[Game 18] The Waking World

[arsgoetia]

After successfully talking Zan into waking up—the world around you starts to dissolve and break apart. There's a lurch, like the sensation of abruptly falling into sleep, but backwards; and all around you, the glass begins to crack apart, splintering and sending ocean water splashing everywhere, gushing forward, a cascade of blue and black, alternating between starfish and actual stars, suspended in liquid sky.

. . . reality seems to bleed in overtop of it and, sluggishly, you find yourselves waking up all over a suburban basement in New Jersey. There is a lamp on near the bed, where someone is still asleep, though fitfully beginning to wake up.

More noticeably, there is a woman sitting up in bed with him, arms wrapped around her bare knees as she watches them with amusement, extremely beautiful and . . . extremely familiar.

"Wow." One hand drops to Zan's hair. "I don't even know where to start with you guys."

Comments

[fraternalorders]

[ehhh, he only has so much room for judging Tristan for this sort of thing]

Are you all right?

[liarliarliar]

Not really I'm kind of traumatized and angry at everyone.

[fraternalorders]

Well, at least you're honest about it.

[seems like he really means it]

Are you really angry at everyone?

[liarliarliar]

Well, not everyone.

Everyone is a lot of people after all.

[fraternalorders]

Yes, it is.

[liarliarliar]

What an awful adventure though.

[fraternalorders]

Yes. It was truly one of the most unpleasant experiences I've had since coming to this world.

[liarliarliar]

[huffs out a laugh]

Some people feel like that about ponies.

[fraternalorders]

They were singing and dancing.

[says as if this explains why it would be a terrible experience]

[liarliarliar]

Shy about your dancing, hmmm?

[fraternalorders]

No. I just burned down their town instead.

[liarliarliar]

............................

[fraternalorders]

I was really frustrated.