I don't think she was trying to pay us; she was just building up for saying what the target was, and where it probably came from. (Although we don't know much of its likely behavior at this point.)
No, not now. Back when we told her about the Burnt preying on mortals.
"I've been steadily investing into my form and working on getting information. In time I might find more secrets in the city."
"I don't suppose you could tell me?" The dragon asked with a toothy grin.
The moth's antenna fluttered as she laughed. "Oh no, those are mine alone. I will give you a small bit. The dream-catcher made it, but she took older dreams. This is a city woven of humanity itself."
"Oh, ominous." The dragon muttered.
"You owe me a secret in return for that." The moth stated.
"Easy enough. I won last time thanks to me sabotaging our rival with the fires. She was gathering boogeymen and I believe using them to 'farm' fear." The dragon stated.
"Oh, now that I can forgive you gaining a victory for." The moth's wings fluttered angrily, and her wings flashed in different colors. "A good secret for a secret then, equal in worth."
"Relatively." The dragon stated with amusement.
"I say it's enough, so it's enough."
The 'oh, ominous' was strange because we already knew that from when the Dream-catcher gave us her memory.
It was my mistake; I had this large detailed write-in I'd been thinking about for a while, but whereas I had interpreted it as trying to get a
confidant and "someone who would watch our back in the physical world", Lost Star interpreted it as "inducting another Gossamer user", due to how I had broached the subject as "what would you do if you had super powers?". The vote is
here, and I guess you missed it because only the very start was copied into the update.
Makes sense, so we might want to look into muddying memories. Dreams and memories are mystically connected.
What I would have pushed to do if I was around then would be to gift Harry with a dream. One of courage. He's not working out, he's not going anywhere, he's three times divorced. I think he needs a goal. He's satisfied, but I don't think he should be, and it's not obvious that he's internally satisfied too. People want meaning and a dream could guide him.
On the subject of the Vault Angel's warning you quote, I'm taking it to mean two things; (1) that as someone gets higher Wonder they grow more distant from the physical world (and this is dangerous), and (2) that the entire ecosystem of the dream realm relies on people dreaming naturally, so if they stop, or take too much Gossamer for themselves, that complex and interesting ecosystem will die.
To safeguard these against requires two things; Harold's Wonder must never get too high, and the Gossamer feeding the dream realm must never be choked off. The first is easy, since Wonder actually takes effort to get, but the second is harder; we'll need to either keep Gossamer manipulation secret (haha, too late, the Atom and the MWTG are already on it), or we'll need to police and regulate the dream realm and the dreamers ourselves, probably with whatever powers the Dream Catcher's Crown has.
I think the Atom can be emotionally appealed to, his body is made from joy. Reason ought also work on him.
We can focus on making Gunslinger lose, and his lackeys are too terrified to want to Dream. Memory-muddying ought also work on them.
I don't think we have any way of keeping Harry from telling people. He now knows how to make a dream body and walk around. The angel thinks it's inevitable that humans who know about the Dreaming will decay. Harry is already on that path. So are we.
We also have Stardust Wings which lets us escape confinement, but we don't know the Nightmare Sun's abilities; it could have one that says "Nothing escapes the rays of the sun, especially not flying things." that functions like our Nightmares of Wind, preventing escape regardless of speed and not counting as a status effect SW can stop.
Doubt it, pretty sure that anything like that would be escapeable with that skill.
It's a balance of opportunity versus cost; she might be showing us otherwise hidden places, but that also gives her a degree control and power that she so obviously values at the same time.
I think she'd easily prefer keeping all her secrets and putting up a bounty if she ever needs help over giving her main rival to the throne some of her edge over him. She has control and she doesn't need us. You seem to think we're better for her than we are: We're the person in the lead that might leave her in the dirt. It's a friendly rivalry, but you seem to be forgetting the rival part.
Also, she could betray us, but since we could easily be more useful to her and her ambitions while alive and functional, she would be kinda shortsighted to do so... and she has so far shown signs of thinking farther ahead than John does.
I don't know. I'd lean on her kindness and honor before leaning on 'the logical thing to do'. For all we know, she thinks we're winning again this month and she has plans for staying ahead of us for the next couple of months. Sometimes short-term screw-overs are all you need. Look at Burnt.
Probably not; we have 6 actions at most before next tribute, making a lure would be at least two actions (Dream of Wonder, craft lure from the special dream, maybe more if our inexperience with lure-making matters), adding it to the Vault and fighting the Angel would be an action (that might require us replacing our dream form), Dream of Wonder for Nightmares of Wind plus Grafting is two actions, and Hunting down the MWAG is at least one action.
So we can only do it if we drop everything else and nothing goes wrong at any step of the way.
Fair enough, thanks for the schedule. It might be better, then, to not attack him with Nightmare Wings at the end of this month, better to save that card for when we can play it along with Pillage. Maybe at the end of next month, when he's saved up for tribute, we can plunder his Gossamer.
For more things that can go wrong: the VA probably wouldn't just let him put it there; he might lose to the VA; he doesn't know what he might attract or when; he doesn't know what's in the vault, including whether or not it's ancient sealed evil; he doesn't know if he will get anything to graft from the attracted dream denizen or just Gossamer; he doesn't know what special dream he would get or what he'll be able to graft from it; and he doesn't know if there will be developmental problems from taking this path instead of seeking Wisdom.
Depends on how we make it. If it's a scent trail, the VA can't stop us. If we make it a permanent sticker, same. We can wear the item ourselves. We might hide from VA or force him to defend himself instead of removing the bait.
We're fast and the VA can't leave the Vault. I'm not worried about losing too hard.
I don't think it's an ancient evil, why would we get the
right to access the vault just by being stronger than VA?
What it might attract is easy. If it's weak we kill it, if it's strong we kill it with the VA. I think we'd set it to attract everyone greedy enough. (Possibly including rivals?) BoW is great for that.
We don't know if we'd get something good out of it, but this is the best chance of getting a specific Plunder dream.
Wisdom? Is there a specific roghteous way required to gain it? I'd think that getting into the Vault and learning its backstory would count. Our viable rivals are not all as honorable as we are.
I thought so too, but so far no one has reacted to it, so we don't even know if anyone has noticed. It might blend into the patchwork pattern of our scales, or be covered most of the time. We don't usually auto-detect the abilities of others after all, and it is an ability.
Ha, maybe it's less visible than it would be as an item, but then again, some of our other abilities change how we look. Teeth, claws, wings etc.
Might be overthinking the Vault idea. We could just do DoW-Graft for Pillage, DoW-Graft for Wings of Nightmare, then use the next turns to take out Gunslinger.
Edit:
[Creating an ability to steal Gossamer directly] is possible. Though you'd need to find a very strong source of greed.
The Guardian is a dream, right? If we defeated him, we could use him in our form, to somehow help us guard our hoard, or we'd take his armor?
You'd be able to do something with him.
A normal Dream of Wonder won't be enough for the very powerful ability we're talking about, we're going to need a Lure. However, at least we can do something with the Angel.
