What an exciting chapter! Looking forward to where this leads 😁

I like Core 1 already! What they lack in humanity they make up for in personality and snark 😆

A Saint Stand, you say?

Taking bets on which Shadow gets to go with Nephis! I'd like it to be Gloomy, they deserve it for the trouble they were undoubtedly put through training Crazy. Happy is a close second, because they're deserve it for keeping the mood up in Shadow Brigade Followed by Haughty because they're the gentleman of the group 😂 The others can fight it out amongst themselves ...

I think the likelihood of a memory is influenced by if there's a novel story or thematic link for the Nightmare Spell to follow. By giving the flower in the dream she helped increase the chances even more, but even just asking to be killed is a powerful plot point for the Spell to pick up on. In that way the Spell is a little like our current day GPTs and other transformer based AI, giving probabilistic output based on input. With a twist that it gives more valuable output for certain cases. Maybe it even values uniqueness and novelty in the input! This could even be how it "decides" what actions are defying fate, if it's constantly predicting future actions based on an initial fated timeline then actions that differ from these predictions are defying the odds in a very real way. Imagine if something like ChatGPT rewarded users for giving coherent input that differs from what it expected then to give, that's a basic version of what I think the Spell is doing. Also, as the leaders of Twilight were all people who entered the real tomb to become guides in the nightmare tombs of their people (themselves all challengers), then I suspect the leaders knew a lot about the rules of the spell when it came to nightmares, memories, and echos.

It's one of the big mysteries the book has been setting up, are the inhabitants of nightmares "real people", so to speak. Sunny seems to believe so, at least in part.

This, a missed opportunity for a terrific pun!

Everyone can hear what Sinny says, Sunny is forced to voice it out loud.

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back in time for breakfast!

Why is anyone questioning if Cassie can hear Sinny? I thought it was already confirmed that Sunny voices everything that Sinny says out loud. Maybe I missed something.

Does the mask not affect Sinny? Especially interesting if true as everything Sinny says is voiced aloud by Sunny.

Another fun read, and more interesting world building 😁 Also that's some classic Eldrian behaviour, immediately trying to find ways to use a new idea as as a shortcut! 😂

Hey! This was a super fun chapter to read 😁 Hope work gets less stressful for you soon!

... it's Mordy isn't it?

G3 is giving Sunny cliffhangers now!

Why not both? 🙂

Vrisky is such a good pup!

This is wonderful, cinematic, this is peak Mordy behaviour!

Glad to see you back, hope you're feeling better now after the car trouble! :)This section with the ghosts and the trap is fun, it's Eldrian firmly in his element: scrambling to find a solution to a new problem, usually through creative and/or dangerous applications of his existing ideas!The under skin barrier idea is equal parts fascinating and horrific 😵

Ah, that's odd, I guess it's a bug then.Yeah the text is still there for me, I'm not sure if that's maybe just the app caching the page or something though.