[Walkabout - Week 4] ...oops.

[willyousee]

[Alcuin sounds contrite, but not precisely sorry, per se.]

I, ah... seem to have started a trend among the children. One of them had a terrible nightmare, so I made them a dream catcher. Now all the children in the household want one. I expect word of it will spread through the children's ranks fairly quickly. They seem to be treating it as a grand secret, however, at least from the adults, so perhaps it will stay quiet?

I thought it only fair to give people warning that you may be asked for one. I can teach others to make them as well, if you like! I am not certain if we can teach the children to make their own, however.

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[willyousee]

I am not certain if it would replace a need to Harvest, however. That glamour may be different.

[runs]

[...huh. Weird.] Do you know why it does that?

[Private x2]

Well, I can always experiment with it. [She sniggers.] Or ask Gil to experiment with it. [He's autumn, that should be right up his alley, right?]

[willyousee]

From what we've been able to tell, it is because the energy of liminal space and the maleability of it is very similar to Questing Country - that is, the collective dream world where we first learned to make them.

[Private x2]
Gil is the one who told me that you and he had undergone the same ordeal. Given how he needs to Harvest, I suspect he would be interested in trying to draw from a dreamcatcher instead. Anyone can draw from any dreamcatcher, too, so he needn't make one of his own if he doesn't wish to.

[runs]

...Collective dream world?

[Private x2]

So it's like- [She frowns, thinking. Comparing.] Like you're growing your own fruit. Maybe it would work. Maybe it's too direct.

[She is no scientist, so she doesn't really know if that comes anywhere close to the answer, but that might be a thing. She'll really have to talk to Gil about it.]

...What has he told you, exactly?

[willyousee]

In that place, the dreams of sleepers form an ever-shifting landscape beyond the reach of most people. There are some dreamers, however, who may walk those lands as if they were tangible whenever they sleep, and fight the nightmares which take form.

[Private x2]
Only that you were stolen away by the Gentry, and that you escaped. And that you must Harvest the emotions of others in order to keep your human Mask in place. Both Gil and Jules have allowed me to take the Oath for a time and see through their Mask. They are my friends, and I have never regretted it. Nor, I hope have I given them reason to regret that decision. If it were not relevant to the possible function of a dreamcatcher, I would not mention it.

[runs]

...Huh. [She squints at that information. It sounds like an ....interesting place to be. But there is no more that she really needs to know about it, she feels.]

Can you teach me how to make those dreamcatchers in Liminal? [Because humanoid!Kitty doesn't exist in Sunday.]

[Private x2]

[She relaxes a bit; that's fair enough information about her to give someone who gets it. Or give out in general.] Okay.