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  1. #1
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    Saeyer

    A flurry of texts followed Ava's oneiroscopy. When, where, whether it was even possible to get the three of them together on such short notice, and eventually a rough plan took form which brought the Scrivener to her Hollow. She still wasn't sure how much good they would be able to do, picking up the broken bits the Sandman had left behind. But these were people, children, and she supposed the only thing to do was try.

    Her Hollow wasn't impressive, but it was safe and it was in the Hedge, which was all they needed. The cot was unfolded, a sleeping bag already spread across it, and a couple of worn camping mat lay rolled in one of the chairs. The trickle of water through the thin channel worn into the floor was their version of soothing music, white noise to soothe the mind as they tried to sleep. None of it was luxurious, but serviceable could also provide comfort.

    Seated at her desk rereading a section of HAL's journal, Ava waited for Daniel Leto to arrive.

    ooc

  2. #2
    Daniel Leto's Avatar
    Daniel Leto
    Daniel

    Mask: He looks to be late teens or early twenties with blonde hair and blue eyes. He has a kind face and an understanding look. When talking with him he is always engaged, nodding and giving indications he’s listening to you. His smiles have a melancholy to them, though.
    Mein: His eyes and hair turn black beneath the mask. His skin becomes paler as if drained of color, giving him the slight appearance of a marble grave statue. Two stumps with tattered black feathers grow from his shoulder blades. They can be seen pressing at the back of his shirt. The odd feather pokes through holes. Most striking though, is that he is slightly transparent in an otherworldly way. His mantle manifests as wisps of fog and mist.
    Status/Social

    Presence: 2
    Freehold Status: 3
    Winter Mantle: 3
    Wyrd: 4
    Hidden Life: 1
    Rigid Mask
    Contacts (Digital Networks)
    Will/Health/Glamour

    Willpower Max: 5

    Health Max: 7

    Glamour Max: 9/13
    Promises and Vows

    Vow (Winter Freehold Commendation):
    Task: Fealty, Medial Alliance (Freeholders)
    Boon: Vassalage (+1 Clarity deg), Adroitness (+1 Empathy)
    Sanction: Medial Curse
    Duration: Year and a Day

    Horn and Bone

    Vow (Sharpened Horn and Bone):
    Task: Dreaming, Endeavor (stop nightmares)
    Boon: Adroitness (Empathy, Occult)
    Sanctions: Poisoning of Boon (Adroitness)
    Duration: Year and a Day

    2
    PRE

    Daniel descended into the cavern carefully. It was a little awkward carrying a yoga mat and trusting Enya CD player. He really needed to get better music for this type of thing, but Ava's message had been fairly short notice and he hadn't had the time to burn anything new.

    As he entered the grotto proper he smiled when he saw the sharp toothed Nix.

    "Hey Ava," he greeted her "Cozy place you got here." He even meant it. Despite the damp air and the smell of still water, Daniel thought the Hollow looked pretty cool. A little chilly to sleep in if you didn't have something between you and the ground but Daniel had spent years in a misty graveyard. Cold ground didn't bother him as much as it probably should. Besides he had a mat.
    Darkling Gravewight | Winter Mantle ••• (Mist and Fog) | Glamour 9 / Willpower 4/5 (4 HotD) / Wyrd 4
    Rigid Mask / Hidden Life 1 / Winter Freehold Vow / Horn and Bone

  3. #3
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    Saeyer

    Letting the journal fall shut as she heard his steps approaching, Ava looked up at the Gravewight with a welcoming smile. Or, as welcoming as her smiles could be to those who could really see them. "Hey Daniel, good to see you." She rose, setting the book back into it's place on the shelf. "Glad you like it, especially since it sounds like we'll all be spending a lot of time in various Hollows for the foreseeable future." The Nix lingered for a moment, looking at him as if there was something more she was about to say, but decided against.

    "I'm not sure whether or not Lynn will be able to join us, so I figured we'd get going and she can catch up if she arrives. There are a couple of extra mats and sleeping bags if you need 'em, I know the floor is sort of clammy in here. I've been stockpiling," she added with a small smile. It was partially for their ongoing Oneiromancy projects, and partially because, in the event of a disaster, a good number of Freeholders knew where her Hollow was. It wasn't a perfect safe space, or very comfortable, but it could be something.

    "Ready?"

  4. #4
    Lynn Mills's Avatar

    Lynn Mills

    Queen of the Verdant Court
    Darkling Nightsinger/Minstrel
    Presence - 2 Mantle (Spring) - 3 Wyrd - 3

    1
    FAME
    2
    PRE

    A flurry of steps announced a late arrival.

    "Sorry!" Lynn made her way carefully around the final corner of the staircase, juggling an overnight bag in one hand and bracing herself with the other. "I got caught up in some things, wasn't sure if I could get away." She glanced around the room, relieved to see that they hadn't started without her. "I hope you don't mind that I just showed up." She smiled nervously at the two, obviously ready to turn around and go back up the steps if they'd decided that it would be a private journey.

    OOC

  5. #5
    Daniel Leto's Avatar
    Daniel Leto
    Daniel

    Mask: He looks to be late teens or early twenties with blonde hair and blue eyes. He has a kind face and an understanding look. When talking with him he is always engaged, nodding and giving indications he’s listening to you. His smiles have a melancholy to them, though.
    Mein: His eyes and hair turn black beneath the mask. His skin becomes paler as if drained of color, giving him the slight appearance of a marble grave statue. Two stumps with tattered black feathers grow from his shoulder blades. They can be seen pressing at the back of his shirt. The odd feather pokes through holes. Most striking though, is that he is slightly transparent in an otherworldly way. His mantle manifests as wisps of fog and mist.
    Status/Social

    Presence: 2
    Freehold Status: 3
    Winter Mantle: 3
    Wyrd: 4
    Hidden Life: 1
    Rigid Mask
    Contacts (Digital Networks)
    Will/Health/Glamour

    Willpower Max: 5

    Health Max: 7

    Glamour Max: 9/13
    Promises and Vows

    Vow (Winter Freehold Commendation):
    Task: Fealty, Medial Alliance (Freeholders)
    Boon: Vassalage (+1 Clarity deg), Adroitness (+1 Empathy)
    Sanction: Medial Curse
    Duration: Year and a Day

    Horn and Bone

    Vow (Sharpened Horn and Bone):
    Task: Dreaming, Endeavor (stop nightmares)
    Boon: Adroitness (Empathy, Occult)
    Sanctions: Poisoning of Boon (Adroitness)
    Duration: Year and a Day

    2
    PRE

    Daniel cocked an eyebrow at Ava's lingering unsettling look, asking a silent 'what's up' while giving a reassuring smile that said he was fine if she didn't want to answer.

    "Don't worry, I came with my own time tested mat," he said holding up the cheep yoga pad that had carried him through most of his dreaming experience.

    He was about to agree to start, when Lynn arrived carrying more than Daniel had. Though, she'd had the good sense to have a bag that slung over her shoulder in addition to her violin Jason's bones.

    "Hey Lynn. Just in time. Pull up a sleeping bag. We were just getting started."

    Daniel laid out his meditation gear and started the CD player going. Calming vocals flowed with the trickling of water rivulets, creating a serene sound. The gravewight settled down into a cross legged seat, easily ignoring everything that didn't lend itself to a medative state of mind.

    "See you on the other side," he kidded before he started to try to slow his breathing.

      11 successes to reach personal dreams
    Date Action Roll Result
    2016-02-16 01:03:45 Daniel Leto rolls 12 to Comp3+Wits3+Wyrd3+Yoga mat 1+Music 2 (10 Again) 10, 3, 7, 7, 9, 4, 4, 5, 8, 8, 5, 6, 7 4 successes
    2016-02-16 01:03:26 Daniel Leto rolls 12 to Comp3+Wits3+Wyrd3+Yoga mat 1+Music 2 (10 Again) 6, 9, 9, 10, 5, 7, 6, 9, 10, 10, 5, 8, 1, 3, 2 7 successes

    There was mist everywhere. No... not mist. As the dream solidified and took form, Daniel realized they were clouds and that he was standing on them barefoot. He was wearing loose silk pants and shirt, both of them a white too pure to actually exist in the real world. And there in front of him was The Light, calling. It was soothing and uplifting and shone in his mind like a beacon of comfort promising to relieve all his pain. How easy it would be to just walk toward it.

    Daniel averted his gaze.

    "It's not real," he told himself as he turned his back and started walk away

    It was never real.

    He walked for a while among the clouds, the light never diminishing no matter how far he traveled. Finally he saw the gapping maw of the gate. A solid fixture among ethereal gleaming white landscape. A cave that swallowed all the shining brilliance so that there seemed to be only darkness for those that entered.

    "All right," he sighed, trusting that Ava knew what she was doing "here we go again."
    Darkling Gravewight | Winter Mantle ••• (Mist and Fog) | Glamour 9 / Willpower 4/5 (4 HotD) / Wyrd 4
    Rigid Mask / Hidden Life 1 / Winter Freehold Vow / Horn and Bone

  6. #6
    S
    Saeyer

    "Glad you could make it," she greeted the Steward with a raised hand. "And of course we don't mind, the more the merrier." Or, hopefully, the more helpful. Gesturing to any of the open floor with an easy smile, she took a moment to take off her shoes before settling down on the cot.

      10 successes for personal dreams
    Date Action Roll Result
    2016-02-16 19:39:16 Ava rolls 10 to enter the dreamscape (comp+wits+wyrd+1) (10 Again) 7, 3, 10, 4, 7, 8, 3, 8, 6, 3, 8 4 successes
    2016-02-16 19:38:41 Ava rolls 10 to enter the dreamscape (comp+wits+wyrd+1) (10 Again) 5, 3, 2, 2, 6, 3, 8, 5, 7, 7 1 success
    2016-02-16 19:38:14 Ava rolls 10 to enter the dreamscape (comp+wits+wyrd+1) (10 Again) 7, 7, 6, 5, 7, 10, 2, 6, 6, 2, 7 1 success
    2016-02-16 19:37:41 Ava rolls 10 to enter the dreamscape (comp+wits+wyrd+1) (10 Again) 4, 6, 9, 5, 5, 9, 8, 8, 6, 3 4 successes
    Sleep came slowly for the Scrivener, and even after it took her awhile to get centered. Maybe it was the doubts seeping in, an inner reluctance slowing her approach to her own dreamscape, or maybe it was the fact that the background trickling of water wasn't as soothing for her as it was for others. Whatever the reason, it was with great relief that she opened her eyes to a view of a sodden carpet, standing up swiftly in her great aunt's flooded bedroom. Soaked but pleased, Ava began to trek toward finding the doorway out, the doorway the oneiroscopy had handed her.

    Hair slicked back and droplets streaming from her clothes, she took a moment to squeeze some of the water from herself before clambering through the gateway that had opened inside the frame of an old mirror.

      Robby's dream intensity
    Date Action Roll Result
    2016-02-16 20:00:03 Robby rolls 5 to dream intensity (10 Again) 6, 5, 3, 6, 9 1 success
    On the other side, the sense of damp evaporated just as the rest of her body did, an invisible consciousness in a semi-stranger's dream. Stone walls rose around her, a familiar dungeon recreated in part by the boy's subconscious. The connections between rooms were loose, hallways stretching long and heavy barred doors flickering in and out at the corner of her eye. Everything felt hazy, gestural instead of precise. It would take a moment to find Robby, in all of the shifting walls and revolving doors, but it would be best to find Daniel and Lynn first.

      6 successes to manifest, despite minor handicap
    Date Action Roll Result
    2016-02-16 20:23:19 Ava rolls 7 to dreamscaping (-3) (10 Again) 10, 1, 10, 2, 9, 8, 10, 1, 4, 8 6 successes
    She tried to craft herself a physical form with a gentle touch, but it felt more like punching the tip of a pencil right through a sheet of paper. Holding onto the shape of his dream tight, Ava formed herself out of dreamstuff in painfully accurate detail: every crooked tooth was in place, every pasty bit of skin with their fever-sweat patches of scales. This time around, she wasn't going out of her way to look like anything but herself.

    -1WP to keep the dream together, because why wouldn't that be the one roll that goes well

  7. #7
    Lynn Mills's Avatar

    Lynn Mills

    Queen of the Verdant Court
    Darkling Nightsinger/Minstrel
    Presence - 2 Mantle (Spring) - 3 Wyrd - 3

    1
    FAME
    2
    PRE

    Lynn lay out her things, curling up and taking a deep breath as she listened to the soothing tunes that Daniel had playing. Slowly, she allowed her eyes to fall closed, focusing on finding that strange place in her mind where her dreams existed and she could control them.

    OOC - 10 suxx


    Opening her eyes on the other side, Lynn found herself dancing down a path in a forest glade, a merry tune spilling from her fiddle as she skipped along. She could hear shuffling behind her, a look over her shoulder showed a long line of people following her, eyes blank and bodies swaying as the tried to follow the music. Troubled, she tried to stop, but the music continued on unabated. So here it seemed she was a pied fiddler? Spinning in place on the ball of one foot, Lynn spotted what she thought was the portal into the next dream.

    Bubbling merrily in the middle of the glade stood a carved marble fountain, figures of ancient gods standing proudly whilst water poured from vessels at their feet and in their hands. Lynn frowned for a moment. Normally the portal to another dream was something you could easily see the way to pass through. Lynn danced towards the fountain, leaping up to stand on the edge and looking down.

    So here was the path through. Looking down showed nothing but an endless abyss, the water falling down in an endless cascade. With a careless shrug, Lynn leapt into the darkness; the faceless people blindly following her into the darkness, still trying to dance to the music that she couldn't stop.

    Stopping as she stepped out into the next dream, Lynn took the minute for a good look around. This time, she'd take the chance to get her bearings before she tried to step into the dream.

  8. #8
    Daniel Leto's Avatar
    Daniel Leto
    Daniel

    Mask: He looks to be late teens or early twenties with blonde hair and blue eyes. He has a kind face and an understanding look. When talking with him he is always engaged, nodding and giving indications he’s listening to you. His smiles have a melancholy to them, though.
    Mein: His eyes and hair turn black beneath the mask. His skin becomes paler as if drained of color, giving him the slight appearance of a marble grave statue. Two stumps with tattered black feathers grow from his shoulder blades. They can be seen pressing at the back of his shirt. The odd feather pokes through holes. Most striking though, is that he is slightly transparent in an otherworldly way. His mantle manifests as wisps of fog and mist.
    Status/Social

    Presence: 2
    Freehold Status: 3
    Winter Mantle: 3
    Wyrd: 4
    Hidden Life: 1
    Rigid Mask
    Contacts (Digital Networks)
    Will/Health/Glamour

    Willpower Max: 5

    Health Max: 7

    Glamour Max: 9/13
    Promises and Vows

    Vow (Winter Freehold Commendation):
    Task: Fealty, Medial Alliance (Freeholders)
    Boon: Vassalage (+1 Clarity deg), Adroitness (+1 Empathy)
    Sanction: Medial Curse
    Duration: Year and a Day

    Horn and Bone

    Vow (Sharpened Horn and Bone):
    Task: Dreaming, Endeavor (stop nightmares)
    Boon: Adroitness (Empathy, Occult)
    Sanctions: Poisoning of Boon (Adroitness)
    Duration: Year and a Day

    2
    PRE

    Daniel appeared in Robby's dream and too a moment to get his bearings. It was a little difficult considering the hallways were more ideas of corridors than anything else. It looked like some kind of dungeon. Maybe a castle. He wasn't sure whether to be encouraged. It matched some of the more fantastical setting he and Lynn had set up before but the atmosphere was much different.

    He spotted Ava easily. The reality of her form contrast with the hazy dream stuff around her. Normally, the Gravewight was more inclined to observe and act without form in the dream, like a ghost. This was the Nix's show though. So carefully, oh so carefully, Daniel began to manifest.

    And promptly fell through a hole into the dream just as the Scrivener had. It took a concentrated effort on Daniel's part to keep the dream from fraying at the edges where he suddenly stood, bright white clothes, pale marble-like skin and pitch black eyes. Daniel was the broken seam and he had to pull both himself and the fragile dreamscape together to keep it from all coming undone.

    "Hey Ava," he said with a slightly embarrassed smile at his near blunder. They probably wouldn't be able to do much more dreamscaping this time around.

      You have got to be kidding me. I only rolled 3 dice!
    Date Action Roll Result
    2016-02-19 01:22:24 Daniel Leto rolls 3 to Wits3+Empathy4+Wyrd3+Pledge1-Intensity1-Voluntary7 (10 Again) 10, 5, 10, 8, 9 4 successes
    -1 Willpower to hold the dream together
    Darkling Gravewight | Winter Mantle ••• (Mist and Fog) | Glamour 9 / Willpower 4/5 (4 HotD) / Wyrd 4
    Rigid Mask / Hidden Life 1 / Winter Freehold Vow / Horn and Bone

  9. #9
    S
    Saeyer

    The Gravewight's materialization almost startled her, the sensation of the dream dropping away for a moment before it gathered up once more and there he was, in high contrast. She wondered, idly, if they could ever be mistaken for cousins: dark hair, dark eyes, pasty skin, a tendency to smile no matter what was going on. Really, though, she preferred the idea of being an inappropriate aunt.

    "Hey Daniel." The Nix shared some measure of his sheepishness; if only oneiroscopy was able to point them to strong dreams, not just accessible ones. Glancing around for Lynn, she pursed her lips. "Let's wait a moment longer, see if Lynn gets in too. This..." she waved a bony hand to the vaguely shifting stone walls, "Looks a lot like the first dream I found Robby in. Must be rough, having nightmares about a nightmare." Her voice was soft, trying to keep the chances of being heard by Robby at a minimum, wherever he was.

    She wasn't especially concerned about being physically in the boy's dream: even if he remembered them being there, on waking, they had met in person. It was normal for semi-familiar faces to be recycled through a person's sleeping mind, dressing up the otherwise bland supernumaries. And there was something about being a floating consciousness she found disquieting.

    Stepping out of the way of a barred door that bloomed from the stone beside her, she added: "I don't think it'll be helpful to preserve this dream the way it is, but we can decide that together. I've been reading up on some things that could be helpful to giving him actual dream therapy, and I think Lynn may've been too. " With their knowledge combined, she had confidence they would be able to come up with something.

  10. #10
    Daniel Leto's Avatar
    Daniel Leto
    Daniel

    Mask: He looks to be late teens or early twenties with blonde hair and blue eyes. He has a kind face and an understanding look. When talking with him he is always engaged, nodding and giving indications he’s listening to you. His smiles have a melancholy to them, though.
    Mein: His eyes and hair turn black beneath the mask. His skin becomes paler as if drained of color, giving him the slight appearance of a marble grave statue. Two stumps with tattered black feathers grow from his shoulder blades. They can be seen pressing at the back of his shirt. The odd feather pokes through holes. Most striking though, is that he is slightly transparent in an otherworldly way. His mantle manifests as wisps of fog and mist.
    Status/Social

    Presence: 2
    Freehold Status: 3
    Winter Mantle: 3
    Wyrd: 4
    Hidden Life: 1
    Rigid Mask
    Contacts (Digital Networks)
    Will/Health/Glamour

    Willpower Max: 5

    Health Max: 7

    Glamour Max: 9/13
    Promises and Vows

    Vow (Winter Freehold Commendation):
    Task: Fealty, Medial Alliance (Freeholders)
    Boon: Vassalage (+1 Clarity deg), Adroitness (+1 Empathy)
    Sanction: Medial Curse
    Duration: Year and a Day

    Horn and Bone

    Vow (Sharpened Horn and Bone):
    Task: Dreaming, Endeavor (stop nightmares)
    Boon: Adroitness (Empathy, Occult)
    Sanctions: Poisoning of Boon (Adroitness)
    Duration: Year and a Day

    2
    PRE

    "Hmm," Daniel sighed in agreement when Ava mentioned the similarity between this dream and an old one. That was unfortunate and a little demotivating that Robby was still returning to the nightmares in his mind, despite their efforts so far. Then again, he had known this wouldn't be a short process.

    Daniel looked at Ava curiously when she suddenly stepped away from a door that had always been there. Or least had been there forever for the last couple seconds. Dreams were weird sometimes and it was harder to look at them objectively when interacting directly with them. He shook his head slightly, trying to clear it.

    "Yeah, Lynn mentioned she was looking into that. I've read some stuff but not enough to really have a handle on how to translate therapy into dreams." Mostly because he kept getting distracted by the visceral enjoyment of reading about deadly physical ailments.

    "Still learning about dream riding and scaping actually," Daniel admitted "but I haven't wanted to do anything too extreme here." He gestured at Robby's mindscape. He didn't want to mess the kid up more.
    Darkling Gravewight | Winter Mantle ••• (Mist and Fog) | Glamour 9 / Willpower 4/5 (4 HotD) / Wyrd 4
    Rigid Mask / Hidden Life 1 / Winter Freehold Vow / Horn and Bone

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