[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

[rollwillpowercheck]

It... turned out better than it could have, at least...

[liarliarliar]

And yet I still feel like shit.

[rollwillpowercheck]

I don't like this trend of that being the ending feeling of these things.

[liarliarliar]

I guess that's just reality crashing in on us.

[rollwillpowercheck]

[firmly:]

Let's change reality.

[liarliarliar]

Lofty goal.

[rollwillpowercheck]

Might as well aim high. I think we've definitely managed six impossible things before breakfast today anyway.

[liarliarliar]

I hated all of it ughhhh.

[rollwillpowercheck]

[l-laughs. can't help it.]

Yeah. I-- yeah.