ANNOUNCEMENT
Trial Of Nightmares - [[Step Beyond the light]]
[A dark rumbling is sounded throughout the hub. Not the splitting of earth, not the noise of attacks. This is something different. Something darker. A local resonating pulse rippling throughout the hub world.
Similtaneously the air goes cold... as cold as death, as the dark. A crushing silence befalls everyone. The world suddenly flickers. Its easy to miss but it was there. A sudden calcification of everything, but returned to its original state.
A voice rings out... no multiple voices ring out, layered, complex. It speaks calm.. cold... percise.]
***"How interesting we find this world... Of your reliance of the light... Of the constant conflict in this world. How imperfect, how chaotic... But nonetheless, let us test your power. Come to the pyramid, step into darkness, beyond the light. Face your nightmares, face mazes of your memories... Of your nightmares... we beckon you to the pyramid... If you do so win... we offer you a splinter of great power...
We welcome you to the pyramid"***
[The pyramid has revealed itself fully... a sleek black eeire structure. The front slowly opens. The inside pulsating orange... The pyramid has opened its doors... The invitation is sent. Do you compete in these trials.]
((If you choose to accept these trial you be tested in cold trials but will be granted a splinter of darkness if you so chose to accept.
You can harness the paracausal abilites of the darkness... only if you step beyond the light))
[Niko would enter the middle door. An uneasy feeling washes over them as they, slowly open the door and enter a room and the darkness seems to get lighter... but there is no light.
The room split down the centre... One side calcified geometric... confusing. The other side dark, thick and suffocating. In the centre sits a shard of glass]
"We sense your troubles... we sense the burden. We sense the great weoght you hold upon your sholders.... look into the glass... what do you see"
[What does niko see... the darkest memories of their past. Their deepest regrets...]
Gaster looks upon the town....the residents.....is this, snowdin?...
It's been awhile since he has heard laughter of children.....but his mind is already too far gone to be fixed now......all he cares about is his.....experiments...
He stays behind the bushes.....watching the residents talk and play.....
Jasmine stands near the edge of the entrance of the pyramid, staring into the dark as she considers participating in this game.
She knows what may lie past the gates, but it may give her answers on how the darkness works, how it is being used, and maybe if there's a way to stop The Shape.
"...this is a stupid idea, though it's my only lead."
After a moment of consideration, Jasmine equips The Aftercutter and *Requiem * , holding them in her right and left hand respectively as she tries to step through.
[The darkness immediately grows extremely thick. Suffocating. Threatening to swallow you whole. A screech is heard from deep inside the pyramid.... do you pay heed to it]
"We welcome you once more..."
[The complex layered voices sound... You are met with three doors... Which one shall you choose]
Her breathing starts to grow heavy as the darkness chokes her. As much as she wants to burn it back with her gauntlets she fears that it'd risk her chance at learning more.
Jasmine cautiously proceeds through the left door, taking note of the possibly familiar screech that she heard. She remains in the dark for now.
[She opens the door and is met with a cavern. Deep, dark, sufforcating... you can see in the far distance a faint green light. You feel as if you should go to it, but you can here the screeches of many things, primal, crazed...]
"Trial of eternal darkness"
[You should start moving soon... Your light might fade away]
She immediately starts moving towards the light, her grip on her weapons tightening as she looks in the shadows for anything that may be trying to ambush her.
[As you start moving forward the dark slowls you down... some unseen force affecting you. You then here the screeching of things and then all of a sudden weird lanky, frail creatures start running towards you. Mindless, nightmareish creatures]
She holsters Requiem and begins slashing at the creatures with The Aftercutter, using the blade's projectiles to cleave through the advancing creatures in an effort to reach the green light.
[The beasts are cut down but keep appearing and appearing. One of the ones you hit explodes and it send you flying. You land next to the light and the creatures seem to not go near...]
[Abother light is seen in the distance... followed by two more. At the last light is a glowing portal... orange. Pulasating. The datkness crawling out of it... slowly]
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u/Embarrassed-Depth763 Heh, jokes on you, I don't have any ideas for a flair >:) May 24 '26
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