2nd Evil Deed - Video

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[Altis stands underneath a streetlamp, the area behind her dark. It seems like she took great care in picking out a good place to pick out this... thing she's doing. She certainly seems pleased with herself at least.]

I hope you're ready for a night of nightmares and torment and fear, for the lovely and evil demon Altis has brought another new Nightmare into the world! As long as I'm here, no one will have a good night's sleep!

Now come on out, and make these people quiver at the thought of going to bed tonight!

[She moves the shot to the darkness and something slowly hops into view. A spiny, spiky outline emerges from the darkness to reveal...!

...An ordinary, spirit-brand Pricklemane.]

Comments

[unrecovered]

Okay, one: not that kind of nightmare. Two: that isn't a Nightmare, that's a Spirit. And three: Evil. Really.

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I was told that the more Nightmares there were in this world, the more nightmares people would have!b ...Or something close to that! [she tries to tiptoe around the fact that she screwed up and made a Spirit instead of a Nightmare though]

And I'm completely evil! Wickedly, awfully evil!

[unrecovered]

Well, I must have missed that memo. [Read: He's pretty sure that memo doesn't actually exist, and his nightmares are bad enough that he's pretty sure you can't make them worse, thanks.]

Really. Is that why you made the cute friendly purple kitty?

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I, er, was expecting it to be a little more angry. I just... probably used the wrong pieces!

[unrecovered]

I'm sure. You know, I bet if you poke it's stomach, it'll get real angry.

[He's pretty sure it won't - he's seen North's Pricklemane in action, after all. Still, the show might be worth it.]

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I'm not stupid. And even if you are telling the truth, getting myself hit by a spiky mace doesn't sound like my idea of a good demonstration.

[unrecovered]

Look, you made it and you haven't done anything to piss it off, right? Because if that's the case, it's not going to attack you. Hell, Epsilon accidentally shot his and it still likes him.

1/2

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He shot it and it still...?!

2/2

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Interesting...

[unrecovered]

[Ahhhhhhh fuck, way to give the misguided teenager ideas. Great.]

Yes. On accident. Because his aim sucks.

My point is, you've created an adorable ball of fluff that thinks you're its best friend. It is not evil. It can't be evil. It is physically impossible for that Spirit to be evil. You could probably kill it and it would still not be evil and it would still like you.

[Well, as long as he's lecturing...] And if I catch you torturing it I'm taking it away.

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I'm not going to torture OR kill it! It's not like it's done anything wrong.

But... I'm not convinced that it can't do at least a little bit of evil.

[unrecovered]

Good. [Just so we're clear.]

And what evil do you think it's going to do?

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I'm going to have to think about that. This isn't going the way I had hoped.

[unrecovered]

I can see that.

...look, it's not evil, but if you want to see it get aggressive, go find some Nightmares - real Nightmares. From what I've seen, Spirits like to fight.

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I guess it'll make it stronger...

[unrecovered]

Yeah, that too.

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And I'll be able to get more of those pieces they drop!

[unrecovered]

You do know you can't create Nightmares with those, right?

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Has anyone tried?

[unrecovered]

Yes. You did. And it didn't work.

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Only once. And I'm still new at this. Eventually I'll get it right.

[unrecovered]

You got it right already. Why would you want to screw it up?

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It's only screwing it up in your mind.

[unrecovered]

Wait. Wait. So according to you, making a reliable partner is getting it wrong, and making a monster that wants to eat your face is getting it right.

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If he is reliable. If he can fight well, another party member isn't what I'd call a complete failure. It's just not what I intended. [and it's kind of cute]