make a trail of light.

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)18:42 No. 527032 ID: c4fe9f
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They don't seem to be tangible. Though you try to make it bigger.

If you're dreaming, how are you supposed to find him? Won't he be awake, or in his own dream?

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)18:42 No. 527035 ID: c4fe9f
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Well. Apparently you can't make a bigger one, but you certainly can make more.

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)18:43 No. 527037 ID: c4fe9f
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There. A trail.

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)18:50 No. 527042 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527034
no. that's unlikely.

good now try and will the trail to lead toward your boyfriend.

>>527042
Follow the trail.

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)19:32 No. 527072 ID: c4fe9f
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You follow the path, and keep willing it to lead you to you boyfriend.
After awhile, your body halts.

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)19:33 No. 527073 ID: c4fe9f
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This is not what you were hoping to find at the end of the trail.

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)19:38 No. 527077 ID: c4fe9f
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Unfortunately though, this is not your boyfriend. It appears to be a young boy. His body is covered in cuts and wounds.
You have to hold your nose to prevent your nose from inhaling any more of the rancid smell of blood that emanates from the body.

>>527077
You mean fortunately, right?

>>527073
Oh, oh no...

>>527077
Ask him if he's alright, and if he can walk.

Fresh blood or old blood? If it's rancid I would think him dead a while now. Which doesn't make sense as you just began dreaming.

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)20:24 No. 527115 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527094
It's in the middle stages, upon closer inspection. It's beginning to dry, but it's still dripping from the wounds.

wait he's still bleeding? dead people don't bleed, that means he's still alive. can you help him, I mean this is your dream if you put your mind to it you can do just about anything.

touch the body maybe?

>>527122
Sorry, we're just trying to help...
Try ro see what you can do, we don't want this poor soul to die now.
And, this is YOUR dream. Maybe you could will up some bandages if you concentrate.

>>527118
Fresh corpses still seep.

Nothing we can do. Make more lights, and move on.

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)20:42 No. 527131 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527085
Does he look alive to you?

he looks a bit red

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)20:51 No. 527139 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527124
Nothing happens.

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)21:02 No. 527152 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527127
You sigh. You suppose that honestly all you can do at this point. Though you're not sure where to go from here. Further in the direction of the corpse or some other direction?

Keep going ...copseward I guess. It's a line, and our only marker of a direction, in here.

(...so corpseward is N, anticoprseward is S, and left and right are E and W :P).

>>527152
Well, you could try... healing his wounds? It might be too much for you. Or dragging him out of the red light?

Eh. Continue corpseward.

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)21:57 No. 527185 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527168
You do feel a bit bad about just leaving him here, and you guess there isn't really anything to lose from healing him...

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)21:58 No. 527186 ID: c4fe9f
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Unfortunately, it doesn't work, and you gently move yourself over the body.

Yeah, at least give the kid some dignity in death.

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)21:59 No. 527188 ID: c4fe9f
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...!

>>527188
Looks like it DID work. Turn around and help him up.

OH GOD ZOMBIE KILL IT WITH FIRE STOMP ON IT STOMP ON IT

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)22:12 No. 527195 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527192
You just about do the second option before you stop yourself. This kid just gave you a huge scare and your fur is certainly poofed up enough to show that.

Is the... kid alright? What's his wound status?

>>527195
Nervously say hello.

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)22:24 No. 527204 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527189
You help him up out of the light and the puddle of blood. He no longer has the same flesh he had a second ago, and now looks a lot like you. Perhaps it was because he was a corpse?

>>527198
He appears to have none.

>>527202
You quickly take his paw on both of yours and look him in the eye, not angrily, but gently. "Hello?" you greet, rather nervously. He doesn't respond with anything but sobs and a sniffle.

ask if he's ok

>>527204
Ask him what his name is.

You are so going to make your boyfriend "look a lot like you" if he was the one who did that to the kid.

Chroma 2013/07/24(Wed)22:55 No. 527215 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527210
You ask if he's okay. He's still crying but manages to quietly say "Yeah..."

>>527211
You then ask for him name. He tells you his name is Gavin.

ask what's he doing here

>>527215
Introduce yourself, and ask how he got hurt. Did someone attack him?

>>527242
If he doesn't remember being hurt, ask why he's crying? Oh, and has he seen anyone else? Tell him you're looking for your boyfriend.

Chroma 2013/07/25(Thu)00:46 No. 527245 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527216
You introduce yourself and then ask how he got here.
He says he doesn't remember how he got here. He just remembered waking up and seeing you.

>>527217
He looks surprised. He didn't even know he was wounded in the first place it seems.

give gavin a Big Hug

say he's okay now. and ask if he wants to come with you.

Chroma 2013/07/25(Thu)00:52 No. 527248 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527244
He says he's crying because he's scared. He's never seen this place before and it's scary. He's always been afraid of the dark.
You ask him if he's seen anyone else. He shakes his head. He just woke up now, and hasn't seen anyone else.

>>527248
See if you can make some more light, and ask him to help you with it, by imagining more light.

Chroma 2013/07/25(Thu)01:03 No. 527251 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527246
You embrace Gavin. He's a bit shy at first, but then he returns it.

KISS HIM ON THE FOREHEAD

Chroma 2013/07/25(Thu)01:13 No. 527254 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527252
You give him a little kiss on the forehead. He thanks you, and he says he feels safer now. You remind him of his mom a little bit.

Chroma 2013/07/25(Thu)01:20 No. 527256 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527247
He says he'll come along.

Chroma 2013/07/25(Thu)01:27 No. 527259 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527249
Apparently, Gavin does not have the same power as you. You had to make the light path yourself. You wonder if he has some sort o different power.

>>527259
Ask him to try... extinguishing a light. Perhaps while you can create, he can destroy.

whats gavins power?? ask him

sing a small melody to try and comfort Gavin

Chroma 2013/07/25(Thu)03:43 No. 527280 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527265
Try as he might, Gavin just can't extinguish the light.

Chroma 2013/07/25(Thu)03:47 No. 527283 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527261
You ask him if he knows about having any powers. He shakes his head. "No... I don't know if I even have a power. I'm just a kid"

Tell him not to sweat it, we are just trying to figure out how this whole dream thing works.

Can you smell or hear anything in the darkness? If not i guess well just have to keep following the light trail.

tell him not to worry about it, it was just something your had stuck in my head

Well he could try changing himself?

Chroma 2013/07/25(Thu)14:27 No. 527396 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527289
You both continue following the trail, and you ask Gavin to listen very closely with you.
You swear you can hear the faintest sound of windchimes.

Chroma 2013/07/25(Thu)14:37 No. 527398 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527377
He backs away from you a little, because he's going to try transforming into a dinosaur. He tries really hard to think about becoming one, but unfortunately it doesn't work.

>>527398
Aw. Well, maybe he doesn't have any control over the dream. Wait, maybe YOU can turn him into a dinosaur? Having an unpowered assistant is fine so long as you can make them stronger.

Also follow the sound of the windchimes.

give him a hug for being adorable, then head towards the wind chimes.

Chroma 2013/07/25(Thu)15:07 No. 527406 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527402
You focus all your energy on Gavin but he doesn't change at all.
And you would, if you knew what direction it's coming from. There's like an echo, almost as if this world was inside a dome.

Hmm. Well, keep going forwards, for now. If we find a wall that'll give us an indication of where the windchimes are, if this IS a dome.

Ask the boy about his family.

A dinosaur what

Oh the whims of youth <3

Chroma 2013/07/25(Thu)17:13 No. 527452 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527417
As you follow the path of lights, you ask Gavin about his family.

"Well, my mommy's really nice! She always gives me kisses when I get hurt or lets me sleep in her bed with her and daddy when I get scared at night. Daddy's mean to mommy sometimes, but I know he loves me. He taught me how to ride a bike and gives me lots of hugs and kisses"

Hearing him talk about his parents warms your heart. Though you frown a little when he talks about his father being mean to his mother...

do the wind chimes sound closer?

>>527452
How adorable,
Wait...
His father is "mean" to his mother...
Worrying.
The implications, VERY worrying.

That could mean any number of things, from mouthing off due to stress, to spousal abuse. So to clear things up, just ask him if his parents get along most of the time.

Here's a good question for an 8-year-old. What kind of bicycle does he ride?

Chroma 2013/07/25(Thu)19:49 No. 527510 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527487
"I ride a cool bike thats red and white! I still have training wheels though... all my friends say that I'm a little baby because I still have them on, though"

>>527459
>>527483
He looks down a little bit and tiny tears well up in his eyes. "They fight a lot. And that's usually why I'm scared at night. I get scared that they'll stop being my parents. Dad yells the word 'dee-virce' a lot"

>>527510
Yeah, sounds like that's just relatively normal not-getting-along. It happens. Reassure him by telling him that even if his parents don't get along, they'll always be his mom and dad.

tell him that his parents love him no matter what but it sounds like hard time may be ahead. Just let him know that even at times when life just seems unfair there will always be something to make it better down the road, you just have to make it there first. Like this road of light we walk. Right now it's kinda dark and scary but if we keep walking it will get better at some point. even if it takes a while to reach the end and we see even scarier things as we walk it, the bad can only last for so long before all that is left is the good. so lets see where this trail will take us hmmm.

Reassure him by saying whatever happened to him is at least a thousand times worse than losing your parents.

Poor guy. Reassure him, tell him everything will work out.

[Just a notice! I'll be away for awhile on a trip. I promise to update at least a little bit, but updates won't be as frequent. I'll be back sometime late next week. See you then!]

Shiva: cheer him up

Chroma 2013/07/27(Sat)12:13 No. 528252 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527519
>>527611
>>527891

...

Chroma 2013/07/27(Sat)12:13 No. 528253 ID: c4fe9f
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>>527560
... "Yeah. Let's go."

to the wind chimes.

Chroma 2013/08/17(Sat)09:56 No. 535110 ID: c4fe9f
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...?

Chroma 2013/08/17(Sat)09:58 No. 535115 ID: c4fe9f
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It is too dark. You can no longer hear anything. The wind chimes have stopped, and you have no idea where Gavin is either. His breathing seems to have halted.

Oh-kay. Um. Hello? Anything there?

call out see if you can't get someone to respond to you.

Gavin was breathing? Well so much for that idea. Don't try to see right now. What can you smell?

Chroma 2013/09/02(Mon)19:20 No. 539159 ID: c4fe9f
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>>535117
You manage to flicker a light.
What you see doesn't really shock you, but you can hear a small gasp. You cant tell if it's from Gavin or whatever this thing is.

>>535133
You call out a small '...H-Hello?' yet you don't get a response.

>>535143
Blood, and something else. Some kind of gross stench.

Uh, dodge? It looks like it got someone already!

Chroma 2013/09/02(Mon)19:33 No. 539161 ID: c4fe9f
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Your eyes begin to adjust again, as you were just without light for awhile.
What you see frightens you.

>>539160
Dodge what? It hasn't attacked yet.
Besides, you're too scared to move right now. Those are some fangs you don't want to see in your neck.

It isn't attacking? Is it moving at all? Where's Gavin?

...maybe this would be a good time to wake up. Before this dream gets ugly.

wait and see if it does anything, if it doesn't react to you then see if you can't walk around it and keep moving forward.

Ask "What are you?"
Maybe it's just a statue and you will just feel silly about talking to an inanimate object.

>>539161
Ha, screw that.
First off, mate, your form is a bit lacking. Good on you with the blood and the teeth and the whole "lurking in the darkness" deal, but you arent quite there yet. See, the trick to good horror is SUBTELTY. you cant just burst in from the darkness going ABLOOGYWOOGY at us, you gotta get us nice and primed, put us off ease with some good spooky happenings and the occasional chase, keeping us from seeing you in the first place.
I will admit though, the whole silence deal is rather good. VERY offputting. Still, work on your form and try again in a few updates!
Remember: SUBTELTY is where true horror lies. Get us wary before trying to scare us shitless!
(Yes, I am really suggesting we give the nightmare pointers.)