text, un: yuuki

[siriusly]

Hang in there, everyone... This should just be only a couple weeks more right? The darkness at least. I've been on a planet for so long I forgot how to manage the darkness effects at first...
But take it from me and some other folks who worked or lived in space-
Try your best to keep a routine of "day" and "night" hours so your body has some sense of cadence
It should help you feel less messed up when theres no daylight to rely on
(To say nothing of the bugs which you should already know to be avoiding by now)
I'll try to think up any other good tips but the sleep cycles a big one
If you need help getting around too let me know
I don't mind lending a hand

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text | un: warden

[megatheorem]

Good point; a strictly regimented routine for day/night would be my first piece of advice too.

If you don't mind me adding:
1. Spending as much time as possible with other people is equally key. Do anything, but not alone.
2. Eat your vitamin supplements.

Sidebar, are we certain it's only going to be a few more weeks?

[siriusly]

Weird things and changes are pretty tied to the lunar cycle here...and back in the nightmare, everything was month by month. At this point it's just a working theory
I wouldn't mind if the sun came back tomorrow though, happy to be proven wrong

[megatheorem]

Right. Personally I'm not sure what to do with a lunar cycle when it's just hanging there for days on end, not cycling.

You were there, in "the dream"? Did this one ever happen, back then?

[siriusly]

I was there yeah
But in talking to a lot of the others who were there before me i came at a real bad time
Back when all their routines and cycles were falling apart
I don't remember a long night
But there were days and days of endless fog where it was hard to tell what time of day it was
The creatures then werent as docile as the butterflies

[megatheorem]

The end, then? Sorry, I don't know much about that particular era besides bits and pieces. If it's a hassle to recall, don't mind me.

Granted, I'd wager plenty of people around here might prefer fog and straightforward hostile creatures to what's going on now.

[siriusly]

Maybe those folks need to remember what it feels like to be powerless then
The locals here dont deserve to be menaced any more than we do
This is easier to manage with just some good advice as opposed to having to have magical powers or strength

[megatheorem]

I don't disagree. They're not really comparable circumstances, but I can understand the psychological difference between wallowing in uncertainty about when the sun will come back and knowing definitively that a monster is dead.

Not for me, or anything, I'd be eaten in a heartbeat.

The tolls are different. That's all.

[siriusly]

Are you sure about that
Have you gotten eaten or killed before

[megatheorem]

Twice. Why, is it supposed to be a rite of passage? Bleak.

[siriusly]

Not really a rite but not really something to want to sign on for either

[megatheorem]

That's a fair hit. Trust me, I'm not trying to do it again, or let it happen to anyone else. Broadly, the situation is lose-lose; if there was a convenient kind of suffering that didn't put at least one person through hell, it would be called something else.

So. I'm not pushing for more fog, fewer butterflies. Sorry.

Still: the buddy system helps in either circumstance.

[siriusly]

True
Seeing people get stuck staring and losing themselves all alone is no good right now
Its not really good anytime

[megatheorem]

Right. I'd say anyone with a friend they like enough to let them smack them upside the head when they get butterfly-dosed, make it official now.
Or avoid the bugs, but I haven't noticed any actual pattern for where they go.

[siriusly]

Kind of hard to track for patterns when you need to observe them huh

[megatheorem]

I might have spent an afternoon (maybe?) doing a lot of hasty spinning around while squinting and trying to extrapolate from there. I don't recommend it for the obvious reasons, and also for anyone with dignity.

Those lights they leave behind could be tracked, though.

[siriusly]

And picked up
Diluc was doing that the other night
Apparently theyre helpful?

[megatheorem]

Something like that; I'm still wrapping my head around "light made of hope and you feel better when you touch it," but proof is proof. I have a few in a jar.

[siriusly]

Thats the kind of thing i just chalk up to magic stuff im never going to understand
But does it work?? did you try

[megatheorem]

It's the medium that gets me; hope as a tangible resource.
It does, though. I'm saving what I have for another time; getting caught in a hope -> hopeless loop by hanging around those things seemed like a bad idea.

[siriusly]

Thats true
I dont mind helping gather more if other folks want to pair up and do it to avoid that loop

[megatheorem]

Is that an offer for me too?

[He is kind of Opinionated Online, he knows this can chafe.]

If so: I have more jars. We can split the overall take.

[siriusly]

Sure if you like
I just dont know who you are or what you look like haha

[megatheorem]

Right. Hold on.

[He'll fiddle with the omni to swap to video, revealing Nerd with Glasses. He squints, then holds up a hand. Howdy.]

I'm Palamedes. D'you have a favorite neighborhood, for light collecting?

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[spiritwalks]

I can also be a lamp buddy, if anybody needs a lil extra light therapy to ward off the SAD ☀️

[siriusly]

[crap now HE has to swap over. hang on. doing so yields a lot of--

BARKBARKBARK--] SHHH, Magnet!

[exasperated, he looks back over. behold: one-eyed anime with dog noises off-speaker.]

Hi, um. My name's Manabu. Sorry, I didn't say it when I posted at first, I forgot to, I think... Uh, not, not really? Just wherever's fine, so long as it's close to a lamp in case things get dicey.