Dreams

Whenever the protagonist goes to sleep - either if it is by going to bed or doing an action that makes the time pass during evening - a dream sequence might trigger.

These mostly-text dreams serve to give the player some vague background lore of the game's world and have a chance to happen every night unless an event is blocking them from happening.

Each night there's a 10% chance of one of seven dreams from happening, each one equally likely to happen.

With exception of the beast dream, that one has its own 10% chance of happening independent of the others. This dream sequence can be prevented by getting Qarinah to love level 4.

### First Dream

> `***Somewhere in the wasteland outside you know she lurks, waiting, ready to consume the last of your world...***`
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> `***Your hand hovers over the button. For a moment you wonder if perhaps you are mistaken...***`
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> `***But this is no time for doubts.***`
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> `***You bring your hand down with a jerk and feel the great machine beneath you roar to life...***`
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### Second Dream

> `***Your entire life you thought you were born to be someone special, to do great things.***`
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> `***To save the world.***`
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> `***Your hands, slick with blood, tremble and you grasp the hilt of your pockmarked blade tighter.***`
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> `***And then it takes you. And the world is doomed.***`
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### Third Dream

> `***Voices flicker in the darkness, here a burst of laughter, there a tortured scream cut short.***`
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> `***All the voices are familiar to you somehow, but you can't quite place them...***`
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> `***And somewhere in the background you feel a force beyond measure...***`
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> `***And it laughs and laughs and laughs...***`
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### Fourth Dream

> **`You're running, always running...`**
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> **`but you've forgotten if you're running towards something... or away from it...`**
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> **`Then suddenly she catches you, her soft arms and familiar scent envelop you.`**
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> **`And you remember why you run...`**
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### Fifth Dream

> `***It hurts... it hurts worse than anything you've ever felt in your life.***`
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> `***She tells you it's okay. She's here now. She'll take care of you.***`
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> `***But there's blood on her hands... why is there blood?***`
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> `***And why does it hurt so much..?***`
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NOTE: This is the only one of the seven dreams to be accompanied by a visual. It depicts a woman resembling Chastity wearing a blood-soaked nurse outfit.

### Sixth Dream

> ***`Time keeps pushing you forward, no matter what you do...`***
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> ***`you couldn't go back, not really, so you started a new cycle... again and again...`***
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> ***`You thought you'd found another way, a better way...`***
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> ***`but all you really found was different ways to make the same mistakes...`***
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### Seventh Dream

> ***`Your axe rises and falls, rises and falls, drowning out the bubbling cries...`***
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> ***`Splinters of ancient wood flare green for a moment, then grow dull...`***
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> ***`The silly little shrub child should never have gotten in your way. What was her name, again?`***
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> ***`It began with an "M" perhaps... It doesn't matter...`***
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### The Beast dream

> `***Dream... I know it's a dream...***`
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> `***If it ever gets me...***`
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> `***Somehow...***`
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> `***Somehow... I know it will...***`
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> `***One day...***`
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NOTE; This dream features the protagonist's inner monologue while the beast attempts to possess him on a dream.

### Trivia

* The idea for this feature came from the videogame Valheim, in which the player character has a chance to have a text-based dream of their life before ending in the Norse purgatory.