The Nightmare Switch

Rohim frowns as he wake up. Still lying down, he immediately switches to a meditation technique. He focuses on his breathing first to calm down, then proceed to let himself get deeper and deeper toward a sleeping state. He observes carefully his own mind for the first sign or feeling of those aliens stimuli. When they do happen, he pays particular attention to the very first impression that comes, slowing his mind to notice and remember the particularities of that impression without trying to understand it.

Aduan had stood guard for half an hour or so before beginning to drowse. He never did fall fully asleep. He noted the others return and listened half-heartedly to their story until they mentioned the dreams.

"What could cause such dreams? I know there are cyphers that allow a certain limited ability for mind reading. I've got something like that myself but entering and coloring someone's dreams sounds like a very powerful cypher. I've also heard of mass hallucinations but that usually happens when people are awake and are usually accompanied by some other phenomena. Has anyone ever heard of any other ways that minds can be altered from an outside source?"

Raezhon sits quietly, cross-legged, observing Rohim.

Nim fiddles in his pockets for the cypher he's been holding onto. A bottle of pills. "I might have something to help us out for the night. Won't bring us any closer to discovering the nature of these dreams but it might give us at least a nights rest.". He proceeds to pick out 5 pills and place them on a nearby surface. "For anyone willing to try." Nim then proceeds to pop one in his mouth and makes his way towards his bed. "Here goes nothing."

Aduan will go without sleep for now.

Rae continues to watch her sleeping companions.

Rohim wakes up in the middle of the night, partly because of going to sleep to early, but mostly because of the incomplete sleep. He waves off attempts at questioning him for later and concentrate on finding sometimes to draw or, failing that, a piece of wood to carve with his tools. He then proceed to copy on the material the image he pinpointed from his dreams while it was fresh in his memory.

Rohim shows the drawing of a faceted dome the the rest of the team. "This is the clearest image I could glean from the nightmare. Does it mean anything to you?"

Karam tries to sleep. She believes her knowledge as a scholar will help her avoid the nightmare. She is mistaken, however, and suffers the nightmare.

When Rohim shows her the drawing, she answers:

This doesn’t look like anything to me.

Nim awakens fully rested and in a generally good mood. "Ahh! I just had the most wonderful dream! There were mountains made of pumpkin pie and lakes of this delicious liquid they called eggnog! It was all fascinating." Noticing no one else took a pill he gathers them up and places them back in his bottle. Brave souls. He thinks to himself.

Then, examining the picture drawn by Rohim he posits. "Perhaps this image is merely a smaller representation of a larger dome of influence over this town. That is to say if we were affected by this plague of nightmares as soon as we arrived perhaps this image is a representation of the dome we find ourselves within. A cloud of whatever is causing these nightmares, a zone of control so to speak.... which means... this might be intentional... That is my take on the matter anyhow." Nim looks to the group for any thoughts.