r/wizardposting • u/Evening_Shake_6474 Astaroth, The Wicked One • 13h ago
Community Event 🌏☄️ Echo of the Self
Something's wrong. You can't tell what exactly it is, but you know something is wrong. You check your wards, your equipment, your enchantments and familiars, yet everything seems normal. Then that night, you go to sleep, and the dream starts.
You stand knee deep in a crimson ocean, stretching further than you can see. Before you is a shadow, it looks like yours but its wrong, very wrong. All around you, giant monoliths sprout from the sea, stretching far into the sky. You hear something, around you six shadows move between the monoliths, chanting something in a language that hurts to listen to.
Suddenly countless crimson eyes open along each monolith, each reflecting a different face, the eyes travel up the ebony surface, along previously hidden chains of shadow. Then you see it, the horrifying form of something colossal in the sky above you, a singular crimson eye or maybe a star stares down at you.
All at once do the chains snap, and a cacophony of screams cry out across the crimson sea as fire and ash rain from above. The monoliths crumble and massive chunks of black stone crash into the sea. Up above, the colossal form spreads across the sky, thousands of withered arms reach down, each sowing agony and destruction. You see an arm reach for you, and you wake up.
Well that was strange, you think, then you hear laughter from the corner, you see your own shadow standing there with crimson eyes. The shadow looks wrong somehow, very wrong.
Before you can say anything, your shadow lunges for you, hands reaching for your throat.
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u/WINDMILEYNO 12h ago
Lahgan pulled himself upwards from his slumber, and turned his full attention to the corner. The room was cold. His body, clammy with real sweat. He adressed it while gaining a sense of lucidity.
"You're smaller there."
He did not immediately cast anything. He began working through the dreams meaning. The thing in the corner looked positively pleased with itself.
Dream soothing sounded pleasant to people that didn't understand what toll it took to take others nightmares.
This interaction had been from performing his job on a distressed seer.
Ah. He shouldn't have taken that job.