Naacal Dancers in the Dreams of Ice

Groups of Naacals came to the Dreams of Ice long ago in order to dance. There, with no music to disturb the purity of their movements except the breath of the wind and the crunching and creaking of the ice and snow; with nothing to influence their thoughts or feelings except vistas of endless white; and with the extremity of the cold forcing them to put themselves through ever-greater exertions in the name of their art, they believed that they could ascend to pinnacles of physical expression higher than they could possibly climb in the Unremembered City.

Whether any of them have achieved this is a matter of opinion. Over the eons each group has, in its isolation, been through schism, revolution, counter-revolution, renaissance, evolution, regression, and return-to-roots, each on many occasions, and has developed innumerable eccentricities and formalities as a result. Over time the obsessions of these groups of Naacal dancers have come to define them, and they now typically no longer dance for enjoyment or even to hone their skills, but rather because they remember how to do almost nothing else.

Dice	Group Composition	Current Dancing Style	Issue
1	Solitary – a single Acrobat (1d6+3 levels) and d3 random servitors	Jerking, frenzied and arrhythmic	Currently in schism (divided into two camps)
2		Utter stillness punctuated by sudden flamboyant motions	Gradually starving due to servitors malfunctioning
3	Small – 1d6 Acrobats, 1d3 Decadents, 1d3 Sorcerers (all 1d3+1 levels, with a 1d6+2 level leader), and 2d6 random servitors	Ballet-like leaps and throws	Fierce conflict with another nearby dance group over a theoretical dispute
4		Uniform and rhythmical, with each dancer performing in carefully choreographed synchronicity	Disturbed by nearby singing dogs who destroy their perfect silence each dawn and dusk
5	Medium – 2d6 Acrobats, 1d6 Decadents, 1d6 Sorcerers (all 1d3+1 levels, with a 1d6+4 level leader), and 2d6 random servitors	Slow, graceful, elegant	Targeted by a band of cannibalistic hunting Figments
6		Primitivist, incorporating animal cries, copulation, and excretion	Feel that they have lost their ability, and that their movements have become trite and ugly
7	Large – 3d6 Acrobats, 1d6+3 Decadents, 1d6+3 Sorcerers (all 1d3+1 levels, with a 1d6+4 level leader), and 4d6 random servitors	Ground-based rolling, writhing and wriggling	Targeted by nearby monstrous Figments
8		Individualistic: each member performs one of the above	Are studying a nearby Figment village to learn new “naturalistic” dance techniques