Lucidstuck II

Lucia: You should probably do a reality check

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Emily: ... I suggest you hurry, I have a bad feeling...
Lucia: You and me both.
Lucia: (Ira, what do your senses tell you?)
Ira: (Everything seems to be in order. I also sense a friendly somewhere close by.)
Lucia: (Probably one of the reapers.)
Emily: Just one question, Lucia...!
Lucia: Yes?
Emily: How do we get to Locad from here?
Lucia: There's a gate in this Death Valley outpost. Follow me.

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Emily: Oh, this?
Lucia: Yep, all we gotta do is put something moon shaped in the groove.
Lucia: Ira?
Ira: One moment. ouo

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Lucia: Though, can you wait here for me? I'll be as quick as I can.
Uilos: We will.
Lucia: Thanks.

Ira inserts her hand in the groove and fills it to form. She adds pressure but nothing seems to happen.

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Ira: Something is different about this gate.
Ira: In the Trail of Tragedy outpost, I did not need to add pressure.
Ira: However with this one, even adding pressure has failed. We may really need the key this time.
Lucia: I'll ask Derrick about it.

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Derrick: Hey Lucia!
Reggie: Goth chick, welcome back.
Derrick: Did you learn what you needed to?
Lucia: Yes.
Ira: I am here again, hello. ouo
Derrick: Oh it's good to hear your voice again, Ira...!
Reggie: Welcome back, shadow lady.
Derrick: Can you tell us what happened?
Lucia: .... There's a lot going on in my head...
Lucia: It's a bit confusing, but basically Ira had never left, she just wanted to teach me a lesson.
Derrick: Oh!
Lucia: Derrick, do you still have your necklace?
Derrick: I do, it's somewhere in the fort I think.
Lucia: Can I borrow it? Emily wants to go to Locad.
Reggie: Locad, eh?
Derrick: O-oh! I'll go and get it.
Lucia: Reggie...? Mind if I speak in private?
Reggie: Uh oh, what did I do now. eve
Lucia: Nothing you did, just a chat.
Reggie: Ookay, let's chat.
Lucia: I'll leave you to it, Derrick.
Derrick: I'll be back soon.

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Reggie: What's good?
Lucia: .... There's some things I learned while I was off on my own.
Lucia: I can trust you, right?
Reggie: More than anything else in this place. >v>
Lucia: .....
Reggie: .... Yes, what is it?
Lucia: This environment we're in. It's more complicated than we know, isn't it?
Lucia: And please, no lies. I know a lot more than you think I do now.
Lucia: I don't need your protection.
Lucia: Just give me straight answers.
Reggie: .........
Reggie: Yes, but no.
Reggie: Yes, it's more complicated, but no because once this instance is resolved everything will be simpler.
Reggie: What's making it complicated is the layers involved.
Lucia: What layers? Darkness?
Reggie: No... instances. When Daydream, err, Alice fails to resolve an instance, another is created within.
Reggie: Like... a nest.
Lucia: .................
Lucia: Reggie please don't tell me what I think you're trying to say...
Lucia: Do you mean we're... In hundreds of environments???
Reggie: Yeah... It's pretty fucked up.
Reggie: You really shouldn't know this, but you wanted me to tell you straight so I'ma keep it straight with you.
Reggie: The reality of the environment is a pit, and we're at the bottom. But when it's resolved none of that matters.
Reggie: We'll be able to escape like a zipline all the way to the top.
Lucia: Are there separate environments?
Lucia: Alice had created this pitfall one, but... Are we also inside another?
Reggie: .....
Reggie: Fuck, who is telling you this?
Lucia: The unknown asshole.
Reggie: Ovo....
Reggie: You... met with them?
Lucia: Yes. They played a trick on me where we had this same conversation.
Lucia: You said there was two, so I had to ask you when I got out to confirm.
Reggie: You cannot tell anyone about this, Lucia.
Reggie: Things will begin to unravel and get very, very confusing.
Reggie: Alice has created this one we're in now, but the other has been created by it.
Reggie: The others don't know because this one is actually helping us.
Reggie: Alice thinks she's trapped here until she saves Derrick's life but...
Reggie: That's not entirely true.
Lucia: What??
Reggie: We MUST kill the unknown asshole in order to fuck up their construct, as long as it's kicking around we're all trapped even if we save Derrick.
Reggie: There are.... still things I CANNOT tell you.
Reggie: Because if I do, you will really lose it.
Reggie: But let's just say... We need everyone as ignorant as possible to the truth.
Reggie: In here... The truth will hinder you. You just need to focus on getting one thing done.
Reggie: Do you understand?

Reggie's information is more startling than you imagined. You are now very curious what secrets he is desperately withholding from you. What could be learned that would be that damaging?

1. Further question about Alice's construct
2. Question about Ennouhk's construct
3. ... You understand. (return to Emily)