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All right, I'll start.

My name is Daria-toren. I was born on Karn. Last week a robot named Jim Nightmare (

yonjuunana ) hosted a pizza party in the dreaming. For a short while a space carved out of the formless ether became host to a small group of jiko from all corners of existence.

They posted in a fury. A journal which normally landed only a handful of comments suddenly broke a hundred. I met the handmaiden of an exiled princess and a psychologist committed to the study of raw creation (

rosencrantz ). I summoned a copse of trees, and a man from a thousand years in the future saw one for the first time. I traded notes on death and fear with a necromancer from the Sundered Kingdoms (

galen_6thnecro ).

The wave of connection passed, and I was sad to see them go.

So this is a space to meet again. I call jiko, spirits, soulbonds, characters who've seized a life of their own, from all across the multiverse. If you are invisible, if you are lonely or bored, if you have spent your whole existence talking only to the one or two people who acknowledge your presence, come meet us here.

Any language, words or pictures or sounds or however you communicate, is fair game. What we cannot understand, we will learn.

Come join me in this place where it's all real.

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Yeh. Entropy is a bitch. Entropy is my biggest enemy.

*sits on the stump with her arms around her knees, looking into the distance (which is suddenly sporting the silhouettes of woods and tufted grass, as if through mist) and thinking hard*

So if I touched you, you couldn't feel it? How do you know how to move? You don't move awkwardly.

What if someone broke one of your fiddly bits? Could you tell?

You should tell Gy or Fiona to take you to Dekan. It's not like Karn. The people don't have shapes. But they're used to people from other worlds. There's a place there would love to hear your music. You ever play for an audience?

I know what you mean about not dwelling. I used to be like that 'bout Thumar. Used to run off into the forest and tell nobody about anything. But I have to live. I want to tell the truth about how things are.

And Celesty - *jumps up, matches Jim's pacing* - she's one of the two I told you about that disappeared. Second night I was out in the forest after Thumar. Heard screaming, and the speritu had found them, her and her brother Bryn. She's curled up under a tree, and they're going for her, savoring it, and Bryn can't do nothing to stop them 'cause he didn't know how to change yet. I showed him and we killed them, and we got her back to the fire, but she's -

She never did learn to fight them. The speritu, I mean. She'd just curl up and scream and cry, and Bryn and I would lead them off her, but it wasn't enough. She got so she wouldn't cry, she'd just lie there, Bryn or I could be fighting two paces away and she'd fricking sleep through it. And she still kept the camp so we could rest. But she faded out, her spirit faded out and then one day she was just gone.

And then years later, I'm helping this guy Song, on another world, and I see a woman that feels like her. But she's twice my age, somehow she lived a whole life while I was running around the dreaming, and she's got the dead-mind. Slave mind. I snap at her to do something, like I used to, and she just does it, no question, no complaint, doesn't even take her eyes off the ground.

I wanted to show her the way back to Teiranen, but she's gone someplace I can't touch. *not looking at anyone now, just pacing, viciously, face shadowed.* I can pull a fucking sperith out of their nihil, out of entropy. But I can't do shit for Celesty.

You used the words fine. Sora is right, you say someone is sora, or someone's found sora. Isgeni's a verb though, you tell someone isgeni. I just use it like that, there are rsakk conjugations, but they're confusing. Too many words.

You can? Cool!

Actually I know lots of people who can. Gy can too, at least when he's older. But about all I can do is mark my name.

There are gates between worlds. That's what most people do. You find a gate, and you find someone with magic to take you through, and you're there. They call them gatewalkers, the people with the magic. That's what I am.

But this place is different. Imagine going through a gate, right, but stopping halfway through. Then you're in the between. It's this big empty space with gate tunnels floating in it, and if you're really good, you can go through it till you get to a totally different gate. Normally gates just go to one place.

And the dreaming is kind of like the between. I don't even know if they're the same place or just linked together. But I get here by going to a gate, or a portal, some people call them, and just stopping before I get to the other side.

Ua's the world that Gy and Sha are from. Tapolith's a kind of center, it's got gates to Ua and a lot of other places. I think Ua used to have a gate to Earth, but it got closed. Karn's only got one gate, and it's kind of isolated. We definitely don't have spaceships. But I guess they'd work like gates, right?

Here. I'll show you something I found. *pulls off the backpack, reaches in, and in, and in, until her arm's impossibly buried all the way to the shoulder. Comes up with an ink palette made of black stone and a feathered brush with a coil of leather tying it to the palette.*

I got this on a world called Saskha. You mix the ink powder in here, see, and then you make marks with it, and then they make things happen. I only know how to do one thing with it. *paints a little circle on the ground, around one of the couch legs, then hauls on the couch with all her might. It slides in an arc, slowly, the one leg never leaving the painted circle.*

And of course it works here, cause this is the dreaming. But if it was the real world, it would do the same thing.

No, I can feel stuff. Some stuff, anyway. I can usually tell if something's touching me, just can't feel pain or temperature. Humans always seem to have a kind of hard time wrapping their heads around what that's like. My friend Kelly used to always poke me with weird stuff to see how I'd react. That is, until I decided I was pretty curious about how humans feel temperature as well, and put an ice cube down the back of her shirt. Then we called a truce. :D

I can sometimes tell if I'm broken. Something just feels a bit off, or I stop being able to feel or move a body part. *scowls* Or I'm just minding my business then the next thing I know I'm waking up on the workshop table not knowing what the fuck just happened to me.

What you said about moving awkwardly, though- That's actually a problem for a lot of androids. Er, not me. But I guess it's just hard to get us to feel where our bodies are right. My brother and sister both move weird. It doesn't look weird to me since I grew up with them, but I guess it creeps a lot of people out. Kind of frustrating for them.

Oh man. That's... that's rough about Celesty. *thinks for a minute* I... I think sometimes you just have to wait for people to help themselves. After my brother got hurt, he spent years just sitting around and watching TV. Stopped wanting to go to college, even though he's so smart. We couldn't do a thing about it. But he's getting better now. I always knew he would. *smiles, then shrugs* I know people gave me all kinds of good advice when I was a kid, and it didn't do shit because I wasn't ready to listen. Not their fault. Don't give up on your friend, maybe someday she'll snap out of it. I hope so.

So sperith have something to do with entropy?

What's Dekan like? If you think it's safe for me to go there, I'll go. Would you come along? *summons his acoustic guitar* I've... I've only played for really small audiences before. Friends and stuff. I guess I could see how I'm feeling, maybe give it a shot. Man, I'd love to get a chance to see instruments from other worlds!

A Tardis is a box that's bigger on the inside and can travel through time. It's from a TV show I- er, a story I heard. Or maybe it's from another world. *smiles* It's kinda hard to tell, now that I'm here.

Hey Gy, Daria was talking about a place called Dekan. Said you could take me there. But, uhh, could you tell me a little about the place before I decide if I should go there or not? I want to make sure it's safe for me, and what to expect. I've never really traveled much before.

*Watches the couch* Whoa, cool! Making things happen by drawing? Man, my sister would get a huge kick out of that...

Gates, huh? I wonder if those are anything like wormholes. Do those even exist? I'll have to ask Evan the next time I see him... Um. Wait. What was I talking about? Oh yeah, you know, I really have no idea how I got here! Didn't use a gate. I think it might have been through sheer force of, er, the desire to get out of the house and meet people. Plus being asleep. I dunno.

Hey, what happens when you guys have dreams? Like, normal dreams, not walking through a gate into the dreaming. Do you end up here anyway?

*Blinks back in* Huh? Oh...I'm sorry. I just blinked over there for a cup of tea. I was getting out of sorts, and they have this...eh, you'll understand when you get there.
Dekan's this town outside of Tapolith, where I used to live. That's where the so called undesirables live, but Tapolith is a trade town full of rich people and snobs, so that makes even a person like me undesirable.
They're much nicer in Dekan. You don't need any currency; you can walk in someplace and offer to do chores for your room and fare. Dekan's full of kids that got kicked out of Tapolith for one reason or another, and they get adopted into households, or just run in the streets.
They like fighting over in Dekan - they call it sparring, and its mostly good natured unless the Tap are involved. The Tap are the police of Tapolith. They like going over to Dekan to challenge folks, and they pretty often get beaten, so they keep coming back. Its fun to watch, and afterwards everyone goes for a mug of tea. I guess you can't drink tea, but I bet Basquis Yup could get you a battery or two. He runs the Tizzy - the biggest inn in Dekan. He does well enough that he serves the tea for free. You have to buy the ale and food, but if you tell him Gillian sent you, he'll put your first meal on his account.
It's relaxed over there - they take any arguments out back, where there's a sparring place. There is some odd stuff, like one of the serving girls has a pet crocodile. But its a good place to relax, and you can stay overnight in the rooms upstairs. They won't care if you look odd - they've seen everything over in Dekan.
I'll go with you, if you like, and show you the sights.
http://community.livejournal.com/dekantown/804.html?view=1572#t1572

Oh yeah! Dreams, I was supposed to tell you about dreams. I have them, for sure, and nightmares too. It's not like I live here in the dreaming permanently. I live on normal worlds, in normal places, where if you want to make something, you actually have to saw wood and forge metal and weave cloth. And when I sleep, I end up in the same weird places everyone else does. If I thought about it hard enough, I'd probably be able to get to an empty place like this, but it would be really hard to meet someone else there. We'd probably have to both go to sleep at the same time, and plan it in advance or something. This is better, even though the whole "it's really real" aspect makes it a bit more dangerous.

I actually didn't know how to get here at first. I just used portals like everyone else did, right from one world to another. But Sha showed me how, without even meaning to. He'd run off sometimes, and I'd look for him in the between, using mind magic. I knew how to look, even though I didn't know people could actually go there. And when I found him, instead of being off playing with stones or climbing trees or any of the things kids do, he'd actually be running around in that mind space and collecting little fragments of dreams and colors.

Magic kid. I don't know where the hell he learned it. But I figured out how to follow him there, if only to make sure he didn't get his butt eaten by monsters. The kid's got no fear.

Friended you back! :D It might be handy to go to our memories and check out our info section so you don't have to worry about names.

Nice to meet you! :D

--Sneak

Heya Sneak! :D Are you guys co-conscious? Can I say stuff to you and assume the info will spread to whoever needs it?

Like about icons or filters or who's who? I put you guys on our Dreaming filter so you'll see all the multiplicity, fantasy and game stuff. But there are other filters if you get to know other people who like to keep their things private.

I will check out the stuff you said.

Yup, we're co-conscious! You won't have to worry about info spread.

We usually try to tag everything--Rogan forgets sometimes. We share icons, but we each have one that we tend to use. I'd rely on tags more, though, since we have some general purpose icons. :D

All filters are totally fine. You can add us to other ones as you get to know us better, and that's cool! :D

--Sneak

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