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<blockquote data-quote="Cristian Andreu" data-source="post: 6250941" data-attributes="member: 23822"><p><strong><u><span style="font-size: 15px">Part XIV: A Handful of Dreams</span></u></strong></p><p></p><p>Things calmed down eventually. Yet something was bothering Valanar:</p><p></p><p><em>“So when this portal got severed, it became a tunnel into the Deep Ethereal, right? Now, what we got was Night Hags. But if memory serves, there is another very important thing to be found in the Deep Ethereal, which is in fact the chief reason Night Hags are there to begin with” </em></p><p></p><p>Glad as always for my player’s interest in all things cosmological and knowing the guy had a big bonus to his Knowledge roll, I let him go through with his dissertation:</p><p></p><p><em>“Dreams! According to some sages, somewhere in the farthest fathoms of the Deep Ethereal lies the Region of Dreams, where everything concocted by the minds of those who sleep takes form. All of this… flying castles, impossible animals, multicoloured forests, I’d say…”</em></p><p></p><p><em>“Hold on to your trousers”</em> Said Hassan while looking around at the misty shapes that had flooded into the desert after the incident with the portal with sudden interest <em>“If I get where you’re going, and I usually do, are you suggesting all this stuff is made from... dreams?”</em></p><p></p><p><em>“Essentially, yes”</em> Answered the cleric.</p><p></p><p><em>“And where do they come from?”</em> At this point in the story, you know that Hassan never asks something like this merely out of curiosity.</p><p></p><p><em>“From anyone dreaming them. The legends tell that when we dream, those things that exist in our heads literally exist in the Plane of Dreams, which really is a subset of the Ethereal”</em></p><p></p><p><em>“Hey Dungeon Master”</em> went Hassan <em>“Tell me something: Could a dream, hypothetically, materialize into something real? Very hypothetically, of course”'</em></p><p></p><p><em>“Don’t ask me, ask the cleric!”</em></p><p></p><p><em>“Cleric! Same question!”</em></p><p></p><p><em>“No metagaming…”</em></p><p></p><p><em>“… Hassan asks the same question I just asked him, but with a Katapeshi accent”</em></p><p></p><p>After a few rolls, some private talking with Valanar (who often tells me to give him the information through notes, since he enjoys withholding important pieces of info in order to use it whenever it is more dramatically appropriate) and a lengthy exposition on the cosmological nature of dreams and how could they, potentially, be made of elemental matter instead of ether, the player behind Hassan stands from his seat:</p><p></p><p><em>“Guys, do I really need to say it?”</em></p><p></p><p>Who dreams these things and how do we get to them. That was the subject of the rest of the session and good part of the next. Also, there was the passing question of why did Vorgok experience such sudden cravings of random food, why did he feel the extreme necessity of swimming in lakes he had never seen, or why on earth did he break into tears from one moment to the next when he remembered his long-dead sister, something particularly intriguing considering he didn't have a sister in the first place. But as with all things Vorgok, the party had learned to ignore most of the weird stuff unless it had an impact in his capacity to murder things with his bare hands, so it was quickly left to simmer in doubt.</p><p></p><p>After a good while of telling them <em>“Hmm, well, you can try, but –roll- you don’t really get any meaningful information”</em>, Valanar had an idea:</p><p></p><p><em>“I need to contact Irina. These hags must have some kind of method of tracking dreams back to their owners”</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cristian Andreu, post: 6250941, member: 23822"] [B][U][SIZE=4]Part XIV: A Handful of Dreams[/SIZE][/U][/B] Things calmed down eventually. Yet something was bothering Valanar: [I]“So when this portal got severed, it became a tunnel into the Deep Ethereal, right? Now, what we got was Night Hags. But if memory serves, there is another very important thing to be found in the Deep Ethereal, which is in fact the chief reason Night Hags are there to begin with” [/I] Glad as always for my player’s interest in all things cosmological and knowing the guy had a big bonus to his Knowledge roll, I let him go through with his dissertation: [I]“Dreams! According to some sages, somewhere in the farthest fathoms of the Deep Ethereal lies the Region of Dreams, where everything concocted by the minds of those who sleep takes form. All of this… flying castles, impossible animals, multicoloured forests, I’d say…”[/I] [I]“Hold on to your trousers”[/I] Said Hassan while looking around at the misty shapes that had flooded into the desert after the incident with the portal with sudden interest [I]“If I get where you’re going, and I usually do, are you suggesting all this stuff is made from... dreams?”[/I] [I]“Essentially, yes”[/I] Answered the cleric. [I]“And where do they come from?”[/I] At this point in the story, you know that Hassan never asks something like this merely out of curiosity. [I]“From anyone dreaming them. The legends tell that when we dream, those things that exist in our heads literally exist in the Plane of Dreams, which really is a subset of the Ethereal”[/I] [I]“Hey Dungeon Master”[/I] went Hassan [I]“Tell me something: Could a dream, hypothetically, materialize into something real? Very hypothetically, of course”'[/I] [I]“Don’t ask me, ask the cleric!”[/I] [I]“Cleric! Same question!”[/I] [I]“No metagaming…”[/I] [I]“… Hassan asks the same question I just asked him, but with a Katapeshi accent”[/I] After a few rolls, some private talking with Valanar (who often tells me to give him the information through notes, since he enjoys withholding important pieces of info in order to use it whenever it is more dramatically appropriate) and a lengthy exposition on the cosmological nature of dreams and how could they, potentially, be made of elemental matter instead of ether, the player behind Hassan stands from his seat: [I]“Guys, do I really need to say it?”[/I] Who dreams these things and how do we get to them. That was the subject of the rest of the session and good part of the next. Also, there was the passing question of why did Vorgok experience such sudden cravings of random food, why did he feel the extreme necessity of swimming in lakes he had never seen, or why on earth did he break into tears from one moment to the next when he remembered his long-dead sister, something particularly intriguing considering he didn't have a sister in the first place. But as with all things Vorgok, the party had learned to ignore most of the weird stuff unless it had an impact in his capacity to murder things with his bare hands, so it was quickly left to simmer in doubt. After a good while of telling them [I]“Hmm, well, you can try, but –roll- you don’t really get any meaningful information”[/I], Valanar had an idea: [I]“I need to contact Irina. These hags must have some kind of method of tracking dreams back to their owners”[/I] [/QUOTE]
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