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beautifuldreamermods) wrote2023-03-24 06:15 pm
beautifuldreamermods) wrote2023-03-24 06:15 pm
Excursions & Torment Hunts
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.
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.
Excursion request!
Archetype(s):
one idiot and three people trying to keep him aliveStriker, Saverx3Maximum Risk: High!
Keywords: Though Dreamer Scarlet has been missing for ten years now, this team is setting out to find out just what became of her! Though the chances of her being alive and well are admittedly low, even just closure -- or understanding of what caused the disappearance in the first place -- would be welcome for everyone. This Excursion is looking for any signs, traces, or signals of Scarlet, in the hope of finding a trail and guidance for future searching excursions.
(And as unlikely as actually finding anything would be, they're not going to overlook the faintest possibility of getting some clue about Reverie either.)
EXCURSION RESULT . . . ?
Under a sky tinged a perpetual hellish orange stands a desolate fortress, surrounded on all sides by a twisted, blasted landscape of jagged obsidian and rivers of molten lava. Making your way to the fortress is a miserable task – like Fury Peak, the temperature in this place is sky high and the air reeks of burning sulphur, making it hard to draw breath as you break deeper and deeper into the fortress' territory. The Torments here are particularly aggressive – vaguely humanoid figures made of living fire who have a nasty habit of trying to bearhug and broil you when they get in too close.
The fortress itself is towering and imposing, built from what seems to be bricks of pure obsidian that catch and reflect the eerie light bouncing around. The architecture is similarly off-putting – it may have been grand once but now it's begun to decay, many of its walls and and towers have begun to crumble and collapse, laying at jutting, unwelcome angles.
You make it to the door... but no further. While working out how to pry the door open and go deeper inside, Chaosbringer says Dreamer Crimson's name aloud and everything suddenly changes. The underlying tension of the dream reaches a boiling point and the orange sky is drowned by black clouds crackling with electrical discharge – then the doors of the fortress explode open to engulf the group in a blessedly brief torrent of raging fire before they wake up, having been forcefully ejected from the dream. In that moment before they wake up, everyone will have the same realization – the feelings pushing them back here are anger, rejection and revulsion.
Someone doesn't want Dreamer Crimson to be found.
Every member of the group will be unable to return to the Dream Sphere for one week following this Excursion and a sense of lingering anxiety will hang around for their first few trips back.
To claim your rewards for this Excursion, reply to this comment with a thread of AC length OR containing at least two comments from each character involved (whichever comes first) using this Excursion result as the basis!
Re: EXCURSION RESULT . . . ?
APPROVED