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Rolls a... 1You move towards it, but the force seems to move around you and through you but leave you untouched. For whatever reason, it's not interested in you.
Ignore.
Rolls a... 4You ignore it, and it ignores you.
Umm, run?
Rolls a... 5You flee. You push all your might into it, and fly across the void.
The Darkness pursues. It hunts you, locking on to your energy, seeming to be drawn to your flight, bypassing countless other points of light to see out YOU, in particular. You stay ahead of it, for a while, but it's gaining on you. Your fear builds, and the Darkness seems to become even more eager to touch you, reaching out... when suddenly another point flashes past, and it's attention is draw from you.
You have successfully escaped, but the damage the fearful flight did to your essence will persist for quite a while.
Fill the void with light, with fire, with matter, or in other words, CREATE
Roll... 1Not only do you not do any of those things, you fail to understand even the concept of doing so.
Embrace it.
Rolls a... 6You see how it passes by the other lights as it approaches. One moves towards it, and is ignored. Another remains motionless, and is passed by. Several flee, one racing out ahead of the pack, and it is this light for which the Darkness reaches.
You act, racing along the corridors of nothingness, pushing yourself until you pull ahead of this other light, cutting it off and darting ahead of the darkness, dancing away from it. It turns, focusing on you, leaps forward, and you evade it, play with it, tease it as it thrusts and dives and pursues you among a multitude of other opportunities. You feel it's desire for you heighten, and once you are sure...
You let it catch you.
It tears you apart.
It puts you back together.
You are.
You are changing.
You are becoming
more.
More than you were. A latticework of thought pushes its way through you. A primitive understanding. The most basic of concepts build upon your fundamental natures and desires, and you
remember. You remember the void, not just for a moment, but for eternity. You are being shaped, given form, and suddenly you can
sense - you can sense things you could not sense before. A world of touch, of sensation, of points of lights in the middle of glowing networks of energy activity, tied in the way you are becoming tied but not, so incredibly different from what you are and what you will be but in some way the same.
A world of shadows overlays these spots, and a world of substance is laid on top of that - of vague outlines and sharp contrasts, flaring into life from two points of your new structure.
You see.
Above you leans a creature, you realize suddenly it is a creature, a being, a point in a network like the one you now possess but different, and he is moving bits of his substance below his owny sensory points into the shape of an upward curve. Then a rod of substance appears, from off what you now realize is a kind of cone of sensation, and sends itself through the substance of the begin in front of you.
His network curls, and screams, shatters. His point of light pulses once, twice, as it's spiderweb fingers begin to dim and fall way. It pulls back, away from you, away from the substance, and then it begins to turn, not in the dimensions of this new strange shadow world, but in a way unfathomable, until it has turned completely away and is gone.
The substance that was once connected to the point collapses on to your own - and you realize now that your own thoughts are somehow tied to substance - and another point, another web tied to substance seems to move over and in front of you, to step forward and shift the substance atop you, but as it does so your senses fade, and you feel the grip on the substance you occupy weakening... the world of shadows falls away...
No!
Not again!
You feel... you FEEL the need to understand. You feel the... the
order to remain, an order that strengthens your own desires. You hold on, you prevent yourself from lifting away from the substance, and instead you push yourself further into it, you solidify your network, you enmesh yourself with it.
Time.
Time has passed.
You do not know how much. You open your eyes. Eyes? Your sensory opportunities appeared to be tied to a substance, limiting you in some ways and providing you with
more in others.
A blue expanse, punctuated with a few lines of white, fills your vision. Above you. Sky? You feel your way through the substance, realizing there is a part of it you've been tied to that contains something called... terms? As you understand it, your own structure changes, seemingly building on top of the structure that was there. You learn little, so little, so much of it is... yes, damaged. So much of the structure, the... mind?... is missing. But you learn. You compensate. You move... an arm. But not the way the substance would move it, but your own way, a different way, your network, your lattice is stronger, more solid, more tied to the substance than the ones you've seen from other points.
You pull yourself to your... feet... swaying unsteadily, with many involuntary movements - spasms, twists. The contraction of muscles, the moving of body parts, dislodges air in your chest, and you let loose an unintentional moan, which you detect with your... ears? Not quite with your ears, not alone, your sensory components, of which you've now realized there are more than two, there are smaller ones, seem tuned to detecting changes in the... air.
Your moan subsides. You have been Raised.
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