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In light slumber he descended the seventy steps to the cavern of flame and talked of this design to the bearded priests Nasht and Kaman-Thah. And the priests shook their pshent-bearing heads and vowed it would be the death of his soul. They pointed out that the Great Ones had shown already their wish, and that it is not agreeable to them to be harassed by insistent pleas. They reminded him, too, that not only had no man ever been to Kadath, but no man had ever suspected in what part of space it may lie; whether it be in the dreamlands around our own world, or in those surrounding some unguessed companion of Fomalhaut or Aldebaran. If in our dreamland, it might conceivably be reached, but only three human souls since time began had ever crossed and recrossed the black impious gulfs to other dreamlands, and of that three, two had come back quite mad.
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Of these things was Carter warned by the priests Nasht and Kaman-Thah in the cavern of flame, but still he resolved to find the gods on unknown Kadath in the cold waste, wherever that might be, and to win from them the sight and remembrance and shelter of the marvellous sunset city. He knew that his journey would be strange and long, and that the Great Ones would be against it; but being old in the land of dream he counted on many useful memories and devices to aid him. So asking a formal blessing of the priests and thinking shrewdly on his course, he boldly descended the seven hundred steps to the Gate of Deeper Slumber and set out through the Enchanted Wood.
– The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, H. P. Lovecraft


Welcome, traveller, to the land of dreams. Did you stumble here through a juncture with the waking world? Or did you descend the Seventy Steps of Lighter Slumber to speak with the priests Nasht and Kaman-Thah in the Cavern of Flame and, being found worthy of passage, descend the Seven Hundred Steps of Deeper Slumber to emerge in the Enchanted Wood? If you have stumbled here from the waking world, beware—should you die here, you shall die in the waking world as well.

((To enter the Dreamlands, you need to sleep in the Waking World—i.e. the rest of Dark Rose Academy—and find the aforementioned Seventy Steps of Lighter Slumber. Once you've found them in your first visit to the Dreamlands, don't worry about rehashing that with your subsequent journeys here. If you haven't read any of H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle stories [particularly The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, contact Aglargelair for a brief overview. Do the same if you want to interact with any of the NPCs listed here.

Enjoy your stay in the Land of Dreams! Stay away from the Vale of Pnath in the Underworld!))

Maps:
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Jason Thompson: Color #1
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NPCs:
• Nasht: Priest in the Cavern of Flame.
• Kaman-Thah: Priest in the Cavern of Flame.
• Kuranes: King of the city of Celephaïs.
• Zoogs: Indigenous creatures of the Enchanted Woods. [Image]
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