. Apparently. Not that he'd ever believe it past someone's obsession.

But, mostly interested in:

Fake Established CR
Continuing CR
New CR from someone on the train who can directly refute that Dean's been there for more than a few days if that!

Edited 2023-05-12 22:12 (UTC)

Natasha Romanov | Became her dead husband's successor. Works from an unresolved 'in her space, I didn't vote for you' tension. It's a thin line.

Edited 2023-05-12 22:19 (UTC)

Dany will be figuring out fairly quickly that her memories are fake. She could help Dean while patronizing his bar.

Dean you are rooming with one of the very few people Five cares about. Your mission is to make sure she's safe at all costs. (It's Kamala. Five isn't the only one, but he's the most aggressive about this, so expect him to get into it with him about it when he finds out.)

Five also would very much like some of his alcohol thanks. Obviously he is the bar friend he was looking for.

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