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Dream Land
« on: September 27, 2013, 10:20:45 am »

As the update comes closer, I have read something about dreams and dwarves. So I thought that it would be nice to add an entire new region to df. The Dream Land. Unreachable by common means, an adventurer would only be able to enter dream land by sleeping or by finding a special portal, which leads there. Dream Land should be made up of the desires of ALL inhabitants of the land. Furthermore there should be different regions in Dream Land, going from blissful dreamscape to weirdland to nightmare land.

Bogeymen and creatures of the night would come from the nightmare land, and their abilities and appearances would be derived from the average dislikes and fears of all humans, elves and dwarves. So they would truly be beings of nightmare.

Also you could find randomly generated artifacts made of the stuff of dreams. They would poof by entering the real world again, which would set off tantrums in dreamland, slowly taking the mirth, turning it into nightmare.
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Re: Dream Land
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2013, 01:13:56 pm »

Other dimensions such as the ones you describe are planned, probably not gonna happen for another few years though :>

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Re: Dream Land
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2013, 03:37:04 am »

Nice, even though I have the feeling that everything is planned
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Re: Dream Land
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2013, 11:08:41 pm »

The question is, will there be an ocarina in a dream within a dream?
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Re: Dream Land
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2013, 01:36:15 am »

I have the feeling that everything is planned
What makes you think that?
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Re: Dream Land
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2013, 01:59:27 am »

If you sleep in a dream world, will you go deeper?
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Re: Dream Land
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2013, 09:05:01 am »

The question is, will there be an ocarina in a dream within a dream?
Probably not in a dwarven fortress... I don't see any DF race other than humans doing this. Kobolds could probably make a mean death whistle though.
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