【EVENT】 New Year's Wishful Dreaming

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Wishful Dreaming Event

On the Eve of the New Year, the city of Starsand is surprisingly quiet. For a place so eager to throw parties, you might think that the streets would be full of life. But instead, Starsand’s streets are quiet and it’s citizens shutting down shops early. In this city, the last night of the year is contemplative and quiet. Citizens might make their last shrine visits, but it’s uncommon to see them out past 11.

They say that it’s important to fall asleep before the New Year, because you want to treasure your first dream of the New Year. Supposedly it’s lucky and prophetic. If you write it down and remember it, that dream can even guide you to your greatest desire. And rumors are always good ideas in Starsand.

Sleep comes easy on this night. Characters will find themselves getting drowsy by 4am at the latest. When they do fall asleep, they fall into a deep and elaborate dream.

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OOC NOTES

The first dream of the New Year will show characters their wishes come true. They will get to enjoy the life they long for. But strangely, they may find other Fallen Stars wandering into their dreams. These encounters may shake them out of their dreamlike state and make them aware that the dream is just that: A dream. If the dreamer denies their dream or has doubts, then the dreamscape will fall apart into a nightmare before both dreamer and visitor wake up.

It is possible to have multiple dreams: Characters must wake between dreams, even if just briefly, then fall back asleep in order to change their dream. There can be multiple visitors before the dream ends for good.

On the morning of January 1st, all characters who had a dream will find a prismatic crystal clenched in the palm of their hands. The crystal will reflect the contents of their dream, so long as they hold the same wish. If they change wishes or lose faith, then the crystal will turn black and melt into Rumor goo.

NPC characters may reply to dreams with clues. Please indicate which characters you want to receive clues by putting a “*” in their toplevel title. You may request clues for up to 3 characters. Thank you for your help!

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Comments

[satisfice]

I can't say anything about what might be normal. But. I have had people say that I'm different. Odd. So maybe.

[Maybe he is. Broken. Weird. Whatever people call him. But the main thing, to him, is that he sees people again he wouldn't otherwise have the chance to. He can't see them outside of this dream. That's why he's emotional about it. Maybe it might be more horrifying if he saw them as they would be when dead. Seeing that. But here, in the dream, they look as they had when alive. ]

[fallenwishingstar]

… I see.

I’m the same. The way that I exist is something that no human could comprehend, really. When we disagree, humans tell us spirits we are wrong. They tell us to have hope and be happy, but they don’t realize how impossible that is.

They would probably think of me as broken too. But to me, I am simply ‘me.’

Is that how it is for you?

[satisfice]

I guess. I mean. Not that I don't have hope. That I'm not happy, but. I'm Oz. Yeah.

[Oz isn't sure he has much if anything really more to add to that. He's aware he is different. Unique. Given his whole identity situation with Jack. But at the same time, he has worked hard and it's taken a long time for him to assert himself. To simply identify as Oz.]

[fallenwishingstar]

… I don’t have a name. Until now, I did not have a form either.

But it’s okay meeting you, Oz. Even if you seem to be a rather depressing sort of optimist. I had hoped for a more exciting dream than this.

[She shakes her head.] And I cannot imagine that dead friends are useful to the Wishmaker.

[satisfice]

No name? What if one of us give you one?

[The form she has now, he isn't sure if that is what she might usually looks like. If that is what she always looks like. Oz can't say much either, given his rabbit forms. He isn't that bothered, at least she doesn't look injured or anything.]

Probably not, no. I imagine Wishmaker would want people alive, to get wishes from.