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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kamala khan | mcu

[cosplayqueen]

PLAYER: Rose
CONTACT INFO: milanobutterly on plurk | PM

CHARACTER | CANON: Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel) | MCU

WHO IS YOUR CHARACTER IN YANCAI? Carpenter's apprentice to Chu Wanning! She'll actually love this once she starts to get the hang of it.

She's staying with Natasha Romanoff, Red, Dean Winchester, Nynaeve at the abandoned hideout of a gang of thieves and rogues. Apparently some tough guys do chores sometimes. Kamala thinks this is part of her decision to stay.

MEMORY STATUS: Remembers who she is, but thinks they collectively decided to stay for a while.

GENERAL PLANS:
-Dealing with her haunting. Little kids are being mean to her. :( Talk it out with her, please? In all seriousness, Kamala will be dealing with her regret over the secrets she keeps about her identity and abilities. Anyone who could have a good talk with her about it would be great. She'll actually be crying after every encounter with these ghosts because she is really sensitive about this. :(

-Meeting her roommates.

No, really just that. I'm taking it easy this month.

[blackscales]

Wrathion is pro keeping secrets for safety reasons, so he'd happily assure her she did nothing wrong!

He's also not great at comfort or physical affection but he'd awkwardly do his best!

[cosplayqueen]

She will appreciate it. He's always so nice to her :)

[blackscales]

Please don't tell anyone he's nice, he has a reputation to uphold Kamala! TOUGH MAN.

[somebadnews]

Five is not at all comfortable with this housing arrangement, will bully Chu Wanning to give him status updates. Zero chill if he sees the guys cleaning their hideout.

And if there is an excuse for Five to reveal that his superhero name was literally ‘the Boy’ I am taking it. The fame isn’t worth it, Kamala!!

[cosplayqueen]

WOW SHE ONLY KIND OF WANTS THE VALIDATION FAME GIVES HER!! No, this is really needed since she has such a rosy view of things. :(

Kamala would full stop tell Five it's okay the guys are there because she doesn't let them do her laundry. That would be weird!! Not you know weird that they offered.

[somebadnews]

Imagine there was a time when Five was on the cover of teen magazines because their father really wanted to make 'the Umbrella Academy' happen. A name he came up with because he walked by an umbrella one time, and now Five and Allison have to live with those tattoos. It's a Whole Thing, Kamala.

There are so many related problems that have nothing to do with laundry here!! We need to go way overboard on locks to her room.

[cosplayqueen]

She truly has no idea. The idea of Five on old teen magazines would probably make her cry with laughter.

And she's gonna accuse him of being in cahoots with her mom while letting him install all these locks. She's gonna text Allison like your brother is losing it again 🙄

[valeas]

Kamala ;;

Emilia is here for all the talks but also to feed, come to the hot house for lunches and dinners please.

[cosplayqueen]

Yes, she'll definitely be there for that. She's working hard for a living so please feed her, Emilia. ;;