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[stillarhino]

Sender: Beat
To: Everyone
Subject: a question

yo who heres single?
asking for a friend

[That's it. That's the post.]

[ooc: Both Beat and Trahearne will be replying to this!]

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[stillarhino]

me? nah im good yo
but... you ever heard about a noctaere since you got here?

[bakudan_bambino]

I haven’t

[stillarhino]

so if dreamotions like good energy and shit theres also nightmare energy hanging around
i dunno how it works but noctaeres full of that and i know people can turn into them too
you get what im putting down man?

[bakudan_bambino]

I know what nightmares are, and there’s some people here that fight them. I’m looking to join them. That’s about the extent of my knowledge

Is noctaere a place? A monster? A nightmare that’s taken over a person? Or is it something else?

There’s no fuckin… orientation for understanding any of this.

[If there was, he missed it.]

[stillarhino]

from what i know theys people before the all the nightmare takes over
and you gotta find a way to snap them back outta it

[Meanwhile, he only knows after having dealt with two of them already.]

[bakudan_bambino]

So it’s like a condition? A nightmare takes over a person, turns them into a noctaere and you have to reverse it somehow to get them back to normal?

[stillarhino]

yeah i guess
like it all sounds like its a piece a cake but it aint when you really all up in the grill of one

[And he speaks from experience here.]

[bakudan_bambino]

I don’t think it sounds like a piece of cake.

Especially if you know the person that’s been turned into one.

I’m trying to think of what preventative measures could be taken against something like that… breaking the issue up into simpler means, explanations and shit like that makes it easier to understand.

I just don’t know enough. Not trying to assume shit.

Why’d you bring it up?

Your friend had to deal with that or something?

[stillarhino]

you and me both
like if you can stop it before it happens its gonna be helluva lot easier
but both times i had to deal with that they was noctaere already
and he was one last month...

[bakudan_bambino]

I don’t want you thinking I’m downplaying something that’s obviously a big deal. I’m just trying to understand.

How did you turn him back?

Does he remember turning into one?

[stillarhino]

naw i get ya
wouldnt believe this kinda shit if i didnt haveta face it before too

me and some other friends kinda split up in that dreamscape of his
and there were all kinds of messed up shit in there
stuff he was thinking about you know and we hadta get through that
remind him that all of that stuff was in his head.
but he remembers
dont think you can forget something like that

[bakudan_bambino]

It’s believable! Just incredibly abstract?

A dreamscape?

But if you were in it, does that mean you were in his head too?

I guess I don’t get dreamscapes, either.

He had a nightmare and that created a space you could interact with? In that space he was a noctaere?

I mean like… did he know it was happening? Like, that he’d turned? Was it direct involvement? Did he have a body? Just… a feeling he was there since you were in his head?

Or was what was in his head projected outwards and you had to go through it to get to him?

[stillarhino]

[Okay, now that? That is too many questions.]

whoa whoa whoa
hold up yo
i aint no expert on this either
im just telling you what happened

[bakudan_bambino]

[cannot exaggerate the confusion enough. How what where. He doesn’t understand any of this and is concerned about his friends.]

take me through it step by step, then

How could you tell your friend was going through this?

[stillarhino]

he left some message with our other friends
and they knew something was up

[bakudan_bambino]

so he was acting strange?

And they tipped you off?

[This is going to take forever and what if the boss shows up?! WHAT IF THIS COULD HAPPEN TO HIM?!!

Someone’s a bit paranoid

Good thing? This conversation isn’t in person]

[stillarhino]

yeah guess they know him better than i do you know
so they knew when something was off with him

sides all the plants and animals going nuts in the forest

[bakudan_bambino]

ok so it’d be obvious enough if I knew them well enough.

What do you mean the plants and animals were going nuts?

[stillarhino]

like there were plant creatures and vines attacking people and shit
it was crazier inside with flower dogs fighting us when we got in

[bakudan_bambino]

Just.. out in the open?

Hang on! One at a time I want to make sure I don’t misunderstand or get something wrong!

[He’s taking notes in code on a margin]

What do you mean when you say inside?

[stillarhino]

inside the forest yo!
he told wolfie and kitty boy he was going in there

[At this rate, we're going to end up with a lot more questions than answers.]

[bakudan_bambino]

Why the forest? Does stuff like this usually happen in the forest?

They invited you along, I take it?

[At least it will be a steady trickle than Gokudera’s overzealous avalanche of questions.]

[stillarhino]

nah aint always there
was out in a cave another time

and yeah they did
after the first time we been keeping tabs on each other for this kinda stuff

[bakudan_bambino]

Do you have any theories as to why those places over somewhere else?

Ok so you and the other two went out into the forest where all the strange plant/animal hybrids were fighting you.

Did ‘wolfie’ and ‘kitty boy’ tell you about the message they got from him as soon as they got it? And you guys all met up and went out into the forest right away?

Just trying to get a good idea of time here…

[stillarhino]

dunno about theories
never asked
but they told us bout nightlights message coupla days later