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subnautica2016-06-17 11:55 pm
bonomial) wrote in subnautica2016-06-17 11:55 pm
Sleep Study | Backdated to like... June 2nd or something hahaha | Open
June 2 - Waking - Telepathy/Action - Primarily for Peridot (but mun welcomes threadjacking)
[Yeah, so Dirk said that nobody should try to be a guinea pig.
Don's never been good with taking that kind of advice. Right now, the dreamscape's making him anxious. What he doesn't understand, he wants to. Normally, he would ask his brothers or his sensei to spot him, to try to reach him on the astral plane - or he'd have them volunteer to be analyzed in his stead, knowing Leo - but he doesn't have that option here.
He can't stay awake forever. He already is having trouble foregoing sleep without coffee.
However, he knows someone who doesn't have to sleep.
So a certain green Dorito is going to get a telepathic message, maybe poorly directed to her because this Turtle is tired:]
Hey, Peridot... can I ask a favour?
[She'll find him in the lab eventually, arranging his cot within range of what passes for their medical bay. Maybe someone else there might wanna know what the heck he's doing?]
June 3 - Sleeping - Action
[Comfortable in the knowledge that he's got someone watching his shell, Don can get to taking in the weirdness of the dreamscape. Everything seems to thrum with life, and on an instinctual level the Turtle feels more at home here than he has almost anywhere else. The ocean is welcoming him.
It feels as if his brothers and his master are with him too, in some capacity. He feels their voices reaching out to him, from the ocean's depths. Even knowing he's asleep, it comes off as achingly real.
If you're wandering around near the base in the dreamscape, you might notice Don floating near it, frowning deeply at the yawning scar left on the seabed.]
So this dream world, or whatever it is, has a smoking wreck where the base is supposed to be. What does that mean...?
June 3 - Waking - Audio
[Comfortable in the knowledge that what he learned about the effect of the dreamscape on their bodies means it's safe, Don makes an announcement.]
Hey, everybody, I've got some good news for anybody who's worried about this weird dream world. [That means you, Stork.] It doesn't seem like it affects our waking bodies any more than a dream normally would.
[A beat.]
It still feels like it's really happening, though, which basically makes it virtual reality. Even if it's not really going to hurt you, I wouldn't pick any fights with the Reapers unless you want a very convincing illusion of pain.
[Yeah, so Dirk said that nobody should try to be a guinea pig.
Don's never been good with taking that kind of advice. Right now, the dreamscape's making him anxious. What he doesn't understand, he wants to. Normally, he would ask his brothers or his sensei to spot him, to try to reach him on the astral plane - or he'd have them volunteer to be analyzed in his stead, knowing Leo - but he doesn't have that option here.
He can't stay awake forever. He already is having trouble foregoing sleep without coffee.
However, he knows someone who doesn't have to sleep.
So a certain green Dorito is going to get a telepathic message, maybe poorly directed to her because this Turtle is tired:]
Hey, Peridot... can I ask a favour?
[She'll find him in the lab eventually, arranging his cot within range of what passes for their medical bay. Maybe someone else there might wanna know what the heck he's doing?]
June 3 - Sleeping - Action
[Comfortable in the knowledge that he's got someone watching his shell, Don can get to taking in the weirdness of the dreamscape. Everything seems to thrum with life, and on an instinctual level the Turtle feels more at home here than he has almost anywhere else. The ocean is welcoming him.
It feels as if his brothers and his master are with him too, in some capacity. He feels their voices reaching out to him, from the ocean's depths. Even knowing he's asleep, it comes off as achingly real.
If you're wandering around near the base in the dreamscape, you might notice Don floating near it, frowning deeply at the yawning scar left on the seabed.]
So this dream world, or whatever it is, has a smoking wreck where the base is supposed to be. What does that mean...?
June 3 - Waking - Audio
[Comfortable in the knowledge that what he learned about the effect of the dreamscape on their bodies means it's safe, Don makes an announcement.]
Hey, everybody, I've got some good news for anybody who's worried about this weird dream world. [That means you, Stork.] It doesn't seem like it affects our waking bodies any more than a dream normally would.
[A beat.]
It still feels like it's really happening, though, which basically makes it virtual reality. Even if it's not really going to hurt you, I wouldn't pick any fights with the Reapers unless you want a very convincing illusion of pain.
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN AUDIO
I've realized that I still don't have as much information as I'd like, so I'm going to continue with taking notes and analyzing my sleep. I'd appreciate the extra help to see if there's anything unique about the dream world's properties. Like... what happens to those dream selves when we're awake?
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Give me a call on the communicator to let me know before you're taking a nap, and I'll track you down dreamside.
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Seems like you know something about this kind of dream world. Has this happened to you before, wherever you're from? [The Turtle is starting to realize that, however they all got here, their 'source worlds' simply can't be the same.]
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It's all basically bullshit and doesn't carry over but it makes adapting to the situation easier.
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So that's why you were worried about risking them. When they were back-ups, they could be damaged.
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Our dream selves were valuable assets that had to be protected as much as possible. [Until like his entire team died over the span of about 15 minutes, whatever.] The other dream 'selves,' which I guess were more mental projections, were fine if they got hurt. The only thing that happens if you die in a dream bubble is you wake up.
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So you had dream selves, which directly influenced your waking bodies, and then virtual versions of those selves that were unrelated to the other dream selves?
In the case here on Iniidae, it seems like these are more like the former, but have the damage-dampening effects of the latter. Whatever's going on, it isn't the same as your world's. [This is something that makes Don's mind race with the possibilities. Nobody he's spoken to yet has their world's properties match Iniidae's... have they all been drawn in from other dimensions?]