IC: Dream Post

[doesnothappen]

The space you are standing in is cold and grey and very still. There is nothing beneath your feet, nowhere to go. You hang for a long moment, in this place with no place, without direction or a proper sense of time, until the light dims...

...and your feet touch ground. Your eyes are closed. When you open them, you find yourself here.

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Re: On The Edge

[doesnothappen]

Are you wading out or diving in?

Re: On The Edge

[glorious]

[The fact that you have to ask...Wading out for now.]

Re: On The Edge

[doesnothappen]

The waves swirl cold around your ankles, pulling toward the open sea. You can only wade out to about knee-depth before the reef drops off abruptly and there's nowhere to go but down.

Re: On The Edge

[glorious]

]...Welp, now I'm diving in.]

Re: On The Edge

[doesnothappen]

The water near the surface is rough and cold, but as you descend, the temperature rises to a comfortable level. You feel as if you could hold your breath forever. The current guides you down, and ahead of you, something flickers silver.

Re: On The Edge

[glorious]

[swimming towards that flickering silver something]

Re: On The Edge

[doesnothappen]

The powerful current pulls you straight down to it -- a fine, glowing thread, twisting down into the deeps.

Re: On The Edge

[glorious]

[reaches out to grab hold of it]

Re: On The Edge

[doesnothappen]

It's warm in your hand, like a smooth, living wire. You still have no urge to breathe, no sense of pressure building in your lungs.

Re: On The Edge

[glorious]

[gently tugs at the thread]

Re: On The Edge

[doesnothappen]

It gives a little when you tug, but that's all; it goes a long, long way down. If you're not swimming against it, the current is still pulling you down in the same direction the thread is going.

Re: On The Edge

[glorious]

[....I suppose I'll be trying to swim all the way down.]

Re: On The Edge

[doesnothappen]

You continue down until your feet touch stone, strangely flat and even for the bottom of the sea, and the current continues to push you forward. You begin to perceive a dim glow in front of you, which grows rapidly closer, until you reach the mouth of a tunnel that slopes up.

Re: On The Edge

[glorious]

[...I'm spending a great deal of time just allowing the current to push me around.]

[But I'll be going into that tunnel.]

Re: On The Edge

[doesnothappen]

There's some kind of bioluminescence on the walls of the tunnel, but as you go up you see that the real source of light is coming from up ahead, getting brighter as you approach it.

Re: On The Edge

[glorious]

[quickens his pace and hurries toward the light]

Re: On The Edge

[doesnothappen]

After a short swim upwards, you break through the surface in a small, dimly lit cave, with a sloping white sand beach. The source of the light is a brilliantly glowing, foot-high spool of fine silver thread -- the source of the thread you've been following. The cave is otherwise empty except for a doorway obscured by a thick grass curtain.

Re: On The Edge

[glorious]

[...kicks the spool.]

Re: On The Edge

[doesnothappen]

It tips over and splashes into the water. The walls shake.

Re: On The Edge

[glorious]

[...now would be a great time to leave through the doorway, won't it?]

Re: On The Edge

[doesnothappen]

Probably. The shaking stops quickly enough, though.

If you go through the door, you find yourself here]