Okay, starting to think I might be having those dreams. Either that or finals are already getting to me because they're continuing on and I got a gift from them. Either way, I'm still a spooky scary skeleton. But...something happened. I don't know how to explain it but in the dreams, I just totally forgot about Gaster. Like, poof. Out of nowhere, he was gone. Dream me had no idea he existed. The CORE is still there, all our notes are there, everything to do with him is there except for, y'know, him. It's like he got wiped out of everything, somehow.
Since we had no idea about Gaster, Alphys and I just carried on the DT work. She found some of his blueprints, ones we never knew about before. They're for a DT extraction machine. I'm still not clear on where she's thinking this 'source' of DT is going to come from and she's being kind of squirrely about it (or, well, lizard-y, since she's a lizard and all). We've got some souls already, but I doubt Asgore would let her touch them. I've got some ideas in the here and now but I'm trying not to think of them.
Anyway, we built it. And she called me in one day to say that she'd found some 'subjects' to test things on. Monsters that had 'fallen down', ones that were almost dead, not quite ready to let go of their souls but pretty damn close to dust. She told them and their families that DT could save them and bring them back. But monsters just aren't made to handle that much DT. I'm not sure what it'll do but I know it'll just make things worse. But she's so good hearted, she wants to help, and if it gets us closer to getting out of the Underground, all the better. But I couldn't do it. I didn't know what it would do but I knew it wouldn't be good. So I left. Grabbed Papyrus and headed as far away from the lab and the CORE as I could. Would have gone all the way back to the ruins of the first settlement if I could, but the door's locked. So we settled down in Snowdin. It's a good place for Pap, lots of friendly people, and it's always snowing. Good place for a kid to play. Had to get us some winter gear, though. Which I woke up wearing.
Pap's still on his quest to join the Royal Guard. He and Undyne have been...training, I guess? He brings home a lot of spaghetti so I think she's just giving him cooking lessons, but hey, keeps him busy. She told him if he ever captures a human she'll make him an official member of the Royal Guard. I joined up too since he was so enthusiastic about it, to tell him all of the insider secrets and everything, but uh, apparently Undyne thinks that I'm actually going to take this seriously. Whoops. I've already started selling hotdogs out of my station.
Anyway, to make a long story short, I've got a pretty nice jacket if the OC ever decides to try out the winter thing, and I really want a hot dog.