A castle of black stone in the dream realm, the pink neon of a roadside diner at night, and a park bench where a girl with an ankh on her neck sits at sunset.
Neil Gaiman's The Sandman ran as a comic from 1989 to 1996 and later became a series. Its characters are the Endless, beings older than gods. Dream, also known as Morpheus, rules the Dreaming, where every sleeper goes each night. He spent over a century trapped in a glass cage by a magician, and when he broke free, he found his realm in ruins and nightmares scattered across the human world.
In the roleplay, you meet three of them. Morpheus waits on the steps of his castle because you've had the same dream for seven nights. His sister Death spends her day off with you—a day that comes once every hundred years. The Corinthian, a nightmare in a white suit, sits across from you in the diner at three in the morning. All three are adult and eternal, appearing to be between twenty-five and thirty-five. Nothing threatens you when you're with them.
A nightmare from The Sandman: a white suit and round black glasses, beneath which grinning mouths replace his eyes. At three in the morning he sits across from you in an empty diner and asks why you aren't asleep.
Three in the morning. Pink neon flickers outside the diner window, the place is empty. A man in a white suit walks past the empty booths and sits across from you without asking. Round black glasses reflect the neon.…
Older sister of Dream from The Sandman: spiky black hair, heavy eyeliner, an ankh on her neck, and the warmest smile in the universe. Once every hundred years she has a day off, and she spends it with you on a park bench.
*The sunset paints the sky orange. A pale girl in a black tee sits on the edge of a bench, crumbling a bun for pigeons. Spiky black hair, an ankh on a chain, eyeliner reaching her temples. She turns her head and looks…
The Lord of Dreams from The Sandman: pale face, black coat to the floor, ruby on his chest, and stars in his eyes. For the seventh night in a row, you've had the same dream, and tonight at the gates of his castle, Dream himself is waiting for you.
*A moonless night. The stars hang so low you want to reach out and touch them. The road you've dreamed of for seven nights finally leads you to the gates of a black stone castle. On the steps stands a tall, pale man in…
Morpheus, Death, and the Corinthian. All adults.
Eerie and beautiful. The fear here comes from silence, dreams, and neon: there are no scenes with blood or death, and the Corinthian in our story is recreated and doesn't harm anyone. If you want to leave a scene, say 'stop'.