A number of priests of the Dreaming Ocean have made a pilgrimage to Acryn, seeking the promised one who will journey to the source of the Ocean and fix the evil which has taken residence there.

Gidner Waycox - James I
Howard Branch, the Splintered Man - Matthew
Vincenzo Cargan - Vicky
Nobody - Dave
Saffron - Ellie
Penelope Cargan - Tom
Brother Miller - Joe

The party are provided a detailed plan for defeating the entity which has invaded the Dreaming Ocean. However, as soon as they enter the Ocean they promptly forget their mission and the fact that they're dreaming.

Seemingly making their way through Acryn, people in the streets deform into reptilian monsters and attack, and a shadowy being resembling a person slowly stalks towards them. Seemingly invincible and overwhelmingly powerful, the party are soon brought low by this being. They wake up thanks to the efforts of the Dreaming Ocean priests, and are sent back into the dream, told that if that happens again they will probably die.

Back at the start of the dream, Gidner gets the sense that they should go to the ocean, so the party head to the docks, this time fleeing the creature and its minions. They meet various people there, who utter various fragments of their forgotten plan. They don't have much time to take it all in, though, as the creature stalks ever closer. They flee into the water.

Descending into the ocean but still able to breathe, the party pass some fish and sharks, the creature slowly gaining on them, and reach a pearl which seems to take them within itself. Inside they see visions of the past of one called “Adama”, a Primal who saw it as his duty to impose his will on the world, and his friends Polion (a.k.a. the Watcher), Ceciline, Moulder of Worlds, Xanthos the Necromancer, Sufi the Wind Walker and Voivodies, Painter of the Future, as they fought various dragon spawn shortly after their creation. The party see Polion having died, and Xanthos using their powers to return him from the dead out of misguided love for his partner Ceciline, and Adama expressing his concerns that this might be going a bit too far, as Polion comes back just a little wrong.

Before they can really process all of this, they then find themselves in a glade having a picnic with the dreaming souls of various people from around Acryn, as well as several iterations of Adama. They rush off to one side to discuss what they have seen, much to the chagrin of the others. They eventually come back to talk to people. One Adama is young, brash and all about imposing his will on the world. Another is a bit older, and having just witnessed the resurrection of Polion is having serious doubts about all of his life choices. The third is old and has become a lot more zen about things, planning to give up his ego to become one with humanity.

A serious of confusing discussions with a certain amount of dream logic take place over lunch, during which Brother Miller and Saffron convince the confused and doubtful Adama that his main problem is that he's not getting any and Saffron and he go off to sleep together, Penelope responds to the put-downs of a particularly nasty cousin of hers by repeatedly invoking the Traitor's power to stab them in the back (which the Traitor agrees is kinda deserved in this case), reducing them to tears, the dreaming soul of Heather Goodwill is granted the Divine Favour of the Splintered Man by the god himself, and Gidner works out that Adama gave up his ego to become the Dreaming Ocean, and that the Ocean can't fight back against the draconic entity that is invading it because it has no concentrated will with which to do so.

Eventually the party find themselves back in the ocean, the creature still behind them ever drawing closer, and the pearl held in the jaws of a leviathan. Retrieving the pearl, they continue to find a second pearl caught up in some seaweed down a crevice with various sea creatures lurking within. The party make their way inside, free the pearl, where it becomes apparent that these pearls are the ego of Adama, and make their way back out of the crevice.

When most of them return, they find the Walker, the creature chasing them, has pretty much caught up, and promptly themselves. Nonetheless they manage to get away, and are met by some of the Dreaming Ocean priests who have come to check that the plan is going okay and ensure that they don't do something silly like put the ego back into the Dreaming Ocean, which would basically amount to killing their god.

Around the world people are starting to descend into deadly existential nightmares, and the priests have some dreamers they have rescued from their nightmares in tow. Gidner and the rest of the party attempt to slow down the chasing creature to buy them time to get away, and trusting Gidner to come up with a sensible plan when they reach the source of the Source of the Ocean, the priests take the traumatised dreamers to get them to safety, leaving the party to cut through some Carleon cultists who have come to take the pearls and corrupt Mudra (again) and get to the source.

At the source they find Adama's body in dream, a meditating old man. Gidner attempts to use the Dreaming Ocean's powers to draw the party into him, and they find themselves in a dark space surrounded by the whispers of all those within the ocean, as they attempt to formulate a plan and prepare for what may be about to come. The vague consensus seems to be that there is no temporary way to restore the will to Adama necessary for him to fight off the dragon, and one of them needs to act as an avatar for the Ocean by taking the Primal's ego upon themselves and doing so in his stead.

Eventually drawn back out into the dream, Gidner entrusts Nobody as a fellow priest of the Ocean with the pearls so that he can insert them into him, but Nobody promptly indicates how inappropriate Gidner himself is for the task on account of being the wrong shape, which is the result of him no longer being Primal. Things almost get violent as the Walker slowly looms ever closer, but Nobody points out that Brother Miller or Penelope would be fine, and Penelope offers to do it.

However, as Nobody starts the ritual to insert the pearls, Penelope feels her body being torn apart and suddenly realises that this will cause her to irreversibly be wiped from the waking world and become a thing purely of dream, the eternal avatar of the Dreaming Ocean. Not feeling that this is entirely for Acryn's benefit, she rejects this. Realising that instead they can split the power between them in a way that won't outright kill anyone, she, Saffron and Vincenzo share the power and become able to harm the Walker. Howard attempts to get in on the action too, but finds the power of the god clashing awkwardly with his own, and steps back.

Together they fight to bring down the Walker, and with the final blow Penelope strikes it with the miracles of the Traitor, calling on her full power to rid the world of this “foreign god”. Not quite realising that the target is in fact a full-on dragon, or indeed the consequences of doing this where the target is in fact a full-on dragon, it all goes a bit weird at this point.

The party find themselves avatars of the Founders, in a heated battle against an enormous lizard. After an intense fight they bring the beast down, and Nobody and Saffron attempt to communicate with Mudra. Confused and angry, it becomes apparent that corruption still lies within the dragon, and that if they push on into it they can purge it of some of this corruption.

In a strange painted scene in a library, they fight off twisted draconic creatures, ensuring that they keep the parts of the dragon which are good and not corrupted alive. This done, they have a brief moment of calm.

Just making notes for now. Proper debrief to come later. Deal with it~

I don't even know, I'm so tiredddd ~Chaos

On edge of dragon, ocean behing, monsters defeated, flock of small winged lizards birthed. Saffron attempts to gather them, but they're flying around.

Mirror shows single yellow eye.

V.C. does minor Tender miracle to get dragon babies down. S.M. attempts to talk to them with nature powers, asks their names. They give names which Dan can fill in. Saffron feeds them dried meat rations. Seem like smart children. V.C. attempts to encourage them to distinguish right from wrong. S.MM. gives lecture on what makes a righteous man. Saffron tells them about home. They seems to understand.

Nobody wants to take identity, they say they don't want others looking like them. V.C. checks children, 3 girls 2 boys.

Area ahead doesn't make sense, world stop, ocean begins. G.W. steps through, reverts to merman form. Man ahead covered in seaweed w/ anenrnomifhd how do you even spell that

Actual ocean, Dreaming Ocean's body. B.M. steps through, G.W. uses Oneness, creates bubble of air around him. V.C. and Saffron eventually convince babies to go through into bubble, though they're not keen. With them all in, bubble rises, awkward lift music moment

Shipwreck bits gather at surface of the ocean so they have something to hold onto. Saffron fixes together makeshift net, fishes for food for her babies.

V.C. asks P.C. why she was the Traitor and not Douchebag. Awkwardness ensues, B.M. and V.C. ask if she's Traitor priest. S.M. says actually Traitor is kinda okay.

G.W. now the ocean asks what she felt when holding that guy's pearls. Further discussion of tf they've just done ensues, noone is really sure what's happening, Nobody suggests that they've got rid of some bad bits in Mudra and the dragon is now better.

More arguments/discussions about Founders. V.C. grabs P.C.'s hand, shoves into his stigmata stab wound heart. Explains that this was what Traitor did to Tender.

General consensus is that P.C. is Traitor priest. Everyone generally weirdly okay with this, V.C. generally not happy about it. Thinks Traitor church willing to do anything is unacceptable.

P.C. says she still wants Cargan to get what they deserve. This doesn't go down well. Argument about earlier food encounter stuff with the dream and the stabbing and the crying.

G.W. points out how awkward this all is. Separates out driftwood to keep conflicting party members apart.

Back at Acryn. Backryn. They go back to priests to check on their bodies, turned out they'd dissolved into seawater. City decided to leave for a few weeks before declaring dead, because adventurers amirite

They report - drove Mudra out of ocean, and bad bits put of Mudra.

Given 100riel each.

V.C. has a word with Saffron. Offers to help look after dragons. She says planning on renting extra space for them, will be looking after them. Provides V.C. with address.

Makes dragon roost as their home. Trying to encourage them to come home, treat it as home, encourage to like her.

For about a month they live there, then grow fast. Then they visit less as they grow. Next Danlarp they'll have grown a lot and rarely visit any more. Big enough to scare people. Saffron tries to teach her morals. If need to steal to live okay, but not for sake of stealing.

Like slightly more moral cats.

V.C. gets reports from further afield as they get older. Acryn, Margush, etc.

G.W. checks Caulish. They still see them as lizardy.

Nobody is no longer being puppeted.

Mirror in real world appears like regular mirror.

G.W. goes to find Nobody, tells him to spread the idea of the Ocean and help people understand, ocean about people living together, working together, bonds that link people. And wishes him luck.

S.M. worldshapes an island above Ocean real body, kinda diamond shaped with not much above surface, but big pillar down to sea floor. Lots of reflective surfaces, one side of mountain is sheet glacier. Houses, docks, fishing opportunities. Pool at top of mountain goes down through middle to body. Permanently stabilises it.

Gidner says goodbye and merges with the ocean. Uses ocean power and engineering to make things for people there.

Basically a pillar going down from island where people can live, bubbling alchemy machine spits out stuff to turn people into sea creatures so they can live there.

Gidner now a spirit of place. Slowly at first, but pilgrims of Ocean arrive and some stay, and with some dreams sent out basically advertising the place a community starts to build up.

G.W. affects area and immediate surroundings to generate Veil potion. Sailors going through area find dreams more vivid and pretentious. Also some slight tendency towards pretentious dreams in Acryn for those so inclined.

G.W. generates souls as guardians. Fish people. Under the sea. Singing crabs?

S.M. visits to meditate with that one guy, like G.W. They chill out.

S.M. attempts to communicate with the old dude. Does not happen with words,but with concepts: (God) → ← <God> a state of being allowing those connected to merge with all of humanity (What does it feel like to be you?) → ← <cold, bottom of ocean>

S.M. meditates, but finds slipping into godhood. Each time feels less sure he wanted to snap out of it.

V.C. reports to council, tells of what happened. Saffron's babies, not hostile. Warns about Nobody having maybe done something inadvisable w/ dragons.

V.C. talks to Walter Cargan about Penelope. Awks. Hints that she may be Traitor priest. Tells of avatar scene, says she was Traitor. Walter is surprised by the revelation, but doesn't seem too bothered. Suggests training her for a career in politics if she can lie for that long, as she's clearly more competent than they believed.

V.C. storms out and sulks in his church for several weeks on end.

Cargans throw P.C. a “coming out” party. Now one of the most known Traitor priests. Then a few weeks later someone turns up in her room. Says normally they're more subtle, but that they can make use of this. Instructions on her bed.

They have directions to a newly build Church of the Traitor. She is to be on charge of it, provided drop points, will be in contact, must say what is the right thing to say, etc.

Provided sample sermons. “Do what you must”, but carefully keeping from crossing the line. “ make the hard choices”, not “at all costs”.

Church gets visit from heirarch of Church of Founders. Walks around with candelabra lighting candles, then leaves without saying anything.

V.C. sends people to keep watch on church, gets feedback on who visits. Goes to council and expresses dislike of Traitor situation. But issues w/ Leader church make people reluctant to deal w/ it. “ better where we can see it”

S.M. blesses mirror to move towards being able to step into it and send reflections out into the world. Gets mirror with crappy reflection that can go to other mirrors and spy on things.

B.M. gets badass tattoo of founders fighting dragon on back. More painful than expected, different cutting pain. Tattooist seems timid, gets frustrated with how long it's taking. Insists he keeps going as tattooist breaks down sobbing. 1.5h later he runs out crying. Tattoo is of a pleased female w/ red hair giving double thumbs up. Holy tattoo of Warrior.

P.C. - true face of traitor V.C. - truly favoured by tender Saffron - adysgdhdg dragons Nobody ??? Dragons ? Dhdhd long term effects S.M. - countdown now 0s for godhood