(Broken Cycle) Dream Team

**Saber Sloth** · Jul 1st, 2020 12:28 PM

Meeting up within the bounds of the Autumn Hollow, the Lost will come to settle in. Come to enter the dreaming, to walk the Skein and scour those of the sleeping mind to hunt for whatever Poison remained, to see if it sunk it's twisted roots deeper and to rip them out, if only after they followed it to the source, those poor girls that the Spring and Autumn Monarchy would remember as hospitalized, bound in bandages and breathing blood.

When they had begun to purge them, the Huntsman appeared.

This time the Lost would be ready for Him.

This time the Lost had a plan.

This is for those signed up for the Dream Team!

If you want to get started right away, you can start with a Composure+Wits+Wyrd, needing 4suxx. When you get them you can describe your individual Dreams.

Any Autumns with the Oneiroscope spec can roll for it to search for the right dream!

**Saber Sloth** · Jul 4th, 2020 09:26 PM

Helllllooooooo all aboard the Dream Team Train! Shane James Turner Rhodes Xadun LadySin Yamiyo Lillich

**Rhodes** · Jul 5th, 2020 12:26 PM

The Director had prepared the Autumn Hollow. The edges of the structures looked more sound, more certain. There was more rustling from the leaves above.

But these things were largely an aside.

Nearby the tree, Rhodes lay, going over the plan in his head. Drawing out the Huntsman felt like a foolish thing instinctually, but it was necessary. The Leaden Mirror favoured magic and misdirection - this was literally his roll. The task in his mind was make staying here more effort than it waas worth. Fighting a guerilla war. Still, better than than a real war. We really don't have numbers for that.

He had prepared the Oneiroscope, the Autumn way to find a path to their quarry.

2 successes

Slowly, he tried to relax. Sleep would come soon enough.

Nodding off....

Rhodes opened his eyes. He was on the streets, besuited as ever, the towering form of the Huntsman's effigy rising like a monolith into the skies. "Not this. Not again...." he muttered to himself, feeling dread terror gripping his heart like ice. The Flowering new this place in detail, because it was a dream he had kept having, ever since this plan. Slowly, he walked alond the same alley, seeing Sonnie, Titania and Sera run ahead and out the end.

He followed, unhurried, bracing himself. The way out was always this way. Always. They aren't here. This is the Dreaming, the Fears of my self laid bare.

The screams came as he turned the corner, like they did every time. Rhodes grit his teeth, his face a scowl, a tear leaking from his eyes. He saw the spray of blood from Titania as the House lept up on her face and arms. Sonnie whirled her staff like a dervish, smacking a pair of hounds to the floor, only for an enormougs booted foot to collide with her, kicking her to the walls. And there he was, the Huntsman, tall as a tower block, Antlered head grinning triumphantly. Above the Dread Lord's head was the beatific golden form of Seraphina, clawing at the gauntleted hand that held her aloft, squeezing tighter and tighter....

Even as he stared, the Thorns broke out of the walls, weaving an enormous wall, the deep, booming laughter of the Huntsman becoming all he could hear....

Rhodes touched his face, and felt it come away wet as the scene was hidden from view by the wall of thorns. His hand balled into a fist, feeling the rage and anger. Slowly, he reached out in front of him, a gap between the dreams savagely tearing iteself open.

The Dread Lord took a hankerchief from his pocket, dabed his eyes and straightened his tie. With a deep breath, he stepped forwards to the next dream.

**James Turner** · Jul 5th, 2020 02:00 PM

James had a harder time falling asleep. There was a lot of pressure here, a lot of fear and anxiety about what they had to do. He couldn't hide this time around, he had to act. He lay there tossing and turning, a cold sweat building up on his skin after the first half hour of attempting to sleep. He got up, smoked a cigarette and tried a different tact.

He plugged headphones into his phone and began playing music. Soft, sad songs, songs reminding him of better times in different places. Fatigue took him then, eyelids growing heavy. Then shortly after that his body was limp, helpless in the real as his mind drifted off into the skein of dreams.

He stood in a lavish ballroom, floor shined to perfection that the mirrored reflections of the occupants. He wore a lavish charcoal black tuxedo including tails as his equally shined shoes slowly did the box-step with his partner. His face rest against her shoulder as they danced quietly the music filling the room, and despite all that he could only focus on her irregular heartbeat as if the music was emanating from her.

It took him a second to break his reverie. It was a dream, it was never him dancing with her as he'd never shared the same space, he always had to dance with her partners shadows. The tears that rolled down his cheeks were crystalline frozen shards, icicles created on his cheeks as it took an effort of will to pull himself from this dream state. He looked at the door on the far side of the hall knowing he had to go through it.

He turned so his back was to the door and pulled away from her, taking a step away as their hands held there clasped. She'd looked at him, a frown on that perfect face. "You'll come back to me right?" That was the linchpin, the cornerstone of the dream. The fear that underlies the pleasant presentation. That one day he'd go back and it'd be his choice.

He returned her frown and shrugged. "I don't know, but I have to do things my way now. I'm on my own." Their fingers broke and he reached the door before hearing her final words to him. "I'm so very proud of you, maybe we can dance as equals the next time we meet." Fear spiked his heart rate as he stepped through the door, there was still work to be done.

Sleep?

**Yamiyo Lillich** · Jul 6th, 2020 06:01 AM

Ohh good the Dread Lord had already arrived at least, not being one that wanted to disturb so did she simply put down her gear in a corner before finding a good place to change into her sleepwear silken pajamas, putting on her sleep mask and getting down and making herself comfortable ready to sleep with her own pillow.
Sadly enough though so did the autumn's residence not feel warm, safe or something was a miss at least as sleep seemed to refuse to come for her for quite a while.

sleep 90 minutes

Ready to give up as she suddenly finds herself surrounded by warmth and serenity. Her form that of her mien as she walks through a deserted city with trees and flowers growing through most of the city, everywhere she walks there is just woods, flowers, small creaks running through the city as she shakes. This dream was not new to her and one that she feared, yes at first glance it might seem pleasant but it was far from it in her mind.

Running around desperately, flying from building to building just trying to find someone, anyone else but there was no one to be found, no sign of anyone else anywhere at all. Slowly collecting her mind, remembering that this was all a dream and not reality, nightmares can come and play with her mind another day today she had entered sleep for a mission and not for sleep.

Landing on the ground as some of the houses lights up, all the people she's ever known, wanted to know, have had close or wanted to be close to appearing in the windows of them plain and easy to see. All of them laughing and having a good time, seeing how every now and again someone walks up to the windows looking at her and laughing or shaking their heads towards her, shooing her away showing that she was not welcome there.
Trying to run towards the houses only to see how they get further and further away the more she tries to get to them, turning around searching for a door as the building get closer and closer but never quite close enough to touch or get to.

Finally finding what she could use as a door, taking a deep breath as all the windows circle around her, pointing at her and shouting out in chorus.
"Alone, alone, you shall forever be alone." followed by a laughter as she enters the door ready to head for the next dream trying to unite with the others, finding solace in the fact that this was nothing more than a dream and not real, she was about to go help people, to prove that she would be there when she were needed and that she would not back down and be of use.

Equipment: Yes I know that most of it will not be usable due to being in a dream but she brings it to be prepared in case something will happen where they are afterwards.
Purse
Small shield:
Lockpicks:
Mirror
Smartphone - oneplus 7 256gb
Sewing gear - (various, sheer's, thread's, needles, measuring tape, a couple of buttons, seam ripper)
Hair/bobby pins
Zippo lighter
Ankle bracelet hedgespun D+1
A combined personal attack alarm/watch/flashlight - waterproof 160 decibel
Pepper Spray
Sunglasses

Scented candle
Pillow with lavender scent
Purse
Clothing - normal outfit and a pajamas

**Saber Sloth** · Jul 7th, 2020 12:12 PM

Slowly, each of the Lost meet up within the Autumn Hollow, the Dread Lord and Oneiromancer is the first to fall into his dreams. The Autumn laced night terrors of knowing too much, and to little.

Though Fear isn't only for the Ashen, each of the Dreamers know what they are attempting and that Soul rending terror sinks into their bones, and into their subconscious subsuming control of their Dreams and bringing forth that which cuts them the most....

The Dread Lord is already reaplying his facade, and walking out-out-out from his nightmare, a Gate blooming to existence with nary a thought, and Spring and Winter each, force a door to open, from where it opens too, well. They need to decide....

Time now to familiarize yourself with the [wiki]Oneiromancy Primer[/wik], but to keep things simple as myself and other ling STs have done in the past, everything except dream combat is just Wits+Wyrd+Empathy.

So, everyone's shaped a Gate, which is Free since it's in your own Dream, but to travel from your Dream to the next will be a Wits+Wyrd+Empathy-3, as each of your are already leaving your Dreams, no one can meet up with the others within the safety of the other's Dreams.

Rhodes however, knowing more of the Dreamtaste of the Huntsman and with his Oneiroscope can attempt the travel to the intended Dream with a +2

**James Turner** · Jul 9th, 2020 03:40 PM

As soon as James' stepped through that door he was pulled apart again, but there was no pain. He was a creature of substanced in his own dreams but as soon as he started dream walking he became ethereal, fading into the stuff that made dreams to become one with it as to not be noticed.

Dreams were about connections, relationships being able to connect the pin-wheel to a cherished memory of when a boy last loved his father, to the day that image would shatter forever. He didn't need to influence the dreams, not yet at least. He just needed to find the path to their destination.

Faye were Other. They weren't human. They don't think like people, they don't act like people they're entirely alien. Finding something Other in the skein was the best jumping off point but the things of dreams could be unusual so it was not an easy path to follow.

1 success

**Yamiyo Lillich** · Jul 9th, 2020 05:05 PM

Walking through her gate and stumbling in a long possibly endless darkness who knew about this realm it was the land of dreams anything could be real here nothing and everything was real. Anything could change at a moments notice, feeling how she kept getting things wrong a step here and a step there wrong and wrong again. Arghh why had they put her in the dream team? She had practiced her dream skills exactly once before, true she wasn't a skilled fighter either but at least she was good at sneaking around that was her one real forte for battles but sigh nope the dream team.

Starting to think how maybe she should have spoken up about that earlier but it was to late now, still perhaps she was just where she were needed at least they had Rhodes with them the one that seemed to be the top master in this realm, plane or whatever of the members of the freehold.
Stumbling her way across hoping to find the right way without setting of any alarms that could be avoided.

Her wings disappearing, her appearance turning more human, smaller and more innocent as she walked back to the albeit be it beautiful girl with pigtails that she had presented them with last time she was here. Her clothing changing to just a bra going from her neck, panties and a very short skirt just barely covering her ass. She was no master of things here but she didn't want any more clothing than necessary so that she would not somehow have someone grapple them or for her to have a hard time walking on, her last detail a pair of dark sneakers just cause why not.

Walking on and on in hopes of finding the others soon and that her failure hadn't set them aback to much or already caused danger from them all.

1 success

Date Action Roll Result
2020-07-09 16:54:16 Yamiyo Lillich rolls 2 to wits+wyrd+empathy-3 (10 Again) 9, 7 1 success

failure

Date Action Roll Result
2020-07-09 16:53:57 Yamiyo Lillich rolls 2 to wits+wyrd+empathy-3 (10 Again) 4, 4 failure

failure

In retrospect so it took three rolls to get a success but none were a critical error, I do hope we were allowed to try several times otherwise just put her at failure.

**Saber Sloth** · Jul 10th, 2020 10:27 AM

LadySin Yamiyo Lillich next time, just give me one roll unless I ask for extended/give you a target number of successes to reach. So yes, she's in a failure and hasn't left her own dream yet which is why I'll be allowing her to change dream self's clothing and such without a roll. Next time you want to do that, and are outside of your own Dream there will be a roll required.

**Rhodes** · Jul 14th, 2020 10:04 AM

The pathways of the Skein were stretching out, like a web Rhodes could feel more than see, and dense fog that made up the gaps between the dreams closed all around him.

Hopefully the others could find their way around the skein as well.

4 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-07-05 12:25:09	Rhodes rolls 8 to Sleepy-time.... Wits+Comp+Wyrd (10 Again)	2, 7, 8, 4, 2, 7, 7, 4	1 success
2020-07-05 12:24:46	Rhodes rolls 8 to Sleepy-time.... Wits+Comp+Wyrd (10 Again)	1, 8, 5, 7, 8, 9, 1, 4	3 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-07-06 05:40:29	[03] Yamiyo Lillich rolls 8 to sleep com+wit+wyrd+eq (10 Again)	2, 1, 6, 8, 10, 4, 9, 5, 7	3 successes
2020-07-06 05:40:29	[02] Yamiyo Lillich rolls 8 to sleep com+wit+wyrd+eq (10 Again)	7, 10, 4, 2, 6, 2, 2, 6, 10, 5	2 successes
2020-07-06 05:40:29	[01] Yamiyo Lillich rolls 8 to sleep com+wit+wyrd+eq (10 Again)	7, 4, 2, 5, 2, 10, 3, 7, 6	1 success

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