Nightmare Ball.

[Nate]

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All I'm saying, is the Black Spiral's got nothing on me! Silly two dimension thinkers.

One of these days, I'll figure out what I should sell them for.

[Nate]

The story behind the nightmare ball.

When the human race was still young, and lived as much in dream-time as the breathing world, we feared nightmares as much as we loved to dream.

The young warriors and wise shamans, the young women and old fathers, every newborn and dying hunter of our race were so intertwined with this other world, that they approached the great spirit Spider to find a way to protect themselves from the dark side. This is why we know how to make dream-catchers, and why they are still so popular to this very day.

But keeping the bad out wasn't enough for some shamans, they wanted to keep both the darkest desires and the brightest hopes trapped till they could study them. In this line of thought, they created a sphere out of hoops, and wove a double spiral to keep the dreams and nightmares dancing and falling throughout the nights and days. Nothing could escape the ball, and we, as a race, reduced the creatures of the dream-world to nothing more than shadows and smoke.

Nothing can escape a nightmare ball while it is whole. However, if one breaks, then the prison gates are swung open wide, and everything, good and bad, is free to roam the world again.

Be cautious, you never know what lurks in the spirals of my creation.