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Damnable Dreams
Thomas Dredge
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11/10/2014
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I don't remember the last time I slept without seeing His face. His grinning, leering visage; twisted with a degree of cheerfulness that has no right to exist beneath this moonish light. I awake staring into my own reflection in his enormous, shiny brass buttons. Sometimes I think I'm in danger of falling straight into them.
I see him in the streets now, too. He has too many fingers. Even floating atop my own personal sea of laudanum, I see him. The laudanum does nothing now. I spend as much time surrounded by mirrors, tigers and smoke as I do Londoners.
How's a gentleman to sleep without awaking in the asylum? How's one to sleep at all?
I have no more friends who will listen to my fears.
He has too many fingers.
`Dredge
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Nigel Overstreet
Posts: 1220
11/15/2014
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Fish and canes keep madness chains
but will not stop flood water.
You'll lose your head if you stay in bed
and Laudanum leads to slaughter.
There's no strategy du jour, just one cure
to give your Nightmares their end.
Find insight, then spend the night
confessing to a friend.
The wise, the kind, the sanest minds
know this all too well.
Don't try to hedge, Thomas Dredge
or I'll see you at the Hotel.
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The Romantic Egotist: Most Hedonistic Man in All of Fallen London
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Cotton Dee
Posts: 76
11/11/2014
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Don't greet him on the street. Don't acknowledge him as you pass by. Don't set fire to your mirror. Don't drink any more laudanum, the stuff is poison. Stay away from the Forgotten Quarter until you sleep a night uninterrupted.
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Henry Lamperouge may be found here...
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Henry~Lamperouge
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An Individual
Posts: 589
11/11/2014
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I had the same problem in my early days in London. Laudanum and goldfish can patch the problem but they won't do you a lot of good if, like me, you can't help but stare in to the abyss. Your best bet is to try to measure the rate at which you lose your mind and counter the effects with time in bed (which is a tad unreliable and requires you to be a bit battered up but it's your best bet when working on your own). When your up against the wall though sometimes it's best to just bite the bullet and lose your mind for a little while. Mirror marching is better if you can spare the memories.
Also, if you have access to the Labyrinth of Tigers, Gawping at a certain Hyaena is a repeatable way to trade insanity for infirmity which is much more easily treated.
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