Text [♉] : Cool dream, but now try to GTFO.

[redbullrenegade]

hAHAHA,
hEEEYYY,
sO TH1S DREAM'S PRETTY AWESOME, nO L1E THERE,
bUT A GUY HAS TO GET H1S ASS UP NOW.
wAKEY WAKEY FOR GOOD OL' GOALPOSTS.
sOMEONE M1ND HELP1NG A LOWBLOOD OUT?

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[aim_exorable]

[Brown text. But not the Nitram boy. Difference in speech, for one thing, and there's also the fact that Darkleer kind of knows that Gamzee and Equius have taken the lowblood in.]

[So... The predecessor, perhaps? Well, he's not familiar to Darkleer, and so he makes no more attempts at guessing.]

[What he does do is use anonymous text once again. The last few days have been... tiring. He doesn't want to deal with anymore bickering. His energy, his ability to care, everything, is just... wasted.]

Does this feel like a dream to you?

[redbullrenegade]

[Anonymous? Tch, not like he knows anyone here any way. Lysunder DOES frown though because that statement is not reassuring by any means.]

mORE NOW THAT YOU'RE 1N 1T.
};)
bUT WE'LL SAVE THAT FOR THE NEXT T1ME 1 TAKE A NAP.
fOR NOW 1 NEED TO FOCUS ON GETT1NG UP.
wARS CAN GET PRETTY UGLY W1THOUT THE R1GHT LEADERSH1P, yOU KNOW?

[aim_exorable]

[There are much more important things to focus on. For example, the lowblood mentions a war. Considering how Alternia is, that needs a lot of narrowing down.]

. . .
Did you just flirt with a completely anonymous stranger, who you don't even know the blood or face of?

[He decides to prioritize.]

[redbullrenegade]

hEY NOW, dON'T BE SO DOWN ON YOURSELF.
eVERYONE 1S PLENTY F1NE 1N THE1R OWN WAY.

bUT SER1OUSLY, 1 KNOW YOU WANT ME TO COMPL1MENT YOU MORE, aND SEND THAT TH1NK PAN 1NTO A T1ZZY,
bUT THERE ARE EXTREMELY 1MPORTANT REASONS AS TO WHY 1 NEED TO GET UP AS SOON AS POSS1BLE.

[redbullrenegade]

[Pause.]

oKAY,
mAYBE NOT EVERYONE.
bUT 1'M ASSUM1NG YOU'RE NOT ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE.
hAHA.
tHAT'D BE CRAZY.

[aim_exorable]

Did you suffer brain damage when your skull became too intimate with a more durable object, such as a rock?

This is getting ridiculous.
No matter where you are, nearby, I suspect you will see a particular kind of coral.
Touch it.
That will answer your demands on "waking" from this "dream".

I can only hope you are considerably less perverse when you are "awake".

[redbullrenegade]

1 ALREADY TOUCHED THAT STRANGE SEA ROCK.
uNFORTUNATELY NOTH1NG ESCAPES THESE HORNS,
gOT STUCK WHEN 1 SAT UP.
aNYWAY,
wE CAN CROSS THAT OFF THE L1ST.
gOT ANY TH1NG ELSE, mY K1ND AND COMPASS1ONATE STRANGER?

[aim_exorable]

. . .
Jam your fist immediately and with as much force as you are capable of into your eye socket.
I have heard that is a particularly good method for waking up from sleep.

[redbullrenegade]

[You're lucky he's trusting and also very very sure this is a dream.]

[Summoner frowns, standing up, glaring at the blue fairy darting around his head before moving over to the coral and giving it a good right hand jab to the- FUCK.]

[Ricochet, and ground. Fuck that, hurt a lot. That... That hurt more than anything he's ever felt in a dream before. And thing near it would always wake him up.]

[Wait.]

[A long time passes, maybe 10 - 20 minutes before he responds.]

nO.
sH1T.
nO.

[aim_exorable]

[Darkleer isn't sure what has happened in that period of time, but after a period of five minutes, he figures the troll on the other end of the line has either knocked himself unconscious or is simply attending to other messages. That's enough of a prompt for Darkleer to return to his own work, safely secluded from the rest of the population so there are no interruptions.]

[It's a surprise when his SFC flickers again with a new message. For a few minutes, Darkleer simply stares at it.]

[...He's not sure how to respond.]

Which war was it?
This place operates on different levels of time
And we both know war is far from a foreign concept in Alternia.]

[redbullrenegade]

uHHH,
oKAY,
1'LL PLAY ALONG...
tHE SECOND REBELL1ON.
cOME ON, 1T'S K1ND OF A B1G DEAL BY NOW.

[aim_exorable]

[Another rebellion. Despite how harshly the first was dealt with, they still...]

Only by your measure of what 'now' is.

...

Why are you trying?

[redbullrenegade]

tRY1NG?
1F YOU MEAN THE WAR,
wE'RE W1NN1NG.
tHERE HASN'T BEEN TRY1NG S1NCE 1 F1RST STARTED TO LEAD THE CAVALREAPERS.

[aim_exorable]

Ah.
So that is your station.

[Okay... Maybe now he's at least a little impressed. That's fairly good for someone so low on the hemospectrum.]

It would explain how you began, then.
You realize you will not win, however.
It is an impossible cause.

[redbullrenegade]

oH, nOW MY F1GMENTS ARE TRY1NG TO GET ME DOWN,
tH1S USUALLY NEVER HAPPENS, cONS1DER1NG MY CONF1DENCE AND ALL.
bUT 1'LL DEAL W1TH 1T.

dO YOU TRULY W1SH TO GET 1NTO TH1S ARGUMENT?
1 CAN BE QU1TE A HORNFUL.

[aim_exorable]

I have already surmised that, thank you very much.
It is difficult to ignore when you are so deeply in denial.
I had assumed you had rammed your fist into something hard and realized this is a reality, but it appears not.

Go ahead.