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[lioneyed]

While I'm rather happy that the weather in this place seems quite a bit nicer than outside of the castle, I can't help but feeling as though I'm hallucinating or caught inside some sort of lucid dream.

If only because absolutely nothing here seems to make sense.

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[both_neither]

I don't think my dreams were ever this strange.

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[lioneyed]

I've had ones this odd, I think, but they're a little hazy.

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[both_neither]

Yeah, I guess that's normal. Funny, that the ones I really remember at the bad ones...

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[lioneyed]

That doesn't seem all that surprising - they'd have more impact.

Mine are all mixed up, but that's laudanum for you, I suppose.

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[both_neither]

I think I've heard of that stuff before. I forget what people take it for, though...[only that it's probably not good]

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[lioneyed]

It's a painkiller and a cough suppressant. Most of it's other effects are secondary.

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[both_neither]

Doesn't sound like much fun.

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[lioneyed]

Not particularly.

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[both_neither]

Well, I'm pretty sure we're not all hallucinating the same thing.

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[lioneyed]

True. I could be hallucinating talking to you, but that does seem to stretch the limits of believability, unless this is some sort of true dream.

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[both_neither]

What's a true dream?

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[lioneyed]

Ah - a dream where you interact with places or things you interact with are 'real'. Either deliberately created magical constructs, or the projections of other dreamers. Sometimes it means future-telling dreams, but I've never had one of those.

This would be a singularly odd place to make in an oneirmantic construct, I think.

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[both_neither]

Assuming I know what that meant...why is that?

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[lioneyed]

Well, just because it's... odd all over. The only oneiromantic construct - which is to say, a shared dreamspace constructed of magic - I've seen reflected a material place. It would be easier to construct, and to anchor that way.

Building something like this would... be a great deal of effort.

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[both_neither]

Because...you'd have to make it all up?

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[lioneyed]

Basically. And you'd have to find a more complicated way of keeping it stable, I think.

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[both_neither]

Huh.

Well, I guess if we're in anyone's dream it's the castles.

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[lioneyed]

Hmm. I hadn't considered that possibility, but... it's entirely possible. And quite a bit more likely than others.

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[both_neither]

Might be. If you can accept the idea that the castle can dream.

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[lioneyed]

Given the other things I've heard about it... well, it wouldn't come as much of a surprise.

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[both_neither]

I'd believe pretty much anything of this place to be honest.

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[lioneyed]

Likewise.