rubi: dreamwalking opt-in

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In high school, Quentin’s mind was invaded by “dream demon” Freddy Kreuger. Over the course of years of fighting to get Kreuger out and survive to wake again, Quentin developed an ability common to Freddy’s victims: dreamwalking.



Dreamwalking starts with total agency in his dreams and expands with practice into total agency in other people’s dreams. Eventually, again with practice and familiarity with a given person’s dreamscape, this ability can grow into being able to act on another person in their sleep and having it affect their body in the real world.

Especially when he’s in proximity to people, there’s a chance that Quentin has wandered into the dreams of people around him. I default to assuming he has NOT been in any given person’s dreams, but I’d also love to open up the opportunity if folks want some psychic mess out there. If Quentin has been able to see your chara’s dreams, please fill out this form:

<b>Character:</b> <b>Frequency and Timing:</b> How often and when during the day do they dream? <b>Common Themes:</b> Recurring colors, images, events, and other observable trends in their dreams (IE: lots of red, always dreaming of cats, recurring fire dreams, regular people, etc) <b>Overall Vibes:</b> The overall feeling of their dreams, regardless of imagery (IE: calm, wonder, stress, being watched, etc) <b>Has your chara noticed Quentin?</b> Dream-savvy characters or folks with psychic prowess/sensitivity will ping that something is off about him. Has your characters noticed this?

If you want to turn this ability or any encounters they have in the dreamscape into a thread, feel free to PM here or on Plurk tenny_boo to plot a little bit.

Comments

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Character: danny johnson
Frequency and Timing: extremely sporadic. danny's prone to intentional/forced insomnia, but it's been harder in rubi without easy access to his normal methods of coping (cool motive, still murder). he will find little places to doze at random hours of the day or night (catch him catnapping in some alleyway in town with a hat or a jacket pulled over his face or out in the woods), but he's an extremely light sleeper, so he doesn't often hit rem sleep where dreams would more regularly occur.
Common Themes: pre-reveal: blacks, reds, disjointed images like they've been scraped off the inside of a kaleidoscope. reoccurring locations: a desert at night lit by a lone "vegas" sign; the scorched skeleton of what used to be a house, floating in the black sea of his consciousness; a shitbox mobile home; a gas station bathroom. he dreams about murdering his father a lot, but the location and method of execution always changes, sometimes several times in one moment, like his brain is "rewinding"/"rebooting" and trying to fix what it thinks is wrong. otherwise, any people generally featured in his dreams are mannequin-still, their faces a black void; sometimes they're wounded and bleeding, other times they're just There, like little jump scares when you turn around. post-reveal: lots of the withering isle, the motel, the woods, the fog, the voices from the fog, SPRINGWOOD HEHEHE. his dreams of the entity aren't clear pictures but staccato nuke bomb flashblind clips of UHHHHHHHH THE HORRORS, think of the hell dimension scene in event horizon.
Overall Vibes: dread, loneliness, rage. any dreams involving his father or the mobile home loc: hatred, grief, regret, arousal. there is an overwhelming sense of wrongness in 99% of his dreams.
Has your chara noticed Quentin? oh he notices quentin honey