Video Post--Open to All--Restful Sleep Plan

[azrthmtrnznthos]

[For once, her face isn't obscured by a concealing cowl, as Raven positions herself in front of the ICP's screen.]

Some of you might know me, but to others who don't as well as newcomers, I'm Raven. One of the healers on board the train. I come from Earth, around the 21st century of the common era, from Jump City in the United States of America.

[It's more background than she usually gives.]

I've been on the train for several months now, and one thing that's become very obvious is we have a lot of people who have trouble sleeping. It doesn't really matter what the route cause of the trouble is, be it insomnia or nightmares or anything else. I recently ordered some books from home, and have been trying to think of ways to help us. I have some ideas, and would definitely appreciate help. Either in crafting, where magic will be involved, or in buying stuff. Also, don't feel you need magic to help--I'll be providing most of the magic.

Some of it doesn't even need to be magic at all, like one of the simpler ideas. We have these window boxes of flowers on the train right? Could we grow lavender in them, to help promote calm and peace?

Most of my ideas involve mixing herbs and making sachets, tea, bath-tea bags, or infusions. I also suggest we order melatonin capsules. So if you want to help with making any of the above, I would be grateful.
The other idea I had, inspired by what Casper mentioned about a thing in his world, is to put amythyst 'dream catcher' crystals in every sleeper cabin. These would be in woven basket-bags, and be tuned to pull bad dreams and negative dreams in and away from the sleeper. They'd need to be purified every platform day though, which isn't too hard depending on how that purification would happen. We'd need a lot of these, as there are 8 sleeper cars now, with 5 cabins in each.

[That's the bulk of her plans. Lots of crafting going on mostly.]

I welcome collaboration and help, and if anyone has any better ideas, or concerns, please bring it up. All of this is designed to help us all be a little less stressed and anxious if we can be, since we're all stuck together. The train is both very large, and very small, after all.

[OOC: If people want, we CAN play out the actual crafting parts? Otherwise while this will take time, please feel free to handwave that you've helped Raven. I'm down for either.]

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[emerald_mirror]

[The opening shot is Xander's bat, Cottonball, blinking her oildrop eyes at the camera. She gets dawn back to expose Xander himself, nodding vehemently.]

You have my bat! Uh, by that, I mean I'm in! I can probably help with the herbs and maybe even the crystals. That might take a bit, but.

[He pauses, then, lost in thought a moment.] Might want more purified amethyst crystals than the 40 we'd need. I know I'm a guilty party when it comes to having nightmares; if we know certain cabins are more nightmare-prone, they could be backup or to make things double strength--well. That assumes they work that way, I guess.

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[azrthmtrnznthos]

I think we should start with just seeing if this works. It should, but it's not something I've done before. That's the other reason I want collaboration.

[helborn]

Fortunately, there's going to be backups.

[Yes hello friend. Your bat is very cute.]

I'm making little plush stars to hang in the cabins, too. I'm going to infuse them as dreamcatchers, which are an item from one of the worlds I went to that's different than what you're probably thinking. They absorb bad dreams and emit a passive magic refilling effect.

[azrthmtrnznthos]

Xander, I would love your help with mixing and making and the crafting parts.

Casper, I know you said originally the dream catchers were personalized. I was trying to make that a more generalized concept, since I don't really want to dive into people's personal details.

[Or have them dive into hers.]

[emerald_mirror]

Okay...I'm not sure I get it, but that's okay. I don't always need to understand it! I'll just follow Raven's lead since it's her project!

[phobophage]

I guess I'm not wanted, since I'm literally a living Nightmare! No, I kid, I kid. I do need to scare people to continue existing but I can just target people who aren't already suffering nightmares and only do minor nightmares or just do little jump scares here and there on the train.

Anyways I'll help out. Dreams are one of my big fortes and I'm pretty good with magic. I can help make and recharge those dream catchers. I can also change bad dreams to something more pleasant.

[azrthmtrnznthos]

You just came on at this platform, right? I haven't dealt with anthropomorphic concepts of reality yet, if that's the correct way of phrasing what you are. Maybe we could just keep it to silly nightmares, rather than truly terrifying ones?

[phobophage]

Right! I'm new. Now, I'll be more specific. I'm The Shadow Lurking Behind You. Yes, that's my name. I'm a living incarnation of dreams about lurking predators, being chased by predators, stuff like that. I can just deal with people who can deal with that. And I can tone down the terror factor.

I won't kid you, I love what I do. That's part of my nature. But I can live with compromises considering how few people there are on board and the importance of those missions we're doing.

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[hashtagparkerluck]

Uh... what about Jasmine instead of Lavender? I've heard it's also really relaxing and it isn't poisonous to spiders.

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[azrthmtrnznthos]

Lavender is poisonous to spiders? I did not know that.

[Color Raven surprised, even though you wouldn't know it from her voice.]

Jasmine, or passionflower, or chamomile would all work I think. Thanks for speaking up, Peter. I don't want to harm you or Kumoko.

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[hashtagparkerluck]

Yeah, I didn't either until like... May bought a Lavender scented candle once and it was uh-it was not good. As far as I know, the other things are not harmful to Spiders so they should be safe.

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[nutkrusher]

This isn't in my area of expertise, but if there's anything I can do to help this get set up, or make sure you have the supplies you need, count me in. I know people that this would help.

[Including one in particular.]

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[azrthmtrnznthos]

I appreciate the offer. I'll see what needs doing fully, and what I need. I have a theoretical list.

[nutkrusher]

Well, once it becomes a list list, you can hand it to me. I've kinda made that my thing here.

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[sos_pilot]

If you need like a guinea pig or anything, sign me up. I have SO MANY sleep issues.

To make a long story short, ten years of being on the moon super messed up my sleep schedule.

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[azrthmtrnznthos]

I hopefully won't need a guinea pig, but I do actually have some supplies that would probably help you, ready already. If you want to meet me in Medical, I can give them to you.

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[sos_pilot]

Sweet. I'll be there ASAP. I hope you big time!

[its_dad_sanzo]

[ Koumyou's not normally one to volunteer his abilities, but Raven's done him a solid recently, so he speaks up. ]

I could probably do the purification.

[azrthmtrnznthos]

That would be wonderful, as it's not something I'm trained in. I know methods of doing it--one of which involves purified water and salt, but your help might just make it easier and more efficient.

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[saveas]

Um...chamomile tea is good for sleeping. I guess a lot of people probably know that, huh? [yikes, maybe responding here was a mistake] So's lemon and magnolia tea.

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[azrthmtrnznthos]

I didn't know that about the lemon and magnolia. I'll have to see about making or ordering some. I already have chamomile I was going to blend with other herbs for a sleepy tea.

[mynameisallen]

What about if the cause of the lack of sleep isn't nightmares or insomnia but something that is rather painful and honestly cannot be dealt with through normal means?

[Having a cursed eye is a pain in the ass when you can't actually hunt Akuma while away.]

[azrthmtrnznthos]

Come speak to me in person. I could try pain-blocking for you, and see if that helps. If it does, I can work from there to try and find a solution.

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[stardustofdawn]

[It's a rough few days working in the medbay, so sleeping doesn't come easily]

Sound like a good idea. I learned from the medic books that sleeping pills and melatonin capsules pills work best, but there has to be a natural way like tea or herbs for those who preferred a natural way to sleep.

You said you order books from home? May I find them in the library? I want to catch up reading and gathering knowledge to the best I can.

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[azrthmtrnznthos]

Mine aren't medical books--necessarily, mine are spell books. Two of which are on healing, and one of which is on Shielding/binding. You can borrow them if you want, but I don't want you to get the wrong idea about them.