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Marx_Forever OP t1_iql4cr8 wrote

Reply to comment by Hushwater in The Dreamscaper by Marx_Forever

Well yeah, those hands are grimy. It's like fondling broken clocks and shit, ewww....

Joking aside. Peering into the over-designed past (can you tell I like Final Fantasy?) It's supposed to be fabric tied to the clapper of a "bell". I'm no expert, but I think that's likely a really bad shape for a bell, so that thing probably rings for shit.

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Hushwater t1_iqlc39h wrote

There are bells made of old scuba tanks with that shape. Would the bell be rung to create a pocket of existence in nothing like a scaffold to embellish with imaginaria?

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Marx_Forever OP t1_iqmvpds wrote

>Would the bell be rung to create a pocket of existence in nothing like a scaffold to embellish with imaginaria?

It's actually funny how close that is to what it does. Basically it's trying to recreate a long forgotten destroyed town, but it kind of sucks at it, so everything is warped and twisted, similar but uncanny, kind of like an AI painting. For example there's a house where the car is in the driveway, like apart of it, and the inside is filled with people made out of furniture.

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Hushwater t1_iqoqyjw wrote

Is the town destroyed because humans stopped dreaming to maintain its form and it faded into an amorphous dream and the scraper shows up to reconstruct it but the edges of the puzzle pieces have become faded?

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Marx_Forever OP t1_iqowyw2 wrote

I like the way you think.

But no nothing that interesting, lol. This creature was the end result of a psychic inadvertently atomizing his home town, essentially. But upon doing also copied all the memories and psyches of people and animals, melding everything, including himself, into an interdimensional soup. That soup eventually formed into an entity. The Dreamscaper is a portion of the whole entity, however the other portions of it cannot exist at the same time in the same space. They're kind of like a revolving door, woven through different realities simultaneously, when one portion moves out of a "reality" another must come through in it's place. The Dreamscaper is the mad creator, trying to remake the town from a chaotic maelstrom of thoughts and memories, but is incapable fully shaping things accurately, nor is it really capable of coherent thought. When it disappears in its place comes the Dreamripper. This portion is the mad destroyer, everything the Scaper made is completely and utterly leveled. Rinse, repeat, forever.

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Hushwater t1_iqp2gyo wrote

Is this image above one of the forms from beyond the revolving door?

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