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Re: day 248

[audacity]

[ following to ore's room!

earnestly, ]

It's great that you're never too old for romance.

Re: day 248

[throughbamboo]

I'll try not to get distracted.

[he shuts the door behind them and goes to the bulletin board on the wall - it's covered in notes, sketches and different project ideas - what you'd expect on a Forge's board.

Except he pulls that front board off, revealing a second board underneath]

Re: day 248

[doggonemad]

[ flops down on Ore's big bed, watching Aster to see his reaction. ]

Re: day 248

[audacity]

Your wall board has a wall board?

Re: day 248

[throughbamboo]

Can't exactly leave all this out for anyone to see, y'know? Folks'll start thinkin' 'm crazy.

Re: day 248

[doggonemad]

Braaaaaainwashed.

Re: day 248

[audacity]

...okay, good point.

[ wanders over to look at the notes, frowning slightly as he does ]

What's the dream theory?

Re: day 248

[throughbamboo]

[nods to Gray]

Bro thinks we could be in a dream.

Seein' as it's his theory, I'll let him explain it.

Re: day 248

[doggonemad]

Right, my dream theory.

[ gestures vaguely. ]

Basically, it's the theory that our consciousnesses were pulled in through our dreams into bodies that fit the "Estorian" narrative. Or this whole damn thing is one big dreamspace, take yer pick. That's why some people are changin' as they get visions — it's reality reassertin' itself.

[ shrugs! ]

Under that theory, it'd explain why we can't die, 'cause our physical bodies ain't actually here. An' also why some people just fall into those comas. They ain't sleepin', they're actually awake in the real world, so the bodies here are "asleep."

Ticki-chan wouldn't confirm or deny that theory, so we're keepin' it on the board.

Re: day 248

[audacity]

[ uncertainly, but not dismissive, ]

You aren't supposed to be able to feel pain in dreams.

Re: day 248

[throughbamboo]

Yer not. But we're havin' entire lives shoved in our heads, wouldn't who or whatever's doin' it want us to believe they're real? An' pain is pretty damn real.

Re: day 248

[doggonemad]

Skill issue.

Re: day 248

[audacity]

[ SKILL ISSUE????? ]

I meant more like, with the performances. Those feel pretty vivid.

Re: day 248

[throughbamboo]

[to Gray, lightly]

Yer a skill issue.

No kiddin' they feel vivid, though. But vivid dreams ain't so weird, either.

Re: day 248

[doggonemad]

[ i said what i said. ]

Yeah, I've had 'em before. An' it could be something equally fucked up, like not necessarily a dream but somethin' else.

Re: day 248

[audacity]

I mean, you have a serious point. The dream theory makes a lot of sense.

It's just also mega scary. Buuuut so is basically everything about this place.

Re: day 248

[throughbamboo]

Yeah, any theory we come up with is gonna be scary.

We could just be in some other world. [glances at Gray] We've done that before.

Re: day 248

[doggonemad]

Yeahhhh, but people's bodies didn't change that much there. Kinda makes ya wonder how that's happenin'.

Re: day 248

[audacity]

Do I wanna ask?

Re: day 248

[throughbamboo]

To be fair, we were ourselves there from the get go.

We got visions of us bein' in a different world from ours, kid.

Re: day 248

[doggonemad]

Buncha sheep an' shit. Real pastoral. I'd take smoke breaks on the roof of a barn.

Re: day 248

[audacity]

That sounds...

Quick question, there weren't any Cyclopes around, were there?

Re: day 248

[throughbamboo]

Cyclopes?

[shakes his head]

Nothin' like that. Just a bunch of kids, 'sides from the sheep.

Re: day 248

[doggonemad]

Unless yer countin' meeeeeee.

Re: day 248

[audacity]

[ HATES THAT HE LAUGHS BEFORE HE CAN STOP HIMSELF ]

— uh, no, definitely not. It sounded a little like a place I've seen once, but guess it wasn't the same thing.