Tourist

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Synopsis:

Origin: The Waking World
Average Height: Various
Average Lifespan: Various
Preportions: Various
Typical Known Languages: Various
Known Factions: Various

In a nutshell...

"Tourist" is typically used to describe anyone from The Waking World that is visiting Somnia. Somnia, being a dream world, is typically accessed by a person by falling asleep and having a dream. Dreams can take place in any number of Dream Worlds and they all have their own rules and terms for it's visitors and what have you~.

Somnians affectionately (and sometimes no-so affectionately) call anyone coming to Somnia this way Tourists.

Player "Tourist" has logged in

Who do you want to be tonight?

Tourists are... well "people". You could be a Tourist one night, even~! People will sometimes enter Somnia by falling asleep and having a dream. We call them Tourists. For us Somnians, time moves differently in Somnia than it does in your world (which we just call The Waking World), so a Tourist will "spawn" in anywhere and any time. When a Tourist spawns in, they can appear as a number of different forms, called an Avatar. It's basically, for you, when you have a dream sometimes you're yourself, sometimes you're an animal, sometimes you're simply observing, so one Tourist may appear as a number of Avatars from multiple visits... or sometimes one visit. It really depends. Dreams are crazy~.

It's all a big game.

When a Tourist spawns in, they also typically have an objective in mind. You know when you dream, you usually have some kind of objective in mind or thing that you have to do? This is a Tourist Objective. Tourists will attempt to fulfill this objective before they wake up. It can range from something very simple to something literally impossible. A Tourist can have multiple Objectives and they could change depending on how their visit goes. It could be safe or it could be dangerous. It could be to avoid trouble, defeat trouble or even just go and get into trouble. Sometimes it's just to explore! You'd be surprised what Tourists will get up to in Somnia!

Returning to the game analogy, a Tourist can either fulfill the Objective or fail it either by waking up before they complete it or being defeated or failing in some way or another. I mean, if you fell off a cliff or exploded or something, typically you end up waking up when you're defeated, just by the shock of it all, right? If they complete the Objective, they don't nessicarily wake up then and there, however. A lot of them do, as getting to that goal typically is exciting. that amount of emotion does tend to wake most up, right? Sometimes that doesn't happen, though. If this happens, Tourists typically get another Objective right away, even if it's just to explore until they wake up.

Game Over, so to speak.

When a Tourist wakes up, they simply despawn and... well, they go about their lives in The Waking World, really. In Somnia, they typically leave behind a gem-like object called an Afterthought. Depending on how the visit in Somnia went, Afterthroughts could be charged with Dream or Nightmare energy.

An Afterthought will typically dissipate into energy over time and go into the atmosphere of Somnia. This is how Somnians live, through said energy. Somnians can live off of either one of the energies, but they do prefer one or the other energy, depending on their Alignment. As such, Somnians typically try to help or hinder Tourists in order to get that energy to lean one way or the other.