Dream Too Darkly |
The webcomic by Dave Voltaggio The Latest
Nightmare:
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WHAT IS THIS? |
Dream Too Darkly
is my second online comic [webcomic]; a hobby for me to satisfy my
creative needs as well as share the peculiarities of my imagination
and nightmares. It's like an online graphic novel. Updated when I get the time & am in the mood. This comic stars a female trapped in a coma, dreaming endlessly and being twisted in her dementia. As the story progresses and The Doctor [& we] learn of things, their details will be explained here; such as monsters and concepts. |
D2D started on 4.6.06 |
The Library:
Meredith Von Mort |
A girl recently afflicted by a
strange epidemic disease putting her in a coma. Her nightmares
are the focus of the story. She is in the Violent Ward of a
hospital because during the brief and sparse times she is awake, she
unconsciously throws violent fits. She is roughly around the
age of 10-12 years old. |
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Meredith's Doctor |
The Ph.D. psychologist looking after Meredith, his new patient. |
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Droma |
Nickname for the "dreaming
coma" caused by the epidemic, first noted 5 years before Meredith's
case. The afflicted fall into a coma and dream intensely,
which can be viewed via Dream Viewer devices. Occasionally the
ill wake up for short spans of time, but are hardly lucid. The
death count has been rising. No cure has been found because
its cause hasn't been solidly determined. |
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The Feinstein Dream Viewer Device |
A prototype apparatus used to
view the dreams of an unconscious person. Invented by the
genius Dr. Gerrmik Feinstein, who focused his intelligence and
natural aptitude for machinery and electronics to create a hybrid
automated device to link with televiewers. |
aka: "D.V.", "D.V. device", "dream viewer", "a Feinstein" |
Monikers |
Creatures with glowing red
eyes, horns, protruding pointy teeth, a thin body, arms much longer than
legs, and claws. They can turn invisible but their eyes and
hands cannot. |
class: MONSTER |
Harlequin: Smokeshadows |
Limber beings of
condensed shadow; they evaporate into smoke constantly. Can
put its hands through a wall or along a floor to cast a shadow
extension of itself and reform its hands on the other side.
Can coat a victim in a numbing shadow that may cause paralysis
and/or unconsciousness, even death. |
class: MONSTER |
Conjure |
A creature in the dreamworld that is conjured intentionally. Magicians, wizards, witches, and spell casters frequently conjure creatures of various types and usefulness. Some are conjured by Meredith's own mind. |
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Fearborn |
A class of creature in Meredith's dreamworld, borne of her fear. The more scared she is, the more power it has which can lead to, of course, a bad snowball effect. Confronting and being unafraid of one causes it to vanish. |
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Inhabitant |
Any creature with its own on-going life within the dreamworld. Humans are inhabitants, as would be fish and trees. |
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Spawn |
From nothing and usually by no trigger, a creature is Spawned. It just appears into existence in the dream. |
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