AVISPA: Cease puzzling nightmares, yes.

[apiarycryptonaut]

All things considered, things are going great! You've successfully prototyped your sprite once, your lusus is still alive and protected in your hive, you have more puzzles than you could ever ask for, and you'd finally decided to rest. After some planning, you'd decided that some exploration of LOSAR was in order and after plotting out a path, a plan, and preparing back-up plans for your plan the only remaining thing to do was to sleep.

So you slept. That was your first mistake.

Your eyes opened to neither the golden, bright moon you'd heard about nor the darkened, twilight moon. Instead, you are somewhere you'd never imagined even in your wildest dreams. Bright, blue skies with fluffy white clouds. You stand before an endless, clean landscape of white and black with green trees. You've never, ever laid eyes on living trees, though as awing as they are the skies above draw your eyes to them and don't allow you to look away.

That was your second mistake.

You'd only seen clear, blue skies for only a few moments twice before, when the darkened clouds you were so familiar with parted for only a moment. But the clouds here were fascinating, amazing, and... there... was something in them. You couldn't tear your eyes away, especially when the blur of a troll appeared.

That was your third mistake.

The troll hopped around, making short work of what you assumed to be Imps. She was using her arms, no, her sleeves as weapons to utterly decimate her foes. There was something familiar, something that made you think you knew her but you just couldn't place it. Sleeves for weapons, crescent horns, no glasses, and a very, very rage-driven fighting style. As you watched, you were paying so much attention to the clouds that you don't watch where you're going...

That was your fourth mistake.

You sit bolt upright, woken pre-emptively from your slumber, and the very first thing you do is open a memo. This was puzzling.

-- apiaryCryptonaut [AC] RIGHT NOW opened memo that dream was scary! --

AC: I h4d 4 very... puzzling 4nd confusing dre4m!
AC: It w4sn't on the... um, wh4t were the... n4mes of the moons.
AC: Um um um um
AC: I know them I... just c4n't remember, no.
AC: Oh, um, Prospit, yes!
AC: 4nd um, I think... the other one was... Derse, m4ybe, yes yes!
AC: Um, I'm very very... very very confused, yes.
AC: Bec4use, um, I dre4med... 4nd it w4sn't 4t... 4ll wh4t I thought... I w4s expecting, no!
AC: There were trees, yes!
AC: Living, green, t4ll trees!
AC: I've never seen trees... 4ll green like th4t!
AC: They were re4lly, re4lly... re4lly, re4lly pretty, yes!
AC: OH! 4nd I s4w... 4 troll, but I... don't know who it... w4s, not 4t 4ll.
AC: But she h4d, um... clothing, sort of, um... on her 4rms, yes!
AC: 4nd she w4s super... strong 4nd be4ting up... 4 lot of imps!
AC: It w4s 4 dre4m... within my own dre4m!

[ OOC: Make sure you check out Avispa's Skaian Cloud Visions Glitch page and maybe suggest some if you think of some! ]

Comments

Durian: Have your priorities in order

[defensivealchemist]

>- weirdly phy5ical dream
>- not in the gold or purple tower5
5ound5 like youre not a ho5tage like the re5t of u5
may6e there5 more faction5 than we already know a6out

[apiarycryptonaut]

His theory flies so far over your head that you don't even notice it.

Huh wh4t do you... me4n; I don't underst4nd?
You're 4 host4ge, Duri4n????
4nd wh4t f4ctions, m4ybe?

[defensivealchemist]

ho5tage
ma5cot
potato potahto
the 5he11 people are reportedly 5trangely concerned over our we116eing
like the mo5t 5en5itive lu5u5 ever
the faction5 are the moon5
i heard the gold moon i5 at war with the purple moon

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh, um, well, I... think I'm gl4d I'm... not on the moons!
I don't get wh4t... you were t4lking 4bout... before th4t though, no.
Why 4re pot4toes involved?
Um, well, I um.
Why 4re they 4t... w4r, um, fighting, yes?

[twintimes]

hostAge..?
whAt mAkes you sAy thAt??

[defensivealchemist]

we11
i mean
okay it5 a ha5ty theory that im 5u65cri6ing to
i ju5t dont know why el5e a 6unch of alien5 would put u5 in tower5 and dre55 u5 nicely
much le55 6e concerned when one of u5 got a little tiny paper cut

[twintimes]

pAper cut..??

AnywAy your theory hAs A relAtIvely bIg hole In It In thAt
we're not exActly locked In
we cAn leAve the tower And go whereever
I meAn I Am no expert but I don't thInk thAt's how hostAge sItuAtIons work

[twintimes]

ooh!
you sAw somethIng In the clouds??
sometImes you cAn see those clouds from prospIt.. you cAn get vIsIons And hInts from them, but ..
..well..
It's not AlwAys good to know..

I wonder where you were though
It doesn't sound lIke Anywhere I've ever seen..

[apiarycryptonaut]

I'm not sure where... I w4s either, no.
I w4s expecting one... of the two moons!
I wonder wh4t h4ppened?

But th4t's very import4nt... to know 4bout the... clouds, I think, yes!
So they show re4l... things, m4ybe, in the... clouds in the sky?
I wonder if these... clouds 4re the s4me... 4s the ones on... Prospit or if they're... different ones 4ltogether, m4ybe?
Visions 4nd hints would... be very helpful, yes!

[twintimes]

they do!! At leAst, I thInk so
or mAybe they show possIbIlItIes, too, I don't know..
but It could be helpful AnywAy, I suppose..

I meAn, those Are the thIngs thAt Apply to the prospIt clouds, so thIs Is All AssumIng they Are the sAme

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh, well, ok4y, I... think I just need... more inform4tion, or someone... needs to find out.
Then we c4n 4ll... know 4ll 4bout it!
Th4t seems like 4... re4lly good pl4n, yes!

[callouslystalwart]

...Most trolls normally wear clothes, Kusbir. ~~CS
Sometimes even with sleeves, yes. ~~CS

[apiarycryptonaut]

No no no no!
The sleeves were sep4r4ted... 4nd not p4rt of... the clothes 4t 4ll!
I think they were... we4pons, sharp we4pons, yes!

[callouslystalwart]

Elongated, bladed sleeves? ~~CS
What a bizarre fighting style... ~~CS
~I~ should like to see it! ~~CS
Any other distinguishing features about this troll? ~~CS

[apiarycryptonaut]

It w4s re4lly kind... of sc4ry, 4 bit!
Um, she h4d very... unique teeth I think... nothing like mine, no!
She seemed re4lly re4lly... re4lly re4lly 4ngry, yes!

[starstorm]

hihi visvis ^w^/
wow dats a weawwy weiwd dweam dat visvis had
niknik didnt know dewe was somebunny ewse dat fought wif hew clofes owo

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh, oh oh oh!
You fight with clothes... Nikk4l, how so, m4ybe?
But it w4s 4... re4lly str4nge dre4m, yes.
Very, very very very... str4nge, 4bsolutely, I think.

[starstorm]

niknik uses hew sweeves
its weiwd kinda but she can use dem to fwow imps into fings
ow squeeze dem so hawd dey pop into gwist
its hawda wif de bigga fings but she manages
heehee

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh! Oh oh oh.

That is sounding really, really familiar to you. You've got enough puzzle pieces, you may as well try for a few more.

I w4s surprised the... first time 4n imp... turned into grist, yes!
It w4s like "pfoofff"!
I didn't know sleeves... could be used like... th4t before now, no.
But um, I think... in the dre4m m4ybe... that might h4ve been... you, yes, m4ybe, Nikk4l!

[appleful]

this whole memo sounds sorta crazy
but a dream within a dream sounds like......
dreamception
insert glasses
NO I MESSED UP
it's a normal inception

[apiarycryptonaut]

Um I don't underst4nd... wh4t you re4lly me4n.
Wh4t's norm4l inception, Eric?

[appleful]

normal inception is having dreams in dreams
doesn't matter how many levels
have you never seen the movie

[absentultima]

th∧t s0unds like nikk∧l.
wh∧t w∧s she d0ing in y0ur dre∧/\/\?

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh, um, m4ybe, yes!
But I don't know... why I dre4med 4bout... her 4t 4ll, no.
I couldn't t4lk to... her either, no no.
I s4w her fighting... imps in 4 cloud!
I still don't fully... underst4nd why, no, m4ybe.

[absentultima]

/\/\∧ybe it's y0ur p0wer 0r s0/\/\ething.
w∧s she winning?