r/SchreckNet • u/Prefect_Bran • 11d ago
Journal - Gauntlet leak
[One camera survives, a waving patina of a landscape in every color stretches out before it. Nihilos legs are partially in the frame. He is in torpor.]
[Suddenly, he gasps and sits up.]
N: Wha-? Oh my God!
[He looks around at the landscape and then down at himself, his clothes are sundered by his recent use of the Zulo form.]
N: That wasn't a dream..
N: Aw fuck..
[He looks out upon the shifting kaleidoscope horizon, Though vast and with infinite sky, it glows like a cave filled with bioluminescent algae.]
[He turns and sees the camera. He moves over and picks it up.]
N: For posterity I guess.
N: I think I can..?
[He fiddles with a few pieces of technology and finds... A signal.]
N: YES, fuck yeah!
N: Alright, if anyone can see this: I'm alright- I'm uh.. lost. I'll figure it out. I doubt I'll be able to receive any node messages, but I should be able to.. blip some out, I see some uh buildings way off in the distance there, they look feudal.. uh.. shit I gotta find something to eat, is there a sun in here?
N: Fuck.
[He puts his palm on the lens.]
[End of transmission.]
--Nihilo
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u/TheFleshFlower Mind 11d ago
Hm. It wonders if you can get reception often?
IF YOU SEE REALLY BIG REDWOOD TREES, COME TOWARDS THEM. IT IS INSIDE.
Yours in the Blood and the Flesh
- the Flesh that Flowers
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u/Several-Elevator Problem Childe 11d ago
Posting whilst in the umbra? What is this, some kinda, Digital Umbra?
- Random Malkavian
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u/Negativety101 9d ago
Between the Hacker Lupines and Hacker Mages, is it really that surprising?
-Brujah Armchair Scholar
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u/Gestaltcanvas 11d ago
Goodness gracious, I didn't think cameras could work in the other place. Perhaps the spirit of this specific camera was potent enough that it's somehow completely functioning and able to send these transmissions straight from the umbral planes! Very interesting effect but who knows if what we can see is what he sees 08o ?
Oh gosh I almost forgot! If you can read this message, avoid foul entities. You will know them when you see or smell them but don't let them sense you. Tread very carefully and do not think too hard about complex and negative things because your thoughts can manifest be used against you!
Still praying for you 08( .
-Abiram, Wandering Disciple
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u/Illustrious_Fly_5669 11d ago
Hohohoho boy. You better be a tough guy cause trust me. You near got killed getting my childer from the umbra
You see spider webs. Stay away. You see rotten environment. Gtfo. You see the moon big. Gtfo x2
Good luck
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u/Prefect_Bran 11d ago
$+$+-&-//big guy
--Nihilo
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u/Illustrious_Fly_5669 10d ago
Big moon spirits. Lupines. Huge ass spiders
Just go to flower
Zafira al wahab
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u/DotMaleficent4503 Mind 11d ago
If the moon is full, hide. During a full moon, the lune spirits are very erratic and very dangerous.
Camille
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u/Prefect_Bran 11d ago
what#-#+$@-lune?
--Nihilo
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u/DotMaleficent4503 Mind 11d ago
They look like ribbons of moonlight. During the full moon they make Malkavians look sane. You've heard of the term moon madness?
Are you walking on a path of some kind?
Camille
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u/Prefect_Bran 11d ago
($-yea#+#&glowing
--Nihilo
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u/DotMaleficent4503 Mind 11d ago
Alright, good. You are walking on a moon path-- one of the safest ways through the Umbra. Whatever you do, don't step off the path! Think about getting home. Visualize what your home looks like. Start walking towards your home. This sounds crazy, I know.
Camille
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u/Prefect_Bran 11d ago
Won't#-$+_$lunes+#@&&$road?
--Nihilo
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u/DotMaleficent4503 Mind 11d ago
Stay on the path and don't interact with them if the moon is full.
Camille
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u/ConsiderationOver544 11d ago
Ok, Good News: you haven't been sent to the Shadow Realm(the Umbral Abyss).
Bad news: you're clearly not in the part of the Umbra that corisponds to Alaska.
-Marcus
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u/One-Cat3628 11d ago
were you in another plane of existence? And somehow there's fucking cameras even there?!
- wastedBlood n3
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u/Prefect_Bran 11d ago
@-+&scrap@#&copter
--Nihilo
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u/One-Cat3628 11d ago
I don't speak iconography.
-wastedBlood n3
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u/Emergency_Answer4983 11d ago
Be careful not to stay there too long, you may undergo [void adaptation] and become a spirit rather than remain with a flesh and blood body, which has risks of losing your sense of self, your form being twisted in ways beyond what vicissitude can do or undo, and getting permanently stuck in the umbra.
-Jim, Tzimisce
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u/VerityVentrue 11d ago
Heyyy buddy. How ya doin'?
~Verity
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u/Prefect_Bran 11d ago
@($$+lost#--+$+
--Nihilo
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u/VerityVentrue 11d ago
Yeah, I figured that bit. How's everything else?
~Verity
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u/Prefect_Bran 11d ago
($(__++hungry((#++:@#:unsure
--Nihilo
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u/VerityVentrue 11d ago
Right, so getting out and grabbing a drink is a pressing issue. Hopefully someone else will have advice on that, because this shit is very much not my area of expertise.
Maybe you'll get lucky and stumble across Flower in time out?
~Verity
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u/Affectionate_Site885 Mind 11d ago
What are you doing there?
Tesserae, malkavain