[Area] The Lethean Dream

great, a newgoer. she doesn't even seem to have realized her fate.
"Look, this is gonna be a hard pill to swallow, but your mom isn't gonna be able to see you anymore. almost all of us here? we're dead. those two clowns with the weird looking companions don't count, they're too hard to kill." Alpha Seth complains about Thoren's attitude towards Micha but quickly drops the subject.
"What I'm getting to is, there's a pretty high chance you're not alive anymore. We're currently in the realm beyond the land of the living. Others like you find their final resting places around here, or at least they would be if Zwei the superbitch wasn't sending her spectre henchmen around here apparently. Any questions?"
Thoren braces for the waterworks.

Alpha Seth suggests checking for a pulse, remembering back to when Thanatos mistook him for a dust chewer.
"Okay, there might be a chance you're alive, but the best way to know for sure is to check for a pulse. I, don't like touching others so you can try to get those warmbloods over there to make sure."
Phew, dodged a bullet on that one.
Alpha Seth complains about passing the buck but understands his aversion to unnessisary contact.

Niki attempts to use her illusion magic to conjure a regular metal stethoscope.
"ummm, this thing could work probably."
She hands it over to gamebirb, who then conjures a voxelated version of prince peasley's flying pillow thing to place it onto and sends it over to the mace-wielding girl. The pillow poofs as the stethoscope reaches its destination, dropping it onto the ground nearby. It should at least last until it's done being used.
"it might be a little cold, but if you can feel it, you're probably not dead anyways."
She really hopes the new person is actually alive. All these ghosts are creeping her out big-time.

Chestnut yells to the group "Hey, we're here!"

"what took you so long, nutcase?" the pianist answers from the crowd, sitting on top of his piano.
"It's CHESTNUT!" Chestnut waves his arms wildly.
"Sure whatever, numbnuts. you missed the briefing an hour or 10 ago."
Chestnut grumbles and the treasure chest resumes being heavier.

Meanwhile, Thoren notes the results of the test.
"Okay, so you are alive, for now." Alpha Seth gives Thoren a hard time about that remark. "Hey, it's fucking dangerous out here and you fucking know it!" Thoren appears to be yelling to thin air. He notices he said that out loud.
"...nevermind that, my partner in crime was getting up in my business."
'Our business!' a voice can almost be perceived, but for the most part only Thoren can actually hear it.
He sighs in exasperation.

Niki springs into action, pretty much being called upon to recap some things, as she usually tends to get saddled with.
"umm... apparently we're like, going to go after some spectres? I have no idea what they even look like though."

She doesn't seem to be less uneasy...She trembles.
'I...I...'

Ribbon however, seems to be grinning from ear to ear.
'So Ciel convinced you guys to go Specter hunting? Sweet! We used to have a whole guild for it, but you know, Zwei.'
That's basically become the main excuse at this point, she thought. Didn't do your homework? Blame Zwei.

She kinda feels sorry for her, if it weren't for the fact that she was kind of being a butt about everything.
'She's probably getting her large book on the Specters and Figments we've discovered...It might take a while, though...She kind doesn't organize well.' 

For most of this, Micha has seemingly vanished from view, she appears briefly every so often but never seems to stick around long enough.