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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.
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CHARACTER | CANON: Caitlyn Kiramman | Arcane
WHO IS YOUR CHARACTER IN YANCAI? She's a fish tamer and everyone is nagging her for fish! Ask her about how bad it smells!
She's rooming with Clara Oswald, Bucky Barnes, Adrienne Peters, and Charles Xavier.
MEMORY STATUS: Memories? Who needs 'em! Get those out of here! She's always lived in Yancai.
GENERAL PLANS:
» Exploring and getting into trouble. Poking around every single place she shouldn't. Probably going spelunking in the half-sunken palace. Someone please save her from drowning.
» Woods full of creatures, you say? She does like to go hunting, so she'll be running around in the woods with her gun and... hopefully not getting mauled.
» She should definitely up in one of those taverns and mingle with some rough and tumble folk drinking hard swill. Culture shock is good for the soul.
» Just having some nice, quiet time drinking tea. Until she gets bored and wants to have an adventure (maybe also while drinking tea).
» Getting haunted by the reminder of how bad she fucked up by not figuring out how steeped in corruption her boss was. Watch her desperately try to help a man try to find his real face while she feels like an abject failure for reasons she can't remember!
» I'm extremely down for roommate shenanigans at the villa.
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I have no idea what said shenanigans will be yet, but Clara's gonna be baking up a storm, I do know that :D
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Whatever your'e into, I'm happy to explore with her. :>
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