Session 3: Walking the Dreams

 June 8th, 2013 

While Eric napped, Chiara and Tia hit up the library for a printed guide to goblin fruit—courtesy of Terrence Goatskin, of course—for future harvesting. Once Eric was rested up and awake again, the group decided it was time to hop into the dreams contained within the clay vessels. Tia volunteered to go first, and everyone tried meditating. It was difficult; it took a couple hours for the motley to fall asleep and a couple more for most of them to reach the dream. Simon was unfortunately unsuccessful in getting that far.

 Hypatia's Dream-Vessel 

At this point, Eric decided to do something more than just ride around as a passive observer, so he flexed his oneiromancy “muscles” and stepped into the dream, float-flying around with Tia. As dreamer, Tia subconsciously resisted his meddling, but he managed to affect things nonetheless. He willed the tower to crack at the base and collapse on the shadowy, laughing figure, to the sounds of dismayed screams and crumbling masonry. The sun then came out, and the dream faded.

By this point it was rather late, so the group decided to disband for the evening. Eric surreptitiously swiped the fairy-winged figurine for solitary exploration, and everyone parted ways to their individual residences. Eric tucked in with the figurine under his pillow, and dropped into the next custom dream.

 The “Mad Fairy's” Dream-Vessel 

Against his better judgment, Eric turned over one of the bodies, and discovered a man, probably in his thirties, missing his teeth; they'd been carved out in a very messy fashion, leaving his mouth in shreds. In a brief moment of Eric's panic, the dream turned on him. Bodies piled up around him, all face down and bloodied, and Eric fled before worse could happen.

 June 9th, 2013 

The motley met back up the next morning to talk things over, and of course hit up the library for Goatskin's input. Unfortunately he had no answers for what Tia's dream meant, instead recommending they use the library's resources to try their own hand at psychoanalysis. The motley did meet Goatskin's girlfriend, who also worked at the library and could apparently see through their Masks.

Then the motley split for a bit to harvest Glamour since they'd been running without a refill for quite some time, followed by meeting up at the Hollow again. Tia gave Eric a chewing out over swiping one of the figurines—she saw when he put it back—and then it was Chiara's turn to dream.

 Chiara's Dream-Vessel 

Eric took hold of the dream at this point and tried to clear the sharp things off the branches, but the bird was already gone. Chiara ended up cutting her marionette strings and fled down the tower stairs and out into the thorny Hedge beyond. She ran through the Hedge, an unseen person's hand held in hers before being yanked free and lost. Chiara stumbled out through a mirror, and the dream ended.

The group decided to push through and move along with Simon's vessel.

 Simon's Dream-Vessel 

Eric immediately decided to bridge the gap—literally, in this case—to read the words on the wall: 927 FORESTER ST ROSE. With nothing else to do on the tiny ledge in the oubliette, Eric then created stairs leading up to the circle of light above, and everyone headed up to get a good look around.

They stood on top of a massive tower that they quickly deduced to be the tower from Tia's dream, only in the daylight. A creepy, menacing figure walked alone in the garden below, and Eric decided to collapse the tower on them. Given that the motley was perched on the top of the tower, Eric collapsed only the midsection, leaving the top portion levitating. Unfortunately for Eric, the collapsed section slowly reassembled itself, leaving the figure below un-crushed. Chiara decided to descend the tower to get a better look around, but fumbled and ended up falling down the inside of the tower. She landed in a pile of bodies at the base, surrounded by rag-pickers who cut faces from some of the corpses and wore them over their own. Chiara, of course, freaked out and fled the dream. Everyone else watched from the top of the tower as the sun set and the fireworks came out, just as the dream ended.

It was late again at this point, so the motley decided to split for the night again. They let Eric take the vessel that corresponded to him home with him for a solo run—the most surprising part of that was Eric asking permission.

 Eric's Dream-Vessel 

Eric took control, undoing the erasure of both man and letters. The woman started to wipe them away again, at which point Eric directly fought back against the woman herself, shattering her avatar, though her voice remained, telling him to “forget it all.” Eric ranted her out, her voice vanished, and he got a better look at the man carving the tree. He got the impression that the man looked like his father, and then the dream began to fade, leaving Eric hanging on the image of the face carved into the tree suddenly grinning wickedly.

 June 10th, 2013 

The following morning, the motley reconvened for the second-to-last vessel, the patchwork figurine. Tia took the helm.

 The “Patchwork Girl's” Dream-Vessel 

The motley opened the door in the patchwork doll's card, and found a gateway leading into an unfamiliar Goblin Market. Booths were laid out like market rows at a fair, and a tall tower overshadowed everything. The merchants appeared not to notice the motley at all. The group wandered until they found the patchwork woman chained to one of the booths, working. She begged them for help, telling them her name was Hannah and that the cards would show them how to find her. At that point, the dream faded.

The group headed to the library—of course—to try to decipher the tarot spread and the letters and numbers around the doll's card. The spread talked of sacrifice, disaster, upheaval, illusion, and uncertainty. The letters and numbers turned out to be directions to a book of maps, coordinates to a location on said map, and a potential date the group decided was about a week away.

NPCs Met
Ellen Sandusky - Terrence Goatskin's ensorcelled girlfriend

Enemies
The motley's own occasional failed attempt to take charge of a dream.

Other Stuff
Eric's version

Session 2: Artifacts and Privateers

Session 4: The Fifth