elanya

I was having an odd dream when I woke up. I think I eventually woke up because it was making me think too much, hmmm...

I don't remember how it started, or what much of the premise was.

I know I was dreaming a roleplaying scenario of some kind. I knew everyone by the player's names, but not by their characters names. Actually. I've just realized that after Dissolution, I quite often have odd dreams about some of them people who were there. Anyway, going on...

Sarah Edwars was playing a regal character of some sort, but she was going to be used in some kind of evil ritual for some undefined nefarious purpose by the villain, who may have been Varpesh (the now dead villain of the Vampire LARP, a methuselah Tzimische). I *think* the villain was played by Phill (her boyfriend), and I *know* they were all vampires.

I remember, quite vaguely, a bit of a preamble to the ritual. It involved doing a dance routine. I think I had to perform with some other people in a routine that I don't entirely know. I mostly followed along (it may have been the new toutune we were starting to learn last monday), but partway through it, I completely zoned out. I also remember having to change into better clothes, which was a slightly bagy white midriff sweater, and blue stretch pants. I can't for the life of me remember what I was wearing before now... I do remember that I decided to forgo modesty and change in front of everyone else. oh! I had been wearing my green stretchy shorts, I gues, and I doffed those to reveal that I was wearing light grey boxer briefs underneath. The blue stretch pants I pulled on weren't mine, and they had a huge hole in the crotch, but the boxerbriefs made me feel less immodest.

I think I was with the dancers in order to try and get in on the ritual, or something. It isn't really clear to me how they relate. In any case, I would up in the church, wearing the dance thing I had been in. If everything had been going according to plan, Sarah's character was supposed to be getting married. She looked quite beautiful, in a silver gown, silky white cloak, flowers in her hair, and stuff.

But then the bad guy goons came in. I remember the main goons were played by Liz and one of the Kates (Kate Rennie). They may have been based on Chains characters they played that actually were part of Varpesh's goon squad, but I've only ever heard bits about those characters and I'm not even sure that they(Liz and Kate) were both involved in that. I got a bit anxious at this point, but someone (I don't remember who) gave me a bit of a release, and reminded me that I was supposed to go and change because everyone was expected to look nice for this, so I went and changed. I was also trying to think of way that I could stop/delay the ritual more. I think it had to be done at a specific time, or something. Or at least, in the dream I thought this but wasn't exactly sure. In anycase, I went away and got changed into something else... I think I put my old top back on (still don't remember what it was) but I didn't have time to change the pants, and this seemed silly at the time since they were much less presentable, having the crotch all worn out. When I came back, I wound up sitting near the front, about three rows back, on the right. I guess I was always on the right... which strikes me now as being the side for 'friends of the bride' at a wedding, is it not? Anyway, my character was a changeling. I mention this only now because it was only at that point in the dream that I realized it, or it became important, or whatever.

I decided that what I wanted to do to disrupt things was to enchant Kate's character, since she was going to be directly guarding Sarah. Sarah had changed too, and was now wearing a very plain blue tunic over her dress. I guess they didn't want her looking quite so resplendent. I tried to think of ways to do this, but things were already getting underway. Sarah was being moved forward as part of a procession, and I could see Liz's character (Liz was dressed as if for her Anarch character, Raven, but it was supposed to be someone different) standing near the front, waiting for her. I thought of tossing something at Kate's character, but didn't have anything. In the end, I decided to go and try and touch-enchant her (nevermind hat you can't actually do that in the changeling rules ;). Somehow, I wound up in a aisle farther back, as she was passing by. She was wearinf a slinky black verlvet dress that was much more appropriate to her (other?) Chains's character, Allanah Chambers, who is a Toreador and the Royal Harpy. I reached out and grabbed her by the shoulder, and said 'psst, I enchant you!' Kate thought this was a great solution. This was one of those scanarios where the evil people were *supposed* to win, but Phill *really* wanted his PC's to come up with some clever way of disrupting things. (The fact that I was the only one who seemed to be trying might be related to the way things seem to be going with the current werewolf plot). Unfortunately, one of the moderators came over, and informed me that I couldn't really see Kate's character, as she was obfuscated. We were both dissapointed. It would have been really fun for her to roleplay that, I think. Anyway, I argued that in that case, I wouldn't have come over to where I was now, and was allowed to go back to my original seat.

I was still trying to come up with a way to interrupt things, tossing ideas around, but I was also starting to wake up at this point. I considered using the Enchanted stroke on various people, and spending lots of glamour (They were old, banal, vampires, afterall), trying to think of various cantrips that might be useful. I think I had legerdemain and wayfare, but not very much of either. I thought about levitating some important item away, but couldn't think of a good bunk. In the end, when I was really waking up, I was trying to come up with a good punk to portal passage Sarah through the floor. I though of one involving a circle cut or punched through a piece of paper, but I didn't want to draw too much attantion to myself. I was also considering comepletely martering myself, but standing up and throwing a scene at a crucial moment, but I woke up before I actually had to decide anything...