

contemptibleComedian wrote: What’s the purpose of the weird dreams

How unique is your condition

Why cultists



EveryZig wrote: Don’t ask why you are having these nightmares; a god of nightmares might take that the wrong way.

Instead, ask why you keep having the same nightmare.

With the monster adequately pacified, you retrieve your list and begin your questioning proper.

You start with the basics, reading your notes word-for-word. “Demon. For nearly fifteen years now, my every sleeping night has been haunted by horrible nightmares-”

“You’re welcome.”

“-And yet, every night it is the same vision. I am alone in a room with a vile, dangerous… cultist.”

“Cultist? Cultists aren’t even…” she trails off and, after a brief hesitation, continues: “Does the dream leave you terrified?”

“It fills me with reasonable apprehension.”

“Is that like fear?”

“It is functionally identical to fear.”

“Then you are right to be scared, mortal, for Vaermina knows your every fear and has shown you a mere fraction of her horrible power! It is through my dark bidding that, every night, you are subjected to these horrors, and it is through my mercy that you awaken every morning in a cold sweat.”

“So you’ve been tormenting me for years with these nightmares?”

“Torment is my sphere, and nightmares my realm. There is certainly no other entity who could be behind it.”

“And why, demon, is it the same dream every night? What meaning is there?”

“A mere mortal could not possibly understand the motives of a god. When Vaermina feeds you these visions – when she casts your mind into that… room full of cultists – it is a gift from her all-knowing will. You have no right to question it.”

“It’s just one cultist.”

“What?”

“The room is just filled with one cultist.”

“How can a room be filled with one cultist?”

“Sometimes he’s really big.”

“That is correct!”

“Vaermina was testing you. About her nightmare, she gave you.”

“May Vaermina speak with this mortal alone?”

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