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03 [video]
Name: Yako Katsuragi (un: katsuragi)
Date: Septeril 1st, after Mhairi & Nessie's address and Sokie's post.
Format: Video
For those who are considering going to Dorchacht: someone brought up the idea of sharing what information we've been able to find out about how the compulsion to obey witches works in the city. From previous experience with these dreams, they don't often represent an accurate version of reality, so we should be cautious in our assumptions of what will actually be there.
From what I was able to find out, the enchantment to force Monsters to obey witches is built into the walls of the city itself -- along with a spell to keep the Cwyld out, though it's not the same as the one used by Aefenglom.
That being said ... if it works the way it does in the dream, then we know there are ways to protect ourselves. The resistance was distributing enchanted paper with runes that can be used to lift the compulsion. The witches were willing to teach me -- I assume I'm not the only one who learned. If there are enough of us willing to work on it, we could work together and take a look at that spell, see if we can strengthen it and distribute those spells to those who can't cast them. We don't have much time before we leave, but I think it's worth trying.
[ She pauses. Up to now, she hasn't looked very uncertain or worried, only concerned, but she's more tentative about what she says next. ]
One more thing ... we may still not know exactly where these dreams come from, or why, but I think it could be just as significant who isn't getting the dreams as much as who is. I spoke to some of the people who live outside Aefenglom's walls earlier last month -- and they told me they didn't experience anything like we did after Litha, that dream with the dragon and red skies.
But people who were infected by the Cwyld -- they did dream about something strange. They said they had the same nightmare of being trapped in darkness, hearing something or someone in pain, and a great heart beating in the distance. And they think they remember seeing some sort of cocoon, like a caterpillar's? It didn't seem like they were in the same place, but their accounts were very similar.
... I don't know if it has any significance, but if you're staying behind, please be careful, too.
[ ooc; Yako's referring to investigation results from here and here respectively, if you were curious. ]
Date: Septeril 1st, after Mhairi & Nessie's address and Sokie's post.
Format: Video
For those who are considering going to Dorchacht: someone brought up the idea of sharing what information we've been able to find out about how the compulsion to obey witches works in the city. From previous experience with these dreams, they don't often represent an accurate version of reality, so we should be cautious in our assumptions of what will actually be there.
From what I was able to find out, the enchantment to force Monsters to obey witches is built into the walls of the city itself -- along with a spell to keep the Cwyld out, though it's not the same as the one used by Aefenglom.
That being said ... if it works the way it does in the dream, then we know there are ways to protect ourselves. The resistance was distributing enchanted paper with runes that can be used to lift the compulsion. The witches were willing to teach me -- I assume I'm not the only one who learned. If there are enough of us willing to work on it, we could work together and take a look at that spell, see if we can strengthen it and distribute those spells to those who can't cast them. We don't have much time before we leave, but I think it's worth trying.
[ She pauses. Up to now, she hasn't looked very uncertain or worried, only concerned, but she's more tentative about what she says next. ]
One more thing ... we may still not know exactly where these dreams come from, or why, but I think it could be just as significant who isn't getting the dreams as much as who is. I spoke to some of the people who live outside Aefenglom's walls earlier last month -- and they told me they didn't experience anything like we did after Litha, that dream with the dragon and red skies.
But people who were infected by the Cwyld -- they did dream about something strange. They said they had the same nightmare of being trapped in darkness, hearing something or someone in pain, and a great heart beating in the distance. And they think they remember seeing some sort of cocoon, like a caterpillar's? It didn't seem like they were in the same place, but their accounts were very similar.
... I don't know if it has any significance, but if you're staying behind, please be careful, too.
[ ooc; Yako's referring to investigation results from here and here respectively, if you were curious. ]
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[ Because they must come from somewhere. But for what purpose, and by whom? ]
I only asked about the one night, because I was curious if they could have been the shadow-like beings in that dream ... but I didn't ask if they'd dreamed about this before, or saw anything similar. I'll have to ask the witches who've worked with them longer if anyone's ever brought something like that up before.
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But if the infected are dreamin' too, I'm willing to be that's related to this whole mess.
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[ Not a very pleasant thought, to say the least! ]
Something was odd about this dream of Dorchacht, though. I think ... there seemed to be someone in the dream who could see us, but I can't remember anything else about them. And now this Morgana Drummond's been asking after 'lost luggage.' So whose dream were we walking in?
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Way I understood it, those dreams were like... part of their own realm, different from the visible world. Goin' between dreams was like driftin' between bubbles, if that makes sense. Me and my partner were dreamin' for a long time, so I don't remember it all, but we could meet other dreamers. Sometimes make our way into others' dreams. Once, we helped someone that got stuck get out.
Guess what I'm sayin' is that it might not be made by anyone or anything, yeah? These dreams might be more like miniature worlds. And since we stumbled outta those mirrors in a way no one's heard of before, we might not be as part of this wakin' world as everyone thinks we are.
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If we aren't entirely anchored through this world except through the mirrors we came through... that would certainly explain why it's easier for us to get pulled into those shared dreams. But they still had to have come into existence somehow, right?
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You'd think they'd know where those mirrors come from.
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[ Although later, once she hears the memory issues Dorchacht is having, she won't be able to help wondering if forgetting the Looking-Glass House's origins was incidental, or by design.
But Fang brings up another point-- ]
--and I'm sorry, but did you say you were asleep for centuries? [ SHE HAS SO MANY QUESTIONS. ] Was that ... does that usually happen, where you're from?
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[There's an amused little sound over the line.]
Yeah. Just short of a thousand, dreamin' like that. Long story. My partner and I were a bit of a special case, so can't say it's normal, no.
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[ It almost sounds like a fairytale curse. ]
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Guess the shortest I can make of it's that we were under some kinda compulsive curse. If we didn't do what we were told, we turned into souless monsters. If we did, we got the immortality gift basket—but as a livin' statue.
Guess what we got stuck with? [A chuckle.] Don't know how we came outta it. That should've been impossible. But here I am.
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[ It's a lot to absorb, but there's something about the way the woman phrases it that sticks out in Yako's mind, perhaps because of how it resonates with her. ]
Your partner's not here in Aefenglom, then?
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She isn't. Haven't seen her in years.