Nightmares

Nightmares had by the group on 3 Dualahei 836 PD - Ruidis.

### Hartmut

Hartmut dreams he is in the woods, running late for something. He knows there will be time later, (fails a con saving check) so doesn't rush. Suddenly he's on a boat, the people at home can wait, everything here is exciting and new. He decides to take the long way home, it takes months.

He makes it home too late for the thing. Everyone is calling him by false names. He realises no one here knows his real one. He is struck with intense lonliness.

Someone calls out for Sarah Jones, and Hartmut wakes up. He does not remember the name.

### Komani

Komani dreams of a swamp. She is travelling with two young half-orcs, looking for 'Thousand Teeth'. She is holding two swords. The lanky one near Komani says that Linok believes the beast is near. Linok calls out that they've found something. One of the half-orcs disappears, and Linok is face down in the water, Komani reaches for her and she is dragged away by something, hidden in the swamp. She grabs for her and she tears apart in her hands, as if she had been decomposing for years. Komani is completely alone. There are faces and hands in the swamp, familiar yet unknown to her.

She wakes, shaken. She holds her greatsword close and tries to fall back asleep.

### Korvok

Korvok dreams of a family home, his mother asks him to fetch firewood. He is distracted. The winter is harsh and snow falls quickly while he's out gathering. When he returns the house is coated in a layer of frost and ice. He lights the fire, but it doesn't help. He finds his father and siblings sitting at a frozen table. A voice encourages him to eat, to become strong like his brother.

The food is gristle and bone and meat and blood. His mother is missing. He wakes up.

### Llunet

Llunet dreams she is on a mountain top in a goat pen. Around her are tents, goliaths in furs. One goat tries to climb onto the rock she sits on. It falls, speaking as it does. "Why did you leave? What is your leadership without you here?" It keeps trying to climb onto the rock, falling over and over, repeating itself. The other goats begin speaking too. Llunet catches the goat, stops it from falling. She asks, "Are you lost without me?" The goat struggles and falls, it and the rest of the goats swirling into crimson smoke.

The smoke becomes other goliath, in a ring around her. She is in a tent. She is staring into the eyes of an old, male goliath and they are going to fight to the death. She moves to make the killing blow, and would miss, except the goliath leans into the strike to take it.

Then, she stands in his place, looking at a young goliath, younger than she was when she fought him. There is a kinship between her and the young goliath, a familial bond. But even so, she won't let this challenge to her leadership go by. She kills the young goliath.

She wakes, and immediately tries to write down the contents of the dream.

### Morrigan

Morrigan is sailing across frigid frozen waters, lit by moonlight on the night of the solstice. She stares at the moon and thinks of what her sister always told her - a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts.

"Come inside, Moss Patch" says a lilting irish voice, it's your sister, standing on the deck. You successfully navigate the ships to the icy shores.

You're sneaking away from where you should be to meet with them. They're a tiefling. They're leaving soon. They ask you why you do so much for people who see you as less than. Morrigan prickles and tells them to mind their business. They leave without you, their footsteps growing cacophonous and echoey.

Morrigan is underground, and the heavy footsteps get louder, until she cannot hear anything else. She is hiding under floorboards, and holding someone close. They can't protect her, and she cannot protect them. Maybe she should have left, afterall. The banging noise is deafening, and does not stop.

### Moss

Moss dreams of a place that smells like the forests surrounding Bysaes Tyl. She's walking down the road. Her vision is focused only on the centre, with the edges blurred out round the periphery. The streets are familiar yet foreign. She's moving towards a house, unfamilliar yet familliar again. She knows the truth is in the centre. Through the door she enters, she finds the Savalirwoods. They are travelling deeper than ever before, but it's like they've been there before. She is with her brother, an elven man of either High or Dark elf ancestry. Training together. They are sparring with unfamilliar blades in an unsafe place. She can hear the echoes of suffering voices in the woods.

Then she is lost. Finds her brother, being consumed by a great cursed oak tree. As he moves bark and wood splinter and crack. He summons her closer, with a breathy and broken voice. Moss tries to heal him. It helps a little, and his voice carries further now. He whispers that this is all her fault. She wakes up.