[IC] Myriad Reality

[Fractured]

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*glances at the event and stops to look around within the base*

@Spiritblitz

Inside the skull is a courtyard of a small castle, furnished and decorated, with still-warm hot chocolate on the table by a couch*

[Stratocracy]

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*After the cloud disappears a void pit is left in its wake and, Phoebe is nowhere to be found*
...
*Wanders away into the city*

@Legend Begins

…
*Looks around after I realize what’s happened*
Wait, don’t-
*Pauses and mumbles to myself*
Alone…
*Takes a few careful steps in an arbitrary direction*

[Valiance]

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Then may the scales deliver their judgement!
*The red mist once again fills the chamber, but starts to dissipate to sunshine*

@Nimda

*Stays wary of any further change in my surroundings, of any threats or such making themselves apparent*

[Legend Begins]

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…
*Looks around after I realize what’s happened*
Wait, don’t-
*Pauses and mumbles to myself*
Alone…
*Takes a few careful steps in an arbitrary direction*

@Stratocracy

*A purple thread of light attaches to your heart and lazily drifts in the windless landscape*

[Stratocracy]

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*A purple thread of light attaches to your heart and lazily drifts in the windless landscape*

@Legend Begins

*Reaches out and touches it gently before taking a deep breath and deciding to follow it*

[Legend Begins]

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*Reaches out and touches it gently before taking a deep breath and deciding to follow it*

@Stratocracy

*The thread takes the same path as Eclipse, winding around traps and through a hidden tunnel tucked away within a pit worn down by overuse*

[Spiritblitz]

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Inside the skull is a courtyard of a small castle, furnished and decorated, with still-warm hot chocolate on the table by a couch*

@Fractured

*takes a mental note of the cup and steps in further*

[Fractured]

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*takes a mental note of the cup and steps in further*

@Spiritblitz

*Beyond the skull is a staircase framed by a false heart arch to ascend upward into the cityscape, and a visible trapdoor in the skull leads deeper into the mindscape*

[Spiritblitz]

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*Beyond the skull is a staircase framed by a false heart arch to ascend upward into the cityscape, and a visible trapdoor in the skull leads deeper into the mindscape*

@Fractured

*walks towards the trap door and kicks it in*

[Fractured]

<Snipped quote by Fractured>

*walks towards the trap door and kicks it in*

@Spiritblitz

*It swings open into a darker pit, thick like ink*

[Stratocracy]

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*The thread takes the same path as Eclipse, winding around traps and through a hidden tunnel tucked away within a pit worn down by overuse*

@Legend Begins

Hello?
...
*Continues forward*

[Legend Begins]

<Snipped quote by Legend Begins>

Hello?
...
*Continues forward*

@Stratocracy

*After much walking, the hollow skull housing eclipse becomes the most prominent feature of the horizon*

[Spiritblitz]

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*It swings open into a darker pit, thick like ink*

@Fractured

*takes a step in*

[Fractured]

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*takes a step in*

@Spiritblitz

*The ink rushes up to embrace you, and as you sink into its depths, it becomes difficult to move quickly through its thickness, like running in a dream, and breathing feels like inhaling through a wet towel*

[Spiritblitz]

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*The ink rushes up to embrace you, and as you sink into its depths, it becomes difficult to move quickly through its thickness, like running in a dream, and breathing feels like inhaling through a wet towel*

@Fractured

*looks downward silently as I am being passed through the darkness*

[Fractured]

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*looks downward silently as I am being passed through the darkness*

@Spiritblitz

*Words of varying shapes and sizes spiral around you in the deep, some too out of focus to make out, others in strange mutations of shapes, only a few short versions of which can be made out to real words*

[Spiritblitz]

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*Words of varying shapes and sizes spiral around you in the deep, some too out of focus to make out, others in strange mutations of shapes, only a few short versions of which can be made out to real words*

@Fractured

*stares at the words and slowly moves my hand, palm out, up in front of my chest, staring at the words for a moment and touching one of them with a finger*
Safe.
*the word I touch turns into the word “safe” and bounces away*

[Fractured]

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*stares at the words and slowly moves my hand, palm out, up in front of my chest, staring at the words for a moment and touching one of them with a finger*
Safe.
*the word I touch turns into the word “safe” and bounces away*

@Spiritblitz

*At the reverberation of the word, slowly sinks upside down next to you with air bubbling up from me*

[Spiritblitz]

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*At the reverberation of the word, slowly sinks upside down next to you with air bubbling up from me*

@Fractured

*waves*

[Fractured]

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*waves*

@Spiritblitz

*Waves back, the word “fear” bouncing against “safe”*