Tuesday, April 24, 2018

What You Missed: Ush'dui and the Causeway

by Cory "Asharn" Roy

I found myself in the dreaming with a couple of my fellow adventurers. We woke up in a room and were asked what we all had in common. Once we figured something we were brought to more of the adventurers of the realms and the same process repeated until every adventurer who was in the dreaming was brought together. We quickly found a portal in the dreaming that required everyone to chant the same words together. I was still a bit lost as to what was going on it being my first time ever in the dreaming but I went along with it since it seemed like people knew what they were doing.

During our time in the dreaming we had to go through fail-safes put in place by past adventurers. Some of them seemed strange but were usually entertaining. Our first one seemed to be that we were inhabiting people at a wedding and the groom was a no-show. It seemed like we couldn't move forward until the wedding happened. After some time we figured out what the groom was like and we decided that Swoop fit that role the most. It was a beautiful ceremony and the cupcakes afterwards were delicious. I believe this ceremony to have been a fun time for everyone who got to witness it.

The different parts of this dream ranged in a lot of ways and at times I had no idea what was happening. We had an area that we had to make a pizza but the mushrooms were agressive and the slices weighed about as much as boulders. One room where we were chased over obstacles by lava until we got to the end. There was even a room where we where helping a man gather eggs from a garden and some monsters attacked us. One of the strangest times is when we went to a room with a bunch of ghosts and Gordon was possessed by the soul of an adventurer named Gregory Moss who I have only heard of vaguely before this. Luckily they removed that person's soul from Gordon. After all the fail-safes were done we had some time to try and prep and give ourselves a bit of help in the final part of the dream where from my knowledge our goal was to keep this door in the dreaming closed.

Well, we made it to the part of the dream with the door and we were then encountered by someone called batman who is obviously someone's dream version of Bat Syruss. This guy summoned bats and was very annoying getting adventurers to fall on their own swords. While people where busy with him there was also some sort of ritual going on and we had to try and beat 5 people in one on one combat. We started off strong with one win but after that it seemed like we were not doing very well. I'm not entierly sure on the events that transpired after that but I do know that I woke up and something destructive happened and it was enough to effect me outside of the dream world.

- Asharn

Ooc: somehow basically an orbital nuclear strike on the dreaming was called down and while we may have all died we did technically destroy the door so nothing can get out of it. So I guess we won and lost but more importantly won.