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- Sep 12, 2010
Here great magicians caught in their own spell
Long for a natural climate as they sigh
"Beware of Magic" to the passer-by.
- "The Tower", W. H. Auden
D-grade sleep parlors are the opium dens of the modern world - shabby, cheap places where broken dreamers go to submerge themselves in a shared hallucination. Lethe's Fountain is a first-rate dream parlor, so it's not like that, but the principle is the same.
One person, an architect, creates a dreamscape for one, or two, or a hundred, scribbles a note at the foot of their bed describing what to expect inside, and waits, asleep, for someone to slip into their headspace and play the game. Some people live entire lives in these places, win Olympic medals, cure cancer, even destroy the world.
Of course, the most popular dreams by far are erotic...
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The Tower
(Character Profile)
Regardless of who or what Mel NcCourt is outside of the Tower, inside of the dream he's a lanky catboy, master of a great library and workshop where the walls and gears and gargoyles and trees and even the very earth shift to his whim. By and large, he is content to use the dreamscape as a place to study, as if he could cheat time by cramming seven hours of studying into one hour of sleep. He may be right.
Unfortunately for him, there are perils to studying in an open dream. Projections of his own mind have been harassing him with strange innuendos and shameful thoughts...
... it's just as well that nobody's likely to slip into his dream and top the hell out of him, right? People make harem dreams, for crying out loud. He's safe.
(Of course, this is just one dream of many! Hopefully other people will start up dreams of their own.)
Long for a natural climate as they sigh
"Beware of Magic" to the passer-by.
- "The Tower", W. H. Auden
D-grade sleep parlors are the opium dens of the modern world - shabby, cheap places where broken dreamers go to submerge themselves in a shared hallucination. Lethe's Fountain is a first-rate dream parlor, so it's not like that, but the principle is the same.
One person, an architect, creates a dreamscape for one, or two, or a hundred, scribbles a note at the foot of their bed describing what to expect inside, and waits, asleep, for someone to slip into their headspace and play the game. Some people live entire lives in these places, win Olympic medals, cure cancer, even destroy the world.
Of course, the most popular dreams by far are erotic...
---
The Tower
(Character Profile)
Regardless of who or what Mel NcCourt is outside of the Tower, inside of the dream he's a lanky catboy, master of a great library and workshop where the walls and gears and gargoyles and trees and even the very earth shift to his whim. By and large, he is content to use the dreamscape as a place to study, as if he could cheat time by cramming seven hours of studying into one hour of sleep. He may be right.
Unfortunately for him, there are perils to studying in an open dream. Projections of his own mind have been harassing him with strange innuendos and shameful thoughts...
... it's just as well that nobody's likely to slip into his dream and top the hell out of him, right? People make harem dreams, for crying out loud. He's safe.
(Of course, this is just one dream of many! Hopefully other people will start up dreams of their own.)