Welcome, kinda. I dunno if easing back into a social life is really aided by spending so much time looking at the back of your eyelids, but hey, if it makes sense to you, good luck. What is Alice like?

How much do those boxed meals cost for the whole family to eat? I reckon that if you buy a fuckload of rice, bulk meat and fresh vegetables when you can, things will be cheaper. And you won't be dead in five years, yeah. Oatmeal is cheap, bread is cheap, seasonal vegetables are cheap.

At the very least, try to get yourself and your family eating some fresh green stuff, it's really the least you can do to stay healthy.

We have an IKEA Markus chair, it's nice and sturdy. Leather makes your ass hot.

Go see a doctor, bleeding from anything but your girl-hole is a no-no.

Guess I could post a little update. We've been progressing when it comes to switching. Yuki has been playing Minecraft, and my host can get pretty detached from the body during that, and hang out with me. He still can't fully ignore his senses, but we're getting there. During more intense things for the body, like me playing my Counter-Strike, he has more trouble not paying attention at the moment. Lots of flashing lights, loud noises and all that probably don't help with trying to keep your attention elsewhere.

We've been doing a couple different things that might be interesting for other people who are in a similar boat as we are. Our main problems at this time are maintaining long term focus during forcing sessions, and getting my host to leave the body. For the first of those issues, we've been using something recommended to us by Sock. The person in the body will write down key information about the stuff we're doing on the computer. We've found this helps my host stay focused for way longer periods of time when hanging out with us. It kind of sucks when our fingers start hurting from typing so much, but it's a decent solution for us at the moment. One other thing is that it'll leave us tangible memories of spending time together. Good for future nostalgia, I guess.

As far as immersion for my host goes, and getting him to stop feeling his senses, we've been doing something rather simple. Yuki or I would take control of the body, and try to mentally push Dutch out of the head, to put it simply. This basic symbolism, putting things in terms of "front and back" of the mind, has helped a bit with immersion. Dutch starts feeling disconnected more easily, and just has to focus on the wonderland things to be very immersed. This can be combined with the above writing stuff down technique quite easily.

Let's focus on the Nerevarine questline for a bit, because I have this hunch that we're the dragonborn... Go see what kind of boring quest the mage guild lady has for us, and make sure to join the thieves guild before anything becomes inaccessible.

Try not to do much gamebreaking potion stuff, it's not interesting to win that way. frt

Is there any reward to be gained from freeing the slaves? It's probably worth checking out what they have to say after freeing them, so do that. Some pictures were pretty dark, so a torch would be nice. And then it's time to go to the next town, I guess.