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A dream. It was quite rare for the collective to have those, especially ones as vivid as this one. In it, Vex(…?) was standing at the top of a cliff, watching over a smoldering city. It was calm, he could tell that the city had been burnt for a very, very long time. The ashes were simply still smoking, making way for nature to reclaim the wasteland.
It sat down at the edge of the cliff, watching as the last few fires extinguished themselves. He ignored the watching eye of Folly, this was something it knew had to have happened in this world. What was this city's name? Ah yes, Macabre City. How fitting of a name for a city destined to feed mother nature's maw. A melancholy washed over him as it watched this City's ashes begin to feed the ground of the lush forest it had originally been before desertification.
"You caused this, didn't you?" Folly quizzed.
"It wasn't like there was anyone left to live there anyways. All that was left behind when we got there were corpses. The ashes will bring about life that had been snuffed out by fools once more. Perhaps the pollution of this world may even go down, who knows."
"Hmhmhmm… yet, you are aware this is simply a dream, correct?"
"Indeed. At least to the one who remembers it, perhaps he will understand this later."
"You are… Talking quite strangely."
"You'll understand too, soon enough. They say dreams like this are a gateway to the future… isn't that right, Pest?"
Pest was now sitting next to him, "Yeah, yeah, 気取った (pretentious). I doubt either of our past selves would understand this anyways, are you sure this is a good idea?"
"Yes, I can already imagine the face I would make in that hypothetical timeline… hohoho, so confused!~"
"What are you, Queen Deltarune?"
"No, just silly. Well, it's about time we both 'woke up' now; isn't it?"
"You can say that again, I'm tired of Folly staring at me like that."
"Ta ta!~"
"… dork."
Hey! What the fuck was that about!
Oh well, not like there's anything it could do about weird premonition dream sequences or whatever. He looked around the room, finding that there was plenty of things to do around but also that it did not want to get up because gods this bed was COMFY. He pulled out its phone, scrolling through notifications from chats and tumblr reblogs.
He lingered a bit over the icons of family members, wishing to text them but ultimately deciding against it. It knew they wouldn't believe him, anyways. Though; it does know who would believe him if it said he got isekaied.
DISCORD - THE GANG GROUP CHAT
(3/5 MEMBERS ONLINE)
🎩 Vex the memelord
What's up gamers what do you do when you somehow step on the Regretevator and. Well. I don't even know how the hell to explain half of what happened
I got turned into GOOP. Kinda. Also tree kinda. It's kinda funky
🐉 Diinosour11
Like as in the game or-?
🎩 Vex the memelord
No like in REAL FUCKING LIFE SOMEHOW
🐉 Diinosour11
…. Whar?
🎩 Vex the memelord
The doors just. APPEARED.
🐱 Prism
I JUST ALMOST FUCKING DIED HOLY SHIT THAT WAS TOO CLOSE
🎩 Vex the memelord
HI Prism I'm having a crisis
🐉 Diinosour11
Oh hi so um- we might have a mild predicament that should literally not be possible unless it’s a dream or something
🐱 Prism
don't ask me why I have my phone in the War Seas but holyFUCK
🎩 Vex the memelord
Diino I wish I was joking rn but I'm being so fr. I don't know how this happened
🐱 Prism
Anyways that sort of shit would be normal for me since I'm an eldritch embodiment of chaos but for you- dawg what
🐉 Diinosour11
???????? That should scientifically NOT be possible dawg HWAT
🐱 Prism
hang on I need to make some healing potions before I bleed out brb
🎩 Vex the memelord
Ignoring Prism casually defying those laws constantly I am also confused as fuck but I've done everything to check if this was a dream. NOPE. Real life
[Image of Vex, wearing a mask that bears a striking resemblance to Pandora's Mask while generally looking like a scraggly creature that just got dragged out of a dumpster fire]
🐉 Diinosour11
…. Once again how the fuck
🎩 Vex the memelord
I have NO clue
🐱 Prism
Okay I'm back and don't look like I got swarmed by Sirens and then almost mauled by an Atlantean anymore
🎩 Vex the memelord
I got picked up like a stray cat or smthn by Melanie and Mozelle so now I'm recovering in a guest room
🐱 Prism
Ayo what why do you have Pandora's mask
🎩 Vex the memelord
Melanie made it because she saw it in a book and thought it looked cool
Can't take it off or I'll melt
🐉 Diinosour11
Hhhuh
🐱 Prism
reminds me of- uh.
🎩 Vex the memelord
Of what
🐱 Prism
Of every time I've gone to some place where I can't use a ton of power or else either some higher being will smite me or it just won't work
🎩 Vex the memelord
Oh
Well I was kind of melting in agony when Mozelle and Melanie found me apparently. And covered in blood for some reason from what I've heard in passing
🐱 Prism
Yikes
🎩 Vex the memelord
AKA what everyone puts their blorbos from their shows through /j
🐱 Prism
oh nope I'm hopping over to another universe now someone wants to gank me
🐉 Diinosour11
Okay but how the fuck were you melting-
🎩 Vex the memelord
I was apparently used as a lab rat
🐱 Prism
Ah yes, being subjected to experimentation as part of a plot you're put into- whether you're put in by force or willingly
🎩 Vex the memelord
Don't remember it from the pain but like. That sounds so edgey teenager-core /silly
🐉 Diinosour11
Sounds like something I would come up with ngl-
🎩 Vex the memelord
TRUE
🐱 Prism
Yup
🎩 Vex the memelord
Wait I just remembered something. Did. Did I get fucking contacted by Carmen AKA The Distortion while being experimented on or some shit what the hell
🐉 Diinosour11
BEKDVSKSVDKJD???? She should NOT be there!! At all-
🐱 Prism
Well Scythe still hates me and. idk on that part
🎩 Vex the memelord
YEAH NO
Also from what I can tell I DIDN'T distort so now I'm just confused as to what the hell that was about
🐱 Prism
God that part reminded me of some of my antics involving other versions of certain universes
🐉 Diinosour11
Sounds like you were straight up GIVEN a backstory-
🎩 Vex the memelord
Nahhh this some elevator NPC type shit,,,
Given backstory on a silver platter next thing we know there's teasers for a new NPC
🐱 Prism
Oh my gods 😭
🐉 Diinosour11
Hey now- you might just speak it into existence-
🎩 Vex the memelord
Hey wait what was that ping
AXOLOTL SUN
"Yes, The One will come along soon enough…"
NEW NPC COMING SOON.
🎩 Vex the memelord
.
🐱 Prism
istg I *told* Scythe she couldn't do jack to me and now she knows I wasn't lying
🎩 Vex the memelord
I jinxed it
🐱 Prism
Was about to say
🐉 Diinosour11
…. Wait let me check the update bot in the….
.
Yeah. There it is-
🎩 Vex the memelord
Oh my god am I gonna pull a folly that is SO a hoax NPC I can feel it in my bones
Err. Tree roots?
No clue at this point
🐱 Prism
hhhuh what the- ah. got booted out of the Inpherno
🐉 Diinosour11
Rip to the NPC if you do pull a Folly o7 also RIP-
🎩 Vex the memelord
F in chat for Prism but whoever this hoax guy is I can just. Feel the vibes of They're An Asshole for some reason?
🐱 Prism
Yeah I'm getting that too
🎩 Vex the memelord
Seem to be connected to That Fucking Rock That I Hate
🐉 Diinosour11
That fucking rock that WE hate
🐱 Prism
Yuuup-
🎩 Vex the memelord
TRUE.
🐱 Prism
God for all the things I CAN do I can't do shit to that rock
🎩 Vex the memelord
Well I just got invited to a little introduction tea party with Mozelle and Melanie so imma dip for a bit, will give updates on occasion
🐱 Prism
Alr
🐉 Diinosour11
Alright!!! Tell them we said hi! :3
🐱 Prism
Yeee
🎩 Vex the memelord
👍
It's nice that he can talk to its friends. He begrudgingly got up, looking through the wardrobe that Mozelle and Melanie made for it to pick out a good outfit for a tea party. Even if it IS a casual tea party to introduce him to some others from the elevator, it does want to at least look nice. He picked out a simple outfit - a nice and loose shirt, pants, and shoes combo since Dr. RETRO told it to not wear anything too tight to prevent discomfort before recovery - and prepared himself to be social. Which… might be a little bit hard with one of its most social alters currently MIA.
He starts to walk to the dining hall, before being met with a sizable obstacle. Stairs. The living areas were on the third floor, so obviously, there were a lot of stairs. Unfortunately for Vex, it happens to have an extreme fear of stairs… and heights. So he kinda froze up. Thankfully, Melanie happened to have been passing by to go to the tea party themself as well.
"H-hey, are you okay? You look a little… s-stuck…"
"I can't go down stairs. I- there's so many… there's just- imgonnaloosemybalanceandimgonnagethurtandbreakmylegsand-"
"H-hey, calm down, f-focus on me alright? Here, M-moz installed these things that can take you up and down the stairs without having to walk them already, s-since you really shouldn't strain yourself…"
"Oh… I guess we didn't notice…"
"H-here! I can help you get on it, alright? Just hold on to my paw!"
"Okay…"
Despite how humiliating this would be to most people, it was extremely thankful for this accommodation. He held Melanie's paw as it listened to the instructions on how to use the contraption, and he buckled up as the chair-elevator-thing turned on. It was slowly lowered to the second floor, which has the less-extravagant private tea area that Mozelle uses for these kinds of tea parties.
Entering the tea room, there were some familiar faces (well, all the faces were familiar but that was only because of the game Regretevator, not all of them have actually met yet) and strangers, as the scent of a nice Vanilla Chai filled the air. He smiled a bit under the mask, honestly, that was its favorite flavor of tea. He pulled out the chair at the spot meant for it, and sat down, trying to avoid eye contact with Pest who reasonably gave him a weird look. Must have been from the fucking weird as hell dream last night.
The introductions went along nicely, somehow Mozelle managed to invite Bive, who squinted at it the entire time before slipping him a note as the tea party ended. It read the note:
"I remember everything, meet me at the funni maze floor when you have the time so we can try and figure out what happened."
… Ah. That explains it.
— [BIVE] —
The recovery of memories of another world had been a startling and extremely sudden revelation. Bive had been organizing her notes, when things started threading together from knowledge she KNEW she wasn't supposed to have. That had been a few days ago, and a conversation with Poob and Infected had confirmed that she really wasn't the only one. One thing it was, truly, was incredibly concerning.
A whole other world, completely mundane at that matter, filled with nothing but humans. For someone to somehow send the elevator to that world would require some form of elevator ticket, and even then the elevator was NEVER supposed to stop at that place. She would have had this realization a while ago if it had, if there's one thing the human she was co-habiting a soul with had, it was regrets. Along with that, she knew that the Regretevator in their world was supposed to be fictional, which meant that something had to have happened in that world to cause the elevator to have even the smallest possibility to appear.
Checking her accu-watch, she noticed something: it really does only ever tick outside of the elevator, she watched it turn with the time that the piece of her soul was with that human. She found a fresh corkboard and started writing notes and theories. Her first guess was that the same principle that allowed Prism communication with that mundane world allowed the elevator to appear, but honestly that only felt like a piece of the puzzle.
Another theory is that this had something to do with that damn rock's cult- and from what she heard of Poob's conversation with NULL, it wasn't completely unfounded. From what little they could tell, humans are considered to be very powerful entities due to their capacity for the "weird" mostly being sealed. Considering the one she was with, it wouldn't be unfounded that they specifically searched for a human with knowledge of the Regretevator- though they probably didn't realize where said human came from.
If there's one thing she knows, it's that this was very, very dangerous. Especially considering that voice she heard before she woke up that day.
Carmen. Or at least a version of her.
If any version of Carmen was involved at ALL, it was bad news. Especially if this somehow happened again, another human being dragged in. That lead the risk of a Distortion being let loose, and from Vex's endless rambles, that would be horrendously bad for all parties involved. But now, with this awareness, she knew that if she wrote about Carmen's existence in her notes it's highly likely to be compromised by Stag, who is very snoopy and would definitely put it on a floppy.
If word got out that a human from their world was in the "game" players would be trying to flock to the elevator. And that could end up really, really bad. Especially because not everyone knew of Carmen's existence and the Distortion. She decided to be smart, and falsify some of her notes just in case. In all honesty, right now she was waiting for him to come to the funni maze floor so they could discuss theories.
Speak of the devil, just then the elevator came and she heard it call for her. She began to show him to the secret area that she set up.
"Did you bring the things I asked you to bring?"
"Yep, let us guess, somehow you remember-"
"Lobotomy Corporation hyperfixation, castle crashers was a childhood game, LBP servers shut down."
"Oh. We see, that certainly explains some things… and is gravely concerning."
"What's gravely CONCERNING is that this even HAPPENED in the first place!"
"That is absolutely true…"
"Here we are by the way- watch your step, I'm still organizing that evidence."
"Hm… Are some of these notes-"
"-Falsified to prevent snooping? Yes, yes they are."
"Good call."
"So, since this happened, I recommend going by a pseudonym, if people learned your real name…"
"… it could lead to a flock of people trying to enter the Regretevator all at once, possibly leading to distortions running wild. I get it, considering the evidence of us possibly pulling a folly reveal trailer is on the internet, it could mean we end up as an elevator 'NPC' and the fandom IS pretty feral."
"EXACTLY. I shiver knowing the things that some of those humans think of me… euhh…"
"Hm… well, our mask does look like the Pandora Script's… how about we just call ourselves Pandora?"
"That… might actually be vague enough to work… it's possible that players would just think that you're a 'rendition' of the original pandora script due to it's importance in roblox history, albeit niche…"
"Exactly my point! Plus, this does give me a few outfit ideas…"
"Alright, now that we've figured that out, how about you help me with this corkboard, Pandora?"
"With pleasure, Bive."
TUMBLR POST
👷♀️ deconstruction-worker
Anyone else feel like the new NPC that's getting teased for Regretevator is gonna be like, Melanie incident 2.0? Like we have gotten like 3 different teasers in the span of a week for the guy and then suddenly the "false nightmare" comic drops like???? Brother is this cultist doomed or what.
👷♀️ deconstruction-worker
Like who even was the guy yapping to Pest and Folly in False Nightmare??? Smiley little bitch??? We only get like a glowing silhouette of a face and like a hand and an ominous conversation of "past selves" wtf even
👷♀️ deconstruction-worker
Also why the hell was the accura-watch dialog from bive posted without context with the ominous image of a watch. What the hell was that about.
👁 broker-enthusiast
Breaking: throwaway comment from bive might actually be lore important??? What???
✒️ the-note-crow
Waow,,,, the lore is getting deep,,,
#I say as a nothing knower #ooo shiny!
— [PANDORA] —
Well, tumblr is certainly fun to scroll through. What's with the ominous foreboding feeling though?
Like as if this is all being written down?
… eh, it's probably nothing.
