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Oh, Epel! Stop this at once! You'll mar my beautiful face...! |
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Zut alors! You must cease this unbecoming conduct, Epel. It is far from beautiful! |
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Beautiful?! |
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You dare say that, with his face and his voice? Ah ain't gonna let you say that again! |
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Your eyes will close, your breath will still... Crimson Slumber! |
Rook? & Vil? |
AAAH! / EEEK! |
| *The faceless Vil and Rook disappear* |
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*huff, huff* And STAY down! Y'all can stay asleep for all eternity. y'idjits! |
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Dude...I never knew Epel was Like This...Not at all the vibes I picked up from him at the SDC... |
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Really? He tends to act like that most of the time around the other freshmen. |
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Hey, Epel! You finally awake? |
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Yeah, my head's clear now. I must've looked like a real doof to you guys, huh? |
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Not at all. only those with powerful wills can overcome the darkness. |
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Hmph. I regarded you as frail, but you fought decently enough. You're a freshman, yet you've already mastered your signature spell... |
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Eheheh. I can only hit around 70 or 80 percent accuracy with it, but I sure nailed it there! |
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What?! You can cast it that reliably?! Rrrgh... |
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...Sounds like you've got a bit of catching up to do, Sebek. |
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You needn't tell me! |
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So, we all got caught up in the magical disaster Malleus set off at Lilia's farewell party, right? What was up with the fake Vil and Rook? What's going on?! |
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We can fill you in. Would you mind watching a quick primer video? |
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So we're in a dream Malleus created, and you're all building a team to fight him? This is all so sudden, it's like one big tall tale... Guess I'll have to take your word for it. |
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Thank you. Now then, in preparation to battle Malleus Draconia... We'd like your help waking up the other students of Pomefiore. |
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It seems easier for people to rouse targets... ...when they share real-world memories with the person whose dream it is. |
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Yup. I wasn't sure about that before, since I only had my own experience to go on... |
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But as far as I can tell form the way Grim and the others talked with Epel... Wake-up cues in magically-constructed dreams don't seem too different from regular dreams. |
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Wake-up cues...? |
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You know how when you're dreaming... ...you'll realize you're asleep if you encounter some glaring contradiction with reality? |
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In your case, the other freshmen confronted you with what you're actually like in the real world. That made you cognizant of the inconsistencies. |
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I get it... Though being all big and muscly didn't feel strange at all until you got here. |
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Yeah, 'cuz the whole dream world was affirming it on every level. |
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Up until Styx and Ortho intruded into my dream... I was just living my life in the dream world without even questioning it. |
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Mm... Likewise in my case. It's nothing to be ashamed of. |
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So I'm not the only one. That makes me feel a little better... Kinda. Okay, so how are we going to wake up the other Pomefiore students? |
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We'll have to jump to their dreams. But if you aren't inside your own dream... The darkness—that is, the GMs—will detect it, and the server admin Malleus will come running. |
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But if we leave some dummy data behind, it should pull the wool over their eyes for at least a little while. I've sent the Styx engineers some data. They should be developing some dummy data for you right now... |
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Ah, there it is! It just came in from HQ. |
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*beep!* |
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Data download complete. I'll project a hologram. |
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Eugh! Now that I'm looking at it again... How in tarnation did Ah ever think Ah looked cool?! |
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That should do it. On to the next dream server! Oh, wait! Almost forgot the most important thing. |
| Here, your party invite. |
| My...party invite? |
| It's basically a hotlink to the level where we'll have our final showdown with Malleus. That one's solely for you, so don't lose it. |
| Ah, got it! I'll hold onto it. |
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Is everyone ready to go? Come on, Epel. Take hold of me. |
| *Everyone huddles around Silver* |
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Um, all right...Like this? |
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Rgh, things are getting more and more crowded... Will you be all right, Silver? |
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Yeah, I'm good. This spell doesn't take a lot of magic anyway. Everybody hold on tight so you don't fall off. Here goes... |
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Those I've met and will someday... Meet in a Dream! |
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