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dream_station2023-05-17 04:15 pm
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Dream Station TDM
You dozed off. Or passed out. Or perhaps you were experiencing a more... permanent 'sleep'. Whatever the case, your eyes were shut and now they're not as you awaken sitting on a train. Around you, others in similar situations. At your feet sits luggage. It has a name tag on it with your name. Inside are some of your clothes and small personal belongings.
Out the window you see that the train is rolling into a sration. Cherry blossoms line the track leading up to it. A beautiful, scenic town lay beyond those gates.
Welcome to Dream Station.
Home Sweet Home:
As the train rumbles into the station and stops you step out onto a platform. A perfectly normal looking station, all things considered. There are people waiting. Guides here to help the latest batch of residents. People who live in this world. Either due to being born here or having been brought here sometime before and agreeing to help newcomers.
The guides explain to you the situation you are in. You otherworlders are common here in the city of Dream. Your guide reassures you that it's fine. They have accommodation for newcomers. And you are brought to the Sleep Tight Apartments. While outside it looks a little small, it's actually quite expansive inside. Must be magic of some kind.
Your apartment will be a one bedroom with a kitchen, living area and bathroom. But don't worry. There will be ways to expand later.
For now you are given a cellphone with an app installed on it for the local social media, Sleepr. As well as a Nightmare Tracker that will alert you when Nightmares crop up. And finally a little banking app where you will find you already have an account that has a decent amount of money for you to spend for the month. Don't worry about rent or bills. That's all covered in return for you helping with those Nightmares.
If you refuse to help... well. Best find your own accommodation and a job, friend. They can't help anyone unwilling to help in return.
There's a lot of new faces so maybe you should get to know your neighbors or get a walk around your new neighborhood.
This Is A Beach Episode:
The Dream Beach is open for business! Come lay out a towel and get some sun. Or go splash in the waves! Seashells are a plenty and there are designated fishing spots. Just don't swim too far out.
Hungry? Thirsty? The boardwalk has plenty of delicious options from icecream to fries to ice cold lemonade.
For those seeking something fun to do, there are paddle and pedal boats available for rent. And some diving to see the beautiful coral reefs. As well as a boat that will take you on a little trip out to an island resort!
The Resort:
I mean, you're basically all on vacation from your regular lives already in the wonderful world of Dream! That said, who doesn't love to spend a little time with their feet up in a nice resort?
Come out and stay in an ocean front room with complimentary continental breakfast and free room service. There are lots of little souvenir shops to check out, run by some bipedal frogs? They don't accept money here. But they'll glady trade their wares for any seashells collected on the beach. Lots of fun tropical themed goodies and swim gear galore!
For the adventurous sort, there is plenty to explore including a forest with hiking trails and a supposedly haunted cave. Legend says some tourists got lost in there and never came back out. They were looking for a treasure apparently. But... maybe don't follow their example and get lost in there?
The Nightmare Fuel:
So remember you were told about Nightmares? Seems they're cropping up throughout the city. Some are taking the form of shadowy crabs about four feet tall that are stealing from people and carrying them off in their little crabby claws. Give them a beat down or just trick them into dropping their stolen goods.
Others look like reverse mermaids. Fishy heads atop human legs. These ones are causing problems for the local restaurants and shops by slipping on in and stinking up the place. You can fight them if you want, but they'll be just as easily dispersed by herding them to the beach where they will return to the waters. They don't seem very threatening, just confused.
However while those two aren't very dangerous, there are some very aggressive bipedal seacreatures with the heads of crocodiles and some very sharp claws that have taken to lurking around the island out in the woods. These ones won't leave peacefully. You'll have to fight them or run away from them. Watch out they don't catch you. Those teeth and claws aren't just for show!
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"There doesn't seem to be any restrictions about who can end up here, or how long they can stay before leaving."
He holds the book tight to his side, not wanting to drop it and damage it that way.
"Those crabs don't seem to have arrived in the same way, though. No one really has an answer for why."
They, and creatures like them, were just a fact of life here. And increasingly so, lately...
"But if you arrived on the train, that's normal."
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Some of them were even his peers in schooling, which he figures he should not add.
"Some... don't have a world to go back to, from what I've learned talking to them."
Or necessarily a life, though at least he knew there was something beyond for whenever he went back. As much as he missed his family, he'd learned not to be in such a hurry about reuniting.
"Though - what do you mean, 'too'?"
There were two possibilities, neither exactly encouraging.
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Now he's the one being dropped into another world. Great.
"...don't let that catch on here as a name."
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It's not a term he's heard before, but he does have this to offer:
"Maybe other cultures have different words for it."
'Dreamers' described more people who lived in the city Dream itself. He could try looking it up in the library.
"How would you describe that city, compared to this one? More industrial, more mountainous, that kind of thing."
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Says the man who knows the term because he's a nerd.
"I haven't been here long enough to get a good feel for it. But this place seems quieter. And more accepting of weird shit. As far as I can see the residents here all react to the weird things going on, even if they treat it like every day. Back home when weird shit happened the normies always seemed to remember it as something mundane. Even the most off the wall shit..."
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As far as he knew, Alfredo could still tell when something just wouldn't have happened at home; the Nightmares in general fight that category easily.
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That kind of thing.
"Here though? The residents just seem to accept the weird shit."
It's not a bad thing in his book.
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Alfredo sounds surprised. If he'd seen a dinosaur, he wouldn't want to forget it!
"... And they all just disappeared after? That is strange, from beginning to end."
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One of his stranger life experiences to be sure.
"I'm guessing shit has never gotten that crazy here?"
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That... probably wouldn't work on the Nightmares here, to Alfredo's understanding.
"And I wouldn't say so, though there could have been something years before I arrived."
He'd rather err on the side of caution, here, and not say something completely inaccurate.
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But maybe shit won't be that crazy and intense here...
"So judging by earlier, I'm guessing you don't fight?"
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He can, technically, but that's not the same thing.
"I've studied tactics, however. Some moves I'm just too small for. I can make traps, but-"
He squeezes the book at his side.
"I'd rather not risk losing this in one of them. It's a reminder of home."
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He's curious now.
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"Pits, filling bags with soot, and how to deploy ropes and nets."
Things that, Katsuki may note, usually requires groups for maximum effectiveness.