The Blue Star

## The Blue Star that Reveals

### Dreamers and Viewers

Both **Hans** and **Levian** have admitted to seeing the Blue Star in their dreams (though in Levian's case, reverie). As usual, Lark has seen this one in the night sky.

### Contents of the First Dream (Hans)

Something wakes you. A gentle rasping and catching of breath carries softly through the ship. Someone is crying. You glance at the two passed out drunks, sprawled on the hammocks next to you. Not a sound, not even a snore, comes from their still bodies. Feeling invigorated from the rest you’ve taken, you roll out of your hammock. You cock your head to the side, straining your ears. The sound is faint, perhaps even muffled. It’s emanating from somewhere outside the room. Your companions lie still as you stretch and yawn. Fully awake, you move to the door, quietly opening it.

Your footsteps echo softly on the wooden floor as you look around you, trying to find the source of the sound. Your gaze falls upon a chest as you scan the room. In it lie carved figurines, made of soft stone and decorated with simple paints. You almost lose interest until you realize the chest is still closed. You stare at the frame of wood and metal, sitting locked and untouched. It is as opaque as ever. So too are the stone figurines, grinning as they lie motionless.

You turn to face the chest properly, waiting for… something, but the chest remains closed and still, its contents a mystery. The figurines are standing as they always have, and likely always will until someone removes them from the chest to admire their myriad of colours.

The gentle sobbing is from a woman, you think.

You take a step towards the chest, trying to make as little noise as possible. The chest does not care as you lightly move forward, its lock gleaming in the gentle blue light. The figurines cover their ears at your thunderous footsteps and the squealing of the floorboards beneath your feet.

The woman continues to weep openly and freely.

The chest is still as death as you place a hand on it. Your hands search for the latch as you close your eyes against the piercing blue light of the room. When your hands find the lock, you gently remove it, the metal sliding freely at your touch. The figurines cackle in delight and anticipation.

The woman wails, drowning out all sound as her sorrow floods the world.

With trembling hands you open the chest, squinting through the blinding blue light. Your mind tries to focus through the searing pain. Your body tries to stand through the gnawing teeth. Your voice tries to scream through the empty void.

A gentle rasping and catching of breath carries softly through the ship.

You awaken.

### Contents of the First Dream (Levian)

Levian related that he had been wandering around the ship aimlessly, finding that he couldn’t understand anything, not even simple concepts. He soon found a small bright blue star however, and when he grasped it in his hand he found he could understand not just how something worked, but why it **was** in the first place. He began to go around the ship, exploring everything as if it were new.

### Contents of the Second Dream (Levian)

In the second dream, he was learning less and less from objects and went up to the top deck to release the star as he felt he no longer needed it. As he did, the star shone brilliantly in the air as it rose and revealed truths about each and every crew member, though he cannot remember which truths match to which people. Many of these truths were disturbing in nature (though he can only remember some of them after waking, and not necessarily to whom they belong) and he felt deep regret for releasing the star with this new power revealed.

### Gifts and Powers

* Once per tenday, [redacted] may demand that a non-hostile creature answer [-] a question of [their] choosing. The creature will answer to the best of its abilities. Creatures that cannot be frightened are immune to this effect. If used on an object, you can discern the contents. [They] can attempt to use this a second time in a given tenday.
* A document was found in House Delam that described a series of runic pictographs; copying these down on any surface with any medium supposedly allowed one to communicate with the Blue Star. Hans drew the symbols out and was afforded the name of this being: **Khirad**.