Try everything?

[goestoextremes]

[OOC: backdated to a few days after the beginning of Lotus Liminal while Jean is still sleeping but just before his dreamspace happens.]


So, anyone know why someone just keeps on sleeping like he might just --- sleep through the whole Liminal time if this continues? Or any ideas how to wake him up? Besides waiting, I'm doing plenty of waiting already and sure, it's most likely waiting for something to happen but... Oh, I guess also ideas of what to do while I'm waiting.

[Not that she's keeping an eye on him 24/7, no she can come up with things to do on her own! ...But guess who is bored of waiting even when she's not that impatient these days?? So, what's this? Pretend like she doesn't already know that it's about waiting and have fun with the entertaining ideas? Something like that, maybe.]

I think my envy of Jean's sleeping skills is gone by now and no, he hasn't even been anywhere near the marshmallows and he's nowhere near them now either.

Comments

[dontbetoncurry]

Tried sticking his hand in a glass of warm water yet?

[goestoextremes]

[ ... why this. ]

I wouldn't need a glass to do that but more importantly, that or other similar body reactions are not getting to the list of things I'll try in this case.

[dontbetoncurry]

Eh, sounds like you tried all the normal stuff. Yelling, shaking, yelling and shaking. Figured the weird stuff was what you were looking for and I sure know I can't sleep like that.

Guess you could try brewing a big pot of coffee nearby too.

[goestoextremes]

I've tried all the normal stuff, yeah, those being some of them. Weird stuff is good, but I think I'll stay away from bathroom tests but thanks anyway. Not that I could sleep like that either...

I tried coffee but that didn't work though he actually likes coffee... Maybe I should try with some drink that he doesn't like.

[dontbetoncurry]

"There a song he really hates? Had a friend who would wake up to shoot the radio if it played any Manilow when he was sleeping."

[goestoextremes]

.... Not that I know, I guess even he doesn't know because otherwise he would have told me too. Maybe he still needs to find a song like that. I guess I could try calling one of his friends from home here to sing -- or yell -- something about him at him, might work even better than music.

[dontbetoncurry]

The guy wasn't sick or anything before he fell asleep, was he? Sometimes sleeping something off can keep you from waking up too.

[goestoextremes]

Nope, that I could heal but he's a completely healthy young man... Physically at least. Emotionally I guess he's had a lot to think about, so something up there about this being something like dungeons would make sense if those can happen in dreams too.

[dontbetoncurry]

So you're a wizard or something then?

Eh, maybe working it out in dreams ain't so bad either. I know a few things I wish I could have slept off instead of having to think through.

[goestoextremes]

Nope, not a wizard or anything of those who make things out of nothing. We call it bending where I'm from; it's ability to control water, fire, earth and air in all their various forms. And then they all have additional skills too like water can heal, some firebenders know how to redirect lightning and an earthbender taught me how to control metal too. Stuff like that, though anyone else except me can only control one of them but we have one person like me in each generation, who can control all of them.

It's not so bad if he really gets it worked it out there or lets others in like it'd be a dungeon to help with that, sure. Otherwise this might take... a lot of time.

[dontbetoncurry]

That'd get you in the Justice League back where I'm from.

If you want I got X-Ray vision to see if he broke anything, but I doubt that'd help if he's just asleep.

I gotta ask, what is this dungeon stuff though?

[goestoextremes]

I was born with it but sounds like my kind of a league.

Wow, X-Ray vision sounds amazing! ...But I don't really need it for this situation, I've checked that with my so called magical healing water myself. Doesn't show me things like x-rays will but years of training with it, so I'm sure of my results either way. But thanks.

It's -- not literal jail like most of our homeworlds have but sometimes people have complicated issues with themselves, they get thrown into what they call a dungeon here and others find that dungeon, go to rescue them from there by going through different things on the way from the door to the person somewhere in that place. And the things in there are different everytime because they depend on the person who's locked there.

[dontbetoncurry]

X-Ray vision is weird. Gives you headaches till you learn how to do it right. Though I admit, it made my job a lot easier.

I think I went on one of those. Some kid was so wound up about not being able to save someone. Really felt for him.

[goestoextremes]

I could see how that could make at least some jobs easier... Wouldn't really want to deal with the headaches though.

Sounds like one, yeah. They really make you feel for the person in them most of the time... unless it'd happen to be some kind of an easier place to go through but those are rare and I'm never really expecting anything easy from them.