Nightfall fell shortly after the owl-faced bears finished escorting our band of misfits out of the woods. We made up camp for the night and I perched myself in a nearby tree to enter my meditative state. Sunshadow went into low-power mode at the base of the tree, Vanta meditated by the dying fire, Destin was nowhere to be found, and the scary lady tried to sneak attack Sunshadow, but failed. I then fell asleep.

In my dream, I went through a glowy door and entered a banquet hall where my friends were all seated around a beautiful table with a feast large enough to feed a kingdom. Down an extravagant set of stairs comes a dapper red man with horns and a harem of women of all races and sizes. He introduces himself as “The Dream Man” and explains that this is his realm, able to be reached through dreams. He invites us to eat to our heart’s content, so we did. After dinner, The Dream Man handed me a dusty rose-coloured spherical stone, and told me to hold it by my head. It immediately started orbiting. I was told this was called an “Ioun Stone” and that it would protect me.

One of his hand maidens leads me down a hallway to a room with a large “R”on it. We enter and are met with 2 other young handmaidens sitting atop a very large plush bed in what I could only assume were some sort of lace garments.

They beckoned me over to rest atop the bed with them with me confused the entire time. They asked me what I wanted to do, and the first thing that came to mind was braiding hair, so with all braided each others’ hair until we fell asleep.

The next morning I find myself back in the tree from the night before, but I still have the stone orbiting. And Vanta gained a pair of Golden Gauntlets. We remember the night before and continue our journey.