Message 06. Lighting Fires

[unrecovered]

Everyone's been talking about finding the keyhole or the pieces of the keyhole or whatever. Here's my question: has anyone actually started looking yet?

[Oh look, he disapproves of all of you. Yep, still Tuesday.]

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[sailorlaughter]

Okie-dokie-lokie!

[Several minutes later, a voice floats out from a nearby wall.]

It's not in here!

[unrecovered]

Yeah. I know.

[Wait. Wait.]

Where the fuck are you?

[sailorlaughter]

Well, you said you looked in the tunnels, but I thought you probably didn't look in the walls of the tunnels, so I came to help you check them! There's nothing back here except for a lot of dust and a Nightmare lizard! Toothy ate him and then we got ice cream!

[unrecovered]

You're checking inside the walls.

[Oh hell he is not paid enough for this.]

...Keep up the good work.

[sailorlaughter]

Okie-dokie-lokie! Here, you can have some ice cream too!

[A brick a few feet away vanishes, a dream piece is put through the hole, and then the brick is replaced.]

[unrecovered]

[He stares at it for a few moments. An insane pony just opened a wall and gave him ice cream. It's completely disarming, and he can't quite figure out how to react.]

[He's blaming sleep deprivation for that.]

Uh. Thanks.

[Fang lands next to the ice cream and squeaks. He wants it! Can he have it? Wash glances at Melody, who looks at the ice cream, then goes back to her grooming - she likes chocolate more, anyway. He nods at Fang, and the bat snaps it up, squeaking happily.]

[sailorlaughter]

You're welcome! We're gonna go explore down this hole now - I think there might be strawberry at the bottom!

[And then there's a "wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" that slowly grows fainter. Maybe you should just dismiss this entire experience as a sleep-deprived hallucination, Wash.]

[unrecovered]

[Yeah, that's...that's kind of the plan. He blinks a few times, then thunks the back of his helmet against the wall. As far as sleep-deprived hallucinations go, that was definitely one of his better ones.]