Chapter 2 -The Vortex Spiral

Chapter 2 – The Vortex Spiral

[The opposing page will feature a picture of the Stage 1 Monolith]

Eons later...

The crow still perched upon the monolith awakens and streches it's wings wide. Shaking it's ruffled feathers it glances about the stage set before it. Without any hesitation, as if it's dreams had determined this course of action, the crow pecks once at the monolith and then takes deliberate flight. The prototype concept of something new engages him and he roars thundering before the waters of recession.

“As one union, my Masks, we will create something dynamic and dangerous, but lasting. Not purveyors of some sadistic need, nor intoxicated with the sloth and ignorance of consequence, we will crack open the stoic face of conformity. Laughing heartily in the visage of empty, unfulfilling perfection we will shatter the anchored chains of fear. Breaking bravado and casting its rotten robes asunder, rededicating them to the night.

As the Keeper thunders his will through voice a cracking noise can be heard through the extent of the abyss.

"Truly we will part waters in this swelling silver chasm, marking our right as its’ rightful owner, maker, and ultimate master. Defiant, looking into the eyes of mad silence while shrieking as banshees crying out in disdain. The echoes of this scream marking us not as cowards but conquerors. To stride boldly before our potential fall and find ourselves worthy of a dream we were not ready to dream."

As the words continue in stride so too does the effect of the initial crack. A blazing light can now be seen emerging from the location the crow pecked. The crack begins to spread as an epidemic through the whole of the monolith.

"May we not look upon this birth as innocent, and instead handle it carefully as some unfathomable, volatile dynamo. Humble in the knowledge that we once were eternal and at peace with the expanse and it's silent poisons. Tread deep into the primordial traces of the mind. We will not cease nor lust over any temporal satisfaction, but appreciate it and digress not allowing complacency time to seduce us.  I give you four the power to tame the graveyards that will attempt to swallow up your enigmas, your seeded whims, and your incomplete wishes to soar."

The cracks now litter the face of the monolith and are emblazoned with light and fire.

"Erect newer and more perfect, but temporal euphoric creations for sun-time and Entropy to tear away.  Together speak now my beasts, my masks, my children. Roar beside me. Cast aside your infancy and exemplify your savage wills."

The chains begin to alight and soon the light travels toward the masks at an alarming rate.

"Execute the silence. Ravage into the night slaying the tedium that permeates its’ cold lifeless heart. Destroy this mockery of self-indulgent beauty. Conquest and fester over the expanse. Phase into the unseen side of lunacy and defile the decadence and luster.  Ravage into the night slaying the defiance that permeates its’ cold lifeless heart."

Abruptly all masks' eyes blaze with defiant fervor.

"Now finally, and at long last I beckon. I taunt. I tempt you to awaken. Breathe my dark sculptures and rage. Storm now before me!”

Several moments pass and the masks aggitation steadily increases until the frenzy all but rips them apart. Ultimately the masks begin spinning in unison twisting the chain and pressuring the monolith until finally it begins to pull apart. Suddenly the Monolith implodes and all of it's substance is swallowed up into the void of space it once filled. A beacon deep into the void violently begins to pull everything inside. A vortex opens pulling at the surrounding water and the masks themselves as their chains are now pulled in. The masks float, shaking violently and pulling at the chains with desperation, the crow circling above watching in anticipation.
The masks are pulled inside ultimately and along with them the ocean that was once eternity. Now all slide in tandem as their chains are pulled by the beacon steadily and constantly forward, the beacon that is time.

[More to come]