Kirakishou !UdzMmUq0Oc 2008/04/12 (Sat) 15:54 No. 12722 ▼ File 120804085458.jpg - (101.72KB, 561x800 , 1162347457520.jpg)
Sorry it took so long, I was looking for a picture, and didn't find it. Closest one I have at the moment.
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You suddenly find yourself tumbling headlong through the darkness. There seems to be a great many things around you, but you cannot see any of them, only hear them. A constant buzzing like the sound of many people talking. Falling for what seems an eternity. Eventually your descent into darkness slows, and you stop spinning. You feel as if you’ve come to rest in some sort of chair, but the darkness prevents you from checking. The sound of the buzzing dies away, leaving you in a pitch-black silence.
A voice comes out of the darkness.
“Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a land slide,
No escape from reality.”
A spotlight comes down from somewhere above, shining on the person who’s singing, and apparently on a stage. She’s wearing a big floppy hat, and a black dress. Blonde hair cascades down her back in waves. Music picks up, and the person begins singing again.
“Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see,
I’m just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I’m easy come, easy go, little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows, doesn’t really matter, to me”
Suddenly a strong wind blows up, and you feel yourself falling again. If you see this damn darkness one more time….
You now find yourself on the top of a hill, overlooking a vast field. Below you, two huge armies clash. They push each other back and forth, in the ebb and flow that is war. You vaguely note that this conflict may be about you, but something else has your attention. Something far more pressing. Lifting your gaze from the two armies, you see it. That emmence body of water. The Lake. It is the true evil here, the sleeping dragon of Gensokyo. Everything that is happening, indeed everything that has ever gone wrong, this is where it came from. It’s evil has eminated throughout the world, and cumulated back from whence it came.
Pushing off from the ground, you find yourself airborne. You press forward, as fast as you can. You know you must challenge your foe, and this battle is one that must be faced alone. Touching down on the shores of The Lake, you call it out, the evil being, by it’s ancient and mostly forgotten name. You mentally thank the elder being who told you it’s name. Her help was invaluable in identifying this evil, her knowledge vast and unsurpassed.
The surface of The Lake begins to glow as it rises, it’s ancient slumber disturbed, from it’s bed. The Lake rises rapidly into the air, and you push off the ground, once again, to confront it. The higher The Lake rises, the more intense the glow becomes, the shape of The Lake changing and shrinking. The form that it’s beginning to take is humanoid. The glow climaxes and the light shoots away, revealing the true form of your lake.
You gasp. Nothing that magician had told you prepared you for this. This, this was impossible, this cannot be the true form of The Lake, but deep down, deep inside you, you knew. You had always known, you just had refused to accept this. The form and appearance of The Lake? You saw it every time you looked in the mirror, nay at any reflective surface. The Lake was you.
You jerk awake from the… Dream? It all seemed so real though. You shake your head, trying to clear your clouded mind. Looking around the wagon, You see Reisin is still asleep, leaning against Cirno, who’s also asleep. Cirno’s wrapped in a blanket, more to keep anyone else around her from getting cold than to keep her warm. Reisen is also draped in a blanket. Up front, Mokou is driving the wagon with wriggle sitting next to her. Rumia is sitting in the back of the wagon, happily munching away on a couple of sticks of jerky. Tewi was out of the wagon, running ahead checking to make sure that the way was clear. You stretch your arms above your head. Sleeping in a wagon is never really a good idea, but there’s not really much choice at the moment. You look up at Youkai mountain, looming ever closer.
[ ] Wake Reisen.
[ ] Wake Cirno.
[ ] Talk to Wriggle.
[ ] Talk to Mokou.
[ ] Relax silently.