Lucidstuck III

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Lucas or Azriel begins charging something menacing...

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Lucia: I think we should give the realm attendants a fair chance to explain themselves. If given a proper reason maybe all of us can understand better?
Lucas: At this point they'll only tell you what you want to hear.
Derrick: You say feeding, but the Realm Attendants all look like they hate their jobs. Kalem attitude is so toxic he became poisonous, Reggie can't communicate properly with the others because he's hiding something from them. And we don't even know the fuck going on with Dt.
Lucas: This is the path towards immortality that they chose. Whether they hate it or not changes nothing.
Lucas: Also... You know very little about the cultivators it seems, most of that is false.
Alice: (This is not the time for that, aliens... Please be serious.)
Lucas: More mumbling... What are you up to, Alice?
Alice: Nothing~
Lucas: Hmm...
Derrick: What are you going to do to the realm attendants?
Lucas: Destroy them. Well that's an exaggeration.
Lucas: I'm going to destroy their instance in this layer. 15 times.
Lucas: This will lock them into the void. Heh, exaggerations again.
Lucas: This will momentarily place them into the void. They will get pissed of course and try to relinquish me by force.
Lucas: But it will already be too late.
Alice: (Huh? Lucas is not giving up on me so easily.)
Alice: (I should tell the realm attendants how serious this is... h-huh? What just happened?)
Alice: (Ahh, whatever new skill acquired I guess! I'm off.)
Lucia: Wait, didn't Reggie mention he was shielding the realm from the thing that got Lethos? Won't the realms just get destroyed by void monsters if you get rid of the realm attendants? With you in them?
Lucas: That's the idea.
Lucas: The only ones to fear in this scenario are the cultivators. We will simply wake up, Free from this nightmare.
Alice: DT told me the void is much worse than any realm. Monsters out there are killed over and over in the dark endlessly. At least here they can die, isn't that better??
Lucas: Another misconception.
Lucas: You think the monsters are exempt from the feeding pit this world is?
Lucas: This is what changes them. Monsterification as you would.
Lucas: The cultivators are feeding on their human essence. The husks that remain are the shadows.
Lucas: Think of the shadows as... bones. after a meal of flesh, you discard the bones, right?
Lucas: ... But the bones are edible too... Just not as is.
Lucas: That's where we come in. Our conjurations absorbing souls, the realm attendants absorbing souls through proxy.
Lucas: We're just cleaning up what they can't properly digest. And in exchange? A little bit of power? A drop in the bucket compared to them.
Lucas: What is the point of this place? We should be trying to leave it forever.
Lucas: It's the truth after all.
Lucas: At least in the void you have a chance to become an Elder. And if you're very lucky, one of "Them".
Derrick: But... this is very sudden.
Lucas: I explained the reasoning for the urgency.
Derrick: Yes..! But--
Lucas: -sigh- What more would you like to learn so you can drop this?

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Alice: Wow, this is weird... I'm in both places.
Alice: It's kinda hard to walk and not walk at the same time, heh.
Alice: Aliens, are you listening? This could be super bad news. But I'm kinda scared that if I interfere I'll be choosing to go against "Them". I'll need your advice.

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DT: Master, you're back!
Reggie: How did the chit-chat go?
Kalem: Did you... Learn anything surprising?
Alice: Hell yeah I did. You guys got about 1 minute to explain what the fuck is going on.
Alice: Lucas is about to blow this place sky high.
Alice: .... I'm still out there by the way, I know, weird right?
DT: Ahh, a new skill I presume?
DT: Alter ego.
Alice: Very quickly explain what that means?
DT: You can create a clone of yourself and mask your true self.
DT: How many depends on your skill of maintaining them, but for now it's just the one.
DT: Conveniently if anything happens to one, you will automatically become the other.
Alice: Ahh, so the option of letting you guys fry is on the table while we sort this mess out.
DT: M-master??
Alice: Huh? Oh don't mind me, just thinking out loud.
Kalem: You said Lucas was going to try to destroy us? From out there?
Alice: Uhh, yeah? He has new powers or something.
Reggie: .... I'm sure he has thought ahead to confirm the kill.
Alice: How will things work out if this plan of his works?
Reggie: Well for one it won't work it will just piss us the fuck off.
Reggie: And for two, a grave act of trying to force us into the void is punishable by stripping of titles. He won't be your knight anymore.
Alice: Uhm, he thought that far as well...
DT: .... Oh, shit then that means...
Reggie: We gotta make a switcharoo here, Princess.
Kalem: It's looking that way, yeah.
Alice: A... What?
Reggie: You're gunna have to fake our deaths. If he goes as far as I think he's going, this is bigger than just revoking titles... He's head hunting. We can't save Der-- I mean... Uhh... We can't continue our adventures if he gets what he wants. Well?
Alice: Hmm...

It seems like your conversation on the other side has wrapped up, decide quickly or default.

1. Mask the attendants and fake their deaths. (Side with "Them" undercover. AT least 5 votes to pass)
2. Do nothing and wait.

1.Alice: There's not much other options, this can go so badly. But if you can fake their deaths then maybe we can have a shot at it.

1.Alice: There's not much other options, this can go so badly. But if you can fake their deaths then maybe we can have a shot at it.

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>1 Alice: make the realm attendants promise to spare Lucas. You already know they feed off of your dreams to sustain themselves, but Lucas has protected you from the mind-controlling portion of the Truth out of his extreme loyalty to you. Be polite and make it clear you're not going to hold this basic fact of their existence against them.

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[[But, do we care if the RA harvest some dream energy? Also, things seem way more personal between these specific kids and their RA than Lucas was led to believe.

On top of that... aren't we all in the Construct, anyway? This is a fake dream world. Like... side-canon. In the millions of instances Alice has run, has this literally never happened before?

For that matter, isn't this Lucas the real one remoting in? I thought he was aware of the Construct... why does this one not seem to know? These Elders of his are fake in this world.]]

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