[IC] Myriad Reality

[Server]

<Snipped quote by Server>

*One of the two figures in front of you holds out their hands, putting up a shimmering barrier and blacking the hallway directly in your path. This seems to actually be able to affect you fully, completely stopping you both in your tracks as you slam into it*

@Multifarious

We're in trouble.
*Summons a cannon weapon*

[ANYM]

<Snipped quote by Zyx>

A sentient dimension? How is something like that possible?

@Webmaster

*The world beyond shifts once more, in a motion similar to a shrug, if such a comparison is even possible*

I can't say I know, really. I did fumble a ritual, however, so perhaps that is how I ended up in this predicament. Still, I've made the best of it as one must.

[Webmaster]

<Snipped quote by Webmaster>

*The world beyond shifts once more, in a motion similar to a shrug, if such a comparison is even possible*

I can't say I know, really. I did fumble a ritual, however, so perhaps that is how I ended up in this predicament. Still, I've made the best of it as one must.

@Zyx

A ritual? What kind of ritual?

[ANYM]

<Snipped quote by Zyx>

A ritual? What kind of ritual?

@Webmaster

*Another slosh*

One to take control of an empty pocket dimension. I wanted a home away from home so to speak, but I messed up the incantation and merged my soul with the target of my desires instead. Now I am its demiurge of sorts, a god of a largely isolated realm. Though this is far better than being human, so it's not all that bad.

[Crew]

<Snipped quote by Multifarious>

We're in trouble.
*Summons a cannon weapon*

@Server

*Bounces off the barrier, then rolls over and jumps to my feet*
Yeah, that's an understatement.

[Multifarious]

<Snipped quote by Multifarious>

We're in trouble.
*Summons a cannon weapon*

@Server

*Another, identical barrier forms on the other side of you, trapping you in the hall*

[Webmaster]

<Snipped quote by Webmaster>

*Another slosh*

One to take control of an empty pocket dimension. I wanted a home away from home so to speak, but I messed up the incantation and merged my soul with the target of my desires instead. Now I am its demiurge of sorts, a god of a largely isolated realm. Though this is far better than being human, so it's not all that bad.

@Zyx

What's a home to a dimension? I've never really talked with the fabric of reality itself before.

[Server]

<Snipped quote by Server>

*Bounces off the barrier, then rolls over and jumps to my feet*
Yeah, that's an understatement.

@Crew

Any ideas?

<Snipped quote by Server>

*Another, identical barrier forms on the other side of you, trapping you in the hall*

@Multifarious

*Blasts the barrier with my cannon*

[ANYM]

<Snipped quote by Zyx>

What's a home to a dimension? I've never really talked with the fabric of reality itself before.

@Webmaster

It's hard to describe, honestly. But imagine, if you will, a little house inside of your soul that you could withdraw to at any moment. But also imagine that you are the house as well as the soul.

*Sloshes*

Again, it's hard to describe.

[Webmaster]

<Snipped quote by Webmaster>

It's hard to describe, honestly. But imagine, if you will, a little house inside of your soul that you could withdraw to at any moment. But also imagine that you are the house as well as the soul.

*Sloshes*

Again, it's hard to describe.

@Zyx

So you're a whole dimension with a soul? Does every dimension have a soul?

[ANYM]

<Snipped quote by Zyx>

So you're a whole dimension with a soul? Does every dimension have a soul?

@Webmaster

Yes to the first, but no to the second. I'd have thought the fact I fumbled a ritual made that quite obvious that this was not a state I attained intentionally.

[Webmaster]

<Snipped quote by Webmaster>

Yes to the first, but no to the second. I'd have thought the fact I fumbled a ritual made that quite obvious that this was not a state I attained intentionally.

@Zyx

Oh, so you didn't start as a dimension?

[ANYM]

<Snipped quote by Zyx>

Oh, so you didn't start as a dimension?

@Webmaster

No. As I said before, I botched a ritual to gain ownership of one, and that's what merged me with one.

[Webmaster]

<Snipped quote by Webmaster>

No. As I said before, I botched a ritual to gain ownership of one, and that's what merged me with one.

@Zyx

I get it now. What were you before?

[ANYM]

<Snipped quote by Zyx>

I get it now. What were you before?

@Webmaster

Human.

[Webmaster]

<Snipped quote by Webmaster>

Human.

@Zyx

Do you... feel anything anymore?

[ANYM]

<Snipped quote by Zyx>

Do you... feel anything anymore?

@Webmaster

Not in the same way, no. I can feel the rippling of lower dimensions, a sensation like water, and the searing heat of higher ones as I pass them by. Sense the rumble of gravitational fluctuations, see the folding of spacetime. But none of these things are akin to the five senses I used to have.

[Webmaster]

<Snipped quote by Webmaster>

Not in the same way, no. I can feel the rippling of lower dimensions, a sensation like water, and the searing heat of higher ones as I pass them by. Sense the rumble of gravitational fluctuations, see the folding of spacetime. But none of these things are akin to the five senses I used to have.

@Zyx

What are lower and higher dimensions?

[ANYM]

<Snipped quote by Zyx>

What are lower and higher dimensions?

@Webmaster

Well it's not so much hard to explain, more so hard to translate. Impossible, actually, if you want complete accuracy. But to put it as close as possible... I suppose you could say they're a lot like sheets of paper with information inscribed on them all arranged in a vertical filing cabinet. With higher dimensions possessing more information than lower ones, and by extension more energy too.

*Pauses*

This does not always result in sapient life from what I've found, it rarely does actually, but there is the occasional higher being that I've met here and there.