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[helborn]

[Casper appears on the network with a grin, waving at the screen. But he’s not alone this time - Raven’s with him. ... Which is why he’s standing back a bit so his face doesn’t take up the whole screen.]

Hey there! Casper and Raven here - uh, for the new people, I’m Casper. She’s Raven. We have something we’ve been working on that we’re ready to share.

A lot of people on this train have trouble sleeping for various reasons. I’ve got a few different methods of helping with the bad sleep. One of which was inspired by one of Casper’s ideas, which is why we’re doing this together.

We thought we’d help out. I know a lot of people here have enough trouble with nightmares that they don’t want to sleep, so we both have things for each room. Raven has her… uh. Why don’t you explain yours?

There’s melatonin capsules in Medical to help regulate your day and night cycle, I have some teas and infusions, along with sachets, and the last relates to Casper’s idea.

On my previous travels I... picked up an ability to make something called dreamcatchers. Which I know are a thing some of you might have heard of, but it’s different. Sort of. It absorbs the nightmares of those around it and emits a kind of passive magic regeneration. You can also pull magic from it directly, too - I can show you how if that applies to you. And please do, since they do have a limit. Oh, and I made them look like little plush stars... because it's cute...

Based on his version of a Dreamcatcher, I’ve done something similar but using amethyst crystal globes as the base. They’ll do the same thing, except for being able to pull magic from it. Sanzo has kindly offered to help me cleanse them every platform day, so the nightmares won’t build up too much. I have 10 currently made, and they’ll hang in string-basket-bags from the doorway of your cabin. The idea is 1 globe per cabin, and if you need something more personal, I can work with that or Casper can.

And mine should work just fine on their own? If they don’t, please let me know. I haven’t tried to make so many go at once... there might be some fine-tuning that has to happen.

Oh, and uh. If you’re worried about some other kind of mind-altering effects, it doesn’t do that. I can explain a little more later if you want to find me. Oh, speaking of finding -

[He looks over at Raven.]

We’ll be set up on one of the booth seats in the Standard car for a bit if you want to stop by and grab one. If you also want to help with buying supplies, or know more about other stuff to help, feel free to ask.

So yeah, one person from each cabin can come by and grab stuff. We’ll see you there!

[He waves and cuts the broadcast off.]

[[ooc; If you want to respond to the network post that works, or you can go straight to action. You don’t have to keep track if someone from your cabin already came over, feel free to tag in. Please specify if you have a preference for one or the other or both.]]

Comments

[helborn]

[He looks up and grins at Zelgadis.]

Yeah, pretty much! It's not a ton of magic, but it helps. And it's nice to have something good come from something bad.

[gathersnomoss]

How does it know the difference between a nightmare and a normal dream?

[helborn]

[He just stares for a moment. ... Huh. He's never questioned that.]

Well... it's from a world with a connected dreamworld. I guess since it's magic taken from a dream world, it sort of... knows? I'm sorry, I don't... actually know for certain. A lot of the skills we ended up picking up we just sort of...

[What's the right word...]

We got them to work outside of their normal rules, so a lot of us never really looked into exactly how it did or didn't work since we couldn't really recreate the conditions we got them in.

[gathersnomoss]

Huh. I suppose I was looking for some mechanic that makes me feel better about having this thing somehow telling what my dreams were about.

[helborn]

Oh... sorry. It's not going to like... collect information on you. It doesn't do that. I wouldn't even know how to make it do that.

If I had to make a guess it probably reads more emotional energy than anything else. A lot of things in that world were powered by belief and determination.

[gathersnomoss]

So, basically 'if the person is dreaming and stressed, block that and collect the energy'?

Or at least, that's your guess.

[helborn]

Mhm. I wish Thorne were here, she'd know more than me...

I guess I'm more used to 'powers appear and they Just Work', so I don't always analyze them very much. I probably should, but...

[gathersnomoss]

Is that how magic works where you come from?

[helborn]

Kind of? There's like... 'magic' magic, that has spells and stuff like that... blessings and curses... but other things it kind of... just shows up once you're strong enough. Which means people are talking about you, because that's how we grow our Legend.

One day I just woke up and had the seed of an idea, and I figured out how to channel my power to let me freeze water, for example. Being the child of a god usually doesn't come with an instruction book - I got lucky in having some contact with a base full of people with the same problem so we could help each other a bit.

[gathersnomoss]

'Child of a god?'

[That was a new one for him.]

[helborn]

Mhm. My mom's a goddess of the dead. In one of the pantheons, at least.

[gathersnomoss]

How many gods of the dead do you people need?

[helborn]

I mean there's people who made civilizations all over the planet. Death's a universal thing, it'd make sense they'd all come up with different deities in charge of the dead.

[gathersnomoss]

Wait, you're saying humans created the gods?

[helborn]

It’s complicated but yeah, kind of. Gods are shaped according to human belief. Like a goddess of love might have once been a war goddess as well, but if people believe she’s bad at combat then she starts to lose that aspect of herself.

[gathersnomoss]

I'm pretty sure that's not how it works where I'm from. Unless you count things that people actually do make up.

[helborn]

Yeah, I know my world's a little weird in that sense. But honestly most worlds are weird to people not from those worlds.

[gathersnomoss]

Good point. And you don't know until you mention something that seems reasonable to you.

[helborn]

Exactly. It's a little frustrating at first, but you get used to it...

[gathersnomoss]

I'm sure I will once I figure out what people are going to be asking me about.