(INTERACTIVE) DREAM μ 05

[unsureazure]

Warnings: None
Effects: A temporary feeling of nostalgia, which ends when Noel allows access to her dream
Notes: At first, this is a non-interactive dream, but Noel ends up becoming self-aware within the dream and opens it up for Dreamwalking.

Comments

[retromodel]

[And look who comes wandering into this colourful setting. The strange thing is that she's wearing an Academy school uniform... could it be an effect of Noel's dreamscape, making Lambda fit into the surroundings?

She hasn't noticed Noel yet, her eyes instead intently scanning her surroundings.]

Location unknown. Spacial co-ordinates... unable to verify.

[unsureazure]

[SOB SHE WANTED TO ENJOY HER SOLITUDE A LITTLE LONGER---Wait. She knows who this is. Noel couldn't help but feel a bit apprehensive. Hopefully Lambda wouldn't try to capture her per Kokonoe's orders... ]

Ummm... You kind of fell into my dream. I-It's modeled after the Military Academy in the 15th Hierarchical City.

[retromodel]

Processing... the 15th Hierarchical City, Torifune. Otherwise known as "Academy City".

[She looks around.] Scans indicate abnormal spacial composition... this is... a "dream"?

[unsureazure]

Y-Yes, that is correct...

[This is so awkward.]

Apparently, all of the people pulled into Somarium have the ability to create spaces like this when they dream. Even you, Lambda.

[knightofchanges]

[he's actually kind of surprised he's inside the dream. one moment he was watching amused, and the next he finds himself in some hallway.]

-Whoops. Looks like I somehow entered the dream, haha!

...But where am I?

[unsureazure]

KYAAAAAAAH!

[Noel jumps with surprise once Ace pops into her dream. So much for enjoying the environment all by herself. She turns, her heart finally not trying to jump out of her chest.]

Um... This is the Military Academy I graduated from. Anyone who wants to enlist in the Novus Orbis Librarium is expected to receive education here. Or at least, that's where this dream is taking place...

[Paaaaauuuuuuuuse. Now she really has to ask:]

... Did you get lost again?

[knightofchanges]

Oooh so this is your school? Interesting.

[and sheepish laugh.]

Well in a way you could say I'm lost, but honestly I'm not quite sure how I got here. I was watching it from my Dreamberry and then here I am.

Sorry for surprising you.

[unsureazure]

Oh, um... I-It's fine, really. I shouldn't have been... spacing out...

[Though Noel's spaciness and Ace's tendency to pop out of nowhere is a horrible combination. Nonetheless, she manages to put a smile back on her face.]

Anyway, you're correct. This where I went to school, and it's the best educational establishment in the world. Since it's funded by the NOL, everything's really well-kept.

[She points upwards.]

See? The lights on the ceiling and even the weather control are powered by Seithr. I used to think that it's something pretty normal, but... Ever since I started hearing about other people's worlds, I started to think that my world's use of Ars Magus is really amazing.

[snapekillsedgar]

There were so many things to be happy about while watching the dream. It was a good memory, and Noel was finally seeing something that would take her mind off of the news she heard within the last month. Even if Elliot should be glad that she was having good dreams, that wasn't his first thought. The very first thing he'd noticed and couldn't get over even after Noel left the room was...

... Why did that girl look like a squirrel?! Noel's world was weird! It was so weird that he missed what Noel was saying, and didn't realize that everything was about to get ten times weirder.

In a blink, Elliot wasn't standing in the living room anymore, but in the ornate beautiful hallway of Noel's academy.

"What the--?!" His first instinct was to whip around, looking at everything he could catch a look at in a confused frenzy. He backed up to a wall, staring out at the room. He'd heard about Dreamwalking, but he thought it was always voluntary... Plus he had no idea how to get out now.

[unsureazure]

There's nothing weird about Noel's world! Sure, there's squirrel girls, cat people, and bugs the size of your head... Okay, yeah, it may be a bit weird, but that's what a hundred years of rapid evolution thanks to Seithr and science does to a world.

Anyway... Hello, Elliot. Noel stares at him in surprise, still in the form of her fifteen-year-old student self. She didn't remember him going to that Dreamwalker training session... Wait, does that mean people could enter dreams by accident?! That's not good... Especially if someone were on a ladder or something---No, stop getting your mind off track, Noel. There's more pressing matters at hand.

"Um... Why are you here?"

[snapekillsedgar]

Well, he still looks sixteen years old in Somarium anyway, and it was only after the initial shock that he found that his clothes were different too. He was in his white school uniform. After that realization, he finally looked over at Noel, who was staring at him.

"I have no idea! It's your dream! You're the one who did this!"

[unsureazure]

It almost feels like some weird student exchange program at this point. Like a setting for those romantic comedies that young girls enjoy.

"D-Don't shift the blame to other people!" she flails angrily. "I just allowed access to the dream! It's up to everyone else if they want in or not!"

Wait a second---If he did this by accident, then...

"Um... By the way, were you sitting down before you came here?"