Stratocracy

Myriad Reality

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*No sound emerges but the glooping of the liquid, but you catch glimpses of Eclipse and myself in the glimmers of its surface*

@Fractured

Hello?
*Looks around momentarily, picking up a small twig and poking the strange liquid with it*

Myriad Reality

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*The skull emits an aura of safety and security, but not absent of its accompanying suspicion—inside is an opened floor-bound hatch full of a thick inky blackness twinkling with faint refractions of light*

@Fractured

Is anyone down there?
*Waits momentarily for a response*

Myriad Reality

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

@Legend Begins

*Pauses only momentarily, shaking my head at the sight as I continue toward it*

Myriad Reality

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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*

Myriad Reality

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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*

Myriad Reality

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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*

Myriad Reality

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I do... And will continue to.

@Legend Begins

I was thinking so too. Was hoping for a reason to think otherwise.

Myriad Reality

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*Nods with compassion*
Catch your breath. Do what you need to do.

@Legend Begins

Do you think he's still watching?

Myriad Reality

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This place is, on some level, real. We need to go deeper if we want to find Eclipse.

@Legend Begins

It’ll be easier to do now that I have a moment to think.

Myriad Reality

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*When you open them, we've returned to the city, now completely rebuilt and again dull*

@Legend Begins

*Peeks after a moment and opens one eye first before opening the other*
Oh.