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i need to make a visualosity

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I used it a lot! ...but I ended up harvesting most of it at the beginning of the week - I wasn't sure if a weird hole would open up here too...

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Oh. That.

[ 9S winces slightly. ]

There doesn't seem to be any more new ones, at least.

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No, there's not...

[looking concerned at that wince, though!]

Are you alright?

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Me? I'm fine. But, uh... we're kind of guilty for one of those holes.

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[she blinks]

...which one?

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The... one in Heliotrope.

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Oh - so Dreamer could retrieve the journal?

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That's what ended up happening, but they didn't tell us what we were giving our color for—and we had no idea they could do that, either.

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Where are they, anyway? I sort of want to give them a piece of my mind.

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Your guess is as good as mine. ... Did they do something?

[ like, besides the obvious ]

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I just don't like them.

[it's based on the general dreamer vibe]

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Er—

[ that's it? ]

They did help us out, though...

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...did they?

[damn it.]

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Yeah—them and the other three Residents on our side. They were pretty willing to answer our questions.

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...oh.

[...

well. she maybe feels a little bad about being a dreamer anti now.]

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... What kind of weird ideas did you guys on this side get about those four?

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Not about all four of them. Mostly about Dreamer?

...some of the notes we found made them seem a little... unhinged.

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—Really? What notes?

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[she goes looking for something in her text...

and then shows him a photo someone else sent to her.]

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[ ... Huh. ]

Well, I see what you mean by unhinged.

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[she nods solemnly]

It's a bit... much, isn't it?

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Oh, definitely. I won't pretend to really know the guy, but... I didn't get the sense we had to worry about them, though.

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Hopefully they're not quite as...

[she glances at her phone]

...intense, as this note implies.

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Beats me. Last I saw them, they thought it was pretty funny that Shale was destroying that one room, so... if nothing else, they have a sense of humor?

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There is that...

[hmm.]

I wonder if we should be worried that the four of them don't seem to have come back with all of you.