OPERATION: DREAMCATCHER COMM CHATTER

[katabasis]

FORM: Various
SENDER: Various
RECIPIENT: Various
NOTES: Catch all text spam space for Operation: Dreamcatcher/dream related chatter during the month of fantasy!October. Use this space to tell everyone about a buck wild dream some Free Marches farmer shared, crack jokes, complain about being seasick while on a sailing excursion, definitely do not draw phalluses on the communal nightmare tracking board in place of contributing something of value.

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(what if we kissed by the) COMMUNAL NIGHTMARE TRACKING BOARD

[katabasis]

[Everyone be thankful that paper is in such short supply; if Tantervale were still around, everyone might be required to keep a personal dream diary. As it is, a board has been posted in the Project Felandaris office and papered for collective group note-taking. Various writing implements are available for use (unless someone has accidentally walked off with them).

Members of Riftwatch are charged to make notes regarding any recurring themes or repeating iconography in their dreams. Everyone is encouraged to add new items to the list when they occur to them, to add tally marks to anything already on the board that they've also experienced, or….go rogue…and do whatever you want when no one's looking.

Someone or someones have helpfully listed a few broad topics to get the conversation going:

Being pursued by something and unable to escape.

Committing an act of violence.

Dreaming of a place I've never been but feels very real.

Keeping a secret and ending in ruin on account of my discretion.]

[notathreat]

[In small stilted Thedosian trade:]

- Killing someone, then looking down and realizing it's someone I recognize.
- Someone swearing I'm lying when I'm not.
- A boat just off shore that I can never swim far enough to get to.
- A horse wearing an Orlesian mask (???)

[favoriteanalyst]

Killing someone, then looking down and realizing it's someone I recognize. ✓

[hassaran]

✓

[elegiaque]

✓

[thereneverwas]

✓

[cozen]

✓

[katabasis]

✓

[bouchonne]

- Nudity (and I feel embarrassed)
- Nudity (and everyone's very impressed)

[armd]

(Arrow, next to nudity (and everyone's very impressed), comment:) Didn't happen

[bouchonne]

[ A (rough) doodle of a naked man with a shapely butt (no dirty bits included, not here to scandalize) answers her. ]

[armd]

(It makes her laugh so much. She will cross out her comment!)

[cozen]

[ Next to Nudity (and I feel embarrassed): ]

✓

[altusimperius]

[a dark scribble obscures where someone began to write 'demons trying t' and thought better of it]

[notathreat]

[Circled, question mark?]

[grindset]

Being pursued by something and unable to escape. ✓

[Added elsewhere, hastily:]

– arguments with a featureless figure
– autonomous limbs (hostile)
– falling

[armd]

('Falling' is circled, thrice.)

[notathreat]

[Different pen, checkmark next to 'Falling'.] ✓

[elegiaque]

✓ Sometimes pushed sometimes jumping

[portalling]

[ To Strange's absolute irritation, he'd had to corral a passing aide to write this for him, but he adds to this one: ]

✓ sometimes pushed by another version of myself

[thereneverwas]

✓ + landing hard

[armd]

(Sure, why not:)

- Fucked up an easy job, everybody laughs
- Being drowned
- My reflection looks like me but I have a weird feeling it isn't?
- Griffon attack

[portalling]

- My reflection looks like me but I have a weird feeling it isn't? ✓

[ Is it still a weird nightmare if you already know which version of yourself it is, tho. ]

[lumelume]

[penned carefully but clearly with some difficulty:]

- vishus dogs
- stuck in cage cannot get out
- every one has gone I am alone

[cozen]

[ Next to every one has gone I am alone: ]

✓

[ And trailing off from that check mark at an angle: ]

or close enough

[sprent]

(A sad little tick appears beside stuck in cage cannot get out)

[notathreat]

[Next to "I am alone"]

✓

[muckspout]

-Being a bird and then falling in water and drowning
-Being a fish and then drowning
-Being a cow and then falling down a hill and drowning
-Just being a cow.

[cozen]

[ Added to the left, to leave ample room for tally marks on the right, is a very poor attempt at drawing a cute cow face wearing a flower crown. But it comes out half ink blots, half unrecognizable monster, and then gets scribbled partially out in horror.

Sorry. ]

[muckspout]

[Arrow pointing to drawing, scrawled]
yes! scary! You too?

[cozen]

[ With painstaking neatness beneath it: ]

No.

[exequy]

- Trapped.

[ Details are for babies. ]

[notathreat]

✓

[hassaran]

[ In generic, un-distinctive handwriting. But not too undistinctive. ]

- Deaths caused or not prevented (real and imagined)
- The blighted future from the Herald's dream

[ On a different part of the sheet at a different time, in a different hand and different pen: ]

Dying slowly, knowing I've failed

[ And a third: ]

Endless torture

[katabasis]

[Some hand, ignorant of the subterfuge, has come through and briskly checked alongside deaths caused, blighted future, torture.]

[grindset]

Dying slowly, knowing I've failed ✓

[thereneverwas]

Endless torture ✓

[portalling]

[ Beside Deaths caused or not prevented: ]

✓

[notathreat]

[Deaths caused or not prevented (real and imagined)]

✓

[Dying slowly, knowing I've failed.]

✓

[sprent]

- Need to run but I go very slowly
- Teeth falling out
- Wore the wrong thing in public (an arrow goes up toward - Nudity (and I feel embarrassed), and points at it.)
- Being pregnant??

[portalling]

- Sitting down for a test and realizing you don’t know any of the answers

[ It’s the most benign of Strange's nightmares, the only one he felt fine letting someone else write down for him and pin to the board. But, also, legit: those Thedas for Rifters classes at the Gallows have apparently seeped into his subconscious. ]

[grindset]

Can't relate to this one.