Weird Dreams Novella

The general plot behind the game was cooked up by Herman Serrano, Tony King and James Hutchby. However, the brief given to Rupert Goodwins for the novella that lead up to the start of the game was simple. All that was asked of him was that the novella had to end with the main character on the operating table. The author was otherwise given a free hand to write whatever he wanted to help set the scene for the game:

Soon after dark, Emily cries. She'd been monitoring Steve's dream from her bedsit and playing her part in it; telepathy was a minor bit of magic and not one that was particularly dangerous. But she detected a Force nearby, alive, awake and very hungry. There was always a chance that something like this would come around; she doubted that it knew anything about her and normally it would wander off again on its eternal quest for soulstuff. But while it was in her area she could do nothing out of the ordinary; she withdrew her mindprobe delicately and started to prepare defences. just in case.

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Weird Dreams novella (txt)