Brett
2/1/05
Outline:
There's this guy who lives in this weird void place. He lives off of all the stuff that pops into his void. (Ok, so it's a really weird void.) And then one day, this huge weird red monster thingey that's all scary and crab-like and many-tentacled pops into the void. It turns out that the monster is this weird spirity/ghost-y thing (but not like those dumb things in Final Fantasy). And obviously the guy can't kill it or eat it or anything, so they strike up a conversation or something, about the world each of them knows(/knew). Then they realize that the void appears to be shrinking. So their weird red monster thingey thinks it might be able to pull them out of the void, to where he came from in the first place. So it tries, and it works -- they're both pulled into its world, a crazy fancy shimmery, golden world, pristine and sparkling and all magical looking. Welcome to the Realm of Dreams(/Dreamers).
Story:
Picture a void. Not easy, is it? Now picture something in the void. It is a piece of bread. Picture something else in the void. It is a man. The man is eating the piece of bread.
How did the man get into the void? Nobody knows. He doesn't know because he can't remember; nobody else knows because there is no one else in the void. So maybe someone somewhere does know, just the man doesn't know. But he is important, and they are not, so his knowledge is the only one that matters.
How did the piece of bread get into the void? Nobody knows that either. Well, the piece of bread might know, but it isn't a 'body,' so it doesn't count, and anyway, it will be gone soon. The only thing about the lifespan of the piece of bread that matters is that it came into the void to nourish the man. A hole just opened up in the void, and -tada- a piece of bread appeared. The man plucked it from its spot in the void and began eating it.
A lot of stuff tended to do this. Appear apparently randomly in the void, that is. And all for the man. Obviously. Because there was no one else there. Strange and mysterious, isn't it?
The man's existence was a fairly dull and simple one. He would use anything that popped into the void to its furthest extent, discard it, and wait for a new toy. Not the best way to spend one's days, but he had no choice. Since he had no idea how he had gotten into the void, he had no idea how he might be able to get out.
Until one day...
* * *
Brett was floating around his void one day (well, not really day. Voids are strange that way. There's no real sense of time. Let's just say he was floating around. Without the 'one day' bit.) wondering what to do with himself, when he saw the familiar sight of strange swirly echoey things, announcing the arrival of some new object or piece of nourishment. It started to grow. Oh good, thought Brett, a new coffee machine! But it continued to grow. Yay, maybe a pet pig! And grow. Or a horse? And grow. ...Maybe...a...hippotamus... And grow. Uh-oh... And grow. I thought dinosaurs were extinct? And grow. Perhaps a new house? ...And grow.
The swirly thing started to open. A skinny red swishy thing appeared. More skinny red swishy thing appeared, except that it was getting fatter. A possibly-an-eyeball appeared. More swishy things, which are actually tentacles, by the way, came out of the hole. The hole started to bulge. It seemed about to burst. It squiggled back and forth disturbingly, then suddenly, the body of the beast surged out.
Outline:
There's this guy who lives in this weird void place. He lives off of all the stuff that pops into his void. (Ok, so it's a really weird void.) And then one day, this huge weird red monster thingey that's all scary and crab-like and many-tentacled pops into the void. It turns out that the monster is this weird spirity/ghost-y thing (but not like those dumb things in Final Fantasy). And obviously the guy can't kill it or eat it or anything, so they strike up a conversation or something, about the world each of them knows(/knew). Then they realize that the void appears to be shrinking. So their weird red monster thingey thinks it might be able to pull them out of the void, to where he came from in the first place. So it tries, and it works -- they're both pulled into its world, a crazy fancy shimmery, golden world, pristine and sparkling and all magical looking. Welcome to the Realm of Dreams(/Dreamers).
Story:
Picture a void. Not easy, is it? Now picture something in the void. It is a piece of bread. Picture something else in the void. It is a man. The man is eating the piece of bread.
How did the man get into the void? Nobody knows. He doesn't know because he can't remember; nobody else knows because there is no one else in the void. So maybe someone somewhere does know, just the man doesn't know. But he is important, and they are not, so his knowledge is the only one that matters.
How did the piece of bread get into the void? Nobody knows that either. Well, the piece of bread might know, but it isn't a 'body,' so it doesn't count, and anyway, it will be gone soon. The only thing about the lifespan of the piece of bread that matters is that it came into the void to nourish the man. A hole just opened up in the void, and -tada- a piece of bread appeared. The man plucked it from its spot in the void and began eating it.
A lot of stuff tended to do this. Appear apparently randomly in the void, that is. And all for the man. Obviously. Because there was no one else there. Strange and mysterious, isn't it?
The man's existence was a fairly dull and simple one. He would use anything that popped into the void to its furthest extent, discard it, and wait for a new toy. Not the best way to spend one's days, but he had no choice. Since he had no idea how he had gotten into the void, he had no idea how he might be able to get out.
Until one day...
Brett was floating around his void one day (well, not really day. Voids are strange that way. There's no real sense of time. Let's just say he was floating around. Without the 'one day' bit.) wondering what to do with himself, when he saw the familiar sight of strange swirly echoey things, announcing the arrival of some new object or piece of nourishment. It started to grow. Oh good, thought Brett, a new coffee machine! But it continued to grow. Yay, maybe a pet pig! And grow. Or a horse? And grow. ...Maybe...a...hippotamus... And grow. Uh-oh... And grow. I thought dinosaurs were extinct? And grow. Perhaps a new house? ...And grow.
The swirly thing started to open. A skinny red swishy thing appeared. More skinny red swishy thing appeared, except that it was getting fatter. A possibly-an-eyeball appeared. More swishy things, which are actually tentacles, by the way, came out of the hole. The hole started to bulge. It seemed about to burst. It squiggled back and forth disturbingly, then suddenly, the body of the beast surged out.
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