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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
To line up some excellent rural CR, fill out the below and spam to your hearts' content:
emily | allison hargreeves
CONTACT INFO:
CHARACTER | CANON: Allison Hargreeves | The Umbrella Academy
WHO IS YOUR CHARACTER IN YANCAI? Allison is a pirate and she's gonna be great at it, to be honest. Since she's already been designated the scary one I feel like it's along the lines of she stands behind Buck and incentivizes people to do as requested but I haven't confirmed this with Xy yet so this is all pending!
MEMORY STATUS: 2 - She's aware she came from somewhere else, but she thinks she's been here a good long while and you know, built a life for herself again. Just like S2. And the husband she's being haunted by. This is fine.
GENERAL PLANS: Not so much a plan but more of an FYI, I am leaving on Sunday for a weeklong trip where I will not be bringing my laptop so I will be late to this log! So no top level for this one, but I will tag into things on my return. Feel free to assume that Allison is pirating around being a very fashionable pirate and talking to her ghost husband, this is fine.
Once the memory juju wears off though, I'm excited to dig into the curses and the time travel shenanigans once we get there, I just don't have specific ideas at this time (blame vacation brain).
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PS - he's going to be talking to her about his ongoing curse storyline and want her to be there in the event he goes to Wrath to have it taken out. More on this later, but that's the intent!
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