Lost in Dreams II (OCC)

[the_matrix_walker]

I hope you're feeling better!

FYI - I'm going on vacation starting next Wednesday and won't be back until the week of Thanksgiving and my be very limited in my posting.

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by the_matrix_walker

I hope you're feeling better!

FYI - I'm going on vacation starting next Wednesday and won't be back until the week of Thanksgiving and my be very limited in my posting.

Thanks for letting me know.



That is shockingly similar to my upcoming vacation! thanks for bringing it up!

[TGLS]

Well so much for hoping to get another twofer on the 11th. Enjoy your time off.

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by TGLS

Hey, I guess that means that Julian got the first any% run of Lost in Dreams.

Well, that depends on how we want to proceed. I can see three ways this can end:

• He can resolve what you die of when falling, and then die
• Julian still has serendipity: someone seeing his fall who could help might be interesting
• He can fall unconscious and transition to another world: I was going to do that immediately after he explored the underside anyways.

Which direction do you want to go?

[TGLS]

Originally Posted by ericthered

Well, that depends on how we want to proceed. I can see three ways this can end:

Honesty the remark about the thread ending was meant more as a joke. Though this is a much more decisive ending than any of the other threads.

Originally Posted by ericthered

• He can resolve what you die of when falling, and then die
• Julian still has serendipity: someone seeing his fall who could help might be interesting
• He can fall unconscious and transition to another world: I was going to do that immediately after he explored the underside anyways.

Which direction do you want to go?

Well I'm not sure if Serendipity has recovered since back with the Hawkin 75 posts ago, but using it again is cool with me. Though I'm not sure who could help. The Hawkin needed a harness. Perhaps there's a giant hawkin or someone setup a net at a lower level? Or maybe something setup to catch a barrel from the waterfall? Or perhaps more prosaically somebody catches the rope before it slips.

Though if we're going with transition towards another world anything that can be mistaken for a literal afterlife (at least at first) would be fun.

[the_matrix_walker]

Originally Posted by TGLS

Though if we're going with transition towards another world anything that can be mistaken for a literal afterlife (at least at first) would be fun.

I smell crossover...

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by the_matrix_walker

I smell crossover...

These two might get a cross-over... you post at close to the same rate, are consistent, and the two boys are a study in contrasts. They'd have a lot to say to each other. Right now they feel very uneven in experience and capabilities. Giving Julian a second world first feels right.



Peter's current world(s) are a kettle of worms. They're based on the pyramid scheme book "Broken Clockwork World", and Peter has taken it in a very unexpected direction.

[TGLS]

Originally Posted by the_matrix_walker

I smell crossover...

Originally Posted by ericthered

These two might get a cross-over...

Well I can't say I haven't imagined Julian ending up on the clockwork world, someone confusing him for Peter (a distorted enough rumor might do that), Julian not responding negatively (or perhaps just lying and agreeing), and quickly ending up out of his depth...

Though when I thought afterlife I was more imagining fiery caverns.

Originally Posted by ericthered

Right now they feel very uneven in experience and capabilities. Giving Julian a second world first feels right.

Getting Julian around or at least towards, "You're jumping between dimensions, not travelling a great distance/hallucinating/dead" is probably a step in the right direction. The way his time on Riask is ending probably pushes far more in this direction than going to bed and waking up somewhere else again would.

[ericthered]

For the kidnapping arc, Julian receives 5 points! He got away, made it home without starving or getting eaten, and was able to get his most prominent opponent captured. That's a performance.

Originally Posted by TGLS

Though when I thought afterlife I was more imagining fiery caverns.

Hmm, how do I turn that into a classic Lost in Dreams world without going full demon?


Somehow or the other, I don't think of fiery caverns when I think of afterlives.

[TGLS]

Originally Posted by ericthered

For the kidnapping arc, Julian receives 5 points! He got away, made it home without starving or getting eaten, and was able to get his most prominent opponent captured. That's a performance.

And he fell off a cliff, fell 200 km and survived! Spending:

Added:
1 Point to Climbing
1 Point to Vasic Operation
1 Point to Riask (Spoken)
1 Point to Fast-Talk

1 Point Saved (Towards buying off Disads eventually)

Originally Posted by ericthered

Hmm, how do I turn that into a classic Lost in Dreams world without going full demon?

A world covered in lava maybe? (i.e. Io, Mustafar, last level in Mario games)

Originally Posted by ericthered

Somehow or the other, I don't think of fiery caverns when I think of afterlives.

Well, to me it's 50/50 clouds and fire. And clouds would be too easy to write off as a lower level of Riask (Though the missing waterfall would be a clue).