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[fracturedsoul]

We're taking Jake's dream corpse into the arena tower.

Anyone who wants to join us should meet us there shortly.


[ By "we", Dirk means himself along with Brobot (who's carrying the body), Jake, Jane and anyone else who wanted to come along. Jade maybe? Anyone, really. Characters not from Homestuck are welcome too.

He'll be answering questions via PDA as they walk to the tower. ]

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[greenspaces]

[ Already there. :D ]

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[fracturedsoul]

[ Aw yeah. Adventure party time C:

Dirk's silent as they walk, eyes focused on his PDA. ]

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[greenspaces]

[ She's quiet too, mostly because she hasn't been paying attention to the round and needs a few minutes to go through all of the things on her PDA. ]

Are you excited?

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[fracturedsoul]

Excited? [ He glances up at her. ] I'm definitely interested in seeing what's going to happen.

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[overbiterestart]

[Jane is making her way there, why did she agree to this?]

So, we're taking Jake's dead body to the arena tower. What purpose is this serving?

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[fracturedsoul]

I'm glad you asked, because it gives me a chance to explain for everyone else who isn't yet aware.

Some time ago, I foolishly ordered my waking self's body from Recette's shop in hopes that its disappearance would alert somebody to my absence -- this was before I realized that the flow of time between here and our home world isn't constant. That's not really relevant, though, it's just some background information to explain why we had an extra corpse lying around: For whatever reason, that body arrived dead rather than simply unconscious as I'd expected it to.

Jade had the idea to try carrying it into the arena tower, at the time the only one that was open, to see what would happen. Once we carried it up to the second floor an extra spear flew out of a pile of weapons and embedded itself in the corpse. Shortly thereafter the body began to breathe again, and shadowy tentacles appeared out of nowhere and dragged it out of sight.

Lopez has implied that this was a foolish thing for us to do and that there will be serious consequences if we offer the tower more "sacrifices", though she's been hella fuckin' cagey like the infuriating NPC she is. Our goal here is to see what happens if we give it another body, and because a person can't die permanently in Rakuen it has to be a corpse specially ordered from the shop. The purpose behind it being a dream corpse is to avoid subjecting anyone to what could potentially be a horrible fate when the body reanimates and is dragged off; with supernatural powers and therefore connections between waking and dreamselves nullified, the body should simply "live" in a vegetative state.

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[overbiterestart]

[She'll be catching up soon, she swears. She's just nervous.]

It seems this place has been giving everyone the opposite effect of what they want. I've been noticing and taking note by note of it myself. Perhaps a long the way it died in some strange manner or worse- it was murdered.

So I'm assuming you haven't seen your dead Dreamself since? That would be unfortunate. I'm also guessing this is why you asked Jake and I to perhaps order ours? Jake's would have been the preferred one since his is already dead, and mine would have arrived much in the same state as yours. That makes sense about why you wanted Jake's and not mine.

But I'm curious, what will happen to Jake's dreamself? What if it starts breathing again like yours did? I won't defend or go against what Lopez said to you because this is all assumptions straight from my head, ramble and thoughts if you darn well will! Can't willy nilly not know everything when you're about to do something like this.


My main concern? What if whatever in those towers is interested in Jake's dead dreamself, and goes for one of us instead? What if there are worse consequences for something like that?

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[fracturedsoul]

Apparently if you try ordering a person and they don't consent to be here, they arrive dead. Incidentally, that also apparently means we all consented to be brought here and just can't remember it.

And it was my waking self, Jane. I am my dreamself right now, yoinked here straight from Derse. But no, no one's seen it since. Which is why it's best to just order ones that have already died back home. I think Jade was going to order hers next.

I'm not claiming to know everything, but logically dream Jake should wind up comatose. There's no consciousness to inhabit the body, after all.

I think we're safe, though. People have gone in and out of these towers plenty, and Lopez made a big deal about the fact that we took a corpse in. There shouldn't be a problem with living people entering.

[bubblymuffins]

Do you need some help?

[fracturedsoul]

It's not so much that we need any help as I just figure people might be interested in tagging along to see what happens.

[bubblymuffins]

I don't know if I'll understand what's going on, but I definitely want to come! You might need a weapon!

[straightupzorra]

God dammit, again?

[fracturedsoul]

If you'd drop the NPC BS and let us get a load for once we wouldn't have to do this.

[straightupzorra]

I don't appreciate being called an NPC.

[ferriedmemories]

This sounds interesting. I'll be coming along.

[Well it was true. Death was a thing she knew all too well and this might be some kind of sendoff.]

[fracturedsoul]

All right. Be there soon.

[ferriedmemories]

[Soon enough, it looks like she's here.

And half-asleep. What gives?]

[knightime]

why
why is this an actual thing thats happening

[fracturedsoul]

Come along and find out, bro.

[knightime]

oh hell no
this is not my shtick

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[fracturedsoul]

[ Ok since there's a lot of people here I don't think we can actually keep a dedicated turn order. Here's what's going to happen.

I will post various subthreads in this thread for the things that happen, as dictated to me by Elle-mod, and people can take turns reacting to those things so that we can keep things moving along at a steady pace.

Ready? Set?

HERE GOES. ]

ENTERING THE TOWER

[fracturedsoul]

[ Brobot continues carrying the body, and as they enter the tower a constant humming sound fills the air.

Jade, you had something to say? ]

[greenspaces]

Hello shadow, we're back! Did you miss us?

[ YELLING IT LOUD AND CLEAR ]

THE SECOND FLOOR

[fracturedsoul]

[ The humming grows louder as they reach the second floor; once they clear the landing, one of the scattered piles of weapons can be seen shaking. Two pistols rise up from the pile and go shooting into the corpse's chest with a flash of white light.

The humming stops.

That's when the shadows appear out of the cracks in the stones making up the walls and floor. Without giving anyone time to react, they wrap around the corpse, ripping it from Brobot's firm robotic grasp, surrounding it completely in shadow.

Dream Jake's chest can be seen to rise and fall briefly as he is dragged down into the floor. The shadows vanish.



After the body is taken, whenever anybody speaks inside this tower they will be able to hear two echoes of their voice -- one male, one female, neither recognizable. ]

[overbiterestart]

[Jane can say she witnessed all of that. Jane can say that she finally believes Dirk on the matter of seeing the Dream corpses breathe for a brief moment before being taken away. This must be why by reaction she's grabbed onto Dirk's shoulder- holding herself there in fear she might lose it completely at the literally unbelievable thing she just witnessed.]

I'm sorry I didn't believe you.

[Ah, what was the echo for? That was strange.] Listen Dirk, when I speak.

[The sound bounces back again, the sounds of a male and a female speaking in the echo.]