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{Howdy everyone, here with a little bit of an update. Updates for this ask blog may start slowing down. There’s just other stuff I want to work on (hyperfixations change, ADD and ADHD are bitches) and school will be starting again in about two weeks time and with it being my final year of highschool I really need to focus on things like getting a job and getting a drivers license and graduating ‘n stuff. I’m hopefully not abandoning this, but taking into account how my brain works, I can’t make any full promises. But I will most certainly try, and I hope you all understand. I don’t want to force myself to run sessions when my heart isn’t in it.}

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YO, you should totally tame that Nightmare! You could ride it back to Tommy and the guys, and that way you won't fuck up your back any worse than it already is. It'd be dope as fuck.

That’s...

Actually not a bad idea? Dude, absolutely LOVE your thinking. Let’s go find that thing. How to train your Nightmare speedrun let’s go

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Don’t overexert yourself, don’t want you to actually break your spine! Please be careful!

I’ll certainly try. Actually why don’t I just-

--Forzen grabs his golden star earring, turning it back into a sword. He then starts using it as a walking stick.--

We people of the Dream Realm heal relatively quickly. Still not good to put too much pressure on an injury, though.

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Guys don’t eat the sword sand because then forzen wouldn’t be able to use the sword to keep the nightmares away

Thank you. You’re smart. 

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Can we eat the sword sand please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please

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THAT IS SO COOL?????!!? WOW!!!! can we eat the sword's sand?

No.

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Why wont it hurt us?? I mean thats a good thing but like wh y

Remember what I said about never having the heart to fight a Nightmare?

I have a friend in the Lambda District who gave my weapon a little ‘modification.’ See, my blade is actually coated in a special type of sand. a Nightmare repellent if you will. Nightmares? They can’t stand it. So I just point my weapon in the beast’s direction, and they go running. 

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I hope that's a big cat and not a nightmare!

Yeah, the bad news: That’s most definitely the Nightmare that dragged me off the cliff. I recognize how it sounds and the Nightmare signal is still strong.

Good news: It. Won’t. Hurt. Us.

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Oh shoot is that the nightmare??? Heck we’re really in trouble now-you’ve a broken spine and we can’t fight oh no

Don’t worry about it. The Nightmare won’t hurt us. 

And I may have been exaggerating the broken spine, although it does still really hurt.

--With a grunt, Forzen manages to stand up, hissing a little in pain. He looks behind him, the direction the growl came from.--

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Thank you for trusting us with that information, Forzen, I know it must have been really hard. I'm sure you and Benrey will be able to talk things out when you see each other again.

I certainly hope we can. 

--A low growling noise can be heard from nearby.--

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I really think you and Benrey should talk when you guys see each other again. When we go back to Tommy, is there anything you want us to relay to Benrey for you? So that maybe he won't take off again when he sees you?

... Talk? To Benrey?

Fuck. If he even WANTS to talk to me after the shit I pulled. 

But maybe. Tell him that I’m willing to try talking things out if he is. I’ll meet him in the Abstract District by the crystal monolith.

And as for Tommy and the others... Please. When you break the news, try to convince them to go easy on Benrey. I don’t know what his motives are but if he hasn’t done anything bad yet then maybe his intentions aren’t all that bad?

Just tell them to give the guy a chance.

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hot fuckin damn forzen

Yeah. Yeah, I know.

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{INTERMISSION! My internet is frizzing out and I can NOT keep dealing with these technical issues. Next session will either be tomorrow or the day after :)} {See you all in the New Year!}

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Forzen, I know it's a lot to ask, and it's okay if you're not comfortable answering, but could you please tell us what happened between you and Benrey? Because we have to relay this information to Tommy, and it's not gonna go down very well if the only thing we can tell him is "Benrey is a Nightling".

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Right. Right I guess I do owe all of you, as well as him, an explanation. I may be dumb and thick in the skull sometimes but I at least know that holding back information can lead to a world of hurt.

So Benrey and I...

We actually go way way way way way back. Like. Since we were children. I think I was like- shit. Seven...? When I met him?

Misty Plains District is right next to the Border leading into the Nightmare Lands. One day I wandered off into a more barren and isolated part of the plains and well... He was kind of just. There. And y’know, children... They don’t really instantly see evil in people. Especially fellow kids. So me and Benrey started hanging out. We made a deal. We’d meet up twice a week, same place, under this big willow tree. We kept this shit up for YEARS, man.

But then I got to that age where my parents were like “oh, you’ve gotta start thinking about what path you wanna take in life so we can get your training courses sorted.” Stupid dumb little me looked up to ma ‘n pops so much I wanted to become a Dream Guard just like them.

Fuck. 

Long story short, when we were like. 13. I decided I had to cut ties with Benrey because stupid brain was like. Oh you can’t be a Dream Guard and be friends with a Nightling you’ll get thrown in prison or worse, have to fight your best friend or some shit. 

There was. A loud argument. A bad argument. It ended with me telling Benrey some dumb shit like. “we aren’t friendship compatible” 

And then I left and we never saw each other again. Until today. 12 years later. Yeah. I really fucked it up.

It’s actually because of Benrey that...

I’ve never had the heart to kill a Nightmare.

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Tbh the way you talk about him I get th e vibe that you were at one point friends, then something happened that quickly changed that.-🔪🦀

Kid he wasn’t just a friend to me. He was. 

God he was like a fucking brother.

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Did something happen last time you and Benrey saw each other?

You have no fucking idea.

...

I like to think I’m not a complete asshole though, so I’ll admit that what went down between us... May have been my fault. 

Actually yeah it was entirely my fault.