In the Land of Dreams, the young Noop Rufus can’t hold down a job, his daydreaming bringing him into conflict with his employers. On the advice of his friend Amberley, Rufus becomes the assistant of the Dream Maker, the creator of dreams and holder of the most powerful object in the land: The Dreamstone. On the other side of the world, beyond the Mists of Limbo, lie the Land of Nightmares. In this scarred kingdom, deep within the Black Mountain of Viltheed, the mighty Lord Zordrak wishes to gain the powerful Dreamstone so that his nightmare inducing Argorribles may reign. To this end he sends his dimwitted Urpney soldiers, lend by Sergeant Blob, through the mists to steal it.