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Eustace ([personal profile] flamekthunder) wrote in [community profile] dreamcrystals2021-11-06 09:40 pm

first entry ⊗ mutton man (backdated)

Sender: Eustace (and Nier)
To: Everyone
Subject: Regarding the Mutton Man from the Dream Board


Attention everyone,

If you've looked through the recent Dream Board, you may have seen a quest regarding an entity referring to itself as the "Mutton Man" and is involved with slaughtering sheep and harming others. Nier and I have encountered a similar figure in the recent dreamscape during Halloween, the one the tapirs are calling a "dreamshift." It appeared around the witch's hut and we weren't able to determine if it was related to what happened that night or not. It was a formidable adversary, capable of inhuman speed, strength, and defense. We were able to destroy it, but the similarities are concerning.

Regardless if it was brought in from the dreamscape or something separate, take extreme caution when engaging with it.


[The handwriting quickly shifts from the straightforward, neat handwriting to WHAT'S NIER'S HANDWRITING LIKE LMAO]

The "Mutton Man" wasn't messing around and he's dangerous! Please be careful if you see him. I don't want anyone to get hurt. Eustace is right when he says the Mutton Man's really strong. Somehow we managed to fend him off, but I don't think it's over. The Mutton Man said so himself!!

[It can't be seen, but Eustace is side-eying Nier who just rudely barged in.]

As Nier said, its final words along with its disturbing rhyme were "This isn't over" and "Everything has an ending." Whether it's the ravings of an insane creature or a warning has yet to be determined. Given what Soldier: 76 stated in his recent entry regarding the Erasers and the Story Eater, however, I am beginning to wonder if they might be related. When it was destroyed, it turned into paper and black ink. If you fight and manage to damage the one here, take note of what kind of injuries it sustains.

[Nier pauses for a moment because he's going to say something that sounds absolutely ridiculous.]

The Mutton Man left behind something after we destroyed it! You might not believe me, but it was a moon cake! Please don't ask me why it was a moon cake. I'm just saying what I saw. [Here have a brilliant illustration by Nier:]



[And then there's another beautiful illustration that appears soon after (also by Nier).]



...That was supposed to be Nier's attempt at the Mutton Man, but it looked more like this: [Have Eustace's attempt.]



[And that's how the message ends because at this point Eustace is probably criticizing Nier as they argue how the Mutton Man looked like.]

[ooc: Do you know the Mutton Man—anyway, joint post with Eustace and Nier! Nier's writing is in blue, and yes we doodled those crying. Eustace is default font and Nier is the blue. Both are available for responses! As indicated, this post is backdated a couple of days to be earlier in the week.]
shivmeabreak: manga (now on display: your stupidity!)

[personal profile] shivmeabreak 2021-11-12 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Of course! Meat's nothing but dead body anyway. What could be better than it coming off the corpse as an already prepared meal?

[She would apologize except she's not even the tiniest bit sorry. Probably because she gets similar reactions so much that it'd never stop. And dream or not, she's hungry!]
shivmeabreak: game (wtf)

[personal profile] shivmeabreak 2021-11-12 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Some people have such weird hangups. She's just stating facts??]

Oh come on! There's a huge difference between snacking on something that happens to come off an animal or monster you bumped off and chewing on a dead companion's hand!



Though I guess if things got really bad finger food would beat starving.
shivmeabreak: skit (stiletto me off this ride)

[personal profile] shivmeabreak 2021-11-12 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
Pretty sure sentience is more important than physical shape. It'd be way too weird to eat something or someone you'd been having a conversation with.

Like it wouldn't be my first choice to make a ham sandwich out of mindless pig-like orc if they'd once been human.
shivmeabreak: manga (ghooosts)

[personal profile] shivmeabreak 2021-11-13 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[It's an interesting moral quandary?? Hell of an ice-breaker though. One Rose has to stop an consider so long with her pen to paper that it starts creating an inkblot.]

Like

they chatted with you while you stuck 'em with knife and fork or something??
shivmeabreak: game (deluge)

[personal profile] shivmeabreak 2021-11-13 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, yeah, that takes "dinner conversation" to a whole new level of creepy. I thought this was supposed to be a dream world, not a nightmare one?

If anybody ever makes a meal out of me I hope they have the decency to finish me off first. Otherwise I want to haunt them and make bad jokes at the most inopportune moments.
shivmeabreak: skit (stiletto me off this ride)

[personal profile] shivmeabreak 2021-11-15 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It does, doesn't it? Makes me a bit apprehensive about picking up randomly dropped items if there's a chance it could be cursed or a way to haunt unsuspecting victims.

[Although wouldn't they have had to kill the Mutton Man for him to spirit stalk anyone? Hmm...]