The Void of Sigman
WELCOME OUR FAITFUL!! AND THOSE JOINING US FOR THE FIRST TIME!!
THE HORIZON AWAITS FOR US ALL!! THE VOID IS HERE AND THE SONGS OF ETERNITY EVERLASTING!
IT SHALL STAND HERE NOW PURE! AND ETERNAL AS WE FALL TO DUST!
NOW!! WE SHALL DO ALL We CAN TO UNDERSTAND THE VOID!
ALL SHALL BREAK UNDER GRAVITIES CRUEL AND FAIR WAIGHT!
You looked at the Seer with a bored glare as you adjusted your hat slightly.
OTHERS PRAISE THE TEMPORARY MIRACLES OF FALSE GODS. THE EVENTS THAT WILL BE FORGOTTEN TOMORROW
BUT LOOK IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY! THE VOID STANDS, ETERNAL!
WHILE THE UNIVERSE CONTINUES TO FLY APART INTO MORE AND MORE CHAOS IT IS THE VOID THAT CONTINUES!
THE VOID THAT ANCHORS THE UNIVERSE AND HOLDS IT TOGETHER
THE VOID THAT PURIFIES US AND GIVES US A PLACE TO RETURN TO AFTER WE TURN TO DUST
THE VOID THAT GIVES US THE TRUTH OF ALL THINGS
YOU HAVE ALL COME HERE BECAUSE YOU AKNOWLEDGE THE POWER OF THE VOID
NOW I WOULD HAVE YOU ACCEPT ITS TRUTH
COME AND STEP FORWARD! ALL WHO WISH TO ACCEPT THE GIFTS OF OUR GREAT PROTECTORS!
STEP FORWARD AND ACCEPT TRUTH!
You looked at the Seer with a bored glare as you adjusted your hat slightly.
Others were going off and taking the rites and everything as you stood there watching the small but respectable congregation of people go to the Seer for a blessing.
"Can't believe people buy into this crap?" You said under your breath.
It takes a second for you to realize that the seer has briefly paused his sermon, and is now staring at certain members in the audience..... including you.
SOME OF YOU ARE AFRAID, I UNDERSTAND!
IN THE FACE OF THE ETERNAL, THERE IS A DESIRE TO LOOK AWAY!
TO EMBRACE IN THOSE FLEETING DESIRES OF EMBARRASMENT OR FEAR OR EVEN JUST UNEARNED SUPERIORITY!
WE ARE SO TEMPORARY AND WE ARE SO AFRAID TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE ETERNAL!
SO I ASK ALL OF YOU TO HAVE BRAVERY! TO RECOGNIZE WHAT IS IN FRONT OF YOU!
TO CAST OFF YOUR MORTAL FEARS AND LOOK FORWARD!
BECOME MORE THAN WHAT YOUR FEARS AND CONCERNS CONFINE YOU TO!
UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL WITH THE GIFTS OF THE VOID!
EMBRACE THE TRUTH SO FREELY OFFERED TO YOU!
"Great more Charlatans." You spoke under your breath.
"Then why are you hear non-believer?" A woman said, clearly a bit more radical than most.
"Well for one thing I wanted to see where that Nice Ass I saw walking in currently is? And to see if the Pamphlet lied to me?" You said.
You briefly notice that the seer is actively not looking at you. If you were to give a charitable interpretation, you would state that he had finally given up on trying to convert you.
I AM HEARTENED TO SEE SO MANY OF YOU EMBRACE YOUR COURAGE!
AND TO STAND HERE IN THE PRESENCE OF IMMORTAL MAJESTY!
IT IS NOW TIME TO ACCEPT THE REWARDS OF OUR MOST GRACIOUS INFINITY!
FOR ALL OUR NEW GUESTS, I URGE YOU TO APPROACH THE PODIUM!
IT IS NOW TIME!
TIME TO LEARN THE TRUTH!
TIME TO BROADEN YOUR MINDS!
TIME TO BECOME ONE WITH THE VOID!
"You dare come here with your...godless feeling of superiority?" She said.
"No the only thing superior about me that is anything related to god, is whatever they seem to be cooking to feed us." You said.
"YOU DARE!" She shouted as the Seer looked at you. "YOU DARE MOCK OUR FAITH!?"
"I'm not mocking your faith...I'm denying its existence." You said. "You look at a hole in spacetime...and go insane...its a waste...same as throwing people in it...there are more effective and humane ways to kill people you know." You said
IT IS A GIFT TO SEE.... BUT IT ALSO TAKES COURAGE!
SO I CHALLENGE YOU TO TRY YOUR COURAGE-
OR TO LEAVE
WE DO NOT DEMAND YOUR OBEDIENCE WHEN THESE GIFTS ARE OFFERED FREELY TO ALL PILGRIMS
BUT DO NOT DO NOT TAINT THIS CEREMONY
JUST AS NO ONE SHOULD TAINT YOUR PARENT'S FUNERAL
HONORABLE QUEEN, CHOOSE YOUR RESOLVE, INSTEAD OF YOUR ... empty wit
WE BOTH KNOW YOU ARE BETTER THAN THAT
You looked at the Seer. "Alright but you all get to fuck off and stay out of trouble."
Then you marched forward and looked at the Seer. "Send me into the meditation hall and watch."
"You are an uninitiated-?" He said
"And If I'm right all it will do it make me a bit nuts for a few days...lets get on with it...that snack food is addicting." You said.
He seemed to recover his composure surprisingly quickly as he continued his sermon.
THEN KEEP YOUR COURAGE AND ACCEPT THE GIFTS
IT IS TIME TO FACE ETERNITY
"You really just need to get the last word in, don't you" You said, as you left the hall and headed towards the meditation hall.
The Meditation hall was a small black room on the outside of the ship that faces the blackhole, standard design and work.
It also doubles as an observation deck...the ship was a research vessel once upon a time.
You then sighed as the door closed and you took a meditation stance and slowly opened your mind to the world around you. Each little screw and wire could be tugged ever so slightly...
No danger sense was going off so they weren't going to space you.
"Come on Ellera...look at the damned hole in space." You said.
You closed your eyes turned your head... and then heard the priest calling you a coward. How Dare He-
Wait... just a memory... just what he was saying in his earlier speech... Ignore it... Calm down.. and open your eyes.
You've prepared for worse enemies, after all.
The Orange Glow of Light trying to escape was the only sign anything was here at all, and you were just far enough away to look at it.
You looked feeling your glowing eyes shimmer in the dark void...seeing the light of your eyes slowly enter the void.
"Huhh.." You sighed seeing your breath as the temperature slowly dropped around you.
You can feel the blackness swallow you up.... It takes a second to realize that you can't hear or smell anything.
You haven't ever felt so defenseless since basic.. or maybe even before that..
It feels so wrong....
What the hell is happening! What the actual-
THE VOID OF SPACE IS MANY THINGS
BUT WE ARE NOT SILENT! LISTENER OF THE MINDS!
WE WILL SPEAK AND YOU WILL LISTEN!
BUT WE WILL NOT LEAVE YOU WITHOUT! SOME REPAYMENT FOR OUR SORROW
IN RETURN YOU SHALL LISTEN!!
It was not much of a void that you seemed to wander into it was more a...nightclub, social club of sorts with a man at the bar slowly drinking his sorrows away.
It sounded like you on a slow night...something you've done time and again.
The man was somewhat attractive...scruffy even, black hair and a stone face.
You maybe even would describe him as a little cute, although you think you could do-
"Fuck, Its you!" He shouted in an insane voice.
"Uhmmm... Excuse me? I don't know who-" You started.
"DO YOU UNDERSTAND JUST HOW MANY OF MR B'S EXAMS I HAD TO FAIL BECAUSE OF YOU! I GOT HELD BACK BECAUSE I DIDNT MEMORIZE YOUR LIFE STORY! NO ONE ASKED YOU TO BE A NUT AND COMPLETELY CHANGE THINGS!" He said.
"I'm going to give you 5 seconds to stop before I find your face suddenly very punchable. I have absolutely done nothing to-" You blabbered.
"YOU"VE RUINED MY LIFE! BECAUSE OF YOU, I WAS HELD BACK A SEMESTER!"
" ... Punching it is"
You punched him in the face shutting him up as you watched him gain a semblance of what appeared to be clarity.
Best to change the topic before that hung over you..
"Who the hell are you?" You said.
"UH UH! NOT ANSWERING THAT! That's the line you use when you are going to kill someone!"
You could only blink in confusion. You did know that there were propaganda videos out there, but you were sure that none of them actually had you in any sort of combat situation.
"Killing you is in the cards, but I honestly am still confused. What the hell are you talking about? Why would I come here and kill the first thing I see"
"... Well, ok, to be fair, I have read a story of you killing everything you see. Tell me, did you kill your parents?"
You could only give him the deadest glare you could produce. How dare he suggest-
"Yeah, so you probably wouldn't but how was I supposed to know that. Do you know just how many stories of yours were in the compendium. Like, what am I supposed to do, just tell you to tell me whether you are like the trigger happy account of you?"
"I don't.... What are you even reading about me? What compendium. What sort of propagandistic nonsense is-"
"Listen, there is like a series of 8 compendium books which cover the fall of Terra and the early interregnum. and I think any incarnations of your should understand just how much happened with the fall of terra."
"You make it sound like I cause 1/8 the chaos of the fall of terra"
"I mean, in some places you become known as the unmaker of reality, so I'm not sure why you are surprised."
"And there you go again. What exactly do you mean? Where are you learning this"
"So, going by standard rules for this sort of thing, not that there
are standard rules for this sort of thing, but I think I can follow the basic rules most moves do nowadays; Based on that, I shouldn't tell you anything and we should both sit here in silence"
You give him look as you say, "You know, I keep forgetting we are in a bar, but how much have you drank anyways"
"Not sure but probably nothing. I am not pulling a Persephone here. Anyways, I could just tell you nothing, but there is a reason we are both here"
"There is? I needed to meet a raving drunkard"
"Nah bird it's that you stuck in a rut since that Peace Activis killed your Parents in that church." He said.
"Oh great bringing that up...I've gotten over it." You said.
"With using your body as a coping mechanism and violence as your drug really you've got to look at a healthier lifestyle...like Consort, get that seduction and Fertility bonus," He said.
"I'VE GOTTEN OVER IT!"
"nah, not really. I mean one story had you doing this really cool incense peace with the dead ceremony, but that wasn't even compendium material. I know that was from the fanfic for that really bad movie that senator Flatulence produced"
"Umm, whu-"
"Don't ask, funny meme, he never lived it down. Movie was supposed to help his daughter start her career. It was terrible, no one speaks of it, unless they want to bring up Mr farts."
"Can you stop?"
"No?? like, you're stuck here. I'm not supposed to tell you anything. You, actually, should never have come here. But things will be much worse if you don't leave, and soon."
"You don't say that a ruler being stuck in a night club is bad"
"You are really dumb, you know that. I-"
"Says the punchable face"
"Just let me finish. You come here. To the viewing deck, or the planar intersection, or the event horizon- You come, and then you are lead here because you are not right. You have to get better before you leave"
"So this place really purifies the soul? I didn't-"
"Sort of. It delivers an ultimatum everyone eventually accepts. You change... change and become better, but but but... you sacrifice something. You become stronger, but lose fine motor control, you read minds, but lose your filter and so on. These are the sacrifices of the not quite dumb who get out fairly quickly"
"You make this place sound terrible."
"I'm not trying to sell you a shorefront property or make you a believer. You already are"
"I am-"
"Please don't lie. You were excited the moment I said this place could make things better. You like lying, but you also like shouting down the insane with truth. All you've done in the past minute is marveled that a place could purify you know- Your father told you- what was it, what was it! He told you about the famed Teles falls. The supposed final barrier to the very start of the universe that purified the soul. You love that story"
"It isn't real. It just is a way of describing the big bang."
"But it isn't most stories, not for you. Its your safe little blanket, that little hope in your heart that things could be better, that you could be safe and that is what you want. Most kids forget but not you. And the universe wants to give it to you, just a little bit. But you'll have to pay the price"
You can feel your heart stutter. He wasn't on the mark, surely. It wasn't-
"Now I could just tell you something, give you a gift, and then you will sacrifice to leave. Sacrifice another thing you need.. your eyes, your ears, your wit, what little of it that exists... Or you can choose to improve yourself. You can change willingly, becoming the better the universe wants you to be. but well....."
"What? what kind of sacrifice or change do I have to do"
"They told you, right? You have to listen.... and You have to have courage to face yourself, to improve and not languish in your weakness... I can tell you one thing and if you have the courage to face what it means, then you can leave.... or you can refuse to listen, to think, to become better and then you are stuck here with me as a drinking buddy....and your universe can't afford that"
"And what sort of thing will it cost me beyond my mind being stuck here forever?" You said.
"You have to give up the guilt you've been carrying about how you've been thinking what happened to your parents...that wall of guilt that's been keeping you safe from the real issues in your life?" He said.
"What real issues?!" You said.
"For one thing your lack of any real friends and people you genuinely love... and churches and religions...you hate them because their a symbol of that close relationship with one another that you want but feel you can't have...because as someone who lost faith in things like religion, you use it to hide the fact you've lost faith in people." He said.
"THAT ISN'T! MY! ISSUE!"
"I can hear your grinding teeth from here, you know. you... you loathe that you look around and see nothing but threats but then you think about your parents, and you tell yourself they would've done the same. How long will you try to 'forget' the fact that your parents were surrounded by the smiles of their friends. How long will you follow the opposite of your parent's example as a self-affixed crucifix? How-"
"FUCK YOU TO HELL"
"We're already there. That doesn't mean anything down here."
"YOU BASTARD DON'T KNOW-"
"What could you have done. Like honestly."
"I'M SUPPOSED TO MAKE IT BETTER THAN THIS!"
"And what parents ask their children to fix everything. When did your parents ask you to sacrifice yourself for them? And why do you insist on making your parents worse people-"
"DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE SAY THAT! I DON'T-"
"What else am I supposed to take away. They wanted your safety. That is what happened. Instead you wallow here because you think your parents would've wanted something else? That they.."
You aren't crying. You are composed and you just need to close your eyes and why the HELL WHY THE HELL WHY THE HELL WON'T IT GO AWAY! WHY WHYWHYWHY!"
"I've read this part. And I know the answer"
"WHAT!!"
"When things happen you can't control, you would rather blame yourself, you would rather lay the human race low than admit that maybe you couldn't have done anything this one time"
"I can't accept that"
"The universe is literally keeping you in unending hell. Its no longer about can't. Its about won't"
"I didn't do this to myself! I have faced EVERY! CHALLENGE! IN! THE! EYE!"
"And yet, you sometimes find it hard to look at yourself in the mirror. Its ok to have faith in yourself. Its ok to have faith in others. This punishment is yours alone, and now the universe it telling you to end it."
"But I..."
"Its ok that you are still alive. your parents would have never wanted you to have did in their place. They are happy you lived, and will be happy with the person you become."
"But they aren't happy with me now?"
"Their daughter is literally choosing to stay in hell because she believes she deserves it. Your father had a stale saying for this-"
"People are their own worst enemies..... You need to be better"
"Never heard that second part"
"It was part of his advice for rulership..... You know, letting go of guilt isn't that easy right. I don't feel like I can just-"
"We are who we choose to be.... and well, the horizon comes for the person you are choosing to be now, for you have
LISTENED, you have had
COURAGE, and you have
IMPROVED
"This seems a bit quick?" You said.
"Well you are a psychic warmonger who craves action, and challenge... self-improvement should be easy. for you."
"And if you ever need to talk...know that despite being a filthy imperial Cultist...the Void is always open to an open mind." He said.
"Oh...so your my therapist?" You said.
"In a matter of speaking...Call me Az. The Author loves that name." He said.
The wall of emotion bursts through the nightclub and you
feel the universe return to you. It hits the nape of your neck first, you swear, and that tingle spreads quickly along your spine. It is your legs and feet that first seem to grasp the unbalance you have in the real world, before even your eyes have left Az. You can see him take a thinking pose before 'getting' an idea. You almost reach out to touch him, but the wall seems to take a life of its own and pass your fingertips, leaving them stuck to the ... Seer's forehead, you think? Finally, a burning sensation takes the base of your skull, and your head seems to be ripped from the nightclub as....
Wait, really?! Did he really need to call you Ellara, the Ender? WHAT THE HELL DO ANY OF THE TITLES HE CALLS YOU EVEN MEAN?!?! IS THAT REALLY WHAT HE SPEND SO MUCH TIME THINKING OF SAYING INSTEAD OF JUST TELLING YOU GOODBYE?
And at the night club, the party continues.
And where is Az? Az of course has moved over to the empty billiards table and offers up a cue to you.
B̵̪̳̑ǘ̵̼͉͗t̴̗̱͠͝ ̶͇͑ẙ̴̪̈ỏ̸͖̟̓u̵͙̿͘͜ ̸͕̖̎ċ̴̥͓a̸̼̕ń̸̗͈̊'̴͈͌t̴̹̅ ̸̤̳͒p̷̡̨͑l̶͈̀a̷̰̥̚y̵̗̿͘,̶̻͎͝ ̸̘͆̈c̴̬͊ȃ̷̻n̸̠̂̃ ̷̼̂y̸̳̏o̸̝͘͜u̸̼̓?̴̞̂̚ ̴͔̆E̴͎̝̾v̴̨̡͌͝ē̸̻ṋ̸̽̒ ̴̬͖̈́̂t̶̗̰̒̓h̷͚͙͠o̶̦̝͂͘ư̴̢̠̌g̸̞̦̅h̴̫̮̄ ̶̖̿ẗ̸̡̗͗h̷̗͔̏̊ḁ̸͌͛t̷̨̎'̴̺̟̀̃ŝ̸͓͊ ̸̯̦̽͝w̵̟̺͊h̶̘̋̑͜y̷̧͝ ̷̨̬̓̚ẙ̸̥̕ơ̶̢͔̈́u̵̻̗͊̎'̸̊͊͜r̴͖̐͘e̵̛̮̬͒ ̷̬̃̕h̴̭̎ȩ̶̅͊r̸̪̄e̶̳͠?̵͈͎̎ ̶̕ͅY̴̰̳̏̕ó̵̲ù̵͓̳̊ ̵̲̮̆d̴̟̉̆ͅḭ̶̋d̶͓̏̌n̵͕̮̆'̴͎̻͛t̴̟̑ ̸̰̹̌e̶̘͚̒̓v̶̩͝e̷͍͙͝n̵̝̈́͜͝ ̷͎͓͊̿g̶̭͕͋é̵̜ț̶̔̕ ̵̯́̆a̸̞̍̽ ̴̢̜͠c̴̙̘͑́ḣ̴͕̪̚o̵̩̠̽ĩ̸͎̕ć̶̬̬e̴͓͙̽ ̶̞̂͂ẗ̸̹o̴͎͆d̸͎̊̊a̸͙̜̓y̶̼̐̋ ̶͓͒á̶̳̆ņ̷͔͌d̵̻̲͌ ̴̛͚y̷̠͌̈́ô̶̤̤ư̴͕̅ ̸̡̳̎s̸̹̜͝u̷̬̎̽p̶̡̹̋̓p̸̡͙̅͗ò̸̲́s̴̝̆̚e̸͎̟̊d̸͍̣́l̷͕̽̂y̶̗͌̚ ̶̧͕̀̄ç̸̆̐r̴̤̂é̶̝̈́a̵͓͊̽t̶̰͚̒ę̸͊͆d̷̺̠́̑ ̷̫͆h̴̠̉͑ẽ̶͉̮̍r̵̩̍͛.̴̗̇̒ ̷̝̉̑
̸̣̙̏̓
̸͖̼̋̔I̵̠̊̎'̵͍̎v̴̡̀̄e̴͖͆ ̴̛̆͜r̶̤̎e̷̫̺̓ą̵̐̓d̷̟̪̒ ̵̮̀̍͜t̵̢̠̆̓h̶̡̑i̶̘̒̂s̸̰͆͆ ̵̐͗ͅs̴̨͛͘t̴͎̋͂ȍ̴̬̠r̸̡͘ͅy̴̳̭͘ ̵̻͑͊s̷̳̚o̷̟͊͛ ̸̙̯̔̅m̶̨̫̚a̸̙̜̅̈́n̸̻͖͗͗y̵͖͗̽ ̶̣̔t̴̻́̅ĭ̸̥͆m̵͇̜̀͌e̸̡̺̾s̸͎̲͂̄,̶̳̙̿ ̸̧̥̋á̵͈̃ņ̷͙̀̓d̵̝̟͆ ̶͇̉y̷̥͙̑̌o̶͇̍ù̷͙̌ ̷̡̈d̵͖͋ỏ̴̢ǹ̴̲͝'̵̺̤̈́̏t̸̆͜ ̸̤̅͠h̸̢́͛â̸͔̑v̷̞͇̑̍ẽ̶͓̏ ̷̢̾͒t̴̮̉h̶͇͍̋́e̸̗͗ ̷̟̒͝s̸͉̘͋͠l̵͇̍̑͜i̶͎͈͌g̵̼̐̕h̷̫́͛ẗ̶̲́̀e̵͍̚s̵̗̼͌t̸̟̎̍͜ ̷̡̈́̈u̶̙̜͋͐n̴̘͇͑͂d̵̨̾͊e̷͍̮͂r̸̫̄̑s̶̗̈̌t̷̠͘a̵̻̮̓͝n̴͊̌ͅd̷̫̙͐̐i̸̫̓n̷͎͉̏ġ̶̪̰ ̶͕̱̏̚ỏ̶͕͒f̵̫̓ ̸̩̍͝w̴͖̰̽͝h̴͍̩̎̚ä̶̯̖́̾t̶̼̩̽̚ ̸͙͈͝i̵͓̝̍ŝ̷̡͙̍ ̴̠͚͗̚g̴̬̺̈ő̵͕̓i̶̯͚̔̓n̵̥̝̎̃g̶̫͐ ̶̥̩̅͝o̵̭̬͋ņ̵̛͖,̶̢̌͘ ̷͈̈́d̶͎̺̓̃o̸̘̩͊̀ ̴͇͛̔y̶̟̠͑̏ȍ̶̤̓u̴͓̾̀?̵̱́̕ ̵͔̽͝
̵̹͂
̷͈̦́͠A̸̧̪͑́h̶̩̗̊̾,̶͕̱̈͠ ̷͓̙̈́ś̴̼ö̶͎͍́͑r̵̹͐r̶̨̠̓y̷͎̏̀,̸͔̝͐ ̴̢́̐Ḭ̴̓͜ ̷̹̅f̷̧̲̿o̷͇͠ŕ̴̺͠g̶̨̡͂̈́ỏ̶̤͑t̴̡̺̂,̸̬͉̒ ̴̗͗m̶̞̗̊̐y̷̫͓͘ ̵͕̈́͜ẃ̵̛̖̥ó̸̱r̵̲̰̅̅d̸͉̈s̸̺̃ ̶͓͈̈͘d̴͙̈́̓ͅö̶̙́̚n̶͚̓̒'̸̙̲̑͗t̵̘͉̆̀ ̸̗̥̑̅w̴̨̬̌̃ô̶̡̍r̶̼͗k̸̗̓͠ ̸̤̗̋f̵͚͈͐̌o̸̗̘͋̒r̴̳̀͆ ̶̰͙̉̅y̵̝͖̓̉o̸̗͛̏ǘ̶̘̬ ̵̳͆d̷̢̄͑ö̸̼̙́ ̶͍̿̇t̴̡̛h̶̠̍̓e̸͖͈̐y̵͕̏?̶̞̠̑ ̸̛͓G̴̭͇̕͝i̶͙̖̎̆v̷̫̯͝e̶͓͓̐̈ ̴̜͠m̴̠͎̄ë̷̞̜́̈́ ̷̘̈ạ̶̘̀͒ ̸̭̏s̷̘͍̍ė̸̮̓c̷̯͙̅o̴͔͚͂n̶̹͂̓d̵̞̀
Ă̶̢̢̛͎̂͂͑͆̈́͒̇̍̐̄Ź̸̯̐̎́́̓̒Ä̸͉̹͍͈̰͜z̵͎̲̟̓̀̏͑ ̶̜̲̪̓͜T̴̙̯̞̟̉̽͆̓̍h̵͓͇̤̭͓͙̟̱͖̃̈́̄̓̋͋̕͠e̴͍̙̗̜̯̹̘͙͔͙̋͊̓͊̑ ̷̡̘̝͕̫̘̤̳̬̽͆̄Ą̷̧̺̠͓̜̹̩̺̺̘̿̍͊̕ḇ̸̘̠͎͎̘̰̝̂̓b̷̹̞͇̖̜̠̗̝͈̻̒̈́̌̏̓̌͂̌͗ę̸͓͚̦̖̲̤̰̕ͅr̷͉̟̤̠̭̲̫̩͘͜a̸̫͎̞͙̹̖̤̼͇͑͆̍͝n̵̛̳̫̩̔̀̓t̷̘̳͕̥̗͔̐̈́͂̽́́̏̒̋͝ said:
There, now you should be able to hear me clearly?
Anyways, what was I saying? Oh yes, its hilarious that you can't play, even though that is the only reason you came by here. You keep trying to play this game when you have no idea of the players, no idea of the oncoming crises, no idea just how unprepared you are for all this.
But, Ellara's Ellara, and she'll make things quite a bit easier for you by shouldering your mistakes... and that sounds.... a little boring. I think I should spicen things up instead.
Maybe I should l play in this game of yours. I've already set some of the events in motion, and I wonder if you can interfere with the plan I've set up. I wonder if you can even make sure you don't carry out my plan for me. But I'll give you a fair chance. It'll be fun to see you all squirm.
I welcome you to this game, questers, and I hope you have some fun. I know I will be.
Ă̶̢̢̛͎̂͂͑͆̈́͒̇̍̐̄Ź̸̯̐̎́́̓̒Ä̸͉̹͍͈̰͜z̵͎̲̟̓̀̏͑ ̶̜̲̪̓͜T̴̙̯̞̟̉̽͆̓̍h̵͓͇̤̭͓͙̟̱͖̃̈́̄̓̋͋̕͠e̴͍̙̗̜̯̹̘͙͔͙̋͊̓͊̑ ̷̡̘̝͕̫̘̤̳̬̽͆̄Ą̷̧̺̠͓̜̹̩̺̺̘̿̍͊̕ḇ̸̘̠͎͎̘̰̝̂̓b̷̹̞͇̖̜̠̗̝͈̻̒̈́̌̏̓̌͂̌͗ę̸͓͚̦̖̲̤̰̕ͅr̷͉̟̤̠̭̲̫̩͘͜a̸̫͎̞͙̹̖̤̼͇͑͆̍͝n̵̛̳̫̩̔̀̓t̷̘̳͕̥̗͔̐̈́͂̽́́̏̒̋͝ said:
OH wait, I forgot something.... I won't try and sabotage you lot, if you send Ellera to me. She is a sweet girl, and she doesn't deserve you lot messing that up. So don't worry, if you send her my way, I will make sure she will survive the next crisis. She will earn her toys.
Now, whether you lot will like what you have to sacrifice for her to leave my domain is another matter, but that toll is just for my enjoyment, and there is nothing funnier that seeing a bunch of questers scurrying around, trying to figure out a way not to pay their dues. And trust me, you will have to pay your dues
Reward: Contact Made with the Void Entity Ă̶̢̢̛͎̂͂͑͆̈́͒̇̍̐̄Ź̸̯̐̎́́̓̒Ä̸͉̹͍͈̰͜z̵͎̲̟̓̀̏͑ ̶̜̲̪̓͜T̴̙̯̞̟̉̽͆̓̍h̵͓͇̤̭͓͙̟̱͖̃̈́̄̓̋͋̕͠e̴͍̙̗̜̯̹̘͙͔͙̋͊̓͊̑ ̷̡̘̝͕̫̘̤̳̬̽͆̄Ą̷̧̺̠͓̜̹̩̺̺̘̿̍͊̕ḇ̸̘̠͎͎̘̰̝̂̓b̷̹̞͇̖̜̠̗̝͈̻̒̈́̌̏̓̌͂̌͗ę̸͓͚̦̖̲̤̰̕ͅr̷͉̟̤̠̭̲̫̩͘͜a̸̫͎̞͙̹̖̤̼͇͑͆̍͝n̵̛̳̫̩̔̀̓t̷̘̳͕̥̗͔̐̈́͂̽́́̏̒̋͝ )
Be not afraid of the Life you've been given. Live and Carve your destiny.
Your Mutation has EVOLVED!
Your Greatest Tool, Your Mind (LVL 1): There's something different about you, you can't quite put your finger on it. All you know is the Power you can touch. (+6 Personal Combat, +4 Martial, +2 Learning. Danger Sense allows for a +10 to detection of Danger, and Combat Rolls gain a +15.) has evolved into.
Your Greatest Tool, Your Mind (LVL 2): There's something different about you, you can't quite put your finger on it. All you know is the Power you can touch. (+8 Personal Combat, +6 Martial, +4 Learning. Danger Sense allows for a +15 to detection of Danger, and Combat Rolls gain a +20.)
Gain the Trait Voidbonded: You have been bonded to a Void entity, a being trapped inside of a Black Hole. You are a part of a shared mindscape within the void. Their lives of solitude are now tied to yours. (+20 to all rolls related to Void based Psionics. +10 to Learning and Piety)
You feel really really odd.
Ellera gains the gaze of the Event Horizon and begins to believe in other people more.
AN: We have gone Full Meta.
I leave you with a Mystery to ponder, a Reward to grapple with and a story to unravel.
Thanks
@Anon500 You are the best for helping me get this finished.
Have FUN!
