Anomalous Trip (Part II)

[slicsinatra]

I head to sleep.

[Dragnoxz]

The room looks fairly basic, with stone walls and a, who am I kidding, the room is fit for a noble. There’s a massive bed, a basket of water (maybe for a bath), there’s a narrow stream that runs along one of the walls (yes, a stone wall, but it’s smooth and has works of art on it). There’s places to hang and mount torches, though there are none placed since you can already see with FLIR (which you notice the water running along the stream is warm). There is a small desk with quill like pens and a stack of home made paper, a wooden chair and a few baskets with food and bread and fruit in them on a table beside the bed. The room looks as if she was expecting guests. You can tell she put a lot of work into the room with artwork on the walls, a lavish carpet, and clean beddings (and of course the unfamiliar fruits). The assortment of fruit and other things looks like it has apple size grapes, mango size raisins (like large dried dates), some shiny black seeds/nuts that resemble beetles, a bunch of those large banana size pine looking leaves, but they are a golden brown, blue cherry looking things, there are some white popcorn size brain coal looking things too.

[slicsinatra]

“Hm. Nice place.” I head to the bed, lay down, and try to get some sleep.

[Dragnoxz]

You are sweating heavily and your heart is racing and you don’t know why. From training you remember to check your device to see what the settings are, and notice you have some of the settings turned up. Because you inverted the pill, it gave you energy and the system automatically gave to stimulants to keep you alert and awake. All you’d need to do is turn them off and give a bit of melatonin.

[slicsinatra]

I set my settings to what I need and do some breathing exercises to relax.

[Dragnoxz]

You are walking through the forest, and see something like a bug flying. It’s dark with very dark red lines along the legs, which resemble a flying spider, and the face looks like a licker from where you saw in Raccoon City. Its tongue shoots out and then you flip to a battle field. There are some kids running away from swarms of the flying creatures in an apocalyptic setting, which they vanish as the creatures descend upon them. You hear vintage rifle shots, of M-1 and M-14’s, and see an old man moving into position to fire on something, and he’s shot from an unknown area, and falls, then fades. The ground, an area the size of a stadium nearby protrudes up and a plume of dust shoots up almost like a volcano, and there is a massive worm like creature, it falls back into the ground and there is a massive crater remaining as dust settles all around. You wake, but it’s still dark in the room.

[slicsinatra]

“Jeez.” I look around and go outside to see if everyone is there.

[Dragnoxz]

Not much time has passed, you are still tired.

[slicsinatra]

I go lay back down. I try to meditate beforehand to clear my mind.

[Dragnoxz]

It takes a good half hour before you perceive what you see as a dream. However, you know it’s different. You are in a stone room, and there are two others in the room with you. Dixie, and Farenvól. You all look at one another.

Farenvól: “This is a dream plane. We are the only ones here. We can share anything here. This is our version of technology. We can shape the mind to connect at any moment. It is what your kind might call organic radio. But here, you can share maps, images, visions, conjure any object to share and explain to others here. I will example you this, the enemy.” She shows a vision of Klemotzya. Dixie backs up. Her anxiety and post trauma is evident from her interaction with him. “I can’t undo what’s happens to you, Dixie. Use the pains to your advantage.” She shows an Evoker and how it attacks. “The Evokers are cruel by nature. Here is what they can do.” She shows one conjure a segment of a vortex and slows it so you can see the impact on a human. The segment spirals and alters the space time around the atoms. She zooms in very close and shows the dimensional space of the actual atoms speeding or slowing or both to cause an unknown radiation. Dixie shows normal radiation from nuclear material. Although it’s rampant and more hazardous and messier than the Evokers vortex, the Evokers damage is much more severe, as it warps the age of the atoms it contacts. “Here is your shielding.” She shows the segment impact the shielding on the armor of a chopper, and a small section of the vortex passes and touches the mesh material and is pulled into the wireframe, and is channeled to the energy collector. “Your wizards have made a very nice shielding to this. It has caused many problems within their power, among the warriors that once feared the Evokers power. Even the giants fear the pain from these, but have shown bravery in their most recent killings of the Evokers. The giants are not active like they once were.”

Dixie: “But what about the hound creatures ?” Farenvól shows them. Rather than dogs, they resemble black furred Tasmanian Tigers, with dark reddish gold eyes. She shows a very close up view of them. “Oh my god.”

Farenvól: “They are dangerous, but are controlled and trained by the giants to hunt live prey. The giants rely on them, and they rely on the giants. The Evokers used them to wipe out many villages. Then they stole the population they captured in order to build their big slave population.” She removes the images. “It is best to know your enemy well. The giants are just tools for the Evokers, and the hounds are just tools for the giants.”

[slicsinatra]

“I have a concern about…Klemotzya? Sorry. I’m terrible with names. I am worried about his steps taken in other dimensions. These horrors are from here. What happens when he takes them from other planes and brings them to others and vice versa?”

[Dragnoxz]

Farenvól: “I don’t know what you-re asking.” The r slides long, which is a subtle accent trait. “Are-d’you mean, in what amount he succeeds in his destruction in neighboo-ring realms ?” Her accent is becoming more noticeable the longer you listen to her words.

[slicsinatra]

“The realm you first spoke to me. What if he uses the evil that was there to bring the same virus or creatures elsewhere.”

[Dragnoxz]

She is very silent. She remains silent for some time.

Farenvól: “Whatever that is, it has consumed the world I pulled you from. But he, a copy of him, was by accident infected, and is now one of the many that succumbed to it in that realm. I would say not to go back there for anything. That plane is no longer safe. Your home realm has a defense for that infection if it happens. Because one of him has been foolish, I don’t believe he will try to mess with that stuff again.”

[slicsinatra]

“That’s very ironic. Humorous in a dark way.”