[D3 LN] A Different Kind of Dream Study (Tag Mina)

[Gray]

Huh...that looks kinda old. Old enough to be a favorite childhood relic. Sounds like a Loophole to me!

Gray slowly moves into a crouch, placing one hand on the book, and the other lightly on the sleeping Professor. Gray carefully watches the rise and fall of the man's chest, trying to match their breaths. And then...

A Different Kind of Test: Dreamsteps Contract-Intelligence + Empathy (Onieromancy)+Wyrd vs Bastion: 6d10o10h8 2

[OOC: Attempting to use the Dreamsteps Loophole to avoid Glamour usage]

[Dapper Dog]

The loophole works, Gray can enter the dream of the sleeping man.

[Gray]

Gray slides into the dream, tasting a sudden rush of colors as the drifting thoughts of superheros in battle swim past him. He has to get deeper, deeper than the surface memories that are at the edge of dreaming. He needs to find the reason for the man's interest in Dily and the others, and if he's the pawn for something else, much, much worse.

[Dapper Dog]

The dreamscape is a small kitchen in some urban center and he sees Mr. Patel as perhaps a younger version of himself eating cereal and looking at a comic. An old balding man with features that seem non distinct reads a paper while a woman with more nuanced features prepares breakfast.

It sounds like the older man is talking but the words are just nonsense but harsh in tone, but you get the sense he is angry at the paper, and whatever Patel is reading, and just everything.

[Gray]

"Wow, he seems really angry." Gray whispers to the young boy, trying to get to show more of what might be an apparent trauma and help shape the dream. "What is he so mad about?"

A different kind of study: Manipulate Patel to give emotional impressions in his dream: Manipulation + Emapthy (Onieiromancy): 7d10o10h8 0

[Gray]

"Wow, he seems really angry." Gray whispers to the young boy, trying to get to show more of what might be an apparent trauma and help shape the dream. "What is he so mad about?"

A different kind of study: Manipulate Patel to give emotional impressions in his dream: Manipulation + Emapthy (Onieiromancy): 7d10o10h8 0

(Will take beat for Dramatic Failure)

[Dapper Dog]

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The words wash over the kid and the old man continues talking but his mother dressed in a rather dashing 1950’s era yellow dress, which seems outdated even in this memory, spoke in reply, “Oh my… oh dear… I don’t recall my dear son inviting any friends over for breakfast.”

Little Patel looks at Gray and said, “Don’t get me in trouble!”

She turned and said, “Will you be joining us for breakfast then?”

[Gray]

"Well of course, it would be my pleasure. Thank you." Gray replies, remembering his manners and settling in. :Patel, is this beautiful creature your mother?"


Manipulation + Empathy (onieromancy): 7d10o10h8 4

(Spending Glamour to gain 3 points for subtle shaping)

[Dapper Dog]

"Well of course, it would be my pleasure. Thank you." Gray replies, remembering his manners and settling in. :Patel, is this beautiful creature your mother?"


Manipulation + Empathy (onieromancy): 7d10o10h8 4

(Spending Glamour to gain 3 points for subtle shaping)

The boy looked at Gray with disgust and said, "What?"


His mother laughed lightly, "I will have to keep on this one, what a scoundrel."

[Gray]

"Well, Patel could use a scoundrel for a friend. He's such a good boy already, isn't that right?" Gray playfully pats the young Patel on the back. He starts to looks around, trying to pierce anything interesting in the dream that he can use.

Wits+Investigation: 7d10o10h8 2
1 Glamour to capture extra success