[Video] A Nightmare's Curiosity

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[A tortured stasis shrieks from the Vine, accompanied by vague shadowy impressions of a face in the mirror, with red eye glowing. The video quickly cuts out. A while later, it resumes, showing an empty backdrop of the Gardens before cutting out again. Finally, the video returns and stays, showing an oddly monochrome teenager.]

This is so fascinating. This place all feels weird and I can't really grasp things here which's kind of irritating, but it should be interesting learning how here works. I wonder if this is what another Queen's Dream World feels like. Or is that too much of an assumption? But I'd love to learn this Queen's secrets.

And did you enjoy my welcome? I had to work hard to get the Vine to do that. I can't get the mirror to act like a portal which's rather annoying but other than that it just took a little fear to make it cooperate. Oh, would you know anything about this Queen? And if I could build dreams here, I wouldn't do it at her whim, but it's still annoying that I can't seem to do that even when I want to. Has anyone succeeded in building anything here?

Comments

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Oh, uh...

People built a lot of stuff. Like a floating island or a bar.

As for the Queen, um... she's kind of ditzy... which is bad, since she's so powerful and kind of messes up what she tries to do.

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I prefer my own Queen then, as bothersome as she can be. How did they do this building?

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

You just need to pick up some dirt or sand or something out in the wild places.

It's um... you can tell you're in the right place when you go past some wolves and it starts feeling all weird.

And then you just kind of imagine what you want with it.

[phobophage]

Is there something keeping one from reshaping the dreamstuff in the more shaped places?

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

That's where people build their stuff, actually.

[phobophage]

I meant that the things already here can't be changed. So are you saying that the things here resist shaping, so we have to go to the edges to get stuff that doesn't resist shaping?

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Oh, uh... I've never really tried modifying anything besides the floating island... which I could, but that was built by somebody who was brought here. But I had to use stuff from the edges to do it, you can't just pick up dirt from the ground around here.

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... d-does any of that answer your question?

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I wonder why the Queen did it that way.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

I don't know. She's pretty weird, so...

[phobophage]

Who knows the reasonings behind the whims of Queens, after all?

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly.

[phobophage]

In this case, it's irritating. I welcome a new puzzle, but I don't like being blocked off from my abilities.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

I-I wouldn't know anything about that, I'm just a normal human.

[phobophage]

Berry would say there's no such thing as a normal Dreamer.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

I mean normal as in no super powers or anything like that...

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Even those can be surprising.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Ah... yeah, I guess so.

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I look forward to seeing any surprises you have for me.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

I-I'll... uh... I'll do my best?

[phobophage]

See now, that kind of game attitude's more fun.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

E-eheh... I'm not really sure what to do, though?

[phobophage]

Just do what you would do, and do your best.