sanity chicken would be a good band name

[parodeity]

all right fuck it
i was trying to avoid being That Crazy Person
but clearly everyone else is doing really well at sanity chicken
all edging around the topic or not bringing it up
or possibly it not being an issue for the majority though i am PRETTY fucking sure i can confirm it happening for at least like
nearly ten people maybe i dont know
so im just going to commit to my role as the crazy conspiracy theory guy
get me a whiteboard and some string you all
im ready to mark it up
wave goodbye sadly to my good name and all that
watch it circle the drain as i dump it in the toilet and watch it flush away
so anyway here we go

raise your fucking hand if youve had a very vivid hallucination of some sort
that felt super real
since you got this app
about a thing you definitely never remember yourself doing
also if youre going to go dave you sound like youve lost it
at least link me something entertaining off the internet to add some spice to what is sure to be a pretty common response
it isnt like yo remember when horses were a thing makes any of us sound any less ridiculous
so
admittedly i guess i could sound crazier
theres like a scale here
shit i should make a scale ill do that later
anyway

raise your hands or dont
go

[ ooc: i literally never care about theadjacking so feel free if you want ]

Comments

[daemonized]

I'll risk the notion of sounding mentally dubious, and be the first to raise my figurative hand. Since you were bold enough to announce this to everyone first.

[parodeity]

it was the draw of being in my dazzling company right
knew it
so anyway can i be invasive and ask when it happened to you and how many times
and like
if youve noticed some kind of pattern with it being a thing
you know to try to legitimize our mentally dubious thing here

[daemonized]

That must have been it, that and your shining aura. What's a bit of insanity in the name of good company?

It's only happened once, and I wasn't doing something so much as remembering certain creatures exist. Monsters, large and small. I could recite to you their names and everything.

[parodeity]

clearly nada
insanity is definitely a small price to pay to spend time in the same group as me
im just that thrilling to be around
and now youre in my group and everyones gonna be like damn
sure wish i could chuck my sanity into the ocean too
gotta get me in on that action
etc

i mean yes you absolutely could
however
have you happened to tell anyone else about those creatures
because something that i personally have experienced is that sometimes
going into detail about the hallucination
or memory that sounds less crazy lets go with your terminology
but anyway sometimes that will cause them to do the thing
and then its just a chain reaction of stupidity
by which i mean sure hit me up tell me about your monsters

[daemonized]

Is it like a club? Are you going to mail me a membership card in 3-5 business days? If not, I'll be sorely disappointed.

To answer your question somewhere in there, yes, I have. More than one; and yet only one experienced the result you described. She remembered the same creature I told her about (I drew it, actually), though the circumstances surrounding her "memory" were different. As were the feelings directed towards it.

And about the monsters, which would you like to start with? Large, medium, or small?

[parodeity]

glow in the dark lettering and everything
i obviously will not skimp out on the club membership cards
what kind of crazy person do you take me for

weird
in general anyone ive gone into detail for about my shit has gotten a thing
kind of
well more often than not
im not sure how the fuck this works
freakonomics is not my specialty
cool though that would be

also lets start with large because thats how you start opening presents
always pick the biggest box first
unless the thing you were hoping for is small then go with a smaller box
is there an order of coolness here go with the coolest one first

[daemonized]

Glow in the dark? A crazy person with remarkable tastes, obviously.

And is their "thing" somehow related to yours, like the example I gave you? If that's happening more often than not to you, then it suggests a whole slew of new complications and/or puzzling questions. Assuming any of these memories are actually real to begin with.

Large, then. How about a giant that only comes out in the darkest of night, pulling itself out of a strange portal in the ground? It wields a sword as big as it is, and has obsidian skin as thick as steel. It’s called, fittingly, an /iron/ giant.

It has a very small head, though.

1/2

[parodeity]

shit dude my taste is impeccable

their thing often is
usually
though once or twice its been off the wall

[parodeity]

did they wear clown costumes

[daemonized]

[...conversation about weird memories officially derailed, in a manner of speaking.]

Certainly not! Though perhaps that would have made them far more intimidating in a coulrophobia-inducing manner.

Or was this a trick question?

[because wat.]

[parodeity]

no
i was just like
checking
...
are you 100% sure
they werent like wearing colorful jester costumes

[daemonized]

[There's an actual delay here, because now you're making Ardyn actually think about this??]

I am positively, absolutely certain. There were no jester costumes, no bright colors, and no royal court to entertain.

Are you all right?

[parodeity]

yeah peachy keen
just thinking about clowny ogres and shit
whats the medium sized one

[daemonized]

Is there any particular reason /why/ you're thinking about "clowny ogres"?

[Did Ardyn just... trigger something for you]

A floating, round purple mass of electricity. A jack-o-lantern smile plastered on its face, and when it explodes, it leaves smaller versions of itself in its wake. I believe that one is called the Thunder Bomb.

And no, it doesn't dress like a clown, either.

whoops threadjacking for real now

[darkinferno]

[Guess who just got a regain!]

...

what the actual fuck

[daemonized]

[listen, this is what happens when you read his conversations with other people]

Is there a problem? Or is this commentary from the peanut gallery?

1/2 sighs

[darkinferno]

[okay but maybe SOMEBODY shouldn't be having conversations where they can be easily read that's all he's saying here]

you're hilarious

really

2/2

[darkinferno]

[A few minutes later, he'll come back to this.]

i think

i remember those

they weren't called iron giants though

[what the fuck he doesn't want to join the crazy club too :( ]

I SEE WHAT U DID THERE

[daemonized]

[All right, listen, what’s with Ardyn inspiring all these weird memories/hallucinations recently. Does he need to stop conversing with all of you?

Nah.]

No, they’re iron giants.

[Look, he’s sure of that, okay.]

What would you rather call them?

IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CARD I had to redo it bc the html borked X(

[darkinferno]

[Again there's a pause before the response. Dante's trying to sort through the information, because there are two names battling to be recognized.]

they were called...

darksides, i think?

i'm not really sure, i keep remembering that as their name but then there's another part of me insisting they're called invisibles

but they're giant monsters made out of darkness that emerge from portals of darkness on the ground and wield a sword as big as they are

lol i didn't even notice

[daemonized]

What you've described is what I've seen myself, but they were not called "darksides". Nor "invisibles". As I said, definitely "iron giants".

[He's sure of it. He doesn't know why, he just is.]

Do you remember anything else about them at all?

[not here]

[darkinferno]

[oh he's taking note of that one ardyn

expect a membership card to be shuffled in with the next assignment for class]

[daemonized]

[wow Dante

how thoughtful of you to go through all that trouble :') ]

[darkinferno]

[don't worry, you won't be saying that when you see it

and it'll be slipped into a different spot than his paper ends up so

dante who? it certainly wasn't a dante that submitted that not at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

[daemonized]

[listen if you don't think he's just going to proudly display it in his "Weird/Funny Shit That Students Give Him" collection he probably has you're so very wrong]