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[Adrien appears on the console screen at the Midnight Hotel, looking more than a little perturbed. His usual mask of friendly politeness is starting to show some cracks. While the politeness remains, there's a small sense of being rattled underneath it all. Images from his dream haunt his mind and he knows, he knows they're memories. Not dreams.

Though the memories from home are bad enough; particularly those surrounding his father and the horrible realisation than the man knows more than he's letting on, the way Adrien got these memories is worrying him a lot more.]

Hello! It's Adrien.. obviously, sorry. I just wanted to check in to see if anyone else has ever had something here happen to them. I'm probably worrying over nothing.

So. I just woke up with a bunch of memories from home. Memories I definitely didn't have when I went to sleep last night. I always thought that process was different, that you-

[That you went to Milyn. But she's gone. The reminder is like a punch to the gut and Adrien grimaces in spite of himself. Maybe that's why this has happened?]

That it was different, is all. Any insight or information anyone has would be very much appreciated, thank you!

[[OOC: Adrien has indeed gone through a more unusual canon point. Yay for him.]]

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[Yes, obviously.]

Interesting ... but not entirely surprising. You never actually left your room?

[Sick burn, Solomon.]

Not at all. I just went to bed and when I woke up, I remembered all this new stuff. It feels like I went home, but I don't think I actually did. Not unless I put months worth of being there into one night.

[Like some sort of memory-gifting Santa. ]

It wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility, given the way time works here and doesn't over there.

Before Eva died, she returned people to their worlds and brought them back--if I recall correctly. Milyn took over that task. Frankly I'm a little surprised the Dreaming didn't cotton on sooner and start forcing memories down our throats.

...That's a good point.

[So he's the Dreaming's test drive at this. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. He's so honoured. This is the best. He feels super lucky. ]

So you think it might happen to more people? That they'll just wake up with new memories?

[Dreaming that's super rude. ]

[Revel in the attention, Adrien. Isn't it wonderful.]

I think it's a possibility, given that Milyn can't perform the service for us anymore.

[He knows that Milyn isn't dead--his fiance is one of the people in on it, after all, and even though Raine hasn't said anything she isn't a terribly good liar--but plausible deniability and all that.]

And given that we just recently had an influx of temporarily displaced people. The Dreaming's malleable; it seems to want to be at our service. Why wouldn't it cotton onto the desire in some Foreigners to go home, and try to oblige? You were asleep, and dreaming.

[No, it's WEIRD.]

...That's true.

[He isn't happy about THAT at all. Milyn didn't deserve what happened to her, no matter what anyone says. ]

That makes sense. Though if it wants to help so much, why doesn't it just send us home?

[That's a touch of Chat-level sass filtering through his usual polite demeanour, it slips out before he really realises he's done it. He's too distracted with all he's learned, and if there's one thing he knows, he really needs to go home. ]

[And yet.]

I don't think it can. Dreams aren't exactly reliable in terms of changing reality in a way that matters. The Dreaming seems to be better at it than ordinary dreams, but at best it's a conduit, not a catalyst.

[Solomon will politely ignore that sass. Plausible deniability, etc etc.]

[Solomon is good to him. ]

But it brought us here, right? Surely that means the return journey is taken the same way?

No.

[On this, Solomon sounds more certain.]

The Dreaming is the path we travel to get here, or to leave, but it's not the means by which we travel. Originally we arrived via a spell which had to be consciously activated. How it's happening now, I don't fully know, but however it relates to the Dreaming, the Dreaming still isn't what causes it in itself.

When we were stuck in the Dreaming a while back, it tried to take us home and couldn't; it took Eva's magic to do that. As far as I've seen, that hasn't changed.

[That was not a fun experience, primarily because the Dreaming's understanding of 'taking him home' equalled 'memories of when he was eighteen and nearly died'. The Dreaming doesn't seem to have a solid sense of time.]

[He'll listen, rapt. This is all new information to him, and the more he knows about this place the better. One thing he DOES know, though is that this whole world, the turtle, everything...is far more complicated than he ever imagined. ]

Huh.

So it does want to help us. That's...at least a little comforting, I guess. Though it seems we've got more questions than answers about just about everything.

Well, it isn't malicious, or not any more malicious than our subconsciouses can be. Dreams are malleable. So is the Dreaming. It's seems to be a lot closer to the life-plane than it was before Malicant's defeat--at least, that's the running hypothesis for why some of its effects seem to be bleeding over.

[He shrugs a little.]

Planes are a little more difficult to study, but not impossible. I've got a Dreaming-based laboratory at the Guild, so there's an advantage there as far as my research goes.

That's...pretty amazing, actually. I never thought anyone could even study the planes like that. It's not like they're all that easy to keep an eye on, or even know all the rules they live by, if they live by any at all.

[He's still very, very new to all these quasi-magical concepts. Even back home, he was thrust into it without knowing the whole deal. It's why he really, really wishes he had his father's book with him here.]

It takes some specialised equipment.

[Dryly, but then he leans forward a bit. Clearly, this is something he's still passionate about, even if 'passion' isn't the first word one might use to describe Solomon Wreath.]

It's been a peripheral part of necromantic research for a while now, though I didn't dedicate much time to it specifically until I arrived here. Much of it is theory based on observation, and comes down to a matter of consistency. How much have you been told about the planes; just the life and Dreaming?

I can bet it does!

[Adrien can't help but enjoy the enthusiasm...or as close to enthusiasm as Solomon can get to. Marginally excited??? That might be closer. Still, Adrien enjoys learning, and this is clearly something important to Solomon.]

Yeah, all I know is what they told me at the Welcome Centre when I arrived. So very little, in the grand scheme of things.

When we first arrived, we were told about three planes--life, dreams, and death. The death-plane is where Malicant resided, but has been inaccessible since his defeat. I can confirm that, for obvious reasons.

[Dryly. As a matter of fact, he'd accidentally shunted himself there while Malicant was still around, and promptly been booted out. Death magic, yay.]

But I know for a fact there's another plane, that of shadow--where one's innermost fears, secrets and truths dwell. One of the Foreigners can tap into it, but he's taught others here to do the same. Logically, if that plane isn't limited to people of his universe, then it must be in some fashion exist as a common underlying fabric the same way life, death and Dreaming do. That's four documented planes of existence.

Would that be something to do with your necromancy?

[A wild guess there, but if anyone can go near a realm of DEATH and still be able to talk about it, it would be a necromancer.

And wow that realm doesn't sound great. The idea of anyone being able to access that makes him think too much of Papillon.]

Hmm. Fears, secrets and truths. That's a dangerous thing for anyone to have access to. Do you know how many can tap into it?

I'm glad to see your observation skills are still top-notch.

[It's a teasing sort of dryness, at least?]

Three, including the aforementioned Foreigner and myself.

[Technically Pepper can't access the khajbit, as far as Solomon knows, but she can summon from it. Either way, it isn't his place to blab over a public network that she can.]

The planes are connected to each other through something the necromancers from my world call a 'lifestream'. It's the link between planes and universes, and can carry souls in its currents. The turtle can swim in it; that's why we're drawn here instead of anywhere else in Konryu.

[Solomon gets a LOOK. Adrien knows he can't see it, but wow the look is there. ]

...Yeaaaah. Anyway.

I guess it could be worse. Three's a manageable number.

[But there's only one Papillon, and look how much mess he's caused. Adrien doesn't sound convinced at all. ]

That's amazing. This place is anything but simple, it seems.

None of us have a vested interest in having the khajbit invade the life-plane, I assure you.

[The demon inside of Bakura, on the other hand ...]

The cosmos is anything but simple. At any rate, that's an overview. I suspect the planes overlap one another to different degrees depending on the universe. In my world, the death-plane is closer to the life-plane than the others. Here, it seems to the Dreaming. I imagine the varying closeness is one of the ways individual universe distinguish themselves from each other.

I'm glad to hear that.

[He has a touch enough time dealing with akumas, he doesn't need any more crazy bullshit in his life right now. ]

Huh. That makes sense. So it would almost be like a fingerprint of each world, how the planes overlap one another.

More like a soul. The Ancient Egyptians believe a person's soul is made up in a similar fashion--a sum of parts. I tend to agree, so I applied the same theory to universes.

[Given that he's brought out the 'shadow monster' part of himself, and he isn't even from Bakura's world.]

[Adrien considers this, then nods. ]

I can believe that. [You can hardly not when you split your personality into two different people. ] A sum of our parts. I like it.

It does make considerable sense. And now hat I've delivered my daily lecture--have you any questions?

I think I'm good for now. And I enjoy your daily lectures, can't say I never learn anything from them.

Flatterer.

[But he looks and sounds pleased. It's been a while since a 'student' complimented him on his teaching, unofficial or no.]

You know where to find me if you feel like being a masochist any further.

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