★ blind the masses with a grin, stir up the media

[liedol]

⭐ Who: Ai and you!
⭐ When: End of May through July
⭐ Where: Various prompts around Yumemigaoka and the Dream Sphere
⭐ What: An Ai catchall for the next month! After a suspiciously well timed vacation out to Hokkaido, Ai's back in Yumemigaoka and ready to catch up on everything she missed. I'm also down for doing closed/private prompts so hit me up on Discord if you'd like to plan something!

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[trickyjedi]

Pretty quiet, honestly.

[munching on his snack while he thinks…]

Oh, I did run into a figment that seemed self aware and could talk. That’s a little unusual.

[liedol]

[ And by contrast, that's surprise enough to get Ai's ricecake to pause halfway to her mouth. ]

You did? [ she sounds genuinely befuddled. ] Are you really sure it wasn't just a lucid dreamer from this side?

[trickyjedi]

Might have been, I suppose.

[naturally, it was hard to be certain of anything in a land made of dreams.]

I thought he was a torment at first. I would have dispatched him without a thought if he hadn’t started talking.

[liedol]

Good thing he was feeling talkative, then...

[ contemplative ricecake munch... ]

What did he have to say when you talked to him?

[trickyjedi]

Mainly that I'm not very observant, since I've never noticed him before.

Quite embarrassing, really.

[liedol]

So even if he wasn't a Torment, he was still tormenting you pretty bad!

[ get dunked on ]

Could he have been one of us? People take all sorts of forms on the other side.

[trickyjedi]

It was a C+ tormenting at best.

[A light dunking.]

No, I don't think it was one of us. It didn't feel like a Dreamer, if you take my meaning, and I've learned to trust my instincts in the Dream Sphere.

[liedol]

Things on that side get weirder and weirder every day... [ And yet, she's a little unfazed? Past a certain point of bizarro land dream logic, it only gets disconcerting when things aren't weird. ] Whereabouts did you find him? Maybe I could go try talking to him myself...

[ i promise she won't recruit this one as a trainee. probably. ... hopefully. ]

[trickyjedi]

It’s the Dream Sphere, it would be stranger if it wasn’t weird.

[Ben unintentionally echoed AI’s thoughts.]

He was just wandering the Slumbering City. I finally cornered him at the train station to Fury Peak.

[liedol]

So you'd say he's easy to find?

[ that's her Ai Has An Idea face ]

I wonder if we could talk him into signing onto the DU somehow...

[trickyjedi]

If you see him, he’ll stand out. There aren’t a lot of giant bug men in the slumbering city.

[liedol]

Maybe he's a trendsetter? This isn't the start of a new giant bug man era of the Dream Sphere, is it?

[ just imagine the paperwork... ]

[trickyjedi]

That would be absolutely fascinating. The Dream Sphere has remained relatively stable, if weird, the whole time we’ve been exploring it, but that’s only been for fifty years. Who knows what actual long term trends are like In there!

[Hes a nerd. I’m sorry.]

[liedol]

Oh, don't say that. The last thing we need is a big explosive change when we've only just starting getting to grips with things over there.

[ she is Once Again imagining the paperwork ]

[trickyjedi]

Oh very well. I hope the incoming invasion of bug-men doesn’t throw our routine off too much. It would be most inconvenient.