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[nitidus]

[She has been here a while; aquainting herself with public posts and then posts stored in the archives. She is disconcerted, but not put out. It is a surreal thing, to be here. It is more bizzare still to discover this is not her first time. Her memory must be failing her. Or time shenanigans are afoot. She isn't one to put all her eggs into one basket, but the latter is far more likely. She is quite certain she would remember being in a city like this.

Rose often thinks there will come a day that shenanigans will become tiresome. Today is not that day! She is opting for text: it is terribly predictable. Rose is feeling very predictable today. Sometimes being predictable is just a logical step to take, after all. It wouldn't do to do something outlandish and not be recognized.

Rose's pranksters gambit is, today, sadly lagging behind in last place. Priorities and the such, must be taken care of first:]

A story comes to mind. I have no doubt you will all be familiar with it. A girl falls down a hole and oh, the place that she ends up! I wish I could say I had the opportunity to follow a white rabbit, but such an adventure has eluded me. It does feel like a rather long time since I last saw a city that was so normal, however. Congratulations on that. Superb job. I am particularly fond of the architecture and the rather profound sense of nostalgia I am feeling. I can almost here the the inane chortle of a woman who would, by normal standards, be too inebriated to function. Alas it is my imagination.

My name is Rose, if you will pardon my momentary loss of manners. I have a feeling perhaps that some of you may know me. Just a moment ago I had planned to take a nap. I was hoping to meet up with some friends, even! Perhaps I *am* napping and this is a dream which goes beyond the norm? I simply just do not know. Perhaps you can help me, if you are reading this. I can see no white eyed people as of yet, but I am looking for someone. Or rather, someone's.

One is rather loud and has an intriguing habit of spying. Another is a tasteful sort, even if her ability to hold a grudge is something to marvel at. The last two you will know by one's ability to mumble to himself every chance he gets and the other's ability to lick and sniff every available surface she thinks may holds secrets. Or taste delicious. They are an odd bunch. If you know them please return them to Rose Lalonde immediately in one piece. I am quite fond of them.

With that out of the way; where am I? Why am I here? Is there decent coffee? Tea, even! At this present moment I am not choosy. I am also missing a pen and a large notebook, though I have no doubt I will acquire them later.

Thank you for your time.

-RL.


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Comments

[luckout]

It's not optimism. It's confidence.
A little thing like dying isn't going to stop me. I figured that out a8out the time someone decided to prototype me.
Dead isn't the end for us in dream8u88les.

[nitidus]

You were prototyped?

[luckout]

That's what I said, isn't it?
It was pretty fucking terri8le. I mean, it would have 8een gr8 if it'd just 8een me prototyped.
8ut........ ::::/ Some asshole had a 8ad sense of humor.

[nitidus]

Please, do elaborate.

[luckout]

What's there to ela8or8 on?
Some douche8ag had mine and Nitram's 8odies and tossed them into one kernel sprite to make literally the woooooooorst a8omin8tion to ever exist in any universe.

[nitidus]

Well.
That is certainly something. A poor sense of humor indeed.

[luckout]

Hey. You were with the trolls, right????????
Got any idea who na88ed my 8ody after Terezi got sta8 happy with it?

[nitidus]

Gamzee did.
As far as I know, there wasn't a body he left behind.

[luckout]

Ugh, of course he did.
I knew that 8ozo looked familiar. He's the only troll stupid enough to pull a 8ullshit stunt like that.

[nitidus]

Forgive me if I am mistaken -- but should I read this as he was the one to prototype you?

[luckout]

Yeah, pro8a8ly. I didn't really get a good look at him, 8ecause I was pretty 8usy trying to juggle my own personality with some8ody else's.
8ut if Makara took our 8odies, then he's got to 8e the one that prototyped us.

[nitidus]

This is disturbing news.
Do you remember much about what happened?

[luckout]

Ugh, what's there to remem8er????????
I was walking around a dream 8u88le and then suddenly my 8rain is 8eing crammed into a 8ody with Nitram's.
I saw some8ody. Gamzee, I guess, and some8ody else.
8ut then we exploded.

-> private

[nitidus]

Perhaps I am jumping to conclusions. Adding 2 + 2 and getting five, even -- but, please be cautious around Gamzee, Vriska. What you have told me is disconcerting enough, but I haven't seen nor heard from him in a year. If you were prototyped, this suggests he and your body were in a new session. Logic would dictate this would be the session I had been heading towards before coming here.
I don't know what this means, but it is giving me due reason to be extremely wary. Perhaps I am being overly suspicious, but I would like to think if he were in the new session and out in the open, presumably, we would be aware of it. Karkat would, at the very least.

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[luckout]

I can handle myself around Makara. That won't 8e a pro8lem, Seer.
You'd 8e 8etter off using your time to figure out how Gamzee made it to the a new session, if that's what it was and I'm willing to 8et you're right on that.
If you guys were traveling to it, how did he get there first? ::::/

private

[nitidus]

Who is to say that he got there first? Who is to say that he was simply traveling along with us and we did not notice him wander off unsupervised?
Dave will say time is linear, I'm sure, but he has changed things so many times that I would consider it flexible at this point. To my knowledge, we should be expecting to meet up with the game players of the new session upon our arrival. The better question would be: how did he get one of them alone?
I am pulling at straws here and trying to not make assumptions. Gamzee is beyond my realm of Seeing. Perhaps because there is no good that can come of a future where he is involved. Perhaps because he simply no longer provides us with anything useful anymore.

private

[luckout]

8etter keep a close eye on him, Seer, 8ecause he was left with that player alone after we 8lew up.
If he got there with the rest of you, there's no reason he should have 8een alone, considering how murder-happy that guy is.
I can't 8elieve he kept our 8odies that long either. What a freak.

[nitidus]

I will be, don't worry.
You should be careful too. Prototyping Tavros with yourself does not sound like he has goodwill towards you, Vriska. Neither does it sound as though he bears any goodwill towards Tavros either?

[luckout]

I can handle myself now that I'm in possession of my own 8ody.
He pro8a8ly though it'd just 8e a gr8 joke. I dou8t it had anything to do with malice, except for his standard 8ull. And I'm pretty sure malice is the last thing he has against Tavros anyway.

WHOOPS.

[nitidus]

Vriska, have you SEEN Gamzee Makara? There is one non-malicious bone in his body, and I believe it is solely reserved for Karkat Vantas.

suddenly gamzee

[luckout]

May8e you're forgetting, 8ut I know Gamzee a lot 8etter than you do. He's a troll, remem8er?
Trust me, Tavros is the last person he 8ears ill-will toward. He jumped down my fucking throat a8out him as soon as I got here the first time.

how did this happen to me i made my mistakes

[nitidus]

[I'm sure that is exactly why he prototyped him with you then, she thinks. ]

If you're sure.

[luckout]

Pretty sure, Lalonde.
Does it matter anyway???????? I'm on guard, he's not going to catch me off of it ever again.

[nitidus]

He is very sneaky.

[luckout]

You realize you're saying that to a Thief, right?