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hey sorry im late
Isn't it virtually impossible for you to be late, given your ability to time travel? :B
i dont really do that shit anymore
makes me too nervous id rather not fuck with it
It's no problem anyway. John's running late too.
He texted me, should be here soon. Guess Roxy and Jake both held him up at the lab.
So what's our soundtrack for tonight? I trust you've picked something suitable for our dive.
Grabbed some Japanese jazz off the Old Earth internet. I think you'll like it.
Our timeline or theirs?
Ours. It would've been out before their world ended but I grabbed it from an upload in 2010.
It was the BGM in a video by someone called oldKYSG.
hey! sorry i'm late, those two had a lot to say before letting me go.
they really got into their nerdy science talk, haha.
i guess they really wanted to make sure we understood what'll be happening.
I am quite curious. How exactly is this going to work?
okay, so...they gave me a bottle with a pill for each of us.
it's not QUITE like doing drugs, or whatever?
each of the capsules has...a sedative, or depressant, or whatever, in it,
and the gadget they cooked up is floating in it.
so the sedative knocks us out, and then the machine does its work.
And our dreams get linked up?
yeah, i didn't really follow exactly how it works but...
i guess it's sort of the same principle as troll psychic powers?
wait
so does that mean we gotta like
uhhhhh
?
?
?
well when im dreaming with vriska
...
it has to be pretty intimate to work
Aw, do you not want to cuddle with us? I'm hurt, Dave!
We're all friends here, I'm sure it wouldn't be terribly awkward.
i guess not as long as john isnt weirded out by me feeling up his hot mom
Hoo hoo!
fuck
well, they said the device should be doing most of the heavy lifting...
but it would probably be best to be pretty close to each other anyway.
Sounds fine to me. I'm gonna hit the music.
Anyone need food or anything before we get this show on the road?
i'm good!
I ate before you got here.
guess were all ready then
hand em out egbert
Any of you feeling it?
it'll probably take a bit to kick in.
Let's get situated on the beanbags in the meantime.
I'd rather not fall asleep on the floor--terrible for your back.
im feelin something i think
its not really like when vris puts me to sleep tho
Yeah, I feel kinda...
heavy?
Yeah. That.
How strong a sedative is it?
This feels a little...
uhhhhhh.....it's,
Whoa.
it's,
Hoo.
fuck
ever since we started playing sburb,
our understanding of reality
has been constantly changing.
being taken to the medium,
out of our universe,
and learning all kinds of stuff
about paradox space.
then there's the furthest ring,
and
then
...
John?
when i was following terezi's instructions to fix the timeline, i ended up taking my whole planet outside of everything. it was like...there was just nothing else around anywhere. it was completely empty.
i was nowhere. it wasn't a place, it was...
it was disconnected from everything i knew.
i dunno, i just think about that sometimes. we've always been finding out there's some other layer or something above our current understanding of our existence, some greater idea of reality that we just haven't grasped yet. sometimes...i just sit at night and think about that empty space.
Is that where we are now? "Empty" IS the word I would use...
I don't think so.
Probably just his memory of it.
if im being honest this is kind of wigging me out can we go back to floating in outer space or something
sure thing.
