Dreams

by Morgfyre

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Prisch2009-02-01 23:24:05
QUOTE (calico @ Dec 24 2008, 12:16 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
You find yourself on a stage dressed in weird clothing. Next to you are 3 people you recognise as your friends dressed in variations of clothing. In front of you is a crowd and you begin dancing, first doing a Y, then M, then a C, and an A shape with your arms repeating this several times until you find out you're actually dancing alone on stage, the audience and friends gone leaving you perplexed.

Third person: mumbles something along the lines of 'It's fun to stay at the...' in his sleep, extreme terror on his face.


If this is ever put in the game I will SUICIDE.
Doman2009-02-01 23:57:35
You exert your will and travel across the basin, finding a group of your followers looking extremely distressed. As soon as you arrive, there is a fountain of divine essence accompanied by what sounds like an agonized scream. As your followers plead with you to listen, you only muse over what a lovely light show you've just witnessed.

smiles in their sleep, seemingly amused by something.
Unknown2009-05-01 01:42:09
You eat a peice of earwort and feel a familiar presure in your ear. It becomes painful and blood starts to drip from the side of your head. Just before the dream fades away, you reach up and feel something horrible and slimy crawing from your ear.
Aerotan2009-05-07 02:02:06
QUOTE (Serenwilde)
You stand, as you always have, surrounded by your children, and theirs. Pixies flit and play within your branches, giggling in the way pixies do. After a moment, you sense one of the shards near your base, and your maiden rewards them as you welcome the newcomers he brings into your loving embrace.


QUOTE (Magnagora)
You stand, as you always have, surrounded by pathetic excuses for shards. They grovel at your base, praising you and cursing you by turns. Like clockwork, the creature below you screams in agony, and you revel in the growth of your power. One of the fool shards caresses your cracked surface, and you swallow him, taking him to your core where you may break him.


QUOTE (Celest)
You stand, as you always have, surrounded by a gleaming white rotunda. The sounds of reverent prayer from above fill you with a humble pride, which in turn causes you to shimmer beautifully. A shard comes forth, kneels before you, and offers a small littany as another steps within your waters. You reach up, taking the second shard into your warm embrace.


QUOTE (Glomdoring)
You stand, as you always have, surrounded by a primal beauty. The sprawling forest around you is perfect, as it always has been, and the shards surrounding you all agree on this. The great spirit resting in your boughs cries out, striking fear into the hearts of those shards near him. One of those at your base offers a tribute, and you reach out, wrapping him in your thorny embrace


For all four dreams, those around the dreamer would see:
shimmers for a moment with Aetheric power.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Lynch mobs?
Unknown2009-05-16 12:27:16
You sit on the side of a street in a city you can't recognise. As people pass you beg them for gold offering a cup for them to put the gold in. After a few more donations, you eagerly look down and pour some of the gold into your hands. Your expression saddens however as all that falls from the cup is grey dust, the gold gone and cup empty. As the dream fades away you start begging again.

Third person: sighs in their sleep sadly, one of their hands flexing for a moment as if holding something.
Aerotan2009-05-27 07:15:32
You fly around Faethorn, in a dozen places at once, giggling at all the fun you're having! Someone gives you a honeycake in one spot, and you follow him hoping for more, while somewhere else, a Fae Knight tickes under your chin playfully. It's truly an amazing thing to be alive!

smiles faintly in their sleep.
Viviere2009-08-10 11:34:40
I think it would be really cool to have dreams of the other worlds.

You open your eyes slowly, and to your amazement, find yourself staring at three giant moons in the sky! One a welcoming blue, another a confusing green, and the third a horrifying red. Confused, you stand up and look around, only to find yourself in the middle of an old ruined city with a fountain next to you. You lean over to drink from the fountain and see a reflection in the water. The reflection looks like that of a giant humanoid snake! As you stare into the strange beast's eyes, a burning sensation races through your mind and blood starts dripping from your nose.

You awaken to find yourself in the middle of a vast desert. Beads of sweat glisten your every pore as you squint into the sky to find seven enormous suns! "Why are there so many suns?!" you scream. You turn quickly to the scream of a battlecry and see what looks like a kephera swinging two curved swords around, but...with a tail? After realizing the object of it's assault is you, you muster up all your strength and run as fast as you can away from the mutated kephera. A sharp pain pierces your back, however, and you fall face down into the scorching sand.

A shiver runs through your entire body as you slowly awaken to find yourself in a strange, dark forest. Could this be Glomdoring? No, there's too much snow and this place seems a lot scarier. At every shadow, you hear a low, menacing growl and see bright yellow eyes. Terrified, you start running as fast as you can before bumping into a cloaked figure and falling on your butt. As you look up to the figure, you think "Oh, a loboshigaru! Maybe he can give me some directions." Suddenly, the loboshigaru lunges towards you and bites your neck with satisfaction. You lay helpless in the bloodstained snow as people come from the shadows and start picking at your dying body.

I would do Achaea and Aetolia, but I haven't played those MUDs enough to know what to write.
Unknown2009-08-10 12:21:49
QUOTE (Viviere @ Aug 10 2009, 07:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
-Imperian dreams-


Hmm, interesting idea. suspicious.gif
Aerotan2009-08-10 23:06:28
You awake in a hallway with an endless tapestry, stretching to infinity with intricately woven threads. Three women stand examining a familiar thread, nudging it this way and that and muttering to themselves. One of the three glances over her shoulder, then clicks her tongue and gives the tapestry a sharp rap, causing you to jerk into wakefulness.

opens (his|her) eyes suddenly, startled, then falls back to sleep.
Unknown2009-10-14 07:12:06
QUOTE (Aerotan @ Aug 10 2009, 04:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
You awake in a hallway with an endless tapestry, stretching to infinity with intricately woven threads. Three women stand examining a familiar thread, nudging it this way and that and muttering to themselves. One of the three glances over her shoulder, then clicks her tongue and gives the tapestry a sharp rap, causing you to jerk into wakefulness.

opens (his|her) eyes suddenly, startled, then falls back to sleep.


That one is really cool.




You find yourself sitting in the grass, the air warm and the sky a brilliant haze of gold as the sun sets. Insects click every once in a while, but the peaceful glade is very silent, otherwise. The beauty of the moment is such, that you are overwhelmed by a strange sense of longing that brings tears to your eyes.

sighs softly in sleep.


The area around you is pitch-black, and you are aware of damp soil pressing down on all sides, yet you can still breathe the cloyingly humid air. You are very, very sleepy, and no matter how hard you fight, and you fight your hardest, your eyes fall shut against your will. You know you are not ready to come up yet.

breathes raggedly in sleep, then settles back down.


Harbingers:
You take a deep breath and begin to play along with the familiar, primal rhythm that marks the beating heart of your forest. Your sense of self melts away, and you become one with the forest and with your music. As your song ends, you realise that in your passion, you've cut your fingers upon your instrument strings, and blood pours out onto the ground.


Haliyzin:
You're drunk again, you silly airy fairy. Alcohol poisoning overtakes you, and you die. Absinthe is a grownup drink.
Shaddus2009-12-28 16:53:07
Yarr, I'm necroing this thread!

QUOTE
Gaudiguch

You sit up, looking around for your lucky pipe. The dracnari next to you grins sheepishly and hands it back, and you fill it with weed before taking a slow, heady draw off of it. Smiles cover the faces around you and you nod off to sleep with a content sigh.

@person coughs slightly, then grins and nods before doing back to sleep.


QUOTE
Hallifax

The acrid smell of ozone fills the air as you contemplate the servant before you, a document held above his head as he kneels in obeisance. You study the words and realize their importance in maintaining the order of the city, searching quickly for a pen. You jot your name on the line with a steady, flowing motion. The servant bows and walks away as you contemplate the turbine before you.

@person pats his pockets slightly with his hands, then rolls over to fall into a deeper sleep.

Just basic dreams, someone else come up with some?
Aerotan2010-02-09 14:44:22
QUOTE
Hallifax

You awake in a blank space with nothing but you in it and a sign that reads. "You have failed to complete form 87-j § 3 for Nocturnal Hallucinatory Auto-Entertainment, and are therefore being denied a viable dream."

@person lies perfectly still for longer than usual.


QUOTE
Gaudiguch

The world is wobbly and blurry, and keeps spinning at an alarming rate. Perhaps more disturbing than this, though, is that you glance at your hand, and find that your favorite bottle of whiskey has been emptied while you weren't paying attention. You resolve to set out after the culprit once everything stops moving.

@person's sleeping form seems unbearably sad.
Unknown2010-02-11 06:53:05
QUOTE
Bard:

Suddenly jerking into consciousness, you find yourself in a black room. A melody begins to waft around the area, growing in volume until almost painful. Musical notes start to flash before your eyes then the scene and sound fade away into blankness.

PERSON begins to hum in their sleep for a moment before going quiet once more.


(Probably did that wrong somehow)
Ayden2010-02-11 07:24:02
Org: Hallifax

You find yourself sitting high above the ground on a crystalline statue with a hammer and chisel in hand. You delicately begin to sculpt out the final pieces of your life's work, a masterpiece for all to see. As you add the finishing touches, your hand slips and hits the chisel a little too hard. Tiny cracks emerge from the masterpiece consuming the statue in a lattice of crevices. The entire statue crumbles beneath your weight as you plummet into the awaiting darkness.

PERSON gasps softly, their face scrunching up in horror before relaxing into sleep again
Aerotan2010-07-22 17:27:44
HALLIFAX

You find yourself alone in a great blackness, with only a single point of light anywhere to be seen. As you watch, the light expands from a single point to a multihued cross. Then each point of the cross expands into its own cross, and then each point of those expands into another, then another, and another. Soon your entire field of vision is filled with thousands upon thousands of points of light, expanding infinitely before and behind you in an awe inspiring display of controlled beauty.

$person gasps in awe.



GAUDIGUCH

You find yourself alone in a great blackness, with only a single speck of matter anywhere to be seen. As you watch, the flesh begins growing from a single speck to a small tendon, then bones and muscles begin to sprout on either end of the tendon, then vessels and veins start spiderwebbing their way through the muscle. Soon the creature begins growing skin to protect its newly formed organs, still growing in a primal display of the beauty of life.

$person flexes his/her biceps in his/her sleep.
Xaldrin2010-08-01 08:38:46
I've got one. How about giving a skill to dream weavers that lets them design one-shot dreams! It could design the dream itself and the reaction. It's basically a flavor skill, but it would be fun.
Esano2010-08-01 08:42:54
I say this far too often.

While, true, you cannot design the reaction to a dream, you can use a hallucination mote to create a dream for a sleeper (you do not need to puncture auras of sleepers).
Unknown2010-08-01 08:55:58
QUOTE
QUOTE (Serenwilde)
You stand, as you always have, surrounded by your children, and theirs. Pixies flit and play within your branches, giggling in the way pixies do. After a moment, you sense one of the shards near your base, and your maiden rewards them as you welcome the newcomers he brings into your loving embrace.

QUOTE (Magnagora)
You stand, as you always have, surrounded by pathetic excuses for shards. They grovel at your base, praising you and cursing you by turns. Like clockwork, the creature below you screams in agony, and you revel in the growth of your power. One of the fool shards caresses your cracked surface, and you swallow him, taking him to your core where you may break him.

QUOTE (Celest)
You stand, as you always have, surrounded by a gleaming white rotunda. The sounds of reverent prayer from above fill you with a humble pride, which in turn causes you to shimmer beautifully. A shard comes forth, kneels before you, and offers a small littany as another steps within your waters. You reach up, taking the second shard into your warm embrace.

QUOTE (Glomdoring)
You stand, as you always have, surrounded by a primal beauty. The sprawling forest around you is perfect, as it always has been, and the shards surrounding you all agree on this. The great spirit resting in your boughs cries out, striking fear into the hearts of those shards near him. One of those at your base offers a tribute, and you reach out, wrapping him in your thorny embrace

For all four dreams, those around the dreamer would see:
shimmers for a moment with Aetheric power.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Lynch mobs?


I just now saw these whatthe.gif I would adore them if they were in the game.
Sakr2010-08-06 15:03:05
I want a nice dream. Not something that has me screaming in my sleep....
Unknown2010-08-19 15:20:31
QUOTE
Somewhere far behind you, a woman yells "Don't wander too far!", ignoring her warning you continue far into the forest until all light is consumed. With a sickening crack, earth-covered wood below you suddenly gives way and you tumble into pitch-blackness, mentally bracing yourself for the bone-crushing impact. When it comes, there is no pain, only wetness and freezing cold. Darkness and exhaustion overcome you as you realize in some tiny corner of your mind that you are about to drown in a forgotten well.

$person cries out in her/his sleep, but soon goes completely still.


Someone willing to fix this up for me? sad.gif