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[ghostharasser]

[The writing seems nervous and hesitant. A few dots here while someone nervously taps their pen on the paper before finally writing.]

Hey, um. Everyone.

Sssso, that thing where the sea base got thrown into a weird dream realm for a few days, that probably messed with a lot of people in ways that were genuinely awful and unpleasant might have been ... my fault.

I'm really sorry, and it was 100% an accident. I- I was out exploring in the ocean and came across something really really cursed. It threw my powers out of control and apparently it plunged everyone into a dream bubble.

I don't remember a whole lot from those few days, but I know what dreams and nightmares are like, so I get it if everyone is super pissed off at me. I'm going to stay in my room for a while, so if you want to, I dunno, yell at me in person, I'm in room 618.

That's all.

-Dipper

Comments

[eidxiety]

Mr. Sou Sou, it's okay! I had a great dream where I got to show my friends here who my friends from back home are. ^^ Thank you :)

If anyone else had a bad time that's a skill issue.

[boy.]

1/2

[ghostharasser]

[There's. A lot to unpack here.]

[ghostharasser]

[Well, he is genuinely glad to hear someone had actual good dreams instead of the nightmares he knows he at least had.]

I'm glad you had nice dreams, at least. That's good. I don't.... think I would call it a skill issue if people have nightmares, though.

[eidxiety]

???

Just don't dream :O I normally don't!

[ghostharasser]

Yeah, you see, most people can't control that.

Dude, I have dream powers and I still get nightmares against my will.

[eidxiety]

:D?????

You have powers, though? So you can fix it?

[ghostharasser]

UH. Well...

So, while I can actually affect dreams and nightmares if I'm lucid in the moment, sometimes nightmares can be bad enough that it takes a while to realize that's what's going on. Most people aren't immediately lucid or aware when they're dreaming, either, which is probably why nightmares are so scary.

When I'm lucid I can usually fix everything and make nightmares stop, but even for me, that doesn't happen automatically unless I'm creating the dreamscape myself from scratch.

[eidxiety]

:O

So why don't you just make a dream for yourself every night before bed? Then you won't have nightmares?? :O

1/??????

[ghostharasser]

[ghostharasser]

[ghostharasser]

Done

[ghostharasser]

I can’t believe I never thought of that. I’m going to eat my entire journal.

[eidxiety]

That's not really good for your health, Mr. Sou Sou, haha ^^

I thought for a moment you'd say that you run out of mana doing so, or something like that. But no, you just haven't thought of it! That's even funnier!

[ghostharasser]

Yeah, yeah, the mana thing may not be off the table. I've never tried to run my powers all night before, so I guess we'll find out. If I end up growing feathers after a week of doing this, hit me over the head with something heavy to knock me out.

[start_again]

[Siffrin just draws a little picture of a hand with the middle finger extended. It comes out pretty good!]

[ghostharasser]

[Yeah, see. This is what he was worried about.]

[eidxiety]

[colours the middle finger in

draws a smiley face on the fingertip :)]

[start_again]

[ fuck off don't make it cute!!!

adds angry eyebrows and an eyepatch over the left eye ]

[eidxiety]

[adds a pirate hat :)]