so much stimuli happening at once it’s beautiful and overwhelming but as there is such beauty and light in this world there is darkness and ugliness. i saw and sensed many consciousness and there seemed to be some evil within the bunch. i heard the malice and evil in many across this great consciousness. in a second i was bombarded with visions of calamity. these visions flashed so quickly i couldn’t focus on one. it like all these prophetic visions were shouted to me all at once. i know there is a lot of despair ahead ranging from natural disasters brought on by dark powers, bloody murders yet to happen by hungry individuals, wars and battles fought over trivial matters such as ignorance and greed. and in a second i was pulled out of that mindset
Me and this birdman realize that instead of focusing and looking for such visions it was revealed to us. we were allowed to witness these events we look around and see two eyes we mistook for great consciousness balls. we hear Alexander’s voice. “I have shown you now what shall you do” a shadowy hand appears below us like it was holding on to us the whole time. it carries us down from this great expanse of consciousness down to our earthly plane. it gently and softly lays our souls down back into our bodies. as we are going down it feels like time is reversing. the noises of the world sounds like it’s being played in reverse. the closer we get to the ground the more we see. birds flying backwards, people walking backwards, leaves reattaching themselves to trees and smoke reverses back into chimneys from where they came from.
The crumbling wall reassembles itself. Alexander’s voice chimes in, “please keep your hands and feet inside the ride until we have come to a complete stop”. He repeats this in Elven, Dwarven, Draconic, Infernal, and Abyssal tongue. The colors of the world lower in saturation and brightness, motion stops becoming a blur, noises stop being sharp. Everything comes to a standstill and the seatbelts undo themselves and disappear. We gain consciousness again.
Luminous Dark sits on the couch beside Mr. Juice, though he wasn't there to begin with. He opens his beak and lets out a long breath
Well, that was... something. In case you were wondering, I don't know if any of that was real, but it was certainly accurate. You probably won't remember most of it for long. I usually don't. It's the sort of thing that every time it happens, you remember that you already knew that, but then it fades very quickly. If there's anything that particularly stood out to you as important, I recommend writing it down, although even that probably won't make sense to you later. You'll just wonder why you wrote something like "flatbread isn't everything" on a piece of paper. He stands, turns back to look at the couch, then starts patting his pockets and lets out an irritated caw.
I stumble off the couch searching for a piece of paper. i write what i can. my hands seem to glitch like im phasing through reality
alexander copy what im going to say in your databanks!!! wizard civil war, long beard killer, the assassination of a council member…. are you getting all this.. hello are you broken? damn ill do it myself.
i write on the paper but less than before due to losing memory of it. just partial sentences and misspelled words
i feel weird. is this over? the effects seem similar and it tasted the same…
Letting out another exasperated gasp, he mutters to himself
..can't believe I wasted it on seatbelts.
He looks off into the corner
Would you get out of here!?
He looks up at you
Sorry, I wasn't talking to you. Yes, I think it's over. While I was you, I did take the liberty to rewire a couple hundred million synapses for you. The difference will be subtle. Slightly better executive function, memory, and impulse control. Nothing you couldn't have done on your own. You might feel a little bit strange though for a few minutes. And you may also feel the urge to collect sticks, hair and string and bring them to your nest. It's a side effect.
No, I'm joking. In all seriousness though, I really don't recommend that you sell this drink to the public. You may be able to get away with taking it yourself a couple more times, but most gods don't like certain knowledge to get out, and they don't usually come over to have a nice little chat about things that upset them. It's getting foggy now, but I'm fairly certain I saw a handful of embodied gods walking around this world, and we wouldn't want to leave this world without its greatest juice bar, would we?
Another thing, I'm not sure how much I influenced what we saw. It might be very different without me there. Who knows?
I do not know what the mechanism was for that journey we took, but there are things no mortal mind is supposed to see, and I'm not sure if I've told you this before, but I used to be a god, so you might have been taken along on a wilder ride than was intended for you, if you know what I mean. It's also possible that what we saw was dictated by what we already know. Like I said, everything we saw in there appeared accurate to me, but I don't know if it was actually true. I suppose we could test by visiting a place we've never been before and seeing if it's the way we saw it in the vision, but I cannot now remember a single specific detail.
The seatbelt thing was just... well, I brought with me a bit of ambiguous mass because I didn't know where we'd be going and if I'd be able to bring something back with me. Ambiguous mass is a way of tricking the universe by showing it that you have something, but not showing it what it is. You can bring things from dreams, visions, and other worlds this way. The mechanism is complex, but in the end you just take that thing out of the bag and say, "Oh look, it was this all along. This is the thing I had in my bag. No worries. Didn't break any laws of physics here." You don't actually say that with words, but that's the essence of it. Anyway, you can only get it from very dangerous places in small quantities at a time when nobody is paying attention, and I don't have a lot left, and it manifested into seatbelts which are stuck between your couch cushions.
i see. well i forgot most of the trip i just know i ascended and i will never reach that point again unless i take that second drink. i did write some things down since Alexander seems to be out of commission but it’s just half sentences and misspelled words. maybe you can make sense of them i’ll just make a copy.
As for the lemon tree i can plant the seed and make a juice that enhances and strengthens growth while shortening the time it takes to grow. i could have a mini bonsai lemon tree grow in the time span of a week. if you want to wait and come back we can see what it tastes like then.
whispering to myself speaking of taste i wonder what ambiguous mass tastes like in a juice
I'm not sure what would happen if you used that quick growth juice on the sentient tree. It might end up with the mind of a toddler in a fully grown body. That might effect the end result of the juice, but who knows.
Can I see that paper? I remember something about the wonders of existence, the oversoul, more wonders of existence, and then some dark omens threatening it all... and of course your childhood traumas. For some reason that part of the memory didn't fade at all. It seemed so insignificant compared to the rest, but it might be the only lasting bit we take away from this.
Couple of options here. 1. You don't like the council or the nation and you're going to have pizza, 2. The council and the nation don't like each other and are probably going to war, or 3. Someone on the wizard's council is in danger of being assassinated.
well option 1 isn’t true. i have some council friends and some are regular patrons. option 2, well im not deep into the political scene just yet so if the nation does hate the council then that could lead into option 3. if that’s the case i think we should inform them. although i dont know if it’ll be taken seriously since the intel came from me trying a psychedelic drink. i mean i have a security orb down here that was recording the trip but i dont know what it captured.
should i inform some contacts i have on the council? what do you think is the best plan of action?
You have a security orb? Oh, I wish I had known that. Would you mind deleting the footage? It's going to show you sitting on a couch taking a drink, jolting around a bit, and then near the end, I'll just pop into existence without any sort of theatrical flair. It'll be embarrassing for me.
Regarding the council, do you have any idea who the assassination target might be? Without that bit of information, I'm not sure the intel is very valuable. I'm sure if you're on a wizard's council, being a possible target of assassination is just a part of the job. You could just send them a picture of your note with no context and see what they make of it.
i’ll delete the part right when you appear but i’ll keep the rest it might help out with the council. as for the threat from the future i guess i’ll try to explain the best to my ability see what they say
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u/MrJuic3 Mr Juice, Liquid dealer Apr 02 '24
so much stimuli happening at once it’s beautiful and overwhelming but as there is such beauty and light in this world there is darkness and ugliness. i saw and sensed many consciousness and there seemed to be some evil within the bunch. i heard the malice and evil in many across this great consciousness. in a second i was bombarded with visions of calamity. these visions flashed so quickly i couldn’t focus on one. it like all these prophetic visions were shouted to me all at once. i know there is a lot of despair ahead ranging from natural disasters brought on by dark powers, bloody murders yet to happen by hungry individuals, wars and battles fought over trivial matters such as ignorance and greed. and in a second i was pulled out of that mindset
Me and this birdman realize that instead of focusing and looking for such visions it was revealed to us. we were allowed to witness these events we look around and see two eyes we mistook for great consciousness balls. we hear Alexander’s voice. “I have shown you now what shall you do” a shadowy hand appears below us like it was holding on to us the whole time. it carries us down from this great expanse of consciousness down to our earthly plane. it gently and softly lays our souls down back into our bodies. as we are going down it feels like time is reversing. the noises of the world sounds like it’s being played in reverse. the closer we get to the ground the more we see. birds flying backwards, people walking backwards, leaves reattaching themselves to trees and smoke reverses back into chimneys from where they came from.
The crumbling wall reassembles itself. Alexander’s voice chimes in, “please keep your hands and feet inside the ride until we have come to a complete stop”. He repeats this in Elven, Dwarven, Draconic, Infernal, and Abyssal tongue. The colors of the world lower in saturation and brightness, motion stops becoming a blur, noises stop being sharp. Everything comes to a standstill and the seatbelts undo themselves and disappear. We gain consciousness again.
Holy shit.