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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 7402839" data-attributes="member: 21169">An exchange from late on in the Dream Game campaign where Jamie really emphasises the importance of investigation.Jamie: I think we have been acting rashly, without knowing what was going on. Before these present difficulties, we used to analyse the situation, work it out and then act. But that's not the way we have proceeded of late. So much has happened so fast that we have been forced to respond without waiting until we had a satisfactory understanding of the situation. From now on it should be - investigation, investigation, investigation. Once we know what's going on, then we decide if and how we can act. Doug: Should we be continuing dream intrusion as part of that investigation, or is that action? Brian: No! Jamie: Perhaps if used carefully and for investigation rather than active interference. Pix: I think it has been getting less useful recently. We've been doing so much of it that, frankly, the information pouring out is becoming contradictory and forever more inconclusive. That situation might be because we're not absorbing it intelligently, or because we're taking on too much all at once, and because we're no longer following our old experimental procedures (in terms of background analysis, briefing and de-briefing). Brian: Let's not dream intrude for a long while. Perhaps even six months. Let's perform a different sort of investigation - looking at McDowell and such like. As far as I can tell, magic <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />s you up. Dream intruding <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />s you up. Even if we continued investigation through dreams I don't think we could honestly say that the conclusions we are coming to are rational, reasonable or scientific or just our progressively confusing subjective perceptions of our ongoing insanity. Why not cease the slide into confusion, and start in another direction - like learning the vocabulary of the world that McDowell thinks he's in?Just like D&D, if the party decided they could no longer enter dungeons because it was driving them insane.</blockquote>

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