[UA] Would you like gas with those fries?

[Patrick Joynt]

I get utterly worthless flashes of precognition -
I'll dream something...
and not remember I dreamed it - usually a scene, a few moments or even 
minutes of time - and then experience, when it happens, a sense of terrible 
deja vu, as I realize that I had *dreamt* this already.
So, worthless, because I don't recall them until they're in the midst of 
being.
UAized:
A) The human mind is a powerful instrument for gathering and collating data. 
Unlike some theories that simply  say the mind is taking all you went 
through in a day and storing it (in weird, eerie form) as you "dream", in 
fact dreaming is the attempt by your mind to take relevant data - say, 
butterfly wings flapping - and determine useful information - say, what a 
conversation with a girl will turn out like.
A scientist gathering information on this has become the center of a fierce 
battle between a cabal of three friends who were blasted awake and left 
behind by 101, a man making a bid to create the Prophet, and another group 
which for shadowy reasons wants the PCs to check it out.
B) What we commonly see as a person's unique gifts relate to how they dream, 
and what enters them from beyond the Veil during those times.  For most 
people, dreaming is in fact a little death, shifting just to the veil, 
encountering its secrets, and skirting back.  An entropomancer and 
thanotomancer cabal has been experimenting by bringing people closer to the 
veil or further, without that person's knowledge, for decades.
C)  Dreams are weird, but in UA if you describe to a player virtually any of 
the things that have been brought up in this list - especially the 
reaccuring things - they'll go after it.  Good lesson in red herrings, or 
cruel GMing?
'gards,
Patrick
"Everbody wants it?
<<smash>>
EVERYBODY LOSES!"
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