>>5542523= PETE =
Your room, no, the entire upper floor is utterly trashed.
There's absolutely no way you could explain this away.
Half-absently, you roll onto your back, only to be met with the Spotlight glaring back - ever indecipherable and untouchably distant.
A small flash of light manifests from the Spotlight, followed closely by a steady stream of other flashes.
Moments pass as specks of light form in the mangled skies, descending in dazzling streaks like falling stars.
The tension that had settled over Serenade is immediately shattered as those stars make landfall
A cluster of earth-shaking impacts rattle the Stage, eliciting a asymmetrical chorus of human distress and suffering.
Following the bombardment, the Spotlight menaces with phosphorescent intensity until it becomes impossible to directly observe, enveloped by a multi-ringed corona. Sinking closer, until it had ballooned to triple the circumference of the moon.
At this point a message is conveyed, not through the crudity of language but through an inescapable tidal wave of intent – projected conceptualization inundating consciousness with dire portents.
= 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 =
In this wake of this announcement, a suffocating blanket of silence settles over the city.
