If you'll remember, Veitaru never heard that:

"Lethe would find the dramatic power of her tirade somewhat hindered by the fact that it was directed at a little girl nearly crying going "OW OW OW OW!""

As for the rest of your points, I prefer to go with showing not telling(you'll notice that in the post I referenced" but witchy-blue fire that reminded her of the catacombs and shadow temple and and and generally, things associated with Veitaru's deepest fears," is the only thing thing that tells people things they wouldn't see personally, and it was a decently long post), but I didn't feel like putting the effort into a long post showing the gradual lead up of falling asleep, especially seeing it would mess with our already poor pacing. There's just so much going on that we really don't need more. If this were a story, right now it'd be a very bad one because the author felt the need to bog everything down with super long ill-placed character development for his oversized cast. Sure, it's a roleplay, meant to be read one post at a time as it's written, which helps. But I still feel so much "Aaauggh... so slow..." that I didn't want to throw more molasses onto the barbed wire.