>>5543992- You lay still, eyes shut -
- You’re awake, have been for a while -
- The aberrant star, ‘The Spotlight’ something deep within your cognition quietly offers, looms above -
- Its resplendence is such that it seeps into your vision no matter how tightly you knit your eyelids -
- You just need a moment to process and collect your wits -
- The quiet reigning over Seranade stretches for a while, not true silence but certainly quieter than the city has been in some time -
- Something had to interrupt the moment of course -
- A keening roar of something soaring overhead, followed by a string of thunderclap impacts -
- One strong enough to buck you against the ground -
- Your head strikes the corner of something hard and you feel faint -
- Squinting, you can’t help but think that the Spotlight seems much closer than you remember it being -
- Once more, your skull is rattled as a commandment slams into you, comprised not of words but abstractions -
- Roaring like a lion, the message reverberates in your very marrow -
- It cannot, will not, be ignored -
= ASPIRANTS, HEED =
= CAST AWAY EARTHLY MOORS AND ASCEND =
= TREAD UPON THE WORTHY AND FAULTLESS AND ASCEND =
= ASCEND, FOR PERSISTENCE, FOR PRINCIPLE, FOR PERNICIOUS AMBITION =
= REACH HEAVEN THROUGH VIOLENCE =
- Your awareness briefly dwindles down to naught as you slip into a concussion-induced daze -
(For the sake of keeping the timeline straight, you’ve been knocked out for the duration turn 1)
(As this is an act of narrative fiat, you’ll reawaken at the start of Turn 2 with no negative effects)
