7/03/13 - the Dream where I save... me?
--Note to all that may or may not read this. this was played in two sessions.--
I “awake” after
But wait there's more...
I realize almost immediately that this is a Dream realm, kinda like Kateb zeks. Its Cairo, 1952 (insert exact date here).I start to slip into Zahira. I have to make a conscience effort to remain Me. Apparently my residual self image needs a bit of work. I like the power Zahira gives, but I do not like what she means.
I am in front of a Weird tomb of child of set (insert oh shit feeling here) I am Watching Yasmin. She is obviously mortal, along with everyone else. Suddenly I see them get attacked (as a human) and 7 vampires try and take on a 4g en settite Sukhmet. This is bad… very very bad. Dream allows me to have powers from the past so I ping the tunnels and see more bad things. I feel compelled to look closer, and I allow the feeling to draw me forward. Stupid as the door closes behind me. SHIT. Well dream is real, Yasmin is real, but human. I am not. I try and feed Yasmin to him, he doesn't care, she is not on his radar at the moment as many other vampires are trying to eat him. I try again to deal with her, and I try and steel blood from her, I get his..SHIT! (Tastes REALLY good) and I almost frenzy… This DOES get his attention, and he dread gazed me..alot. I don't run, but still heal hard. As this is a dream, I pull on past experience and I try and create minions.. Aka people from the banu yaksure, and the last person to help me kill an ancient settite the gangral warlord. First one, bust, but I do get Jamie as the burned one... Ok, didn't plan on that, but I'll run with it. So real people can be summoned, so I summon more help in the form of my brother Brian
Yasmine, Either wakes up enough to realize what I just did, or part of the Dream is to keep the odds even, and calls in 3 people, and sends out a dream pulse. And yet another thing happens that is unexpected, Wenzel Xeven comes in, and greets us. My fist thought is so this is where he takes me out, but He greets me and faces of the Group of 4, two thaum, and one is a dream master, and one has a rank 6 thaum. With a pair that have dreaming but are not sorcerers. Witht his sense I also realize the 4 gen setite is also a Setite sorcerer - coming from the settite ancient. Did I already say Shit?
Xeven says that this was created due to a clone of me. Not sure where it came from, but I find that the dream will end when the clone dies, or Yasmin (the dreamer creator) dies, Or lastly the story plays out, probably killing us all.
(New Session)
Quickly I tell the rest of the group to follow me. Turns out Xevon decides he is part of the group. I use my knowledge of the tomb (via viseritka) to find a way out, and discover a secret passage. We all enter it, and I see much writing on the walls. We take a bit of time to read it, and it is a story of this settite. Joy. It also happens to be a lot of curse crap that tells how this dream works. We get to the end of the secret passage, and unfortunately I am unable to "see" a way past. I bite the bullet and go on through.
We are met with mummies in this room, led by a superior mummy, who zeros in on me. The others are going after the minions, and it is a particularly nasty group, but she decides to curse me. I can't seem to resist the urge to get to another room, and Poof I teleport. Once done the urge leaves me, but I cannot sense my friends, and I am in some crazy treasure room. Knowing what I know about who's dream this is, I am assuming that this a special trap just for me, and I TOUCH NOTHING BUT THE LAMP!!… Well I do not touch the lamp either, but the point is I don't move, I don't touch, or grab or anything. I wait for the others to catch up. After awhile I realize that I will not be able to wait for them, the spell is designed to separate. We will not meet again until the end. Which is the huge nasty battle we avoided in the entryway. I am so not having a good time. I use my peers to find a way out, and again working very hard to not touch anything I go through. Click duck, I narrowly avoid being chopped in half from a spinning blade fresh out of Last Crusade (well this was here first but I doubt Lucas saw it). Continue on the narrow passage and I exit into a big room, with Horus sitting at the other side, and a bunch of dead people between me and him. Pinging the room, I realize that the way out is next to him, this will not be easy, but hopefully I will survive. I look at the different glyphs above the door, and I see that one is the symbol for snake, and darkness, and one is the symbol for Ra light and good. I am not a snake, but Ra the sun-god seems bad for a vampire, and we are chasing snakes, so I choose that one. Horus wakes up and asks if a am ready to be judged. I respond that I am not dead yet, in fact I am feeling better. He doesn't get the joke and says "amI a Moral person?" Rather than just say Yes, I have to ask what he means by moral. He said not lying cheating, or backstabbing. My thought is 2 out of 3 aint bad, so I say yes. He says I am not, and while I can go on, I need to be purified by the sun. OW FUCK! well I don't have fortitude for nothing, but shit balls that would suck if I was a settite. After that chamber (and some healing) I find I am in the main chamber, and I am looking at the cluster of doom. At the far end is Mr 4th Gen bad-ass standing over what looks to be me, and Ms DreamBitch. Hmm somedays a Gun can solve all your problems, Alas I am not Jason, and I don't play those games anymore. I break my Mirror, and scatter "myself" throughout the room. REALLY big snakes rise up and start attacking my images, and at this moment not only do my friends arrive, but the other group of people (bad guys) arrive as well. Looking quickly it appears that my friends didn't suffer much harm, but the group of evils seem to be down a person, (the other dream master) and are not looking to hot. Feces and fan ensue and I try to teleport my clone to me, Jamie takes on DreamBitch, and Brian thinks he can go toe to toe with a 4th Gen Settite warrior. As I contemplate what it will be like to be down a brother, I manage to teleport me away from the clutches of the Settite. Jamie manages to drain DreamBitch of blood, but not before Tremere guy teleports her to him. Brian is being beat like a persian rug (but still alive, gotta love the fortitude) and well The dream ends, as I am in position of my clone.
We wake up in my room in sofia. ALL of us clone included. Weird as Brian and Jamie were no where near me. Dream Mechanics are wonky, but I try and talk some sense into me, and its a frustrating, and very humbling experience. I end up having to send her to enchanted slumber as she has full access through all the wards, and mirrors, but has no idea where the physical traps are. I didn't go through all that shit to save her, only to have her trip and die from lack of fear.(god was I ever that young?) Brian and jamie teleport out, and I can only Hope Wenzal didn't get into my person space (would be painful for him if he did). I then proceed to cast full analyses on my clone, and cast all kinds of wards on my clone, and ask some help from my sire to make sure she is as mystically protected as she can be. Once freed on her own she will diverge and develop to her own person, and no longer be a threat to me. but I want to make sure she has the best chance to do so. The less people that know about her the better.
I spend the next few days talking with my sire, and most important talking with my son, who just came back again. He's 18 and enjoying the hell out of life, and I managed to catch him drunk with his friends. Unfortunately I interrupt and well he wants to hang out drunk or no, so we have a chat. Perhaps I can use what the gypsies did on him, and cast that on my clone. Hopefully keeping her out of the vamperic shit. Gavradill seems more introspective, and is worried about the political climate, and the Rom. He is more and more attached everyday. I tell him about my plans to break the curse and allow the rom to rome once again. Also plan on moving them to the new world, where prejudice does not seem to run as rampant against them. I Also think I will talk to him about the road of community, he may feel that it is better suited to him than the main road.
