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When Jade woke to see her world bathed in gold, she smiled.

For as long as Jade could remember, she had dreamt here, in this golden fantasy land with spires and towers. She could fly through the air as long as she willed herself to, and she loved talking to the strange, paper-white people who lived here. They called her titles of royalty, like "princess" and "my lady," but Jade refused to be at all queen-like. She didn't care for power; she just wanted to have some fun while she dreamt, and if that meant dirtying up her golden dress a bit, then so be it!

There were others here - humans like her - whose faces she knew well at night, but faded from memory when she awoke. They weren't always here. Most of them lived in a separate building, apart from the boy who lived in the tower next to hers, and since he was sometimes asleep when she dropped by, she assumed the same must have been true of the others. Still, when they were awake, she enjoyed

Jade sat up and stretched out, letting feeling return to her body. She felt more powerful here, like she could spin the world at her fingertips if she wanted to. Not that she'd tried. (Yet.)

She poked her head out of the window of her tower and then jumped right out, soaring through the skies with a triumphant laugh. She couldn't wait to see what kind of adventures the golden kingdom of Prospit would give her today!

((OOC Note: please feel free to mingle with other people's opening posts here! Not everything has to be a direct response to Jade - this is just sort of a free-form catch-all for people that want Prospit adventures.))

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Jane smiled, eyes still closed after finishing her song. Finally lifting her hands from the keys, she stood and brushed out the skirt of her gown, quite content, and came towards the front of the stage so she could talk to her unexpected audience.

"Aw, shucks. Thank you! I've always loved the piano, I have been playing since I was very young."

She knelt at the end of the stage, skirt spread around her, and only then seemed to recognize the young lady. She blinked, started to lift one hand to her mouth, but then just sort of stopped there. She was confused, but not frightened. It was hard to be frightened on Prospit.

"Say...aren't you..."

Jade blinked a few times and rubbed her eyes, just to make sure that she wasn't actually seeing things. This was a dream after all, so maybe it was just her brain putting in faces from her life to act as characters...?

But even as Jade said that, she had a sense that wasn't right. This was too lucid a dream for her subconscious to just slip things in (if that's what this was about.) Jane lived here, just like she did. She had the gold skirts and everything.

"You're the lady with the kitten and the cupcakes!" she said. "Um... Jane, right? What are you doing here?"

Her tone wasn't accusatory - merely curious. This was a weird and interesting development after all!

"It--I--Well, I've been here as long as I can remember, what are you doing here?"

Granted, Jane didn't always dream here. When she did, she often just stuck to her own room to enjoy the peace and sunlight of her dreams or went to visit a cherished few dear white-shelled friends, never presuming to look into the windows of the other towers she saw. That would have been rude, even in her sleep.

But there had been something familiar about Jade, something she still couldn't quite put her finger on. Jane put a hand to her forehead, bewildered.

"Have we...I feel like I've seen you before all that business with the cat. Gosh, this is strange, having deja vu in a dream."

"I've been here too! I have a golden tower that I kind of live in, but I've also been out to talk to the carapaces and fly around. I've been dreaming here since I was little! It's very nice."

Jade scratches her chin, trying to think about this. Jane did seem familiar, and maybe this would explain why! But was this actually Jane she was talking to, or was this just a dream Jane, who already lived in her head? She'd have to pester Jane once she woke up to see what all of this was about.

"I know! I definitely remember thinking that you looked familiar... Maybe we have been dream neighbors this whole time! That would explain a lot."

And also bring up so many more questions, but Jade would make do with what she had.

"...Would it? I'd say it raises more questions by far in my mind than it answers."

Apparently, Jane was not content to make do with this new information at all.

"For instance, where exactly could we have met before for the two of us to be showing up in each other's recurring dreams? Strange familiarity aside, I'm sure I'd never seen you in the real world before the incident with Detective Jowd."

She paused.

"I mean the cat."

"Detective Jowd is an excellent name for a cat, first off," Jade said. It was important to acknowledge that before delving into any more dream logic.

"And I guess it does raise some questions. I am also sure that I never knew you in real life either! But I am just as sure that this is a different kind of dreaming that we do here. For one it has a lot more internal consistency than most dreams. All of the structures, while being very pretty and dreamlike, show up in the same place! So I think it's possible to know somebody here without meeting them in real life. It's just an alternate reality that we can only access while sleeping. That's my theory anyways."

Jade paused, considering this for a moment. "Well, no. It's more of a hypothesis. So the logical thing to do is to come up with a test! To make sure that both of us are actually here and we are not just dream projections of the other person. I can pester you tomorrow with a special code phrase, and you can respond back with another special code phrase. Then we'll know for sure that this is real."

"Well...I mean, it's preposterous. Alternate realities, geez..."

Said the skeptical skeptic, skeptically. After a moment, though, she breathed out through her nose.

"Though I suppose we've nothing to lose by making the attempt. Besides looking incredibly silly tomorrow if we're wrong, I guess. Or if one of us forgets the code before we wake up. How do you propose we make ourselves remember, when these dreams are so unreliable?"

That was a very good point. Jade definitely didn't remember all of her dreams - why should this one be any different? She hummed and glanced around the cathedral.

"Well... we just need something to spark our memory, right? If I send you the code word that should be enough to spark your memory, if this is as real as it seems! As for me..."

She thought through to her room, and more specifically what she would be able to see immediately upon waking up. What greeted her every morning? Why, none other than the friendly, smiling faces of the clusters of tanglebuddies that took residence on her bed.

"Oh! I got it! I will ask you who your favorite Squiddle is! And you can respond with... Detective Jowd! As he is not a real Squiddle, I will know it is not a real answer, and it also references what we are talking about now. Does that sound good?"

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