June catch-all (and also some of May lmao)

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⭐ Who: Bruno & OPEN
⭐ When: post-event and also throughout July
⭐ Where: Around Yumemigaoka/the Dream Sphere
⭐ What: Sure did fight a big horrible Thing didn't we? It's cool though it's fine it's fine

Comments

immediately post-event, Dreamer's Union

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[Well. That was a disaster. Bruno has caused - contributed to - been involved with plenty of disasters in his day, but that whole thing really took the cake.

Back in the Waking World, the rats are overjoyed to see him up and about again. He knew, when he last went to sleep, that he might be out for awhile, so he'd stocked them up with plenty of food and water, and explained once again that they needed to be very very careful if they went out into the DU to forage. It's impossible to say that they understood. Bruno thinks rats are a lot smarter than people say, but he also knows that he just got used to talking to them during his lonely years.

For himself, he just tucked himself away in his basement hidey-hole and hoped against hope that no one would find his sleeping form there. Fortunately, it doesn't seem like anyone did.

It's been much too long. He feels faint from hunger and thirst, and weirdly sore besides. Must've been sleeping weird. The kids had people to look after them, so hopefully they're doing a little better...stiffly, he limps his way back upstairs to the common areas. He's just looking for something to eat and drink, but if anyone else comes into the cafeteria, he forces himself to slow down and act nonchalant. He's just a regular guy! Not a Dreamer, no reason to fuss!]

So...all that stuff's over now? With everyone being asleep for ages? They're all - they're all okay now, right?

[He's more or less fine, but he's still sort of worried about the kids.]

[saynotobugs]

Looks like. You look awful. [sigh] Then again, it's not like anyone else in here looks like they're doing okay after that disaster.

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Oh, I'm - I'm fine. Just...haven't been sleeping that well lately, heh. That's ironic, right? But, uh, I guess everyone here's been really worried. Obviously something was going bad in the Dream Sphere.

[He shrugs a little. Like, it must have been pretty scary to get stuck on the outside too, right? They would've all been totally unaware of what was going on, and maybe not even sure if the Dreamers would wake up at all.]

Good to have everyone back though.

[saynotobugs]

[Maki sighs again.] You guess? We've all been pulling way too many hours. I'll be surprised if even ten percent of us show up to work tomorrow with how little sleep people have been getting, aside from the Dreamers who got stuck.

[predecir]

Heh, right...

[Have they? That's...that's nice.]

I wasn't, um, looking after any of the Dreamers or anything, at least. Wouldn't mind a day off, though.

[Wait. Wait, did he actually take enough time off to cover all that time he spent asleep? Bruno looks like he is suddenly, silently starting to freak out.]

[saynotobugs]

I do not envy HR figuring all that out right now. Personally, I'm just glad we didn't have a tech meltdown on top of all this.

[predecir]

Eeeesh, yeah. That'd be a nightmare!

[he is going to go forge his pto records tonight after hr goes home]

[saynotobugs]

Yeah, no kidding. Hopefully that doesn't end up happening. I don't think Crimson was a hacker on top of everything else.

[predecir]

Mmm, well. Wouldn't help us either way, would it?

[404heronotfound]

[ apparently, there's some new kid to worry about- a dreamer who arrived in the du during the chaos of the 51st anniversary. while she didn't get trapped in the slumbering city, she's still given the staff plenty of cause for concern. the scars, the spaciness, the amnesia... people are starting to wonder where she's even sleeping at night after an offhand comment about her not knowing where her apartment is.

when bruno shuffles back into his basement "bedroom," he'll find the answer to that particular question in a tangle of limbs twisted at awkward angles crashed out where he sleeps; the kind of nigh-gordian sleeping position that only a lanky teenager with awkward proportions can find comfortable.

considering how the rats don't seem to mind her presence, she's been sleeping here for a while, and feeding bruno's friends to boot. ]

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Um.

[Well. How...how did she even get here? Like, he doesn't really lock the door behind him or anything, since it's an abandoned storage room down in the basement, but that still doesn't really explain why there's a kid asleep in this closet. Where Bruno lives.]

Hey, are you...okay?

[404heronotfound]

Mmmf...?

[ kenko rights herself, yawning, then looks vaguely surprised that she yawned at all. ]

Am I okay? [ she pauses, cupping her chin. is she okay? she has to consider the question for a full ten seconds before replying, ] Yes.

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......you're sleeping in a closet.

[He says, as if this isn't where he lives.]

[404heronotfound]

[ blink. ]

Is there anywhere else to sleep here.

[ pause. ] Where people won't find me. [ another, longer pause. ] Other than you.

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.....why does it matter if people find you?

[HE ASKED. LIKE HE'S NOT THE GUY WHO SLEEPS IN THIS CLOSET. FOR THAT REASON.]

I mean if...if you're a Dreamer, they've got places for that.

[404heronotfound]

They ask if I'm "okay." I don't know how to answer that, so I think about it, which makes them think I'm not "okay." Then they ask if I have a place to sleep, and I do, but I don't remember where it is. So I can't say "no" because I'd be lying, but I can't say "yes" either.

It's easier to sleep here.

[predecir]

...that's not lying, though. If you don't remember where it was, you can't go there, so you don't - you don't really have it.

[also this is HIS. HOUSE?]

[rubykomachi]

Bruno-san!

[Upon returning to the DU and seeing one of the normal people besides her brother that she knows, Ruby is immediately looking for a soundboard.]

You won't believe--oh, yeah, pretty sure everybody's fine? Anyway, something crazy happened to me right before we all got trapped!

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O-oh, yeah? What was it?

[He's not a Dreamer or anything OBVIOUSLY LMAO, but that's not a reason he can't listen if she wants to talk about it!]

[rubykomachi]

Well, I ran into this suuuuper tall Dreamer I never saw before--he was big and had a hood on, I'd totally know if he was around the Union, right?! And he's all...[She clears her throat and puts on her best deep scary voice.] "You should leave...something terrible is about to happen at this party..."

And obviously he was right, it felt like I was there for like a month! I didn't even know the Dreamsphere could predict the future...

[predecir]

Oh...wow!

[Cool we love to wake up in hell a second time!]

That sounds really creepy. So, what, you think he was like...part of the Dreamsphere?

[rubykomachi]

Well, he's probably a Dreamer, so not completely part of the Dreamsphere...maybe he lives there...

[She taps her feet.] Bruno-san, you're basically always here, have you seen any super tall deep-voiced guys wandering around?

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Mmmm, no, can't say I have.

[rubykomachi]

Darnit. Of course he wouldn't make it easy...I'll have to look for him in the Dreamsphere then! If he knew about that big monster coming, he might know even more!

Just in case, tell me if you see anybody you think might be able to turn into a big scary guy over there!

[At least there being a hood means her obliviousness can't entirely be blamed on how face-blind she is--Dreamer Omen is good at keeping his identity secret!]

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Oh...uh, sure. You got it.

[The fact that he turns seven feet tall also helps. Bruno didn't even really do half that stuff on purpose, at least not at first, but it sure comes in handy now!]