[Jaunt] Further Warnings [August 28]

[helborn]

Had a dream. A tiger with a mask, in a zoo. There's a mirror under the mask.

The tiger is hungry, but on our side.

There's another tiger in a cage, sleeping. It has the same mirror-mask.

We need to find that cage, or someone's going to get eaten. And we need to find it soon.

We don't have time, we're going to get eaten if we don't act.

[There's nothing for a few long moments before more 'text' appears.]

I have a bad feeling I'm picking up prophetic stuff somehow. This is not what I wanted. I would like to return this ability for a different one, please.

Comments

[forcechanic]

Yeah, that sounds prophetic. It's vague enough to be prophetic.

[The Force is vague like that too]

I can teach you some meditation techniques that might help. But they won't make it go away.

[helborn]

Fun.

... So then how can they help? And I guess... if it's important, they shouldn't go away, it's just not pleasant.

[forcechanic]

They can make it easier to manage having all of that come at you. Maybe even help you sort out what it means.

[helborn]

I'd like that. I need a little bit of help sorting this out.

[forcechanic]

Where are you staying? It'll be easier in person than through barely functional telepathy.

[helborn]

I'm in the Inn. Seemed like the place to go.

[forcechanic]

Okay, I'll be there soon. I must be down the hall.

[She can always pinpoint the room with psychic detection]

[fridgeninja]

A mask... that used to be something I'd know about.

If anyone who was in Questing Country has a dreamcatcher, I think I know how to find out what that dream means.

[helborn]

A dreamcatcher? ... Does it literally catch dreams?

[fridgeninja]

That's right. Oracles in Questing Country could use them to find information hidden in dreams. Even without an Oracle, if we use a dreamcatcher and find someone who has a skill like Sift...

[helborn]

I wouldn't know who to ask. Or what 'Sift' is.

[willyousee]

Forgive me for intruding, however I have both a dreamcatcher and the ability to use Sift. If someone is willing to teach me how to regain them, I once held Oracle powers in Questing Country. Perhaps I might yet again.

[helborn]

... So how do we use the dreamcatcher?

[willyousee]

It... We may need to go to liminal space. But it ought to be able to capture the dream and I can sift it or draw it forth and examine it, depending on which method is best. But it may require you to sleep again.

[thornsofmalkav]

I could teach you, probably? I mean, I wasn't an Oracle in Questing Country and I don't think I can go into Liminal Space but. I took a nap without your dreamcatcher--yes, I know--and I can verify that we've definitely hooked up to a Dreamland and can take our Questing Country forms there.

[willyousee]

[He is not thinking all the words he could be thinking at you right now, Thorne Durante no Delaunay, but he is not best pleased with you.]

[willyousee]

.....That might be best. I only hope that my powers remain the same as they were.

[haremtrap]

So not, like, a LITERAL tiger.

[helborn]

I'm guessing not a literal tiger, yeah.

[haremtrap]

That'd probably make this easier, honestly.

[helborn]

It would. But I don't think tigers usually wear masks.

1/2

[haremtrap]

Symbolically, a tiger is usually like...I dunno. Representative of a super strong guy?

So I guess that if your dream was real then maybe it means that somewhere in the midst of all this bullshit there's someone who's actually on our side.

[haremtrap]

Someone or...

Something.

[Look it's not every day you get to use a classic line like that.]

[helborn]

[The network can't convey flat stares right now.]

[But there totally is one.]

Possibly. We just need to find them.

[haremtrap]

[That's fair. She definitely earned it.]

And we can't just go to the zoo. I don't think this town even has a zoo.

...Do you think it's even someone who's still alive?