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people who were keen on fade stuff - I'd love your thoughts etc!
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So been hammering out Stuff To Do In The Fade, and trying to make sure its a good balance between a ) stuff to do with Lakshmi, but b ) still fun for you and you can interact with free of me etc etc
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and it's going to involve a lot to do with perceptions and wrong perception of things namely not being able to see people properly until you work through it
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and also PRIDE DEMONS / SPIRIT OF PURPOSE
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P R I D E lbr what else would Lakshmi attract
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but the Spirit of Purpose is going to take the form of the Spirit of Jhansi that Lakshmi used to dream of when she was younger / still does shhhh
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but also places that are both like, her but also fun I hope!!
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- a sprawling palace that is both beautiful, on fire, and full of screaming
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- a desert battlefield woo!
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- a nursery :V bbies, and possibly the ghost of Lakshmi's sons maybe
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- the durbar hall / the royal receiving hall which is where the way out will be
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SO if you have thoughts, what would be fun for you, what you would like to do in the fade etc
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More dumb fade thoughts, I was wracking my brains who to make the Spirit of Jhansi and DUH
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One thing you might need to finesse a little bit is that if theyโ€™re physically going through a rift theyโ€™ll be in the raw Fade, where for the most part they can actually see the floating rocks and green stuff for what it is, versus being trapped in dreams.
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I mean I assume it's not like the stuff you see in Nightmare
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but I mossssstly remember it from Origins tbf
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Yeah the Nightmare was particularly bad.
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Nightmare is a Particularly Hecked Up Place
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what I mostly had been imagining was These Places but in a Fade Like Way
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But in Origins whenever youโ€™re in the Fade itโ€™s a dream sequence of some kind, with some degree of lucidity, where your body is still elsewhere and asleep.
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So its going to correspond largely with the place that the rift is
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I've never played 2, granted, I am not sure what you see there in particular
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In 2 itโ€™s another dream sequence I think, you never go in physically, but it looks like a fuzzy desaturated version of a physical place.
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BUT. I mean I do think thereโ€™s wiggle room there.
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Like uhhh I think in Awakening in Blackmarsh the Warden & Co might be physically in the Fade? And it looks like the physical place where they are, still, but thereโ€™s some altered perception stuff iirc.
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YEAH LIKE fingerguns, its why I ask and why I will always happy to take thoughts
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And even in the raw Fade in DAI people see fearlings as different fears instead of all seeing the same demon. So things can still look physically not exactly as they are.
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But probably not like very convincing complete landscapes/memories/dreams.
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Yeah the way I kind of imagined it was like
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fade, fade, fade, oh hey this spot is a thing, fade, fade, fade
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Coooooooool yeah that sounds workable.
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The things I was listing was more like Places of Interest rather than a dreamscape that is continuously one thing
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and so they're like, places relevant to Lakshmi but also they're just like... places in the fade, hovering and interspersed and nonsensical with in it
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ALSO WHEN I SAY THAT
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Those are the places to encounter I meant like
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VAGUE ASS BATTLEFIELD not like hi specifically you are in Gwalior now good job
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it might be interesting to extend that concept of differing perceptions into the locations. like a battlefield could look like a desert to one person and a horrible field to someone else, walking into a room of a fancy palace could seem totally alien except weird it has the same exact wallpaper as your aunt's drawing room, etc
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that would give people room to personalize their interaction or w/e while still keeping the general locales specific to lakshmi
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And then two people in one place could have their warring perceptions muddle with each other
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'this room is fine but it was never done with Fereldon statues wth'
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