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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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CHARACTER | CANON: Eda Clawthorne | The Owl House
WHO IS YOUR CHARACTER IN YANCAI? Eda is a nets and sails maker! She does her work, even if she complains sometimes. She also lives in a house of goodness and godliness with Jesse Pinkman, Stephanivien and Xie Yun, where she will be dispensing copious amounts of questionable advice. Yes, you should steal your shitty stepfather's fortune. Why not cheat on that important exam? What matters is that you pass! Many more wisdoms only from the source. Meanwhile, she will be haunted by the Man in Black, who shows her a lovely puppet theater of one of her worst memories. ♥
MEMORY STATUS: Eda thinks she has been settled in Yancai for a long time, after losing all hope of returning home. Bits and pieces of her real memories haunt her.
GENERAL PLANS:
- fun sowing chaos
- memory shenanigans
- haunting!! who wants an intro to owl lady trauma
- would love for Eda to go feral at some point ngl
- also I want her to accidentally do something selfless to get rid of her haunting, so if you've got a character in distress who might need some help, hit me up!
- maybe investigations into the ladies of the lake and the forest
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Or, if you'd rather, America might go to her for advice, being from the house of goodness and godliness, and that could be where Eda helps or sows more chaos! Up to you. Hope that isn't too many choices, but all of these sound fun.
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Maybe we'll just... see what tickles us the most? Sorry I haven't replied in a bit (and not really engaged with the new log...), RL is kinda taking up a lot of my brainspace right now |D
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