Antarctic Termite

Drain Flies

The story (and Keyguy's) honestly doesn't bother me all that much outside of the fact that these people are keeping pets in these rooms. Like, if you want to fuck up your life and turn your house into a Petri dish, sure! Whatever, go ahead. But those pets don't have a choice to live in squalor. And I have a feeling that any open wound in a place like this would go pretty gangrenous, pretty fast.

'Pretty' and 'Gangrenous' are an odd set of words to put in the same sentence.

Pet the thing to your right and report how it went.

Well if I stretch my arm out a little there's a Virizion plush, which is marginally more culturally acceptable than a Fluttershy plush but essentially the same thing.

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"Alas, poor Yorick," quoted Shadrach in an outbreath, resting the skull on the lower torso of the body that had grown it. "A fellow of infinite jest. Not anymore, anyway." The thin boy on the ground still hadn't moved much, but his body was stabilising. Shad thought he'd leave the other teenager to whatever chain of thought he had to untangle. He knew how it felt to have to steal a moment's quiet out of a harsh day, and he had some empathy- And a trickle of anticipation. The boy was staring at his own dice with more intensity than Shadrach liked to be around. It reminded him of an elastic band stretched too far taut. His steps were casual as he left, but he moved with inhuman speed.

He didn't go very far. Just far enough, maybe, to stay out of reach of the couple who were playing with fire. Joined by the girl with the glass. Let them play. It's not like they can hurt themselves. Not much. Not my responsibility. The injured humans at the edges of his vision may well have been his responsibility, if he took a moment to consider the situation, but Shadrach didn't. Empathy towards the meat puppets was remarkably slow in coming. Some of them caught his attention sooner than others, though, especially the one screaming 'holy shit' at the top of his lungs as he bolted from the grey-haired man standing over his old body. His comrade shortly followed.

"Takes some of us longer than others to get the feel of it," commented Shadrach levelly towards the middling man, casting his eyes first to the airborne kids on the far side of the wreck, then to the still frame of the pale-haired teenager, then back again. Then back to the teen. He didn't feel very far away at all. "The motes of soot spinning through the air. A human'd never see them, ever. But once you feel them- It's like a ballet." He liked this guy, so far, who didn't seem nearly as stressed, but just as quiet.

@darkwolf687@Vocab

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Posting now.

Let's dream together.

A clarification to a question someone asked:

Hey, I saw your interest check, and your idea's really interesting! But, would our characters be interacting in their dreamscapes, or would like, YC see MC's dreams, and MC see's YC?

@impervious

Good question, the answer to which is basically that I just haven't thought it through yet. It could work in a couple of different ways- Depending on the preference of the roleplayer. The characters might share the same night world that's a mixture of both dreamscapes, or they might share a night world but perceive it differently, or share a world based entirely on character A's dream in which character A does not realise that they're dreaming and will behave as one does in a dream, but character B retains a level head. Or it might switch around from time to time between all of these.

The way I'm leaning right now is that during a sleep segment, each character will be alone in the other character's dream, and each roleplayer's post details both how their character (A) interacts with character B's dream and how character A's dreamscape responds or appears to character B's exploration. But again, it might switch around.

Really simple example of this system:

Player 1:
Character A finishes their conscious interactions and goes to sleep restlessly.
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Character A's dreamscape is flooded and contains the remains of drowned and dead trees, but no fish.

Player 2:
Character B goes to sleep calmly. Their dreamscape is a palace that seems cramped and cluttered by excessive ornaments and lights.
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Character B is unnerved but curious, and dives as deep as possible into the flooded forest.

Player 1:
At the bottom of the shallow, flooded forest is a layer of mud with skeletons sunken into it. They seem familiar, but inhuman.
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Character A, panicking, tries to break apart the chandeliers and candles to clear room to move.

@Antarctic Termite

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So wait- is my character sheet approved? May I post my first entry?

@20aliens

Yes, I did say he was accepted just a few posts ago.

Let's dream together.

alright shit man it's 1:30 on a Sunday night and I feel full of energy. Let's pitch something stupid.

The premise is a roleplay between two characters, that functions on two different levels. One is conscious, concrete, well populated with npcs and a consistent setting, full of its own intrigue- In other words, a standard 1x1. I'm open for suggestions on that. Schoolkids? Fantasy warriors? Rivals? Romance? What the hell, anything goes. However, other than superficial details about what they look like and what they're doing in the conscious world, no information is shared about the motivations, personality or history of the characters before the roleplay begins.

The other level is the dream world. In this level of interaction, the players are alone but for one another- If not completely alone. The scenery changes nightly between serene and strange and horrifying, as do the bodies of the dreamers, always reflecting some aspect of each character's psyche, the furthest stretches of their imagination and the deepest aspects of their desires and fears. Often it will be things that they don't know or don't want to admit to themselves. Yes, it'll sometimes be a scenery wank, but that's what appeals to me about the idea: That I and my character will learn about yours through abstract, cryptic symbolism that can be physically and dynamically explored, and that we'll get a chance to try and establish an emotional connection through imagery as much as through dialogue.

That's most of what matters before I nod off, but there will have to be a catch- that the night world most strongly displays each character's dreamscapes to the other player. They can't use the dream world to monologue, and may end up knowing more about the deepest desires and memories of the other dreamer than they do about their own. This information will feed into how they interact with each other in the overarching story of the conscious world.

For a trashy simple example: Alice is a mysterious witch who gained her powers long ago. She knows she hates rabbits, but writes it off as a random phobia. Cheshire sees that in Alice's dreams, oversized, feral rabbits appear often, but they're not harming her- They're leading her down a rabbit hole, which closes after him in pitch blackness when he tries to follow. Cheshire deduces that Alice once chased a rabbit, or something represented by a rabbit, and got stuck in a bad place- Probably when she was little, since the rabbits look so big. Alice doesn't remember this, but Cheshire now has a vague idea of an important event in Alice's mysterious past- A piece in the puzzle of who she really is.

And now I'm freezing and it's 2am so I'm going to come back to this tomorrow and toss it in the trash where it belongs.

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i'ma send a visitor message to Vocab and see if I should get Shad moving on or wait for a conversation there.

@lady horatio All good- You're under no pressure to start interacting right from the first post.

Alright but what if the Antichrist actually showed up as a presidential candidate and they just did not hide it at all.

'yeah i'm satan incarnate but shit man at least i'm not a republican'

And then they continue making their run as usual with policies that make sense and appealing to people on non-religious grounds, stating that the whole antichrist thing only really mattered to people who believed in the first place and for everyone else things would just sort themselves out.

Assuming they had political ideas that you actually liked, would you vote for them? Would you trust them?

Random fact of the day.

Shit, I expected them to have at least six what with to make up for the lack of legs.