Sleep Paralysis

[Seraphina]

A glance to Vincent, “Getting to anothers Dream is not an easy task, especially without a Pledge. Traversing the Skein is difficult at best.” trust her, she was once married to a Dread Lord and had learned from him.

Looking around, she frowns, “We need to be very careful here, this Dream isn’t a strong one, we could very easily break it.” And then start over again.

Perking up, she sees the sparklightwhatever and points, “There.” Looking to Sonnie, “Where the Well is, I think that is where we go.” Could it be nothing? Maybe. But it was a direction and she didn’t want to chance breaking the Dream.

Seemed Sonnie was on it, “Careful, the Dream is fragile!” she calls out behind Sonnie, following the Beast.

[Vincent Black]

Vincent jumped at the excited noises coming out of Sonnie. He was not sure whether to follow or not, looking to Seraphina he asks, "Should we chase after her?"

Vincent is uncertain about things but trusts his companions will back him up. "What do you mean the dream is fragile? And what do you guys see?"

[Saber Sloth]

Sonnie's off like a shot, and Sera follows, Vincent's questions float in the air after them. They don't have to travel far to reach where the Wishing Well would deposit them, dream logic shortening the distance until they're right there, but lengthening the time until they've been heading there for a while.

The spot is shinny, in a void of space, oil slick kind of shiny. But there's sparkling somethings there too. Stars? Glitter?

Sera, with her experience knows that this is a natural point where one dream would lead into another. Makes sense, as the Wishing Well would do the same. They could create a gate, it would be easy, but they'd sunder this dream as they leave it behind. (And who's dream was this? They were the only ones in the Tavern, and they'd left their own dreams to come here - )

But they had to go forward, they had murderer to find.

Wits + Wyrd to create the Gate

[Sonnie Wu]

The curious monkey should know better than to run around willy-nilly in a dreamscape not of her own creation, but Sonnie was often easily distracted. At least when the situation wasn't obviously dangerous.
Right now, she was peering at the iridescent... whatever-it-was, as if trying to decide whether to touch it.

Touch it. Shiny!

Mmmmmmmmm... let's wait for Sera.

But shiny...

Good point. But no.

She managed to tear her gaze away from the oil slick thingy and looked at Seraphina and Vinnie as the pair caught up to her. "So, now what?"

[Seraphina]

Calling behind her shoulder, “Dreams work in intensity, the high the intensity, the more real it feels, the more difficult it is to manipulate and work with. Weak Dreams, like this one, are fragile, so while easy to manipulate, it is also easy to destroy. Meaning we would have to start all over again. So,” pausing, “we need to be careful, unless you guys want to do this all night.” She, personally, didn’t.

Catching up with the Beast, Sera takes a moment to study the shiny spot. Not long, for it clicked what it was.

Looking back to Sonnie, “This is a spot, natural to the Dream, that will lead to another.” In case Sonnie didn’t know what, it was.

“Well, we have options. I can open a Gate, or any of us can.” Not wanting to sound like the one in charge here. “But it will probably destroy this Dream, the one we are currently in. Why that is a concern,” another pause, “is none of us started our Dream here, we all start in our own Dream. So I have to wonder, who is Dreaming of the Tavern.” That wasn’t sitting right with her. “But we came here to try and solve the murders, meaning we move forward and open a Gate. Any thoughts?” while she wanted to investigate this Dream, see who or what was dreaming of the Tavern, there was something or someone killing innocents.

[Vincent Black]

Vincent thought about it a moment, "You are right, well I know I did not start dreaming of the Tavern." Vincent contemplated for a moment, "Do you think this is another one of us, or could it be someone that is not like us?"

Vincent thought back to what Sera said, "I think we should attempt to open a gate carefully, because as you said we do not want to break this dream, especially this early of a start."

[Saber Sloth]

The dream continues as it had, insubstantial smears of watercolour, the flickering sparkling something-nothing continues overhead. There's almost an oppressive feeling of calmness and safety, echoing more sharply between the Springs, but no less impactful for the Solstice Courtier.

Sorry for the wait and sorry this is stupidly short, RL is BS and my creative brain is still drained but I want to try and keep things moving!

So! You can create the Gate with Wits+Wyrd-1 for Intensity, or try and figure out something about the dream(er) with Wits+Empathy+Wyrd-Intensity

[Sonnie Wu]

Sera had a good point. Who was dreaming about the Tavern? It was none among this trio. They all came from their own dreams.

More importantly, who could dream of it? It'd have to be someone who knew of it's existence and actually been there before.

Right?

Gazing about the dreamscape, Sonnie tried to figure this out, because curious monkey.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2023-10-15 16:01:41	Sonnie Wu rolls 8 to Who's dream? Wits 4 + Empathy 2 + Wyrd 3 - Intensity 1 (10 Again)	5, 9, 3, 2, 10, 2, 5, 2, 1	2 successes

[Seraphina]

A slight shrug as she thought over the question, “It can be either another one of us, or one of Them. But it doesn’t strike me as one of Them. But I’ve also one been in a Dream with one of Them once, and it felt completely different then this.” If it was one of Them, they were being played with and that would not end well.

“To be honest, I’d rather break it this early then later, this is easier to find.” But she still didn’t want it to break either way.

“But something isn’t right, and I wouldn’t be doing the Freehold any service as a Monarch and Director if I ignored it.” And she knows if she doesn’t at least try and investigate it, she’d regret it.
Walking near Sonnie, the Nix pauses to look around, really look around. Something wasn’t right.

3 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2023-10-15 20:39:11	Seraphina rolls 9 to Who's Dreaming?(Wits+Emp+Wyrd)-1 Intensity (10 Again)	4, 1, 5, 10, 6, 9, 3, 7, 8, 3	3 successes

[Vincent Black]

Vincent pondered the discussion a bit, nothing was coming to mind. Then Sera said the dreaded words, 'one of them' the thought entered his head before he could even determine if it could be a viable guess. Vincent decided that he should do what he knew best and began to look around for clues as to whose dream this is as well.

"Well, if you think it would help maybe we should investigate this dream a bit." Vincent then began to look around the dream for any answers.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2023-10-18 10:10:43	Vincent Black rolls 4 to Whose Dream (Wits2 + Empathy0 + Wyrd3 - Intensity1) (10 Again)	5, 8, 9, 1	2 successes