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SOLDIER: 76 ([personal profile] steadypulse) wrote in [community profile] dreamcrystals2021-11-01 10:12 pm

Journal Entry

Sender: 76
To: Everyone
Subject: Information

[This finds its way across the journals a few days after the dreamshift ends-]

Going to attempt to keep this short.

If you remember the journal wide post warning about the Story Eater? Here's more of that.

Most of what was fought in that dreamshift, if we're going to keep calling it that, were created or caused by the Story Eater tampering in it much like it would in stories. More than enough proof points to that, including stuff found at Baba Yaga's hut, and it was a small taste of what it's capable of for those among us that didn't take a detour to the Realm of Stories before ending up here. Those red-eyed things were Eraser influence, and it looks like Story Eater may have it's own new tricks as well.

Thing is? There are Erasers here as well, not just in dreamshifts. They're not the Noctaere and it's safer not to mistake one for the other; they're entirely different beasts from each other and pose their own dangers.

Noctaere are best not come into physical contact with, as from experience that can hurt you as much as any of their attacks; seems like only this dreamotion stuff is the best way to deal with them. Erasers you can physically wail on to an extent and get somewhere, but using other means can keep them down longer or put them down faster. Some are a lot stronger than others, depends on how much the Story Eater put in to them.

If you recall the quest on the board about the witches that were dumping paint on people before we suddenly found ourselves neck-deep in that Halloween dreamshift? Those were Erasers, likely based off The Wicked Witch from Wizard of OZ; one reason throwing water on them seemed to destroy them with what info that notice provided for anyone who went after them. From what I can guess, they were a test of some sort and your guess as to why is as good as mine.

Look for red eyes, and ink coming out of it. Likely based off of something in a story, possibly twisted in some way. Easiest way to identify an Eraser.

I'm not going to respond to any private messages about this. You want to talk privately? Come find me. Otherwise? Anything you've got to ask or say here is better off public access for others' sake.


[Might not answer everything either, but there it was. Written out as much as he was willing, strange as most words felt to write.

Was as much information as 76 had to share with what knowledge and details he had.]
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Sender: Kainé

[personal profile] shithogs 2021-11-02 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
Nice of those fuckers to make themselves easy to spot, I guess.
Thanks for the info. Too bad slicing through them is only a temporary solution.
Are the more permanent methods usually hidden in stories?


[Might be a problem, for those who aren't familiar with the stories in question, but hey. People here seem to like to share.]
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[personal profile] shithogs 2021-11-02 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
They can influence people? Fucking great, just what we need.

[People possessed by asshole Erasers...]

Thanks for the tip. I like that. Straightforward. Kicking the shit out of them, I can do.
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Text; Sender: Reaper

[personal profile] b_a_n_g 2021-11-03 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
[He wasn't even going to bother to try to hide his identity. He knew that they were very much aware of each other and had enough experience to guess when one was coming around to make trouble to the other.]

Story Eater and Erasers? Sounds like you've had quite an adventure that involves a few more blows to the head.

Did you encounter these entities before you arrived to this place? Does that mean you did some chasing to get here, or did they follow you in? Stealth wasn't always your strong suit.
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[personal profile] b_a_n_g 2021-11-03 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought you were blowing that out of your corn field.

[They had definitely been sizing each other up on that first meeting, trying to determine what the other was about. Now that the shock of seeing and talking to 76 had worn off, he could return to the usual manner of interacting.]

So is the point of this warning to state that you're on the hunt for these rogue agents? Perhaps considering leading a Strike Team?
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[personal profile] shithogs 2021-11-04 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't be the first time I've had to do something like that. Worth it, if it gets that thing out of them.

[She doesn't have a whole lot of people she considers friends, but that's not really the point. Nobody deserves to have their mind and body jacked like that.]

Any clues on how to deal with Noctrae too, while we're at it? If it's more shitkicking, I'm all over that.

[She is good at One Thing.]
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[personal profile] shithogs 2021-11-04 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Still working on it, but motivation to start buckling down, I guess.

[She's not sure she wants to see what comes out of her when she makes use of dreamotion energy, given what her dreams and emotions tend to be like, but if it can be effectively weaponized...

She'll have to grit her teeth and push through it.]


Alright. Weapons, magic, no touching. All good to keep in mind. I have a couple of swords I'm sure would fucking love to meet a few Noctrae if they get too close.

Gotta say, I like your style.
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[personal profile] b_a_n_g 2021-11-04 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
It's about the same amount of effort as engaging me here now.

[He knew that if he pushed 76 that they would find a way to come to blows, verbal or physical. That was how they operated and currently how they felt most comfortable. Why let such a good thing go to waste?]

Disseminating information was a past talent of yours. This almost felt like a press conference just with more scowling behind the scenes and just as much snarling. At least me Strike team missions ended up the right people dead.
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[personal profile] b_a_n_g 2021-11-05 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
I expect you're putting in more effort than I am.

[They didn't have much of a habit of leaving each other alone for long. Well, normally 76 was chasing after him to offer a good punch to the head.]

I didn't need anyone to work with me. I had my own ways and my own people.
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[personal profile] b_a_n_g 2021-11-05 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
I have many wishes, but you're not a genie, so you're useless to granting them.

Ha, those were different times in a different situation, and we were actively at war. I was a different man then I am now. Back then, people respected my decisions.
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[personal profile] b_a_n_g 2021-11-05 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
You throw less punches and whine about how life sucks on journals.

Don't flatter yourself. There were others. Depends; you want to gasbag longer?
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[personal profile] b_a_n_g 2021-11-05 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
So many better things that you're still here.

Once you're done chatting, I plan on finding an eraser to verify the threat.
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[personal profile] b_a_n_g 2021-11-05 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Always.
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Journal -> Action

[personal profile] b_a_n_g 2021-11-06 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Reaper had used the information that 76 had given out through the journals to confirm the existence of these 'erasers' when compared to the noctrae. It had taken him time, but he had managed to find one and it had been a doozy. However unfortunate for the eraser, Reaper had a combat style and abilities that allowed him to take one-on-ones generally better than most.

He had walked away wounded, but that was a limited issue as far as he was concerned. He had endured far worse and walked, and he would heal. He always healed, for better or worse. This 'eraser' was dispatched, and that was the main point of the venture.

He was keeping as much to the shadows as possible, which meant dipping into alleys more often than not. Which was where he came upon 76 because of course he did. The other man seemed to be suffering worse than he was, which put him in a natural inclination to 'poke the bear' so to speak.]


Shouldn't you be hiding in a bush or something?

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