The Shadow Carnevale (OOC)

Up to you guys. On both counts.

Sure? Sorry, not super inspired. Long, busy day. Wiped out.

If it's up to us, then I'd like to get to the destination so we can get out. This has been quite an extensive dream 😅

Sounds like a plan. We can say the key to your problem is (in) the coach or just past the coach, whatever you prefer.

Do we want to get everyone together and then approach or does the bear rush in and the the others join later?

I have an idea to do both.
The thing Albeart sees inside will leave him stunned until the others find him.

Do we still need to find his body? Can it be inside the carriage?

Yes. But if we are done with this whole scenario we can arrange for that to happen without your needing to go 'find' it in any extensive way.
Seems improbable, we established that there was another cord heading away from the tent [ref], the only cords you have encounter are from your bodies and the bear's, so we should assume this was 'Albert'.

Again, though, depending on how fast we want to wrap this up we can force that body back here, or we can learn during the 'boss battle' that you need to go get it after you win and head that way and deal with it. I suggest the latter, we can decide how fast we want that snatched-body-recovery to be, and do it in a montage if we want.

I was also thinking that, to be honest. :D
But it can be something else too.
That's true, but I feel like every time we try to 'quickly' do something it ends up taking us a considerable amount of time.

Personally, I'm not too interested in the dream world we are in right now because it being a dream implies that everything is fake and could be a complete lie. Even if we find out something useful about the shadow bees or asha, the dream aspect makes it feel untrustworthy. If you get what I mean. I'd rather find out about things outside of this world. That's why I'd like to push towards getting back into the real world quickly.

Other thoughts on this?

I understand that viewpoint, and share it. Which is probably why I would always have the consequences be 'real' and carry over to the real world in some way, the world you are in might not be 'real' but the decisions your characters make are. Even though it was a dream, you still did what you did and treated people how you treated people, that much is 'real'.

Not getting your body back will have an effect when you get back, though we can make sure that is something you are happy with. Any meat carved away (carnevale, if you will) will impact your characters in the real world in some way, any memories given away are gone.

Albeart the werebear coming up!

No, no. We know where the bear is, it is 'where body'?

Do we have a plan with the urn? Or should I provide something to dig our teeth into?

No plans on my end!

I don't have a plan either. If you have a nice idea, go for it :)

It is pretty vanilla, 'fraid to say.

Since we have expressed a desire to expedite getting out of here, I have assumed we have talked about the things used to draw the concluding mentioned during Lille's stone-throwing [ref].

Using a memory as ammo guarantees a hit (with that 10), using a piece of the dream-world might call for another roll, depending on what is done.

Depending on what happens next, there might be a chance to recover that memory-stone, but there are crowds of ravenous shadows that will be after it as well.

So, to be clear, Lille needs to use a fresh stone, infused with a memory, with a fresh roll to hit the figure? Or would a new stone with a memory piggyback on the 10 result of the first roll? I’m also happy to have someone else apprehend them.

Lille had the sling and pouch with her from the beginning of the dream, when she thought she was on watch at the campsite and wagons arrived. It’s been established that she has her belt with her. She always keeps her knife, sling, and bag of stones on it, when those things are not in use.

If you sacrifice memories then you can use your stones from your pouch and keep the 10 you rolled.

Without a memory-sacrifice you can't use real-world items to affect the dream-world, same way your bodies can't. Imbuing the stone with a memory makes it real here.

Else you can use a local stone —and sacrifice a little of your own 'realness' to interact with that— but that would be a new roll since dream-world stones are not as potent as memory-powered ones.

You rolled the attack without first confirming that it was even possible, and we established that you and yours were not on the same wavelength and could not easily interact —without cost, each time you did you got fainter— but I went with the roll anyway and let it provide explanations and information including the cost to manifest it for real.
Cool. I did not recall what all we had with us. No problem having it now either way. :)