Journal – Potion Brewing

[perfectenn]

Sender: [ Sent anonymously, though the handwriting may be recognized. ]
To: Dreamwalkers
Subject: The Dreamshift

[ On the heels of the Eraser alert comes another announcement over the journals. This one in neat, terse handwriting, quick and to the point. ]

During our recent dreamshift, I investigated the hut alongside others and discovered what seems to be a potion to combat Erasers. I intend to try to recreate it.

I have an idea as to the ingredients, and I’ve brought back samples, but I don’t know the exact process. I will be inquiring at the new apothecary if they can assist me.

If you've found anything which might be of use, please report in.

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[ Tagging around is encouraged; Tenn will chime in where he finds things relevant.

With recently discovered enemies in the area, he’s a bit cautious about revealing his identity. But if you'd rather talk with him/bring him something in person, Tenn can be found doing exactly as he said: leaving his house to visit the Witch's Brew apothecary. He's human again, though his voice, hair and eye color are a perfect match to his previous dreamshift form. (... And there are some Spice Noodles eagerly trailing behind him. So much for subtly?) ]

Comments

[perfectenn]

I'm interested to know what they’ll have to say. Especially since every other thing I found in the hut was in the form of a liquid potion rather than hard candy. Do they smell like anything in particular to you?

[grandduchess_anya]

That’s a good question. I am thinking that these candies smell of sugar at the moment or that of candied corn when I first got sniffed of the candies during the hut investigations.

[perfectenn]

That's not reassuring. I fought a magical creation made of candy corn while in the dreamshift. It's possible the materials you found relate to those.

[grandduchess_anya]

Well, I am sorry to hear about it. I am starting to have a feeling that someone must the spell or recipe (which is highly possible at the moment) either before or while the original writer was ripping the paper into pieces and made the candy corn golems to do their bidding.

That could explain why the golems were attacking the dreamshift town last month.

[perfectenn]

I do find it suspicious that we were attacked by those things and then given means to recreate them.

It's hard not knowing how many parties are involved, what their goals are... and whether or not they followed us back here.

[grandduchess_anya]

I am also starting to have a bad feeling regarding the clues that I have found too. It is very hard to know who can we trust or is not too suspicious.

It could be possible that maybe (and this is currently a thought for now) the Eraser could have gotten the spell (even in pieces) after the original writer tried to stop them in their tracks and did make those golems to attack everyone in the dreamshift while in disguise.

Now I’m starting to wonder on how would the golems behave depending on who created them in the first place.

[perfectenn]

You were in the Realm of Stories, right? So you've seen and fought Erasers before. How intelligent are they? I was under the impression they were constructs of paper and ink, running under pre-programed commands like golems.

[grandduchess_anya]

Yes, that’s correct. I have encountered several of them in the Sugar Plum Beast story and in Neverland. And yes, they do act similarly to the golems, following the orders from the Story Eater with the purpose to destroy and erase the existence of anyone and anything they attack and consume and not much else.

[perfectenn]

So there's not much of an advantage to using one over the other that we know of.

How odd. There is a Sugar Plum Fairy in the Nutcracker – it's a popular ballet where I’m from. But I don’t recall her ever being referred to as a beast.

[grandduchess_anya]

I thought the same thing as well.

To be fair, some of the several stories in the Realm do combine with other stories by the time they get restored as the Nutcracker merged with Beauty and the Beast. The Sugar Plum Fairy in this version functions as a mother figure to the Beast, trying to help him in breaking the curse.

[perfectenn]

I see. That’s intriguing. I did notice the last dreamshift seemed to be an amalgam.

I read that the Storyteller’s intent was to restore stories, and the Story Eater sought to tear them apart. Is this sort of blending a result of that war, or is the Storyteller seeking to merge the tales together?

[grandduchess_anya]

The Storyteller has always intended to restore the stories to give back life to the Realm, even if some of the stories do blend into each other at times.