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deernet2021-11-19 09:02 am
threelayers) wrote in deernet2021-11-19 09:02 am
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text - UN: IceCream (CW mention of drowning risks)
[Well, this one didn't put up public service messages often, did she? But, if there was a remote chance your spouse might show up one day in the heart of winter, well... you'd probably do it too.]
Right, so, if we're all done having oodles of fun running for our lives from crazy nutjobs in this maze of a town, I've got something we should all be thinking about. (Also, thank you Trench. I knew you'd deliver. I was almost bored there for a moment. Now this place feels like a nightmare.)
I saw something on my window while I was recovering from my last maze run. Frost. You know, that pretty white stuff that forms on your windowsills and makes you people all silly with this holiday spirit or whatever? Nice stuff. Gorgeous. So idyllic. Yeah, where there's frost, there's ice. And ice likes to form on top of water. If you haven't figured out where I'm going with this?
I'm taking bets on whether or not you think the coastline's gonna freeze for the next two months. Your first bet doesn't count. Everyone's a winner. Your prize? Grab a pickaxe.
That's right, dumb dumbs. Squids seem to show up at the same time we showed up in the dream. Very end of the month and first week of the month, and if that coast freezes, they're going to pound right into a sheet of ice. Get blankets, start fires, grab a pickaxe. Also, maybe flares or burning arrows wouldn't be a bad idea. Folks can come to you if you find a squid and need help. I have five I got lucky enough to have in my backpack and I intend to use them. Unless you want next month's new arrivals to drown in the water and/or freeze to death. And if you do? I recommend not replying to this. I'm not in the best of moods.
And if one of you hero types feels like actually organizing this thing, go for it. You know where I'll be.
Right, so, if we're all done having oodles of fun running for our lives from crazy nutjobs in this maze of a town, I've got something we should all be thinking about. (Also, thank you Trench. I knew you'd deliver. I was almost bored there for a moment. Now this place feels like a nightmare.)
I saw something on my window while I was recovering from my last maze run. Frost. You know, that pretty white stuff that forms on your windowsills and makes you people all silly with this holiday spirit or whatever? Nice stuff. Gorgeous. So idyllic. Yeah, where there's frost, there's ice. And ice likes to form on top of water. If you haven't figured out where I'm going with this?
I'm taking bets on whether or not you think the coastline's gonna freeze for the next two months. Your first bet doesn't count. Everyone's a winner. Your prize? Grab a pickaxe.
That's right, dumb dumbs. Squids seem to show up at the same time we showed up in the dream. Very end of the month and first week of the month, and if that coast freezes, they're going to pound right into a sheet of ice. Get blankets, start fires, grab a pickaxe. Also, maybe flares or burning arrows wouldn't be a bad idea. Folks can come to you if you find a squid and need help. I have five I got lucky enough to have in my backpack and I intend to use them. Unless you want next month's new arrivals to drown in the water and/or freeze to death. And if you do? I recommend not replying to this. I'm not in the best of moods.
And if one of you hero types feels like actually organizing this thing, go for it. You know where I'll be.
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I can't say I've ever heard of Remnant. But maybe I should count myself lucky.
Trench certainly isn't what most would choose, but I think I'd prefer this to being trapped in a dying child's nightmare. In fact, having been kept in what passed for a dying girl's dreams long enough I lost track, I can say it with certainty. And she was well-loved and mostly happy.
It's a shame natural instinct is often to destroy what causes fear.
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Let's just say that she didn't stop my bad habits so much as help me pick targets.
And you should definitely count your blessings on missing Remnant and the Grimm.
Like most nightmares, it sort of morphed and shifted.
So it was a new hell every single month, hard to figure out the pattern.
Here, at least the awful is understandable sort of, and we can plan.
And I suppose it is. I'm a bad one to discuss ethics with.
I've never been good at that part.
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Not that I didn't love mine.
Maybe we should put that in the welcome brochure.
Never-ending hell. Easy to plan for.
Reality is usually preferable to the dream. Even a good one.
And yes, I am the sort of person who would reject my ideal dream life.
Too dull.
Life is messy.
No one would have accused me of being especially ethical either.
Maybe things change.
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Even if it's a never-ending battle, that's an improvement over some options.
So I'll take it.
Hey, bonus!
Too much in the way of ethics always bogs you down.
But you probably can guess that.
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Absolutely agreed.
Unfortunately, my husband rather doesn't.
It puts a damper on things.
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You've found a fresh version of hell I never want to experience.
Around here, that's an accomplishment!
I'm almost curious how long you were stuck there.
Eh. When your spouse is the better half in those things?
I just kind of think they serve as the conscience you need at times.
It's easy to be TOO pragmatic too.
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It wasn't something I asked for, but I understood why it was done.
You aren't wrong.
And the Doctor is one hell of a conscience.
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Now that's a name I've heard around from time to time.
Though I never met the guy, he's hard to miss.
Definitely the goody goody type from the little I saw.