A shadow cast itself upon a long hall. Presently alight with violence. Bones jotting from the walls, spiraled from the floor. The glint of metal dancing out, weaving at the spaces of presence. A finally sinking in. Splitting, and tearing through bone.
The shadow reached out in the moment, grasped in the instance. Taking something. Pulling it away when least expected.
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Somewhere a screen flickered to life. Replaying a thousand instances. Moments across a possibility, cracking, then, shattering. The shadow reaching out, drawing from the pieces. Harvesting something present, forming a new screen.
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EXPERIMENT TERMINATED. RESTARTING...
Application Launching...
Error...files corrupted...
SAVE data lost..
|New Game|
Error not responding.
Error... not responding...
File Corruption detected...Error...
A keyboard clattered in the dark. A pair of red eyes observing the process. Anticipation in the darkened eyes.
Re-allocating files..
Launching EXPERIMENT CF-Purple...
Running ... ..
Not responding...
File has been modified. Run anyways?
Running...CH4R4(_# $
Initializing...
Error...File...Initializing...
Initializing...Successful...
Running...
There was movement in the void. Like pixels shredding apart and stitching together. Muffled noises, and distorted screams, in the otherwise perpetual silence of it. A set of red eyes, coming together, falling apart, opening.
The sensation was a crushing one, the first bits of solid manifestation swiping at the dark. Grasping for something, anything. The first shred of light, a hollow thing, bearing a faint purple glow coming into view. It was like that of a heart, made of a thousand different pieces. The dark latching to it, like a strange gurgling jelly. Molding it, the bits of presence reaching for it.
The pieces like a hand, breaking apart yet repairing a thousand times each second grasped the edges. Struggling to keep hold, a pair of hands reached around, and held onto it, pulling it in against the flickering manifestation.
"I expected...so much more partner." Something whispered within the darkness. "Stay...determined."
The eyes glowed, the hand solidifying, the heart snapped back together. Becoming something mildly jagged, and makeshift. The darkness around it snapping like loose sinew, freeing it. The word |RESTART| briefly flashing as a result. Light flooding from it, consuming the dark, and stabilizing the pieces. The second pair of hands fading away, before, finally, they vanished from the dark.
The prompt shining brightly, overtaking everything.
Long ago, two races ruled over earth. Humans, and Monsters. One day, war broke out between the two races. VGhleSB3ZXJlIGRlY2VpdmVkLg==
After a long war, both sides were devastated. The humans ultimately, victorious. They managed to seal the monsters underground, with a spell. IFRoZXkgd2VyZSB3ZWFrLg==IFRoZXkgd2VyZSB3ZWFrLg==
Many years later at Mount Ebbot...
Legends say that those who climb the mountain, never return. That they will descend into some place dark. Darker than their imagination. WWV0IGRhcmtlciwgdGhhbiB0aGVpciBncmVhdGVzdCBmZWFycy4=