Excursions & Torment Hunts

[beautifuldreamermods]

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!!! ৻( •̀ ᗜ •́ ৻)

[hanamane]

Character(s): Amane (Hanako), Jackie (Mantle), Shinsha (Cinnabunbar)
Archetype(s): Striker, Sentry x2
Maximum Risk: Medium
Keywords: Baby's first trip as a Mentor!!!! (Sort of. Unofficially. SHHH) Despite being an Experienced Dreamer, Mantle doesn't have much... experience... fighting Torments or Nightmares, so Hanako's going to show them the ropes with whatever they find in their travels! (Plus, getting to venture into new locations in the Dream Sphere is also A++ for the both of them too, so they're hoping to come across something fun or cool!) Cinnabar is along for the ride too, as a former Mentor themselves and to make sure Hanako's actually doing his job (debatable), so this is most definitely a bonding road trip between three Completely Normal Dreamers who have zero idea how to make friends but want them super badly 8')

EXCURSION RESULT – EXCURSION FAILURE

[beautifuldreamermods]

During their Excursion, Hanako's group come across... a new location!

Drenched in otherworldly stillness, a foreboding, Gothic mansion comes looming out of the mists of the Dream Sphere. As the rest of the dream asserts itself, you realize that the mansion's grounds aren't just gardens but are a sprawling graveyard that stretches as far as the eye can see, crumbling gravestones haunted by Torments ready to give anyone foolish enough to go investigate. A horrible miasma lingers around the grounds and unfortunately follows you into the mansion once you choose to explore it. Inside, the place is dilapidated, draped in cobwebs and the contents of each room frozen in time. It's your classic haunted mansion, right down to horrible portraits of the imaginary inhabitants that always seem to be moving just out of the corner of your eye but snap back into stillness as soon as you turn to look...

The place is infested with horrible, spidery Torments who will lunge out of the shadows the second they get a chance. One of these taking the group by surprise results in Cinnabar being ejected from the dream, though not without taking it down with them. With Cinnabar gone, that leaves Mantle and Hanako, not quite aware that the miasma seeping in from the grounds is growing gradually more and more toxic...

Mantle succumbs first, ejected from the dream by the poisonous mist. Hanako lasts the longest, thanks to building up resistance via Cinnabar's poison, but eventually he grows sluggish and weak too and is set upon by a group of spider Torments that had been laying in wait and is ejected soon afterwards.

Our condolences on your Excursion failure! Every member of the group will be unable to return to the Dream Sphere for three days to one week following this Excursion and will find a nasty cough lingers in the Waking World for up to a week afterwards. As this was an Excursion failure, you are not eligible for any additional rewards but may still use this as the basis for a log/thread if you please and any threads that meet bonus criteria there are still eligible for submission.

Better luck next time!