Dream the final dream (The Bishop of Southwark)

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From: For the Last Time


This is the dream of a time when the struggle against Hell has resolved, somehow or other. The fight is done. Your husband's work is through.


Success

Yes. That is how it would be

[varies, see table below]

...and then you come back to yourself. You still possess the pale near-green gem. It cannot lead you into any further visions, but the colour has deepened, and something slithers at its heart if you stare long enough.

Success Instructions: This was the last of your Viric dreams. If you'd like to dream again, you may purchase another from the Shopkeeper in Veilgarden.

Subject of a Trance-DreamFirst Paragraph
51 - 52[…] For a year or two, you think he may be able to enjoy a well-earned rest. Then one day you come home to find him enraged over some new pamphlet. What is this? Heresy! Schism! Cult! The Church of the New Sequence! […] so it all begins again, as before.
54You have moved out. The Bishop had taken to questioning whether you ever should have married. […] So you left. It's better this way, probably. You avoid the area of Southwark and assure yourself that you regret nothing.
55By old age, you have learned a great deal of theology yourself, and the combination of that topic with your own expertise results in a set of scholastically acclaimed monographs. The Bishop is proud of you.
56[…] you have learned a great deal of theology […] your […] expertise results in a set of scholastically acclaimed monographs. There's some professional jealousy at the breakfast table, and a little suppressed rancor whenever he spots your work at the bookshop.
59By old age, he hardly knows who or what he is. […] In his present state, he genuinely has no firmly held beliefs. Sometimes he asks: did you do this to rescue him from foolish delusion? Or did you simply enjoy having such a plaything?