About the Red Mage's dreams
The dreams
(The dreams are in Thayo's own words, lifted from the game log.)
- The recurring dream takes place in a big canyon. I'm
flying along -- just like in the old days. My red robe's on fire, I'm
crisping some XP -- the usual stuff. And then out of this cavern hole
comes this ice elemental. I figure "what the hell" -- easy kill...
But things go wrong...
- I am in this deep dark cavern and there is a bubbling pool of
lava beneath me.
- I am in a kind of throne room, and there is a demon there. It
is laughing horribly at me.
- I am a toy or a puppet in the hands of a power that I cannot
see. I can feel strings but I cannot see them.
- I am looking into a pool of blood and I see [Ganeth's] face
staring back at me.
- I am hunting a strange winged unicorn that is luring me into a
trap with blue lightning.
- One with strange eggs or statues of stone that can read your
mind.
- One with many writing snakes who hiss to me, "You are the Red
One, you are the Red One"
Analysis
The first dream bears some resemblance to Ganeth's first visit to
Dreamspace. The ice elemental could represent the Iceman, Ganeth's Dreamspace
persona, who has a limited ability to absorb energy-based attacks.
Thayo really doesn't want to talk about this dream, so it's hard to
say.
The PCs have never actually had the fourth dream, but most of them can
relate. The creature in the sixth dream could be Cirrus, which
Silvana thinks could indicate a trap involving Lessania (who has hopefully recovered
beyond 2nd level in Dreamspace). Number seven could be somehow
related to the whilg, but could just as easily not. For number eight,
snakes are a common chaotic motif (though other folks use snake
imagery as well).
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