Excursions & Torment Hunts

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EXPLORING DREAMS

The Dream Sphere is a place full of mysteries and for Dreamers, it's theirs to explore as they see fit. Exploring the Dream Sphere, experimenting with their powers and battling it out with Torments and Nightmares is how Dreamers grow their magic after all - and come on. Admit it. It's pretty fun. Players are, of course, free to goof around in logs at their own pace but for formalized investigation and exploration of the Dream Sphere, this is the place to do it!

Dreamers can investigate the Dream Sphere in two main ways; Excursions and Torment Hunts. All Dreamers are encouraged to take part in Excursions and Torment Hunts and OOCly, the process can be rewarded with points that can go towards... well, rewards!

EXCURSIONS

Excursions are when a Dreamer explores the Dream Sphere with the specific goal of finding and investigating new locations. They may find new and interesting locales or stumble across trouble in the making and take care of it.

Currently, these new locations will disperse and become inaccessible once the Dreamer leaves it behind, but characters will unlock the option to Stablize a location in an event in the near future, so they can permanently add one to the Outlying Locations page if they so wish.

It's important to note that, like Outlying Locations, Excursions also come with an element of Risk. You're heading out into the unknown, after all! You can indicate in your comment what Risk level you would be comfortable with, which will correlate with how far into the Dream Sphere your character is choosing to go. Some of this Risk can be mitigated by going on an Excursion with multiple characters (up to three at a time) but you still might run into some trouble and should be aware that your character could end up hurt or potentially failing out of the Excursion at higher Risk. Take care out there!

To head out on an Excursion, fill out the form below and submit it in the comments. The mods will reply with the results of your Excursion and what cool things your character may have encountered. You're free to leave things there... but! If you use the results of the Excursion as the basis for a log or thread and submit it as a reply to the Excursion result, you'll receive points! As with AC bonus threads, these completed Excursion results must be AC length and you can submit two per month. On top of this, each character can head out on an Excursion twice per month - though this is an OOC limit and you're free to play out and handwave other IC explorations even if they aren't officially an Excursion.

EXCURSION FORM:

<b>Character(s):</b> (List the characters taking part in the Excursion) <b>Archetype(s):</b> (Note the Archetypes of all the characters taking part) <b>Maximum Risk:</b> (Note if you would like the potential Risk to cap out at Low, Medium, High or Very High) <b>Keywords:</b> (The fun part! Let us know what sort of thing your character is looking for – but more importantly, what sort of feelings and thoughts are on their mind as they explore. This will affect the Excursion Result!)

TORMENT HUNTS

Torment Hunts are the main method of keeping the Torment and Nightmare populations of the Dream Sphere under control. In contrast to Excursions, Torment Hunts consist of Dreamers going into known locations and hunting down any Torments that have spawned there. Without Dreamers to keep them in check, Torments would eventually form into Nightmares and so, Torment Hunts are the most proactive way of keeping peace in the Dream Sphere while getting to grips with your magic.

Like Excursions, you can complete Torment Hunts by filling out the form below and submitting it in the comments. The mods will reply with a result, taking into account things such as the Outlying Location's overall Risk factor and how many characters took place in the Torment Hunt. You're free to head out on Torment Hunt solo, or with others. Having friends along makes the whole thing safer, of course, but you don't need anyone else to join you - however, higher Risk locations will be much more difficult without the proper backup and should a Dreamer be unlucky enough to be overwhelmed while on their own, they will fail out of the Torment Hunt.

Once again, if you use the results of the Torment Hunt as the basis for a log or thread and submit it as a reply to the Torment Hunt result, you'll receive points! The above limitations on submissions also apply to Torment Hunts though you are, again, free to thread out unofficial Torment Hunts between characters just for fun.

TORMENT HUNT FORM:

<b>Character(s):</b> (List the characters taking part in the Excursion) <b>Archetype(s):</b> (Note the Archetypes of all the characters taking part) <b>Outlying Location:</b> (Where is this Torment Hunt taking place?) <b>Strategy:</b> (How exactly are the characters managing this Hunt? Are they being very precise or a little haphazard? Are they attacking on sight or taking their time? Go into detail here, as it'll affect the results!)

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Excursion

[hgs]

Character(s): Shinsha (Cinnabar), Lisa (Rhodonite), Keiwa (Tycoon), Nene (Koi)
Archetype(s): Sentry x2, Novice x2
Maximum Risk: whatever it takes to find that mfer
Keywords:
why didn't you tell me something was wrong
why didn't you ask me to come with you

Hanako's friends intend to find him and bring him home -- whatever it takes! They're prepared to smash their way through the Dream Sphere until they find him, and then he's going straight into the dumpster where he belongs. They're looking for Dream Sphere anomalies that could lead them to Hanako's Disturbance, but if they run into Torment trouble along the way, they'll deal with it. Of course the more experienced Dreamers will be protecting Nene!

EXCURSION ███████

[beautifuldreamermods]

It takes a while and a few trips into the Dream Sphere for the gang to get any leads - whatever magic causes a Disturbance to take root is hard to detect among all the other weirdness that happens in the Dream Sphere on a daily basis. It does, however, become gradually clear that even with them searching as hard as they can... something absolutely doesn't want them to find Hanako in time to bring him home before something happens.

Eventually, pure stubbornness and their combined feelings manage to break through. The group come across something that feels... different. A dream that feels small and shallow as a puddle, just barely big enough for them all to stand in. Water and dark skies and a creeping sense of dread. In the far, far distance, barely visible through a murky fog, you see some huge, squad structure that looks vaguely... familiar.

But before you can explore or even make any sense of it, it gets yanked clean out of your reach. The whole world seems to jolt under you as something boots you clean out of the dream and back to the Waking World. It'll take three or four days before you can head back in, but that doesn't matter.

You've located Hanako's Disturbance. All you can do now is wait for it to stabilize enough to break down the front door and bring him home.

As this was a plot relevant Excursion failure, you are still eligible for rewards! To claim your rewards for this Excursion, reply to this comment with a thread containing at least two comments from each character involved using this Excursion result as the basis!

[i_peace]

not me realizing no one submitted this

At least 2 comments from everyone

APPROVED

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