The time has come, seahorsedad said

[onlyasign]

Who: Sufferer and everyone crashing at Dualscar's hive this week
When: throughout the curse week
Where: Dualscar's hive, which he's now sharing with two freeloading holy bros
Style: whatever
Status: pretty open

Freshly equipped with new hands--new hands with thumbs!--Sufferer finds himself taking care of multiple trolls who have been turned into animals, including but not necessarily limited to multiple cats, an aquatic hoofbeast, an Alternian bee, and a mute penguin. Of course, this being the party hive that it is, others drop by during the course of the week as well.]

[OOC: mingle, start threads with each other, have fun! Just let everyone know in subject header if it's closed or open or what.]

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[bethehugejerk]

[Karkat blinks once at this. Dualscar can't talk? But whatever, not the point.]

What? You can't tell me you expected a flightless, aquatic bird for him, did you? And a seahorse seems almost tame for you.

[devwocean]

[He thumps his tail irritably and tosses his head. Not being able to talk really sucks. He jerks his head towards Eridan, then towards his own chest and scowls as best he can at Karkat. He's been turned into his own lusus, of course, but how the hell to convey that? He's got no idea.]

[bethehugejerk]

[Angry gesture, head pointing, unhappy look. Karkat does look back at Eridan with the middle one, but really...]

What?

[devwocean]

[Now a sigh and he drops his head down to the ground, looking somewhat disconsolate.]

[bethehugejerk]

[Yeahhh. He sighs himself, after a second.]

This whole week is one game of particularly inept charades after another. It would help if any of the people I've tried to communicate with had hands to make gestures with, but I've gotten wings, flippers, and nothing in your case.

My only advice, if you give a shit, and I can't blame you if you don't, is to enjoy the flying while you have it.

[devwocean]

[He blinks and nods slightly, and gives Karkat the faint impression of a smile. He's had the opportunity to fly in Summoner's body, and also in this one.

He is rather getting used to flying, though he doesn't love it. Still, the advice is decent.]

[bethehugejerk]

[Woah, is that what he thinks it is? A smile? Some sort of appreciation for his advice? Karkat's eye... whiskers (this worked so much better when he had eyebrows) raise. Of course, he promptly lays himself down and looks elsewhere.]

I've only gotten to fly a few times myself, and it's not like you ever played a world-ending game with mystical flying dreamselves on the gaudiest planets ever conceived, so it seemed the obvious thing to suggest.

[Pause.]

And... thanks, by the way, for letting Eridan and me stay here when you've already got my ancestor and the Psiioniic around.

[devwocean]

[Yeah, he's heard a lot about the game by now, but he didn't know that it involved a lot of flying. He cocks his head questioningly, curious to hear more.

But there's a pause, and an unexpected thanks, and his ear fins flick back in surprise. He makes a sort of shrug that runs right down his body, then nods. For one thing, he wouldn't turn his own descendant away, and Karkat comes as part of the package]

[bethehugejerk]

[That's one of the weirder shrugs he's ever seen, but at least the gesture's meaning transfers alright enough. He can't say he expected this, either. If you caught him earlier when he first started believing in ancestors, Eridan's is not one he ever would have expected to be on good terms with.]

[He caught that curiosity too, though, so he continues on that subject.]

Not that I ever got to experience it, because lucky me, I had the misfortune of having my dreamself killed the moment I finally woke up on Prospit. But the basic idea was this: every player has a dreamself, barring special circumstances like Sollux, who had two. These dreamselves sleep in towers on the moons of these two planets, Prospit and Derse. Prospit dreamers, when they wake up, see a whole gaudy ass city of gold and magic clouds that predict things in cryptic fluffy shapes or something. I don't know the details, since like I said, never got the chance to see them! Derse dreamers, on the other hand, wake up in a purple version of the place, and instead hear the freaky slimewhispers of the tentacled space horrors in the outer ring. And they can all fly, because why the hell not.

Those planets have to do with some other things, but the idea is that, once your dreamself wakes up, you get to explore that planet while your real self sleeps, and then your dreamself sleeps while your real self is awake. The cloud visions or horrorterror voices give info to help things go the way they need to go. And then, your dreamself can serve as an extra life if your real self dies, and/or as the key to attaining something called God Tier.

It's kind of complicated, so if you're confused, make whatever vague gestures and I'll try to guess whatever it is you're getting at.