[Itâs the new year. And with tradition, the first dream of the new year will create the foundation of the rest of that year â either well-wishes or burdens. Enjoy the fireworks as you ring in the new year â you deserve it, perhaps, after such a trying year stuck in this world. Fireworks are sounding, a spark of noise and fire, and itâs exciting⊠but you might feel a sudden wave of sleepiness â nothing too extreme, but expected after such a long year of various magic and uncertainties.
The next day, though, there is no bright sunny day â instead, thereâs an eclipse, the moon steadily moving across the sky to block out the sun. Instead of lasting a few minutes, however, this eclipse will last the entire week. As the moon moves across the sun, lights will begin to flicker out across Miracle Country, light by light. Soon, youâll be complete darkness.
That darkness wonât last for long, though, so donât be too frightened⊠Little flickers of light will emerge, small floating candles hovering in the air and set on certain places â your rooms, the hotel reception, other buildings, and the underground common rooms. You donât have to be afraid of the dark â these candles wonât abandon you now. You can even go about your normal routine, despite the darkness.
But remember that wave of sleepiness you felt on that first day? Itâs back. Like the lights, that feeling of sleepiness wonât abandon you â and no matter how much you sleep, it wonât stop you from nodding off throughout the week.
You and everyone around you will enter a more conscious state of dreaming when you do finally fall asleep. Things will seem vivid, lucid â youâll remember your dreams with a new clarity you never have before.
And once you do fall asleep, you will find yourself with an ability you hadnât had before: dreamwalking.
Suddenly, you are not limited just to the landscape of your own dreams â but rather the dreams of others. It could be a simple dream or an extravagant dream â a nightmare or a passing daydream. Symbolism or straight-forward understandings â will your presence warp the dream around you or will you need to locate the dreamer in order to find a way out? Thereâs no set way to awaken or a clear way to tell whose dream you might stumble into. And thereâs no way to keep inquiring people out of your own dream, either.
As the eclipse progresses throughout the week, you will find yourself sleepier and sleepier â falling asleep without intention or without the aid of a bed or resting. Sometimes, you might fall asleep just where you stand, or sit, or in the middle of a conversation. You will fall asleep anywhere and for longer than normal, even through nightmares.
The lines between reality will begin to blur. That strange world you visited â was it a dream or was it reality? That conversation you had with a complete stranger, a dear friend, a precious loved one â did it happen or did you dream it? Did you witness someone in your own dream, visiting you, or were they simply a fragment of your own dream passing through the night? And was it a dream at all?
The lines will only continue to blur throughout the week. This new world youâve stumbled into â is it a dream? Or, perhaps, it is only Miracle Country transformed, like so many times before. Perhaps youâve actually returned home, to that moment youâve been thinking of for so long⊠Or, perhaps, you have found yourself in a completely different world all together. After all, Miracle Country canât be the only impossible world out there... right?]
[our anniversary event starts right now! For a reminder on specifics and plotting, please refer to this post]