The Burial Of The Dead
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Dreams of men in bandages, the parties they hold and other quiet, dark places.


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A dream about wine and dead men

You dream you're at the quietest party ever….



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A dream about a market-place crowded with dead men

You dream you're at a window, watching dead men wrapped in bandages…
   [Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: the Burial of the Dead 1]



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A dream about a town square

You dream of standing in a town square. You've been here before. Crowds mill and push past you. Everyone is bandaged. Many are unravelling.
Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 2

Try to catch one

Grasp at the trailing bandages as people go past.
(A matter of luck: it could go either way.)


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A dream about a garden of stones

You dream of standing in a garden, hidden in the shadow between two stone trees…

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Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 2


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A dream about a candle flame

You dream of standing at a window. It is dark outside, and all you can see is the circle of frosted light that your candle makes on the glass. You can hear thumping, scratching sounds from outside, as if something tiny is trying to get in.
Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 4

Peer outside

A look can't hurt, can it?
Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Is Someone There? 10
(A matter of luck: it could go either way.)

Look away

You don't really want to know what's out there, do you?
(A matter of luck: it could go either way.)


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A dream about a tombstone

You dream of standing in the garden of stones. It is dusty underfoot now, and the fountain is dry. The stone next to you is cracked. Most of the inscription is missing, but you can make out a few words.
Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 5

Read the words

You might learn something.
(A matter of luck: it could go either way.)

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A dream about a field of candles

You dream of standing in the garden of stones. It is evening, and everywhere around you there are candles. Thousands upon thousands of soft little flames. Where they are densest, they form bright blazes. Up above, a flutter of air. Something icy brushes your face.
Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 6

Close your eyes

Can you close your eyes in a dream?
(A matter of luck: it could go either way.)


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A dream about a field of candle flames

You dream of standing in the garden of stones, leaning on a mossy wall…
Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 7
In the corners around the tombs, a hundred thousand glowworms move and twinkle, like a sky full of luminous green stars.

Pick up a glowworm

Their little lights are green, acidic, individual, bright.
(A matter of luck: it could go either way.)

Look again

unlocked with Dreaming Strange Dreams: A Game of Chess 10
Are those really glowworms?
(A matter of luck: it could go either way.)

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A dream about moths

You dream of standing in the garden of stones. You are near the fountain now, at the centre where the paths meet. The fountain is dry, and ablaze with candles. Clouds of little frost-moths begin to gather.
Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 8

Wave your arms

Distract the moths from the candles.
(A matter of luck: it could go either way.)

Do nothing

Just watch, quietly
(A matter of luck: it could go either way.)

Encourage the moths

Attract them to the candles. Hopefully, they'll fight.
unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: The Fire Sermon 10
(A matter of luck: it could go either way.)

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A dream about a flock of moths

You dream of standing by the fountain in the garden of stones…

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Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 9

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A dream about a dark place

You dream that you are in a small dark space….

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Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 10

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A dream about a busy square

You dream of standing once more at the window, looking down on the marketplace. Ochre dust forms little dunes on the windowsill. Cobwebs clog the corners of the filthy panes.
Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 10

Rub at the glass

Can you see what's happening outside?
(A matter of luck: it could go either way.)

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A dream about a gravestone

You dream of wandering in a churchyard. It's noon; there is a sun high in the sky. You are alone, for now. You stop to look at the tombstones.
Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 11

Read the inscription on a family tomb

Its grandeur is reassuring. Skulls with wings and elaborate scrollwork do not come cheap.

Read some of the smaller gravestones

Homely things, humped with moss and leaning like drunken old men.

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A dream about cocoons

You dream you are holding a glass jar full of glowworms. Their bright green light absorbs your whole attention. Then you turn away, and find yourself in a familiar garden. The ground is scattered with little cocoons. They are moth pupae, mummified in silk.
Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 12

Examine one

Well, why not?
(A matter of luck: it could go either way.)

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A dream about glowworms

You dream of standing in a room full of bandaged men and women. Dust falls through the air. You are holding a glass jar in one hand and a candle in the other. In the jar are several glowworms. Their light is brighter than anything else in the room. .
Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 12

Open the jar

Maybe something will happen.
(A matter of luck: it could go either way.)

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A dream about a window at night

You dream of standing by a window. You are holding a candle, and it's dark outside. You can see the room you stand in, reflected in the glass. Outside, something taps gently on the pane.
Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 13

Peer out of the window

Find out what's tapping on the glass.

Don't open the window

Why would you want to do that?

Open the window

Perhaps something wants to speak to you.
unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Death by Water 6
A matter of luck: it could go either way.

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A dream about a quiet square

You dream of standing in a square, surrounded by tall stone buildings. There are no people in the square. There are only cocoons. Very large cocoons.
Unlock: Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 13

Set fire to the cocoons

Why else would you be holding a candle?

Wait for the hatching

Who can say what might happen?

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A dream about a cramped space

You dream of lying in a warm dark space. You have been here before. Your hands are bandaged, but you can move them.
Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 14

Lift your hands to your face

Just to see.
A matter of luck: pretty good odds.

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A dream about a sheet of ice

You dream of standing in a garden…

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Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 14

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A dream about a garden of tombs

You dream of standing on the edge of a cliff. The sea crashes far beneath you. You turn inland, and you're walking through a graveyard. Tombs tower above you.
Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 15

Walk through the tombs

It's peaceful here in the shadows, away from the harsh winds and freezing spray from the sea.

Turn back to the sea

It's looking stormy out there, but it's a more inviting prospect than this dreadful necropolis.
unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: What the Thunder Said 10
A matter of luck: it could go either way.

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A dream about dissolution

You dream you are in the town square, walking in circles with all the other bandaged people…

Autofire
Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 16


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