Volcano's Land - Mercury Morn

Game Master Miner Cotren

Understood - appreciate the update.

Working at Target's been killing me! Dropped a can of beans on the ol' foot, and now I can't walk so good. It is what it is I suppose, but I'm not thrilled about it. Might have to take another day off tomorrow, and I'd really rather not do that if at all possible...

That sucks - feet / walking injuries are a hassle. Take the time you need to recover, game will be here when you are ready.

I think Gabe is more the terror that flaps in the night (Darkwing Duck anyone?) than the reassuring presence to calm people down. All I can think of is dancing but that doesn't seem like a long term solution.

Can we shoot for Monday for an update on what Abnaki and Samen are doing prior to going to sleep (or entering the dream realm at any rate)?

I'm back. Sorry this week has been a misture of being ill, overtime, and bad news. I have done very little.

So Qizz is gonna stay out and play guard while Kallik goes in? I assume she can use any of her phantom abilities while in the shared dream?

Yep, that's the idea! :)

That totally works for me :)

Homework asssignment for the weekend - have a post ready about your character's greatest fear (basically an introduction to a new scene). I think we'll roll randomly for the order.

I'll narrate it from there. You are going to have to get through four characters' worth of fears before you can find the Carrion.

Not sure if you need fears for Qizz. But I think theirs would be along the lines of silence and solitude. Death is sad but isnt scary to Qizz nor is the dangers of battle. But they have always been around others and having a phantom, even a grumpy one, is a form of constant company. And losing that. Being alone is horrifying.

Kallik's is a bit more cliché. She fears failure. For some examples as she would see them. Faling to control her temper and slipping back into that bloodlust. Never seeing Egret or her grandfather again. Continuing to get distracted and not helping Krz like she promised and that just makes her a failure to another family member, and she likes this one. Failing to protect Qizz, who is becoming less of a sand in for Egret and more of someone she genuinely cares for. Falling even more as one of the Blessed than she has already done. She is supposed to he a Hero, one of the Blessed. And now she is a sullen ghost to scared to move on and clinging to a world she fears she cannot influence anymore.

Samen is probably most afraid of existential futility. He's seen gods rise and fall. He's witnessed civilizations collapse and be rebuilt. He's died, had his soul spliced and torn asunder, then stitched back together again. He's faced monsters and created monsters. He's killed in cold blood and shown mercy. He's watched family die and friends mutate. He's experienced more of elenity and humanity than any other living being. All of this in, what, 1 to 2 years?

Sure, he thinks, there could be worse things to come, but he's relatively numb to terror at this point. No, the thing that nibbles at the back of his neck is the growing dread that none of this matters.

Thank you! I will commence with some nightmares with a post tomorrow.

Hey! Sorry about the delay in getting back to you. I've had the flu these past few weeks, and things have been a bit... rough. I'm still hopped up on Dayquil most days, and the really lucid moments have been few and far between, but I'm starting to feel a bit better now. I'll see what I can do to catch up, and I'm so sorry about my absence!

Abnaki's greatest fear at this point? Probably something inane. That or being forgotten.

I feel like being hopped up on flu medicine would lend itself to some wild nightmare writing...

Anyway, Gabe's worst fear. He's back in the depths of the temple. The experiments of the crazed inquisitors never stopped, only grown more intense. The dark overwhelms his senses, it's all around him. Calling out to him? Pressing on his mind. His shadow speaks to him, but it's not the shadow he knows. He's being puppeted like a doll on strings made to dance for the otherworldly presence. Then there is laughing from nowhere as his strings are cut by he can't move, lost in the dark.

Tldr: The experiments of the inquisitors still have a hold on him and his actions aren't his own.

Added a will save just to determine how he reacts. Does he remember his preparations or is the shock too much? I'm kinda glad I rolled low... haha