Question: Kish'Ta"Is it possible to bring Beings and creatures incapable of dream traveling into a subjects dream; furthermore, have you or anyone of your clan ever used this tandem dream traveling or even more radical techniques to infiltrate the subconscious and extract or plant information?"

What a very peculiar question and what a very peculiar person you are.  Some of your question makes no sense to me, is this an attempt to confuse me or insult me? I am not sure. Be thankful you asked via letter where you are safe from repurcussions.

To start with, dream traveling is not something that anyone is incapable of. If anyone has the right knowledge and magical mastery, they are fully capable of mimicking the techniques. It's just that some creatures have a NATURAL ability.  Which I suppose frustrates some since it usually requires quite a bit of mental mastery to handle learning such techniques.  However I would really not recommend bringing other individuals who lack such a mastery into another person's dreamstate. Odds are their complete incompetence will just simply wake the individual up, but there is a risk that it could cause serious harm to one of the various parties involved. Or at least attract some more unsavory creatures who simply ADORE novice astral wanderers.  Part of the technique is about stealth afterall. If you have someone a bit stupid and new to the experience, they tend to lack any stealth which means you may as well dream yourself some delectable sauces to lather over your tasty mental bodies as your minds become a host for a parasitic astral walker. Teeheehee! So please, by all means invite all your friends!

As for the information of my clan using dream traveling or radical techniques, we tend to primarily use dreams and the like as a food source rather than anything.  Dreams are so incredibly fragile and freeflowing it is difficult to really plant or extract anything that is useful.  The individual when waking has a high chance of dismissing anything you tried to put in there or simply forgetting it.  And gathering information tends to be more of a puzzle game than anything precise. With a lot of time and patience and a quick wit of your own you can possibly put together the information you are seeking...but in dreams you are just as easily mislead.

On the alternate side though, an individual is capable of slowly laying groundwork for thoughts and feelings.  The main problem most have is they try to make things far too precise. They try to give direct commands or instructions and so it never holds.  But slowly putting down an emotional groundwork like associating something like...bugs...with fear.  Doing this over and over and over again in someones dream does slowly cause the individual to have a somewhat negative reaction to bugs in real life.  The inverse can be done as well, this is actually one of the methods in which some of my clan members help resolve phobias.  It's far easier to attach an emotion to a concept than it is to put direct information.

The thing to remember about dreams is that much like thought reading, the individual viewing in does not have quite as much control over the subject.  With dreams one can shift some dials, but it's best to think about the mind as the ground beneath and a dream as the ocean atop it.  While you can swim around in the ocean above, you can't really go deep below the ground.  You can even alter the ocean you swim in...but dear sweet little writer of this letter, always be on the lookout for the sharks.

Hugs and Kisses!
-Kish'Ta

















Question:  Piflak How does the link between you and your clan (or any tri-winged leader and their clan) work; specifically, how does it allow leaders to enforce regulations on a clan members behaviors, such as their procreation and relationships, and how does its strength vary with how Being-like that clan member is (whether or not they still eat/sleep/dream/etc)?


Good afternoon curious writer,

I am flattered though not surprised you sought out my insight regarding a subject such as this.  A great many of the clans do seem to present an assortment of chaos which would make it seem like the lot of us are fairly disorganized. I do confess though that a great deal of that is likely intentional since it offers a limited amount of protection. The more an enemy knows of our abilities and practices, the more they are able to use that against us.  However I have been given word that you are in fact a trustworthy individual so let us proceed.

The link between a clan leader and her clan is a powerful thing, but also has a degree of flexibility to it.  In a lot of ways it is customizable and often varies depending on the method of ascension, the power the clan leader has, and the manner in which they extend their powers.  While it is -possible- for a clan leader to directly enforce their clan member's behaviors...it is highly unrecommended.  That kind of influence not only breeds discontent from your clan and thus resistance...which I should mention is something clan members can do. That is after all one of the factors that influenced Zezzuva to overthrow her sister and take the clan for herself.  But it also can greatly dominate your own power and resources.  Several clans in history ended up falling simply because the clan leader became obessed and paranoid thus began trying to enforce outlandish principles onto their clan members.

Using my clan as an example, I have made it a rule that I only wish to have the same amount of clan members as my age in the thousands. This helps me manage and distribute my powers and energies in such a way that it benefits my clan members to their maximum potential. When a member is elderly, they will often give one of their own descendants their blessing to have a child.  However, I do not exert anything over my members to make them incapable of having children or such.  Instead I have given them all the knowledge that should they have a child unblessed and once that child comes to age and I am able to sense them via their clan connection to me, I will simply trace their lineage back and the responsible parent's life shall be forfeit.  As of this time however that has never been an issue.  My clan has always had the understanding and insight to not go against my wishes. In exchange their lives are longer and of better quality than the average cubi and they desire for nothing.  Far superior to many clans who seem to only care for expansion and populating their masses with as many offspring as they can muster.

As for your second half of the question, I confess I am not entirely sure what you meant.  A great deal of clan members become so due to a Cubi being a partner to a being, so it has little effects once the child becomes a Cubi.  The strength is more based on how strong their connection is to their leader.   As for eating, sleeping, and what have you...that type of practice seems to fade out simply due to the individuals own volition as they embrace their more magical nature.  However it is to my understanding that there are Cubi who restrict their magical nature and thus the dependency on such things returns.

I hope this has been informative for you.  Take care and I wish you the best of luck in your various pursuits of knowledge.
-Piflak