Dreamself Epistemology

<dreambobbedNonsense> [Grunt, and smash a fist out to the side, knocking the generic Dersite Assassin away from you and into a wall.]
<dreambobbedNonsense> [Feel at your throat. You're barely scratched. Snort with derision.]
* dreambobbedNonsense has connected to the memo!
<dreambobbedNonsense> well /that/ was a moronic way to be woken up
<dreambobbedNonsense> it's kinda weird, they're like squishy and brittle at the same time
<dreambobbedNonsense> squiiiiish
<alkalineTonic> What happened?
<dreambobbedNonsense> just some lil derse punk trying to shiv me
<dreambobbedNonsense> helloooo~ merrrrciful~
<dreambobbedNonsense> how you doin'?
<alkalineTonic> Curiouszly.
<dreambobbedNonsense> mrrr?
<alkalineTonic> I have heard of your recent eszcapadesz in exploring your new anatomy, and am not szure what to think about it.
<dreambobbedNonsense> oooh right
<dreambobbedNonsense> wakin' me is fussing so much, she's being /ridiculous/
<dreambobbedNonsense> pity she don't wanna come join me, i could probably show her how much fun explorin' is~
<alkalineTonic> On the one hand, I cannot reaszonably expect you or her to sztay completely faithful, given the szlim likelihood of usz rerolling together.
<alkalineTonic> On the other, I am quite upszet with you.
<dreambobbedNonsense> aww
<alkalineTonic> I szupposze I can be unreaszonable at timesz.
<dreambobbedNonsense> replayer monogamy is a silly thing, unless you're gonna do it serial monogamy style
<dreambobbedNonsense> and that's bluh bluh cos it means i can't have youuuu
<alkalineTonic> And to think, if I had only known of your intentionsz I could have disztracted you with a number of thingsz.
<dreambobbedNonsense> mrrrr oh rrreally~?
<alkalineTonic> But at the moment I am thinking your realszelf would appreciate them more.
* dreambobbedNonsense snorts
<dreambobbedNonsense> but she's a boring bitch
<dreambobbedNonsense> so /fussy/ and /whiny/
<dreambobbedNonsense> and won't get /over/ anything
* dreamepinephrineElectrified has joined the memo!
<alkalineTonic> Hello.
<dreambobbedNonsense> hellooo!
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> And a good dick to you too, sir and/or madam.
<dreambobbedNonsense> ma'am here!
<dreambobbedNonsense> though i got a troll dick now!
<dreambobbedNonsense> it's excellent fun!
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> What?
<alkalineTonic> Ma'am, pleasze.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Oh, right.
* alkalineTonic facepalmsz
<dreambobbedNonsense> here, i got a picture...
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Look
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I know what troll anatomy looks like
<alkalineTonic> Szally, kindly do not poszt a public picture of your new anatomy.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> You don't need to show me
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> OK?
<dreambobbedNonsense> no but you don't know what /my/ bulge looks like
<dreambobbedNonsense> no i'll send it to him
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I'm monosexual anyway.
<dreambobbedNonsense> won't be public!
<dreambobbedNonsense> wait i'll send one to you too
* dreamepinephrineElectrified PMs alkalineTonic (What the fuck is going on?)
* alkalineTonic PMs dreamEpinephrineElectrified (Dreamszelf glitch plus a lack of inhibitionsz normally aszszociated with the extraordinarily drunk)
* dreambobbedNonsense has sent dreamepinephrineElectrified and alkalineTonic file "oohtentacles.png"! ((NSFW WARNING, MUSS STAY OUT http://imgur.com/YnYs5Ty ))
* dreamepinephrineElectrified has declined file transfer!
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Like I said. I don't need to know.
* alkalineTonic PMs dreamEpinephrineElectrified (I am trying to convince her not to do anything horrifically embarraszszing.)
<dreambobbedNonsense> r00d
<dreambobbedNonsense> merrrciful, u gon look~?
* dreamepinephrineElectrified PMs alkalineTonic (Should I help?)
* alkalineTonic PMs dreamEpinephrineElectrified (I could usze szome help, yesz pleasze.)
<alkalineTonic> I might, after I have had a talk with your real szelf.
<dreambobbedNonsense> awww
<dreambobbedNonsense> i tell youuu she's not gonna let me do /anything/ fun
<dreambobbedNonsense> oh wait
<dreambobbedNonsense> except she can't stop me~~~
<dreambobbedNonsense> ooh
<dreambobbedNonsense> you know what
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Um.
<dreambobbedNonsense> i think /feytah/ is around your blood colour
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> [> Dream!Epi: Panic.]
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Uh. Sally?
<dreambobbedNonsense> terese is lovely and warm, but
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> You should probably
<dreambobbedNonsense> hmmm?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Maybe the Dersites will like it better.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I hear if you mod them right they're seduceable?
<dreambobbedNonsense> nawww i can't fuck a dersite
<dreambobbedNonsense> not yet
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> [Oh god what are you doing]
<dreambobbedNonsense> i'd need wakingSally to cooperate, cos i can't do the prose right
<dreambobbedNonsense> and she's not strong enough
<dreambobbedNonsense> she's really really shit at the practical applications of Rage anyway
<dreambobbedNonsense> all talk and no walk
<alkalineTonic> ...
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Do you think you could help her?
<dreambobbedNonsense> i've /tried/
<dreambobbedNonsense> but we just ended up fighting last time i tried that
<dreambobbedNonsense> probably a good thing i wasn't a troll then
<dreambobbedNonsense> i think i'd prolly rip her in half now if she tried that again
<alkalineTonic> I would greatly appreciate it if you did not.
<dreambobbedNonsense> oh don't worry, i won't
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I didn't mean, in the "loosen up" sense. I meant in the -
<dreambobbedNonsense> but hey
<dreambobbedNonsense> if i do?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Oh god.
<dreambobbedNonsense> and i make her become me?
<dreambobbedNonsense> maybe she /will/ be more fun!
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Then your personality will disappear.
<dreambobbedNonsense> ugh that's right
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> The waking self's personality overwrites the dreamself.
<dreambobbedNonsense> ok that's a shitty plan never mind
<dreambobbedNonsense> how do i fix that?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Um
* tenebrousPsycher idled out!
<dreambobbedNonsense> we'll be much happier that way
<dreambobbedNonsense> i /know/ it
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> [> Epi: Continue to panic.]
<alkalineTonic> ...you would erasze Szally?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Some people like you, but others like her.
<dreambobbedNonsense> well it's not like she's very interesting
<alkalineTonic> I would very greatly /un/appreciate that.
<dreambobbedNonsense> you know how people recced her for moderator?
<dreambobbedNonsense> "reliable but boring"
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<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Do you know what the word "reactionary" means?
<dreambobbedNonsense> helloo!
<dreambobbedNonsense> of course i do!
<alkalineTonic> You szeem to be underesztimating how valuable reliability isz.
<dominoFeatherweight> Hello, Sally. }:)
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> It means that the crazier you act, the less waking-you will want to be like you.
<dominoFeatherweight> I hope that you are well?
<dreambobbedNonsense> yes but you can be reliable and /fun/
<dreambobbedNonsense> oh i'm doing /great/
<dreambobbedNonsense> i got laid!
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> If you act only a /little/ bit looser than she is, then she'll be more likely to follow in your footsteps!
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> ...Did you ask permission?
<dreambobbedNonsense> terese was fine with it!
<dominoFeatherweight> Oh, my.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I meant, of your waking self.
<dreambobbedNonsense> waking me not so much, but we've established she's a lil shit
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> That's /horrifying/ -
<alkalineTonic> No we have not.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> [> Epi: No no you didn't mean to say that]
<dominoFeatherweight> Waking Sally decided to take a chance on me.
<dreambobbedNonsense> well /i/ have established as much
<dreambobbedNonsense> yes because she needed mods
<dreambobbedNonsense> she needs more of them too, i'm gonna make a note for her
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> And "assume" makes an ass out of u and me.
<dreambobbedNonsense> oh i didn't assume
<dreambobbedNonsense> i knew she wouldn't like it
<dreambobbedNonsense> i just don't care
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Did you confirm with other people -
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> That's /horrible/ epistemology.
<dominoFeatherweight> Oh, dear.
<dreambobbedNonsense> eheheee
<dreambobbedNonsense> we never liked that class anyway
* dreamepinephrineElectrified PMs "Ross Eberhardt" (Please talk to your moderator bobbedNonsense immediately. She seems to have a... um. Rogue dreamself?)
<alkalineTonic> What do you mean szhe needsz more modsz?
* openSystem has joined the memo
<dominoFeatherweight> For Ribbit, I presume.
<dreambobbedNonsense> both here and elsewhere!
<dreambobbedNonsense> hiya bash!
<dominoFeatherweight> Salutations.
<dreambobbedNonsense> ribbit needs more care
<openSystem> Heya
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Ah! Hello, ~$.
<dreambobbedNonsense> she wants to expand, she wants to move it away from Pits
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Fancy seeing you here.
<dreambobbedNonsense> but she's just /stalling/
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Um
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Would you like me to talk to waking you?
<dreambobbedNonsense> and making little stupid black advances on Molech instead
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Waking me to waking you, I mean?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> What
<dominoFeatherweight> I can help remind her and talk to her about it, when you are awake.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I don't want to know. I don't want to know.
<openSystem> ...what did I walk into
<dreambobbedNonsense> naww, she knows where she wants to move it
<dreambobbedNonsense> me revealing aaaall my waking self's plans!
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Sally appears to have a dreamself that's a bit. Um. Light in the head.
<dominoFeatherweight> Oh, dear. He's rather an unpleasant person.
<openSystem> also yo, god-king
<dreambobbedNonsense> cos she really doesn't need to keep quiet about it
<dreambobbedNonsense> by the /way/
<dreambobbedNonsense> terese is /lovely/
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Yeah? What?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> ...
<openSystem> ...yes, yes she is
<dreambobbedNonsense> eehehehee
<dreambobbedNonsense> we had /so/ much fun last night
<dominoFeatherweight> [gawk.]
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Do you know what it feels like to be trapped in someone else's body and forced to have sex with someone you're /not/ attracted to?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Or, like.
<alkalineTonic> ...
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> A fencepost.
<dreambobbedNonsense> nope!
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> What would you feel like if your waking self tried to have sex with a fencepost?
<openSystem> Probably pain
<dreambobbedNonsense> i'd probably laugh
<dominoFeatherweight> What.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> ...
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I, um.
<dominoFeatherweight> What do you think of Molech?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Maybe I shouldn't have said that
<dreambobbedNonsense> ooh he's hot
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> ...
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I think I said something wrong did I say something wrong
<dreambobbedNonsense> and his horns- i swear to fuck, if i could jsut put a leash on those damn horns
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> [Wait no that's not what you wanted to come out either]
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Um
<openSystem> ...no, I think it's just sally's dreamself mainly
<alkalineTonic> ...
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Grr arr god-king of Corpse Fiesta shut up?
<dominoFeatherweight> I do not think it very wise, however if you were to go black with him and I doubt that will work the way you think.
<dreambobbedNonsense> eheheee
<dreambobbedNonsense> oh it'd go terribly
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I'm confused.
<dreambobbedNonsense> wait
<dreambobbedNonsense> if
<dreambobbedNonsense> she's a troll
<dreambobbedNonsense> and she's /purple/
<dreambobbedNonsense> oh /man/ we could /totally/ fuck him senseless
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> ...
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> How would you do it?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> There's kind of a Ring in the way
<dreambobbedNonsense> we're totally gonna roll with him one day
<dominoFeatherweight> Unfortuitously, Molech is not in your session. Or rather fortuitously.
<dreambobbedNonsense> narrative causality /demands/ it
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> ...Light buffs don't last through the door, do they?
<dominoFeatherweight> Because I think you would get in over your head, purple or not.
<dreambobbedNonsense> what light buffs?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> No, I don't remember them doing that.
<dominoFeatherweight> No, I do not think so.
<alkalineTonic> ...
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> So you have about the same luck
<dreambobbedNonsense> nahhh
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> And presumably about the same narrative causality as anyone else.
<dreambobbedNonsense> this game is a /story/
<alkalineTonic> Szally, thisz isz my upszet face.
<dreambobbedNonsense> aww
<dreambobbedNonsense> lemme smooch it better
* dreambobbedNonsense kisses Merrrciful's lovely face
<alkalineTonic> Perhapsz when I am not getting szloppy szecondsz.
<openSystem> ...is your solution to problems just sex?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Look. Let me put it this way.
<dreambobbedNonsense> maybe!
<openSystem> Because uh
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> If you act only a little bit flirty, then your waking self will see reason.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> If you act like /this/, then your waking self will run away from being you as fast as she can
<dreambobbedNonsense> no, she'll see my game
<openSystem> Just saying, the black king don't seem like he wants any o that
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> And she'll hurt herself.
<dreambobbedNonsense> bluhhh
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Some of them called it the Overton Window where Myra came from, she told me about it.
<dreambobbedNonsense> oh lemme look that up that sounds interesting
<dreambobbedNonsense> i like learning abou myra stuffs
<dreambobbedNonsense> you know, i think we've worked out most of her conatives!
<openSystem> [This is one of those times where having a moderator might be- oh, wait.]
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> ...
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I do think we have.
<dreambobbedNonsense> there's a couple black spots
<dreambobbedNonsense> but they're /interesting/ to learn about
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> We've got A&S out there on Transamphibian, we've got Stan, we've got Rain even.
<dreambobbedNonsense> mhmmmm
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Too bad Transam's dead, I would like to have met the two brothers.
<dreambobbedNonsense> i rolled with Rain!
<dreambobbedNonsense> or Sally did
<dreambobbedNonsense> other Sally
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Oh. Was she nice?
<dreambobbedNonsense> maybe i shouldn't be Sally
<dreambobbedNonsense> should i pick a different name?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> How about Sa11y?
<dreambobbedNonsense> oh let's pick a name for me, that'll be less conf- ewwww
<dreambobbedNonsense> no leetspeek
<alkalineTonic> How about dreamSzally?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Well, you're not going to need to speak it aloud
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> So it doesn't matter, right?
<dreambobbedNonsense> that's boring
<dreambobbedNonsense> i totally am
<dreambobbedNonsense> like, i can introduce myself to Feytah with it!
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> You are a doesn't matter?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> What?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> No.
<openSystem> be trainwreck
<dreambobbedNonsense> yesss
<openSystem> because you are being a trainwreck
<dreambobbedNonsense> ur a trainwreck
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Um
<dreambobbedNonsense> ur face is
<openSystem> Yes, yes I am
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Sallianna?
<dreambobbedNonsense> pfff
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> [You're hoping it's /recognizable/ at least.]
<dreambobbedNonsense> nooo that's a terrible trope to reference
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> [Sally will have a lot harder of a time apologizing to Feytah if her dreamself has a different name.]
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> [Goddammit why can't you be awake for this. You try punching yourself in the side of your head to knock yourself out but only give yourself a headache.]
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> [Great. Now you have a memo, containing one (1) nutter dreamself, and a headache.]
<dreambobbedNonsense> gosh you guys are the worst at names
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Salliance?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> It's like the word dalliance, except with an s.
<openSystem> I'm named after a computer prompt
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Appropriate.
<dreambobbedNonsense> salliancccce
<openSystem> Why would I be good at names?
<dreambobbedNonsense> nnnn too much sally in it
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Well what would be /enough/ Sally?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I'm afraid there will be too little Sally.
<dreambobbedNonsense> nyrehh
<dreambobbedNonsense> i wish she stayed like she was when we started splitting
<alkalineTonic> Szplitting?
<alkalineTonic> Explain thisz pleasze.
<dreambobbedNonsense> well, she used to be like me!
<dreambobbedNonsense> not /quite/ the same
<dreambobbedNonsense> i've changed since then
<dreambobbedNonsense> but we were happy
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> ...
<dreambobbedNonsense> and we just swam and made things and looked at the coral
<dreambobbedNonsense> then the tsunami happened, and she got /scared/
<dreambobbedNonsense> and it's so /stupid/
<alkalineTonic> What tszunami wasz thisz?
<dreambobbedNonsense> one that hit thailand
<dreambobbedNonsense> and, like
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> ...
<dreambobbedNonsense> sri lanka and indonesia, and errwhere else on the indian ocean
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> 2004?
<dreambobbedNonsense> that's the one!
<alkalineTonic> And that changed you?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> ...
<dreambobbedNonsense> well, /one/ of us had to stay happy
<dreambobbedNonsense> so i woke up
<dreambobbedNonsense> she didn't, though, so she still didn't know anything!
<alkalineTonic> And then?
<dreambobbedNonsense> well, then she just started to teeter
<dreambobbedNonsense> took her, like eight years to properly fall over
<dreambobbedNonsense> meanwhile i got to have fun and roll about on derse and eat things and fly
<alkalineTonic> Eight /yearsz/?
<dreambobbedNonsense> yup!
<dreambobbedNonsense> eeeeight long years, and she was /okayish/ for most of it, it wasn't until, like, 4 years in that she started realising something was wrong
<openSystem> [Huh.]
<alkalineTonic> Szally wasz in her preszeszszion for eight /yearsz/?
<dreambobbedNonsense> oh no
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> When you're finished, I have a story too.
<dreambobbedNonsense> this is when we grew up
<dreambobbedNonsense> pre-native!
<dreambobbedNonsense> this is why she loves thailand, loved to go back
<dreambobbedNonsense> well you guys are the ones asking questions
<dreambobbedNonsense> tell your story!
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Um.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Okay.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Presession, my session 14. The Game decided that it was a great idea to drop me out in some race riots in a city I will not name, as the race riots appear to be unique to that particular Earth.
<alkalineTonic> What do you want to know?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Waking me got caught in some of them. It was ugly. Myra didn't help, Myra told me-or-perhaps-us that we had to be - well, we clearly touched a nerve in her, she freaked out about it, it was. Not pleasant.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> She half gave us up for /dead/ at one point, I know that much, waking me took a couple years to realize that was what happened.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> But waking me didn't talk about them, /couldn't/, even when he started sleepwalking and screaming when people touched him -
<dreambobbedNonsense> PTSD yeah?
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> At some point I finally gave up and asked the Heart player to do something about it myself.
<dominoFeatherweight> Hmm.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I guess? He hasn't tried very hard to look for what to call it.
<dreambobbedNonsense> it'll be there, whether he looks for it or acknowledges it
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> But I was the example, and I taught him how to be /open/.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Just a little bit at a time.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> He'll always be cleverer than me, but I know how to talk to people.
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<dreamepinephrineElectrified> But I didn't do it because it was /fun/.
<dreambobbedNonsense> (hiya, we're getting storytime!)
<dominoFeatherweight> Oh, dear.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> This isn't storytime!
<alkalineTonic> Hello.
<dreambobbedNonsense> nyeh fine
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I probably could've done something drastic like edit together a video and broadcast it across using the Skaian clouds as backdrop
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> But that's never really been my style.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> 's almost like /he's/ the native Waste and Myra was the Seer sometimes.
<dreamtenPsy> hm
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> But I do care what he thinks.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I think that's what's wrong. We dreamselves, we're their /better/ halves.
<dreamtenPsy> I like my other half, but she can be very silly!
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> We're not here to dance the night away forever. We have work to do, and some of it's...
<dreambobbedNonsense> shut up
<alkalineTonic> Better halvesz? No, juszt different.
<dreambobbedNonsense> but that implies she's salvageable
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Some of it's learning how we can teach our waking selves how to behave.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> Do it a little bit at a time.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> She's receding because she's /afraid/ of you.
<dreambobbedNonsense> there's too much wrong, it's easier to start from scratch
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> She's afraid of becoming everything you stand for.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> [> Dream Epi: Sigh as you feel the Rousing Speech fizzle.]
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I'm sorry.
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> I should go.
<dreamtenPsy> please don't go.
<dreambobbedNonsense> okay, have fun!
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> ...
<dreamtenPsy> you're okay.
<openSystem> Why should you go, that's- goddamn sally
<dreamepinephrineElectrified> You know what, fuck this. I have some mail quests to do.
<dreambobbedNonsense> nyehh
<dreamtenPsy>  8(
* dreamepinephrineElectrified has disconnected from the server!
<openSystem> ...
<dreambobbedNonsense> he clearly has some problems
<alkalineTonic> You know what?
* dominoFeatherweight disconnected!
<dreambobbedNonsense> what?
<alkalineTonic> Szcrew thisz, I am going to diszconnect and try to wake up. Perhapsz you will szeem leszsz inane when I am a dreamszelf.
<dreambobbedNonsense> okay, i'll wait~
* alkalineTonic has left the memo
<dreambobbedNonsense> hmmmm now what
<alkalineTonic> [>Defthand: Slide into your recuperacoon and try to sleep, even though you aren't particularly tired.]
<dreamtenPsy>  8<
<dreambobbedNonsense> actually, i'm gonna go do a thinggg
<openSystem> ...
<dreambobbedNonsense> she can ping me if she does wake up
<dreamtenPsy> good sense and good luck.
<dreambobbedNonsense> laterssss~~~
* dreambobbedNonsense has disconnected from the memo
<openSystem> ...I am significantly less comfortable with /that/ screwing my girlfriend
<dreamtenPsy> oh, my. I'm sorry, Bash.
* dreamtenPsy hugs
* openSystem hugs
<openSystem> It'll be fine, I'm sure.
<dreamtenPsy> I hope so.
<openSystem> Bluh, just leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Maybe I'm just stingy or something.
<dreamtenPsy> it's okay to be angry.
<openSystem> It's not anger quite yet, still bubbling around frustration.
<openSystem> Bluh, maybe I'll let the consorts play dressup with me again or something
<openSystem> Yeah, sounds good enough to me.
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* epinephrineElectrified has joined the memo!
* tenaciousTheseus began responding to the memo
<epinephrineElectrified> ...so, um. My dreamself.
* openSystem has joined the memo
<tenaciousTheseus> What about 'im?
<epinephrineElectrified> and I guess Sally's, but she's not here for me to talk to her about.
<openSystem> ...oh, hey again.
<tenaciousTheseus> Vast differences?
<tenaciousTheseus> Also hello
<epinephrineElectrified> I don't /like/ talking about my early sessions.
<tenaciousTheseus> But your dreamself just did?
<epinephrineElectrified> That's the trouble.
<epinephrineElectrified> 's a lot of us broken out here.
<tenaciousTheseus> Yup
<openSystem> Isn't that like, half the point of this dumb game?
<tenaciousTheseus> Break us down, build us back up into something better
<tenaciousTheseus> In theory
<epinephrineElectrified> Hah. I've got, like, three-quarters of a FAQ that Myra was trying to write about it. Sent it to me to beta, at one point.
<epinephrineElectrified> Died before she could finish it.
<epinephrineElectrified> Sburb fulfills all the major criteria of a brainwashing program.
<tenaciousTheseus> Does it?
<openSystem> ...well then.
<epinephrineElectrified> ...Figure at some point I should post it, I guess.
<epinephrineElectrified> Something about, well
<epinephrineElectrified> The metered use of psychological trauma as a method of inducing compliance.
<tenaciousTheseus> And also physical trauma
<openSystem> and ARC as a reinforcement or some such?
<epinephrineElectrified> If you don't do what the Game says? Well then. Go have your limbs hacked off by an Underling, or get cherry-tapped after the Denizen ejects you for insolence, or kill someone in the futile effort to induct someone into the Great Cult of Light and Fire.
<epinephrineElectrified> If you /do/? You get just a little bit of breathing room.
<dreamtenPsy> watch me shudder.
<epinephrineElectrified> "And if you write a letter - we won't send it, trust us - that says that we Communists are the best people in the world, I'll let you take a shower."
<epinephrineElectrified> Except we get flashy powers and the ability to die another day, instead of /now/.
<epinephrineElectrified> ...There are reasons why it was /Myra/ writing this, and I am not at liberty to share them. But I trust you all understand why I bring it up?
<openSystem> Admittedly, that's a nice reward, but...
<tenaciousTheseus> Because your dreamself brought up something involving Myra
<tenaciousTheseus> Is my guess
<epinephrineElectrified> Part that.
<epinephrineElectrified> Part me thinking about it again.
<epinephrineElectrified> You know what /else/ they do to break people down in interrogation? Isolation.
<openSystem> I'm guessing there's not a chapter on how to counter it.
<epinephrineElectrified> ...I'm getting to that.
<openSystem> At your leisure, then.
<epinephrineElectrified> You've got nothing to stare at except yourself, and /maybe/ one other person if you're lucky, and the only entertainment is, say, an hour's worth of nationalistic television broadcasts. Yes, the Game's a bit... flashier about our captivity, but is it really any difference when nothing can get through the session bubble?
<epinephrineElectrified> Except fuck that.
<epinephrineElectrified> Except we've got /networks/ to help us say fuck that.
<epinephrineElectrified> Those kids who've never replayed loose a day in their lives are so lucky.
<dreamtenPsy> I might as well be one a those. and I realize my good fortune every night.
<tenaciousTheseus> Heh
<openSystem> I can't even imagine doing it Loose.
<tenaciousTheseus> Yeah
<tenaciousTheseus> Eleven sessions
<epinephrineElectrified> Seven, for me.
<tenaciousTheseus> Certainly got a hell of a lot easier when I found the server
<dreamtenPsy> waking me, she. she understands, but not enough.
<epinephrineElectrified> ...Even /prophecies/ are part of it.
<epinephrineElectrified> "You see? You have no choice, we've already predicted you'll make a /great/ Waste of Dreams!"
<epinephrineElectrified> Broken glass.
<epinephrineElectrified> Taking shelter in the fucking /Underworld/ because the entire surfaces of all our Lands had been scoured clean fifty feet down by broken glass.
<epinephrineElectrified> They don't call bedrock impenetrable for nothing.
<epinephrineElectrified> I'm not sure what I'm saying. I think I might still be asleep.
<tenaciousTheseus> Nah
<tenaciousTheseus> You seem lucid enough to me
<tenaciousTheseus> To be awake, I mean
<tenaciousTheseus> As opposed to being lucid in general
<epinephrineElectrified> Or being Lucid.
<tenaciousTheseus> Yup, that too
<epinephrineElectrified> Mindblogger has a taste for irony even though she can't tell. I mean, she /named/ herself that.
<epinephrineElectrified> ...The Sand player BT'd shortly after, which is why we could walk through /sand/ shortly after, and not shards of broken glass.
<dreamtenPsy> hm.
<openSystem> ...I suppose that's an improvement.
<tenaciousTheseus> Stroke of luck, there
<epinephrineElectrified> That was the session Myra and I had together.
<epinephrineElectrified> Wouldn't've believed her on Waste had I not seen it.
<epinephrineElectrified> ...There wasn't much war left, after that.
<epinephrineElectrified> The lands regrew, but the only reason the BK survived was because Myra had pinched the Land Beds to build him a bunker.
<dreamtenPsy> I've only seen a Grace but I don't remember him at all.
<epinephrineElectrified> The BK happened to be prototyped Witch-wise, so that worked out... well enough.
<epinephrineElectrified> ...I'm going to go see if I can't polish up that FAQ some more. And who knows? I might just post it.
<epinephrineElectrified> Didn't think I could face it, but if it'll be appreciated...
<openSystem> I think it might do some good.
<epinephrineElectrified> Oh, and if you see dream me on again
<epinephrineElectrified> He has absolutely no idea how to troll people.
<openSystem> I noticed.
<epinephrineElectrified> Try not to take advantage of it?
<dreamtenPsy> he shows off how nice you can be.
<tenaciousTheseus> I make no promises
<epinephrineElectrified> I suppose that's enough.
<epinephrineElectrified> I'll see Sburb.org later, then.
* epinephrineElectrified has disconnected from the server!