When someone is born into this world, they come from the ground. In the quiet places that people...
The Dark World [B★RS]
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Setting The Scene
ColdGoldLazarus
Contrary Quester, Spreadsheet Queen, Pink Flamingo
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- Challenger Deep
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- She/Her
When someone is born into this world, they come from the ground. In the quiet places that people rarely visit and never think about, they rise and grow like a plant; beginning as a featureless mass, they develop into a hooded figure free of identifying traits. Sometimes they remain rooted in place for weeks or even months, waiting until their existence is actualized enough to be freed of their point of origin; others have their being set in stone with alarming swiftness.
When they find they can walk, they do exactly that - shambling their way across the barren landscapes of the dark world until their path crosses with others. Another endeavor of highly variable duration, given the aggressively inconsistent nature of the world's geometries, and some simply wander forever. Others still may encounter another being, only to be caught in the crossfire of a savage battle, or simply cut down out of senseless cruelty. Those few that are fortunate enough to find a more benevolent patron are given the chance to grow past their mindlessness. To take a weapon and a name, find color and identity, and become doomed to understanding the desolate and unforgiving existence they've been granted.
The dark world is a strange and inhospitable one, a surreal landscape of checkerboard, chains, and crumbling monuments to a civilization that may never have existed to begin with. It is a place of aching loneliness and savage battle, of numbing cold that can suddenly run all too hot. It's a land where space warps and bubbles strangely, and time is meaningless. Perhaps it is a purgatory for stagnant souls, or a hell to punish wicked ones. Perhaps it is a connected mindscape representing the repressed negativity of a much happier life. Perhaps it is the firmaments, a land existing in the quantum foam between dimensions to uphold reality itself.
But maybe that doesn't matter. For all its harshness, it is still the only existence -the only home- those who live there know. Perhaps that will have to be enough.
When they find they can walk, they do exactly that - shambling their way across the barren landscapes of the dark world until their path crosses with others. Another endeavor of highly variable duration, given the aggressively inconsistent nature of the world's geometries, and some simply wander forever. Others still may encounter another being, only to be caught in the crossfire of a savage battle, or simply cut down out of senseless cruelty. Those few that are fortunate enough to find a more benevolent patron are given the chance to grow past their mindlessness. To take a weapon and a name, find color and identity, and become doomed to understanding the desolate and unforgiving existence they've been granted.
The dark world is a strange and inhospitable one, a surreal landscape of checkerboard, chains, and crumbling monuments to a civilization that may never have existed to begin with. It is a place of aching loneliness and savage battle, of numbing cold that can suddenly run all too hot. It's a land where space warps and bubbles strangely, and time is meaningless. Perhaps it is a purgatory for stagnant souls, or a hell to punish wicked ones. Perhaps it is a connected mindscape representing the repressed negativity of a much happier life. Perhaps it is the firmaments, a land existing in the quantum foam between dimensions to uphold reality itself.
But maybe that doesn't matter. For all its harshness, it is still the only existence -the only home- those who live there know. Perhaps that will have to be enough.
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Contents & Characters
ColdGoldLazarus
Contrary Quester, Spreadsheet Queen, Pink Flamingo
- Location
- Challenger Deep
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Table Of Contents and misc. notes to go here.
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Dromeosaur
Feathery Raptor of snowy planes and frozen sea
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- The land of Trees and Squirrels
Well, intro is interesting. I wonder what the first chapter shall bring.
ColdGoldLazarus
Contrary Quester, Spreadsheet Queen, Pink Flamingo
- Location
- Challenger Deep
- Pronouns
- She/Her
The scene has been set, so now we need our primary player.