#the fact that I swapped servers and thus had to swap names also didn't help

[xellandria]

70 #46, Alliance #28, Priest #4. I'd fallen out of love with my void elf (I seem to never feel neutral about rogues, I either enjoy them a lot or think they're incredibly tedious) and wanted to get rid of her, but I also want to keep at least one of everything around Just In Case. While searching for names that weren't taken on various servers, I came across Ursula on two of them, and chose to roll her on Onyxia despite already having a priest there. It also covers U names (as I also want at least one of every letter) in case my gnome priest Uma gets the boot at some point.

Vandelyn (previously Sylenna, the aforementioned VE rogue) always felt really stifled on mog choices, but for some reason there's a lot more cloth I like on BE/VE than there is leather. A bit of a shame because the female BE/VE idle stealth animation is one of my favourites, but I suppose I could always get on one of the cloud or carpet mounts if I really want to go back :P

[simplepotatofarmer]

By my best hypothetical guess, the lair could have been constructed sometime before the Pet War. This is based on the three "attachments" housed in the lair already; Beckerson, Henry, and Friend, namely Beckerson and Henry. Beckerson and Mars were returned to Dream by Niki after Sapnap apologized for killing her fox. Mars was given back to Sapnap but Dream could've kept Beckerson. Dream hinted that he swapped Henry out with a decpy cow that Sapnap then kidnapped and got killed. Friend was obtained when Friend respawned after Ghostbur accidentally axed him and Dream easily switched the real deal out with a decoy that got blown up during Doomsday.

It could also have been built shortly after Dream's hobit cave got griefed and destroyed, which I think was before the Pet War (I am unsure on this) thus Dream wouldn't have been lying when he told Techno he had a house but it was far away.

Also ironically enough, Dream being in possession of the three pets did spare them, temporarily, from their deaths.

Those are just my thoughts on it. So if it does happen to be correct, Dream did in fact have so many opportunities to take Carl and other attachments yet he didn't.

oh interesting!

i honestly haven't put much thought into it myself. i can't really tell you why i haven't but i suppose the actual timeline of the vault just hasn't come up in my mind so i really appreciate the thoughts!

overall, though, yeah, i do think c!dream had at least one very clear chance to take carl but he's smart enough to realize that c!techno is more valuable on his side than not.

honestly, my bet is on dream having built the vault before techno's execution and he did consider taking carl but the execution presented him with a better opportunity and that was to help techno.

dream says it himself on doomsday: he's one of the only people on the server who hasn't betrayed techno and he knows this is important to techno. it's just the best option for him and i think it's paid off in the long run.