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

[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!

[starstorm]

owo weawwy
ummm niknik isnt supa stwong dough
is visvis suwe it was niknik ?w?

[apiarycryptonaut]

No but wh4t you... described the troll did... in the dre4m, yes!
You were stronger th4n... the imps, th4t much... w4s cert4in, yes yes!

[starstorm]

ohhhhhh hmm
weww
since visvis was dweaming
maybe she was dweaming about anoda niknik
owo

[apiarycryptonaut]

4nother Nikk4l, wh4t do... you me4n by th4t?
4re there more th4n... one of you, m4ybe?
Do you h4ve clones?
Duplic4tes, I think, m4ybe?
4re you secretly everywhere?

[starstorm]

uuuuummmmmmmmmmmm
niknik doesnt fink so
nikniks just in one pwace she finks
hehe
how can somebunny be in mowe den one pwace at once ?w?

[apiarycryptonaut]

Yes, ex4ctly, th4t's it!
So I h4d to... h4ve been dre4ming 4bout... you, yes, I think!
Th4t's the only thing... th4t m4kes sense, yes.

[starstorm]

oh heehee maybe
sometimes niknik dweams about weiwd fings
wike pink squishy awiens
and times whewe she can fwoat and fwy
and she knows she can do dat in weaw wife
hehe
so if its onwy a dweam den anyfing can happen
so it makes sense

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh oh oh oh.
Th4t 4ll m4kes sense... I think, for dre4ms.
But m4ybe some of... the str4nge things 4re... re4lly re4l, re4lly, m4ybe?
I don't know, no.

But um, oh, um.
Wh4t "pink squishy 4liens"?

[starstorm]

niknik had a dweam once
she went to dis pwace whewe evewyfing was puwpwe and dewe wewe towas evewywhewe
and she saw a wot of hew fwiends ^w^
she saw manman and kapkap and uuummmmmmm
weww
some oda twowws
but awso some weiwd fings dat didnt wook wike twowws at aww
dey wewe shaped wike twowws but dey didnt have any howns and deywe skin wasnt gwey
and one of dem said dat dey wewe one of nikniks fwiends OwO
but niknik was dweaming so she doesnt know if it weawwy happened ow not

[apiarycryptonaut]

You have to read that over multiple times until the realization dawns on you. You've just solved a puzzle.

No it h4ppened, yes.
It definitely h4ppened, yes!
Th4t m4kes things m4ke... more sense, I think!
W4it w4it w4it w4it.
No, yes, it's right!
They weren't trolls, no!
I think they're "hum4ns"!

[starstorm]

ooohhhhhhhhhh
human yep yep
niknik finks dats what chewchew said in hew dweam
hehehehe

[apiarycryptonaut]

So it is true!
Th4t's very, um, you... know, wh4t's the word?
Um um um um!
Very very very very... um, 4 big opportunity!
Bec4use they're not trolls!
They're hum4ns, they're different.
Th4t's very useful, yes.
But um, oh, um... Nikk4l, who's "chewchew" m4ybe?

[starstorm]

oh um
chewchew is chewiouw
ec
hehehehehe

[apiarycryptonaut]

Wait, what? You pause to look at the screen for a moment.

W4it w4it w4it w4it!
Cheriour's in this g4me... with us too, re4lly?
Is he re4lly re4lly... re4lly re4lly pl4ying too?
Um, "ec", th4t's, um... wh4t's the full h4ndle?
Ple4se help, Nikk4l, yes?

[twintimes]

pInk And squIshy sounds About rIght
we usuAlly more or less Are

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh oh oh oh!
So, um, re4lly, then... you're "hum4ns" right, yes?
So th4t me4ns you... don't h4ve 4ny horns?
Um, Ri4, m4ybe, c4n... you help, I think?
I h4ve questions, yes!

[twintimes]

yes, we're humAns
And It's true thAt we don't hAve horns
oh boy I wIsh lIly wAs onlIne she'd hAve All sorts of questIons rIght bAck At you
And probAbly much better Answers too
but Ask AwAy AnywAy??

[apiarycryptonaut]

I think I c4n... 4nswer questions m4ybe, yes.
So m4ybe I should... t4lk to Lily sometime!
But um, for now... questions, yes, I think!
Um so you re4lly... don't h4ve horns, no.
Hum4ns, yes, um, well... one big question, I... think, just one, m4ybe.
Is your blood re4lly... th4t t4n-brown color, m4ybe?
4nd the s4me for... other hum4ns, re4lly, with... the colors they use?

[twintimes]

ActuAlly no
humAns don't hAve dIfferent bloodcolours At All
so our font colours don't correspond to thAt, we just sort of pIck them
All humAns hAve red blood

[apiarycryptonaut]

Woah. That's puzzling. But then, you stare and wonder.

So um, oh, then... th4t me4ns you just... we4r 4ny colors, too?
Usu4lly trolls m4tch, from... the trolls I've w4tched.
But then um if... hum4ns m4tched you'd 4ll... be red, I think.
Th4t would be very... silly I think, yes.
Hum4ns 4re re4lly re4lly... re4lly re4lly different, I... think, 4bsolutely, they 4re!
But yet we're 4ll... here in one g4me!

[twintimes]

yes we just weAr Any colours
And Is It true thAt All trolls hAve grey skIn And blAck hAIr??
becAUse we hAve dIfferent shAdes of those, skIn And hAIr And eyecolours
but yes even though we're reAlly dIfferent I suppose we're All plAyIng
whIch I thInk Is pretty cool!

[apiarycryptonaut]

Yes, m4ybe, I think?
I've never seen 4ny... trolls without grey skin... or bl4ck h4ir, no.
So I think we're... 4ll like th4t, m4ybe!
But wow, hum4ns, wow!
Do you me4n you... c4n h4ve green skin... 4nd blue h4ir, m4ybe?
Th4t would be 4... funny combination, I think.
But wow wow wow... wow th4t's 4bsolutely very... puzzling, yes, h4ving v4riety!

4nd yes yes yes... We're 4ll pl4ying, yes!
I wonder if there... 4re 4ny pl4yers who... 4ren't hum4n or troll?

[twintimes]

hAhA, not quIte thAt crAzy
skIn colours vAry from neArly whIte kInd of pInk to neArly blAck dArk brown And we're All sort of In between those
hAIrcolours Are sImIlAr In thAt they vAry from blAck through All sorts of shAdes of brown to lIke, reds And yellows
but there's chemIcAls to bleAch or dye your hAIr All sorts If you wAnt to, I'm just lIstIng the more nAturAl stuff
I thInk the vArIety Is kInda neAt!!

I dunno!! so fAr humAns And trolls Are the only two types I'm AwAre of!