Introduction
The great machine, Chaos, a pristine construct, an automated world, no gears, no pulleys, and no need for electricity. Parts of it seem even disconnected and float with only a thread of energy connecting them. The majestic machine constructed by the unworldly now abandoned and lonely. Hollow hallways stretch outward lined with pillars of disconnected fragments swirling around a central light not of fire or bulb, through cuts in in the floors and walls haunting light pulses towards some destination. Some of the only decorations within this massive temple-like setting is fountains, engraved symbols, statues protruding from the ground in central hub points resembling a kneeling female, doors with strange latches that open and close automatically, and the occasional furniture and beddings, the only reminders that other beings are here.
How you got here, you do not know. You remember everything before this point but not the actual ending up here. You have been landed in a strange circular courtyard of clear hard floors, and above an ethereal unnatural sky without a sun... but just a glow surrounded by rings of something. As you try to make some sense of all this you hear a cold male voice from seemingly nowhere.
"You have been selected to represent your world. Be your deeds glorious or infamous, it matters not here... I am Daemon Furor and I will be one of your arbiters... and I shall weigh the worth of your transient existence... but concern yourself only with one thing: victory. Victory is achieved by those who reach the core of Chaos, this world."
Another male voice comes in, sounding slightly less cold.
"Victory in overcoming the challenges placed upon you and reaching the center of Chaos means granting all that you may ever desire. As for myself, I am Daemon Metus, I mean you no malice, you have my deepest apol-."
Daemon Furor speaks again.
"The rules are very simple, do whatever you need to to be the one who wins. I will not lie to you, it will not be easy... after all... what is? But Pandora has graciously allowed you more than... you deserve... your 'skills' are all open to you and so are the tools of your particular... trades. We will be here watching, so sort things out among each other and begin following whichever path you desire."
With this the place once again grows somber and silent.
Without an exit in sight it seems the only way out is to play their game, to reach into the heart of Chaos.
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"Union is necessary." It cryptically states through whatever form of communication system Chaos has. "They are mere derelicts of an era long due for conclusion. Neither a war construct nor a dogmatic weave like Furor can bear a future worth living in."
"The aberrant has grown dangerous, but also desperate and careless to play this now. It may reveal its true form soon. Oh, and Aberranne's spawn is on the move again. Seems it has... begun to adorn the remains of my weaves into some grotesque armor, it seems it noticed that construct actually damaged your chassis." Furor relays to Molkrii, once again in a calm and cold tone.
Morpheus stands up, finishing a chest plate, his shadowy tail and aura leaking through the armor. "From here on till the end, I'm take the brunt of it." He holds his hand out to Mia, creating a black orb, it feels different, like a piece of his life force itself is being offered. "I cannot heal the normal way, but perhaps I can give you the means to do so for yourself."
-meanwhile-
Mage hunter is kicking the downed decoy. he then steps on its head "Hmm..... nice trick."
"What, no?" Liana yelled, backing up as she regained her balance, "what the fuck is wrong with you people?"
Well evidently, it was some sort of ice user.
Liana gazed ahead of her, seeing many small tears in the time-space fabric and ripped one open to bring out a few creatures who were eager to satisfy their hunger. There were things attracting them in all directions, making it hard for the purple-haired woman to direct them, but with some goading they followed her toward whatever it was that caused the duo to run away. She assumed that it was another opponent, likely stronger than any of the ice users that she'd encountered in her world, but every creature had its weakness (she assumed this one's was fire). Even if it didn't, the creatures would keep her somewhat busy long enough for Liana to trap her into a portal or consume her whole.
But I'll need to find her first.
As she kept walking, the Null creatures seemed to be hesitant but she trudged on, ignoring the icy atmosphere.
"Great, now I'm no longer the only beast here..." He grumbles to himself. "Be it best we not meet, and I make this quick."
As he walks down this path he sees more of the Crimson growths, as well as sensing Aranel and traces of the others who passed through here. His sight seeing everything as colorless except glowing spectral trails, a faded blue trail from Molkrii passing through earlier and the strange null trail of Liana's beasts. Quietly passing by these he stops to notices a series of strange glyphs marking various branching paths. He grins slightly.
"Perhaps I can play a game of my own...."
He proceeds to start changing the glyphs with his illusions, masking the markers that lead the way, the machina themselves start to seem confused, the lesser ones bumping into walls like there is supposed to be a path there, acting as if their sensors have been scrambled. He proceeds to move on using only his intuition.
Bear with it for now strange little creatures. Just a delay for a certain blue and red. The truth you will see, Mia.
Liana looked up at the woman in front of her. Apparently she had not noticed the people tailing her, nor the strange sensations that the machine (whatever it was) emitted. Her only alert was the sudden growls of her hexapod friends and the voice.
"I'm here to get my wish granted," she replied, "what matter is that to you?"
"Gateway. And even if I wanted to kill you there are bigger and badder foes ahead of me," she said, returning the cat woman's handshake, "if you can, please tell me-"-she paused to grab one of the Null beetles heading Mia's way-"why everyone is so afraid of this ice witch?'
"This is the shell of Morpheus... I have already moved ahead. This husk will assist Mia and..." He seems suddenly distracted looking in Aranel's general direction. "What... what is she thinking..!?
"This is not my place. My position is just the bridge between people and Chaos. That is fate." A strange yet soft spoken female voice says in this memory.
"When the mountains crumble, when all life fades and the sun dies, you will be alone. You are not a machine, though... doesn't this worry you? Living is not enough, you don't deserve this, nobody does. Look at yourself... you are more than the machine, you can create, you can feel. You are the heart, Pandora, the only part of chaos I care for." A strange deep male voice speaks, a sense of deep sympathy in his voice.
"Hazarmaveth... I... we are both Old Ones, but..." She responds.
The man sighs. "As was with Abarranne... heh... at least I tried. Do consider that human boy, though... Adam was it? Don't leave him hanging. He cares for you very much, I can tell."
The recording goes silent, actually, a lot seems to go silent. Furor had mentioned serving a Pandora, is this that person's memories?
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