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

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?

1/2 AGAIN :|

[darkinferno]

not really. i don't remember why they existed or anything like that

hang on

2/2 and like 20 minutes later...

[darkinferno]

they looked a lot like this

omg

[daemonized]

[Okay, he'd make a remark about the artistic merit of that sketch, if not for the fact that it's not like Ardyn's doodle of a tonberry was a work of art, either.

But.]

It has a heart-shape in its middle. Is it preparing itself for Valentine's Day?

i love doing shit like this YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED.......

[darkinferno]

[EXCUSE U ARDYN HIS WORK IS A MASTERPIECE

get that shit framed and in a gallery and everything!]

i know you're screwing around here because i'd do the same thing but no

i get a feeling like i should be on my guard around them

kind of like dave and his jester giants i guess

it's amazing, never stop

[daemonized]

That you should run up to them and "stab" them?

[As Dave had aptly put it.]

Honestly, I'm surrounded by people with hidden, violent tendencies. That or overly cautious ones.

Or perhaps I'm just reckless? Feeling no apprehension towards my own "monsters". What do you think?

8Db

[darkinferno]

i think you've apparently got a death wish

i don't know all the details, but i can tell you those things are dangerous

they're not the sort of thing you make friends with

[daemonized]

I suppose we'll never have the opportunity to find out, will we? Unless, of course, this is merely an omen of things to come.

Given that horses have turned into giant birds, I'm hesitant to say that anything is impossible.

[darkinferno]

weren't you the one telling me not to tempt fate?

when we wake up and the city's been swamped by monsters i'll at least know who to blame

[twelfthspark]

It looks like something a middle school goth kid would come up with.

[Arlene I thought you said you weren't stalking Dante's comments]

[darkinferno]

you know if this is you not following me i'm almost afraid to see what happens when you REALLY decide to stalk someone

[twelfthspark]

But you're not disagreeing with me.

[darkinferno]

not really worth it

it's not like i came up with it on my own so it doesn't matter to me if you think it's kiddie-goth aesthetic

[SHRUGS LOUDLY]

[twelfthspark]

[And suddenly, the knowledge is there. Like it always had been.]

You didn't even get it right. What's with the tail?

[darkinferno]

what are you talking about? they have tails

their tails are bladed like the swords

[twelfthspark]

Um, no. Definitely not. And it should have really wild hair.

[darkinferno]

look if you don't like my drawing why don't you try and do better

[twelfthspark]

[did she really print it out and take a sharpie to it

and then send a picture of that

she sure did, I just couldn't go all the way because my RL printer isn't working]

[darkinferno]

[Dante frowns... he could swear he remembers the tail, whipping out from behind its back with sharp blades that could slice through flesh like it was nothing... he knows it carried a sword, would plunge it into the ground and dissolve into some gaseous form of energy that might encircle its victim waiting for the right moment...

But the wiry hair she's added to his drawing makes sense too, replacing the horns and the sharp juts from the face. If he closes his eyes, he can remember darksides like that, hulking forms moving slowly but surely through the darkness. Slower than the ones with the swords and horns, but no less dangerous.

Are they different?]

i remember those

but i remember ones with the swords and tails too

[Are the two of them remembering the same things?

Are their hallucinations somehow related?]

arlene. tell me what else you've remembered

i want to try something

[twelfthspark]

[She can do the math as well as he can. She had no business recognizing that picture--yet she did. The other thing Ardyn was describing doesn't add up with what she "remembers," but then Dante backed her up...

Either he's fucking with her, which isn't that unlikely, or something really weird is going on. In a few comments, he's gone from "too far up his own ass to be interesting" to investigation priority #1.]

IDK if remembered is the right word, it was in a dream

But there was a castle? White, spiky, loads of towers. It was definitely floating.

regain get!

[darkinferno]

[He remembers it. He remembers leaving through the castle's doors, looking back over his shoulder and seeing the castle and its strange green roofs. And a feeling of... determination as he did so, though he's not sure why.]

castle oblivion

[twelfthspark]

What? No. That's somewhere else.

[She's absolutely certain, and there is absolutely no reason she should be. But when she shuts her eyes... the name conjures up a dark, crooked place, and it looks almost nothing like her dream.

This is rapidly becoming less and less funny.]

[darkinferno]

"that's somewhere else"?

but you DO recognize the name

[Still, he knows he's remembering this right. Remembering? Is that even the right word? But he can see the castle's exterior as clearly as though he'd been there yesterday, the path leading up to its doors and the chasm dropping off to either side. The castle itself, appearing to float at the end of the path.]

this is getting weird and i'm not so sure i'm a fan

[twelfthspark]

Of course I recognize it

[She taps "send" before she has a chance to reflect on why.]

If it bugs you that much you can stop anytime.