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Passive Dream Recording: This Place Reeks of Death
Sender: Alastor
To: Everyone
Which: Passive dream recording
Warnings: Implied character deaths
Alastor clutches at his bleeding chest with one hand, his broken microphone cane in the other. All around him is The Wasteland as far as the eye can see.
"It's just farther than I remember. I was distracted by the chase. If I just keep going this way, I'll hit it sooner or later." A pause. "Hopefully later."
The ground beneath his feet is freshly-blackened. It crunches ominously beneath his feet. He should have seen some evidence of the quaint not-so-little town by now or at least the forest surrounding it, and he knows it.
Clank! His foot steps on something metal instead of earthen.
Alastor freezes before looking down, using the toe of his shoe to sweep some of the dirt away from the metal protruding from the ground.
He drops to his knees and begins digging out the metal, the twisted, melted remains vaguely resembling the radio antenna that Alastor had insisted be designed to match the town's aesthetics rather than be the ugly scaffolding of his world.
This is all that's left of the radio station that had been on the edge of Reverein, but all around him for miles and miles is more nightmare energy-riddled Wasteland.
The noctaere circle closer as the Radio Demon screams.
To: Everyone
Which: Passive dream recording
Warnings: Implied character deaths
Alastor clutches at his bleeding chest with one hand, his broken microphone cane in the other. All around him is The Wasteland as far as the eye can see.
"It's just farther than I remember. I was distracted by the chase. If I just keep going this way, I'll hit it sooner or later." A pause. "Hopefully later."
The ground beneath his feet is freshly-blackened. It crunches ominously beneath his feet. He should have seen some evidence of the quaint not-so-little town by now or at least the forest surrounding it, and he knows it.
Clank! His foot steps on something metal instead of earthen.
Alastor freezes before looking down, using the toe of his shoe to sweep some of the dirt away from the metal protruding from the ground.
He drops to his knees and begins digging out the metal, the twisted, melted remains vaguely resembling the radio antenna that Alastor had insisted be designed to match the town's aesthetics rather than be the ugly scaffolding of his world.
This is all that's left of the radio station that had been on the edge of Reverein, but all around him for miles and miles is more nightmare energy-riddled Wasteland.
The noctaere circle closer as the Radio Demon screams.
Sender: Maedhros
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Oh, it's nothing too serious! Part and parcel for a life poorly-lived, constant nightmares! It's why I try not to sleep that often. Wouldn't want one of you meandering into one! This one is actually quite tame!
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Oh, I'm right as rain! If it wasn't for this little recording, I honestly would have already forgotten that unpleasant dream already!
[He's a fucking liar and he's pretty sure Maedhros can see through his bullshit, but hey he can try.]
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It is rather... annoying to have ones dreams put on display like that. Not to mention some of us have dreams that aren't exactly... normal, let's say. I don't exactly want to subject others to my trauma. No one needs that in their lives.
[Yeah, he sees right through it but he also knows that pushing the issue is not always the way to go with these things.]
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Precisely. Arguably this could be how we pay for our stay here, but I'd think that this place wanted fewer nightmares, not more.
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Might be so. Or perhaps they anticipated us to have more pleasant dreams than we do?
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If that's the case, then whatever pulled us here had an odd idea of who might accomplish that.
[Even without him and Maedhros, the number of child soldiers Alastor has met here is disturbing.]
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You do have a point with that. There seems to be a lot of people arriving here from less than ideal circumstances...
[Maedhros himself has met two of them, which in his humble opinion is two too many. Children should not be fighting wars, they should be protected from them.]
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Quite the understatement, my good fellow.
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Yes... it certainly does seem like it might be. It does make one wonder about what it is about us that draws us here, yes? That is, of course, assuming it is not just random chance.
Sender: Futaba Sakura
Losing the radio tower would hurt a lot, huh? Though if you want a confirmation it's still there... I can go outside and look right at it for you.
Long time no see, Futaba! o/
[Fortunately she hasn't put together the pieces that it wasn't the radio tower's disappearance that had upset him so badly. If she stopped and considered, he might find it odd that the broken tower was buried in the Wasteland with Reverein nowhere in sight...]
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[...though now that she thinks on it...]
But wait, it's not in the wasteland, it's here in town. [...............................if she could have a loading circle on her head, it's here.] Wait, why was Reverein missing?
[That's nightmares for you!]
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[Yeah, shocker, this guy is one of the guys from the radio. He's the reason there is a radio.]
[And he doesn't answer the question. She's a clever girl. She'll figure it out.]
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[She gets it; she feels the same about this place. If it vanished... well. It would be more than unpleasant!]