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dreamcrystals2021-09-25 11:55 pm
detectiveforhierophant) wrote in dreamcrystals2021-09-25 11:55 pm
01 - A Warning
Sender: Ryotaro Dojima
To: Everyone
Subject: WARNING TO ALL RESIDENTS:
An enemy from a world several of us came from is possibly here in the Dream World with us. It can shapeshift, potentially enter dreams and corrupt individuals, as well as control creatures known as Erasers. Caution is absolutely necessary. More details below.
My name is Ryotaro Dojima. Before arriving here, several other residents and I were in a world known as the Realm of Stories, where fairy tales, folklore, and mythological stories all reside. We were brought there- for the most part willingly, to help the Storyteller repair stories that had been destroyed by an Entity known as the Story Eater.
The Story Eater can be likened to an eldritch monster, almost a force of nature, that desires to destroy all stories in all worlds. If it has any ulterior motives, it's unknown at this time. It's sort of this weird, black molten skeleton…thing. It's hard to describe even after seeing it since it shifts very easily. It is sentient, very cunning, able to shapeshift into different forms as it sees fit, and controls creatures known as 'Erasers' who are able to enter stories and tear them apart from the inside out. And more concerningly, it's shown it has the ability to slip into people's dreams and manipulate them.
Because the Realm of Stories is connected to all worlds in some capacity, damages to the initial stories would cause Erasers and the Story Eater's influence to leak into and possibly destroy our own universes. That's why the Storyteller reached out to us in the first place. We'd "repair" the stories by acting them out—basically putting on a play with a story or several stories as a basis, taking up the roles of the characters while also helping to repair the world itself by doing small quests. Doing so would give them energy to restore themselves, and their energy would weaken the Story Eater and help fight it off. Sometimes the Story Eater would outright attack, and we'd need to fight it and its minions off.
Unfortunately, the Story Eater is extremely strong and at best we could only keep it busy until the Storyteller could repel it back. During our last battle against it, although there were signs that it had grown weaker it still had enough strength to rip through the story's dimensions and fling us all into the rift which led us to this world.
We recently received messages from the Storyteller informing us that while the Realm of Stories is safe, they're fairly certain the Story Eater is in the world we're in now, licking its wounds and trying to regain strength.
Due to its ability to enter and manipulate dreams, we all need to be extremely careful and keep an eye out for any outside influence—beyond the baby tapirs—that could sneak into our heads while we're still learning our powers here, or control the noctaere like it did the Erasers. We need to be especially mindful of any negative or destructive impulses that seem out of line of our usual mindsets.
I realise that dreams are personal and we're all being pushed into…bizarre circumstances with some of our dreams being shown to others
[Dojima hesitated a moment before…deciding to be candid.]
Believe me, there are some nightmares I have I don't want anyone to have to deal with—
But if you're experiencing something you know is out of the ordinary or you don't feel right, please say something. Last thing we all need is one of us to be used by this bastard.
If you have any further questions, feel free to ask. I'm sure the others who were with me could add more.
[NOTE: This is an announcement regarding the Story Eater, the main "antagonist" of the gameforgottentales that is directly related to Songerein. Since it's confirmed to appear again, here's an IC notice for everyone so that whenever the mods start incorporating it into the game, the characters won't be completely blindsided! Other characters from FT will be around to respond to this post.]
To: Everyone
Subject: WARNING TO ALL RESIDENTS:
An enemy from a world several of us came from is possibly here in the Dream World with us. It can shapeshift, potentially enter dreams and corrupt individuals, as well as control creatures known as Erasers. Caution is absolutely necessary. More details below.
My name is Ryotaro Dojima. Before arriving here, several other residents and I were in a world known as the Realm of Stories, where fairy tales, folklore, and mythological stories all reside. We were brought there- for the most part willingly, to help the Storyteller repair stories that had been destroyed by an Entity known as the Story Eater.
The Story Eater can be likened to an eldritch monster, almost a force of nature, that desires to destroy all stories in all worlds. If it has any ulterior motives, it's unknown at this time. It's sort of this weird, black molten skeleton…thing. It's hard to describe even after seeing it since it shifts very easily. It is sentient, very cunning, able to shapeshift into different forms as it sees fit, and controls creatures known as 'Erasers' who are able to enter stories and tear them apart from the inside out. And more concerningly, it's shown it has the ability to slip into people's dreams and manipulate them.
Because the Realm of Stories is connected to all worlds in some capacity, damages to the initial stories would cause Erasers and the Story Eater's influence to leak into and possibly destroy our own universes. That's why the Storyteller reached out to us in the first place. We'd "repair" the stories by acting them out—basically putting on a play with a story or several stories as a basis, taking up the roles of the characters while also helping to repair the world itself by doing small quests. Doing so would give them energy to restore themselves, and their energy would weaken the Story Eater and help fight it off. Sometimes the Story Eater would outright attack, and we'd need to fight it and its minions off.
Unfortunately, the Story Eater is extremely strong and at best we could only keep it busy until the Storyteller could repel it back. During our last battle against it, although there were signs that it had grown weaker it still had enough strength to rip through the story's dimensions and fling us all into the rift which led us to this world.
We recently received messages from the Storyteller informing us that while the Realm of Stories is safe, they're fairly certain the Story Eater is in the world we're in now, licking its wounds and trying to regain strength.
Due to its ability to enter and manipulate dreams, we all need to be extremely careful and keep an eye out for any outside influence—beyond the baby tapirs—that could sneak into our heads while we're still learning our powers here, or control the noctaere like it did the Erasers. We need to be especially mindful of any negative or destructive impulses that seem out of line of our usual mindsets.
I realise that dreams are personal and we're all being pushed into…bizarre circumstances with some of our dreams being shown to others
[Dojima hesitated a moment before…deciding to be candid.]
Believe me, there are some nightmares I have I don't want anyone to have to deal with—
But if you're experiencing something you know is out of the ordinary or you don't feel right, please say something. Last thing we all need is one of us to be used by this bastard.
If you have any further questions, feel free to ask. I'm sure the others who were with me could add more.
[NOTE: This is an announcement regarding the Story Eater, the main "antagonist" of the game
forgottentales that is directly related to Songerein. Since it's confirmed to appear again, here's an IC notice for everyone so that whenever the mods start incorporating it into the game, the characters won't be completely blindsided! Other characters from FT will be around to respond to this post.]