“You know that feeling when you wake up? Horrified or thrilled, soaked to the bone with sweat and shaking with fear or excitement, riding high on an endorphin rush. You want to hold on to that feeling, you want to remember what it was that made you feel so intensely, that made you understand that secret that's always nagged at you from just beyond your comprehension. The incredible freedom of flying! That devastating embarrassment of spilling your most intimate secrets. You've never seen anything so beautiful and so staggeringly hideous.

You would want to return to that dream, want to fall asleep again. You shudder at the idea of never sleeping again. But you can't. You can't hold on to your nocturnal revelation for long. It's already fading, and within a second or two you've lost a whole world of beautiful and terrible things...”



SOMNAMBULISTS is a prose-oriented panfandom roleplaying game with AU elements set in the multiversal world of dreams; the game features an emphasis on character development and exploring the mysteries of the dream world. As is the nature of dreams, stability is only an illusion; the place and time the characters inhabit can and will shift, and the characters may discover that they themselves and even the worlds they originally came from are more malleable than they seem...