Dreams of a Child

The Coin Faction

1/6/2022

Age: 24

In my dream...

I lived in an underground society where the way to get to each section was connected by a continuously running train system. The stations were always busy and bustling because whatever one section lacked, another surely had.

I start as a a normal girl just out shopping with her friends until I see my grandfather frantically wandering around the store I'm in. When he catches sight of me, he shoves toward me a handful of change, rambling that, "It's too late",  "He needs to be somewhere",  "I have to keep the coins safe",  "DONT LOSE THE COINS". When I take them from him, he runs back out into the crowd leaving me no time for questions. I bring the coins back to my friends, show them, and we laugh about it. My grandfather has always been a little on the crazy and delusional side, but this is just ridiculous.

I set the coins in my pocket and continue on with my day.

Or at least I try.

Three heavily built women rush my group and tackle me to the ground. My friends scatter. They ask me if I've seen my grandfather. Did he say anything to me, did he give anything to me? I take out some of the coins, and they take them from me.

Rubbing a gold and silver piece together, a white crossbow with four nocked arrows appears in one of the women's hand. Another shakes me, asking if that was all I had. Quite dumbfounded, I just nod in affirmative, even though that's far from the truth.

Having gotten what they wanted from me, the women leave me alone and go off in search of my grandfather.

That marks the start of my great adventure through the sections where I'll have to make my way through the different train stations using the powers in coins I still have, collecting more from my grandfather's loyal factions all in order to rescue him and discover the secret behind these coins and maybe the underground society itself.

Bonus scenes...

One

A common thief, a boy no older than thirteen steals a pair of my coins. I chase him through stations until he runs up a steep hill at the last station in the society. He's more spry than me and able to take on the unsure footing with ease. To prevent me from following him, he uses the coins to summon a beast that attacks me at the bottom of the hill and throws me off his trail until I can defeat the summon.

Two

I am reunited with a childhood friend who is a part of the faction against my grandfather. He attempts to convince me to join their side, but when I refuse he decides to kill me. Having obvious military training, there is no way I can take him on in a fair fight. Thankfully before this encounter, I had discovered that one of the coin pairs would allow me to plant its gold counterpart somewhere and the silver would teleport me to it. Using this power, I escape my former friend's deadly advances and go on the run.