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[bonomial]

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.

Comments

[bonomial]

[The pumpkins can wait, because... yeah, this is somewhat more important. He glances out in the same direction that Roxy is looking, as if the inky blackness would manifest into something he can understand.]

Define... 'something'. Like... a person? A place?

Or something more abstract?

Whatever it is, though, I'm guessing it's dangerous. [Isn't it always?]

[voidkatini]

It's alive, whatever it is? And huge.

[ Roxy smiles reassuringly. ]

I don't get the feeling it's dangerous, though. What makes you think that?

[bonomial]

It's an unfortunate tendency in my life. [The edge of his beak quirks in a sort of self-conscious half-smile.]

Something alive, huh... we can only guess at what kinds of life exist on this planet. Even back on Earth, scientists didn't know much about the deep ocean.

[voidkatini]

Hahaaa, that they most certainly did not. I read the histories... so sad that humanity never got the chance to find out what's down there.

[ If only they knew of the tyrannical monsters that could dwell in the deep. ]

I wonder about that a lot-- how far science coulda gone? But uhh. Wow, that's too heavy. Don't mean to be a downer, brah.

[bonomial]

[Tyrannical or not, Don can't help but be fascinated by all the amazing possibilities.

... That wording has a lot of possibilities too, and pretty much all of them are bad.]

Are you saying... something happened to humanity in your world?

[There's an undercurrent of horror in Don's voice. He's seen things. He's seen... terrible things.]

[voidkatini]

[ Roxy's so nonchalant about it, but to be fair, she never experienced the apocalypse herself. Humanity being nearly extinct has been a fact of her life since day one. ]

Yeah. No people whatsoever in my world, 'cept for me n' my bro Dirk. It's kinda a moot point though since it kiiiinda went 'asplodey? It's gone now.

[ nbd ]

[bonomial]

Shell.

[He really doesn't know how to respond to that, closing up a little as he knits his arms across his plastron.]

After coming from a future so bleak, I'm not surprised that you don't seem afraid of anything here. [But this young teenager is nothing like the war-hardened April he remembers from the bad future.]

[voidkatini]

[ Roxy looks pensive for a moment. She is nonchalant about the apocalypse, but she has very strong feelings about the unknown, and is not shy to set the record straight on her feelings there. ]

Nah, I just don't think it's worth bein' afraid of everything here just 'cause it's some big huge "unknown", and happens to be unconventionally attractive and lives in the dark.

[ She swears she didn't have it that bad, so help her. ]

[bonomial]

[That's one way to put it. The Turtle turns that over in his head, especially the 'unconventionally attractive' part. Huh.]

I guess you're right that we shouldn't be judging whatever it is before we can really figure out what it wants. I've run into friends into some strange places before.

Still, it feels kinda ominous to me. But I guess that might just be from not understanding it yet.