(IC) Lost in Dreams (Julian)

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Originally Posted by ericthered

Think of the science fiction author! For the record, yes, the "Jules" I know is female.The other option I considered was "Ju".

Well my mind went to Julian/Jules Lennon. Julian's just a bit particular about nicknames.

Originally Posted by ericthered

For now... its just skill. A gambling variant probably happens. Julian notices that they're not using any of the coins they just got for it.

I guess these coins are worth more? Maybe I've been getting short changed. Or I'm spending money like crazy. I worry a little about overspending.

Originally Posted by ericthered

Dotted lines means a bunch of tunnel between the two sections depicted. not that the diagram is to scale in the first place.

I see. I guess the platform room below is passed the dotted line?

Originally Posted by ericthered

Brog almost finishes the diagram, and then stops for a while. They turn off into a platform room, with a tunnel leading off of it, and then Brog finishes the chalk pattern on the stone. with a flash, the tactile divot appears in its surface, and it begins to glow. Brog leads the rest of the boys into a dark tunnel formed from vegetation.

The divot just appears? Ok...

Clearly the flow of the energy causes the Vasic to distort in a particular way. A uniformly particular way. And there's energy supplied, everywhere. Even in a tunnel made from plants.

Or maybe it's like a glow stick; you start using the battery and the disk distorts. That would explain why the same divot seems to appear.

Or I could accept this is as inexplicable as my dreams.

Originally Posted by ericthered

The tunnel has much sparser light in it, but it does have some. There are lots of side tunnels. The boys peel off one by one to go to glowing stones in the side tunnels, but they seem to catch up afterwords.

I'll try to ask them what's over there, even if it comes out really broken like:
"What there?"

Originally Posted by ericthered

Brog and Ump take Julian with them on one side passage, and Brog hands a woman his money for the day. She looks at Julian long and hard, and asks what he thinks are questions about him.

I know this game. Hopefully this one doesn't squeeze as much. I'll try to motion my hands to ask her to slow down, and say, "No Riask, No Riask."

Originally Posted by ericthered

No, you've seen pointed ears with pale skin rather than grey.

Originally Posted by ericthered

You see a woman with pointed ears changing them, taking them out of one basket, hanging them up, and placing the one taken down in another basket.

Her I guess? I think I made an assumption there.

Originally Posted by ericthered

You've also seen very small people with feathered wings (30lbs or so)

Uh, where? "Feather" and "wing" turned up nothing. The birds from the first dream, maybe?

Originally Posted by ericthered

Keep watching, there are certainly tensions and a dynamic here.

If you're looking for patterns, the "europeans" seem to be the most common (maybe half the population), followed by Mugraggle.

I guess it's impossible to differentiate short hairy Humans from Duwende, if there is a difference.

Originally Posted by ericthered

You've never see any Lawin working, only traveling or purchasing things.

And kicking people around. That might be more of a clue than I thought.

I suppose I can at least infer that Yanak also work in the mine. Muggragle appear to be working as shopkeepers and middle managers. Duwende do manual labor. And Humans are all over the place doing a bit of everything?

Originally Posted by ericthered

The people you see in here do seem to be at least mostly "europeans", though yip went in, and you think you saw someone with very dark skin.

It's a mystery. Perhaps for later.