Nightmare's Warning With Repetitive Use of the Word 'Stupid'

[phobophage]

((OOC: If you still want your characters to take part unaware in this plot, feel free to have them miss this warning. I waited a couple of days for a reason. Though even being forewarned doesn't necessarily always help...))

In the latest edition of stupidity from the Queen, there've been a spate of illusions drawn from people's pasts. People they knew popping and being worse and meaner than they remembered. If one of them appears, remember they're just warped reflections of your fears and reject them. It's just pretty basic psychological warfare. Simple and unsubtle but fairly effective. I've encountered it countless times, and even used it myself.

Yes, it's like the time we went into the Labyrinth. How irritatingly tedious for things like this to happen. I'm especially pissed off because one of the illusions it threw at me was of someone I regard highly. The most important person in my life. Stupid Queen, stupid Gardens, stupid fakes.

In my explorations of the conditions causing this stupidity to happen, it seems to crop up mostly if you go out to the edges, so if you don't want to deal with this latest stupidity just don't go there. If it's like the past crap, we'll have to do something to fix the Bimbo Queen's mess.

Comments

[restlessdevil.livejournal.com]

So that's what's been going on. No wonder so many new weird people are popping up all over the place. Thanks for the heads-up, Miss Nightmare.

[phobophage]

Miss Nightmare, is it? That's more respectful than "Hey Deimonea!"

[restlessdevil.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know you well, so I thought better to be on the safe side. [Zenobia's fear of Deimonea has turned into curiosity.]

I can call you Deimonea if you like, though.

[phobophage]

Hmm. You aren't afraid of me anymore. And I don't care what you call me, really.

[restlessdevil.livejournal.com]

I guess you can... sense fear? [There is a slight, very momentary feeling of worry from Zenobia, but it fades almost instantly.]

I was wondering if we could be friends. I'm really intrigued by you and want to know more about you. Is that alright?

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

...So that's why those people kept popping up and staring at me. How trite...

Stupid Queen and stupid gardens, I agree.

[phobophage]

Trite indeed. And we're both agreed.

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

She should come up with something better.

[phobophage]

Hah! I wouldn't object to something more entertaining.

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

Definitely. Really, at this point, all she's doing is throw a tantrum and then throw a half-baked attempt at being annoying at us. I could do something grand better than her while half asleep.

It wouldn't include mental torture, though.

[phobophage]

What sort of thing'd you do?

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

Antagonize people more effectively, like threatening the entire place with an earthquake. For real.

[mellifluently.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the warning. I'm sorry you had to experience that, again. The labyrinth was bad enough.

[phobophage]

Hmph. I was prepared to deal with them. I'm more pissed off than anything.

[mellifluently.livejournal.com]

Can you really be prepared for something like that? Even if you know, from the beginning, that it isn't that person... I think I'd still feel something.

[phobophage]

This isn't the first time I've faced something like this.

[mellifluently.livejournal.com]

No, but... I just think it must be very painful, even to harden yourself against it.

[lovelikelight.livejournal.com]

Thank you for warning everyone, Deimonea.

It's good for us to keep in contact with each other at times like this. I'm sorry you had to deal with the Queen's deceptions as well.

[phobophage]

I had an idea what to expect. I'm mostly just pissed off.

[lovelikelight.livejournal.com]

Yes, you said you'd had experience with something like this before.

I think she must want to rattle us. Don't let her anger you too much. [Small smile.] I hope we'll have the opportunity to fix this soon.

[bel-donna.livejournal.com]

Seriously?!

[phobophage]

Seriously. Fakes running around being horrible to people.

[bel-donna.livejournal.com]

The queen is just being a jerk to us this time.

[phobophage]

Or she messed up really badly again. Either way, I'm not pleased with her.

[sistagonist.livejournal.com]

This sounds familiar...

[phobophage]

You've been to the Labyrinth? Or is this something else?

[sistagonist.livejournal.com]

On the Earth I come from, repressed parts of peoples' personalities have a habit of physically appearing and bitching them out sometimes.

[phobophage]

That sounds similar yet not similar to the attacks in my world.

[sistagonist.livejournal.com]

I guess peoples' memories and regrets are a pain everywhere in the universe.