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He turned on his heel and ran. Why hadn’t he just logged off? The danger signs were all there, from the strange patches of moss in the cave tunnel, to the diary entry in the abandoned city pleading with him to turn his back before the golden doors.
But D3rLord3 was always persistent, persevering despite the roadblocks before him. The search for answers left him with knowledge of all time. From events long passed eons ago, to the rapidly approaching future.
He reached the end of the tunnel and begun clawing his way out with only an ink sac, the voices still ringing out in his head. He had to get out. And as fate would have it, his strip mine was only a few stone blocks away. The same torches beside oaken doors guarding the now barren corridors, the patches of diorite and granite in the cavern's corners, the cobblestone stairs leading up to the surface. And yet-
The cavern would be rediscovered, its walls broken once more to the gilded throne. There would be another, to once again descend these forsaken steps. Surely their fate could be prevented with an earlier warning? ᖋリ↸ ᒍリ|:॥ ᖋ ┤|:╎ᒲiϟᒷ ᒍ⎓ ᒣ⍑ᒷ ⎓⚍ᒣ⚍∷ᒷ From events long passed eons ago, to the rapidly approaching future.
“Whatever you do, at the crossroads, don’t turn left.”
Whispers that echoed soon stilled. ॥ᒍ⚍ ϟᒷᒷ ᒍリ|:॥ ᒣ⍑ᒷ iᖋϟᒣ The whispers grew louder, clearer.
“Don’t be fooled. It’s listening.”
A battle of wits waged in a preordained war.ᒣ⍑ᒷ ॥ᒷ|:|:ᒍ∴ |:╎ᒷϟ A trap is hardly useful with no catch, is it?
“You can’t outsmart it.”
Observing from above while lying further below.∴╎ᒣ⍑ ᒣ⍑ᒷ |:╎·ǀ·ᒷリᒷϟϟ ᒍ⎓ ॥ᒍ⚍∷ ⎓ᒍ∷ᒲ Patient for the performers, though the play had been enacted many a time.
“It’s watching me.”
A dead land lost, where only souls remain.॥ᒍ⚍ ∴╎|:|: ᕊᒷ ∷ᒷᕊᒍ∷リ Hope vested in a harbinger of chaos leaves only ruins.
{Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies
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“It’s not from this world.”
ᕊ⚍ᒣ ᒣ⍑╎ϟ ╎ϟ リᒍᒣ ᒣ⍑ᒷ ᒷリ↸
{Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard ██
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“At the crossroads, don’t turn left.”
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The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
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╎ ↸ᒍリ'ᒣ ⍑ᖋ⍊ᒷ ᒲ⚍ᔮ⍑ ᒣ╎ᒲᒷ
“At the crossroads, DON’T turn left.”
{Beneath the sky of melting gold
Ancient echoes of a shepherds mold
An old decay If left one goes
Is unseen truth all ███ faux}
“At the crossroads, don’t turn left.”
{I’m going. I’m leaving this here in the rare case someone finds it. If you have found this, I implore you, turn back. Disconnect. Forget about this world. It is not for you.
If you’ve come here you must be curious. I know you must want to continue onwards.
So I know that this is a heavy ask, but please do not go any further. For you own good. Do not.}
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“At the crossroads, don’t turn left.”
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I leaned opon the Awe –I lingered with Before – The Second like an Ocean rolled And broke against my ear –
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Then moved my Fingers off As cautiously as Glass And held my ears, and like a Thief Fled gasping from the House –}
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“At the crossroads, don’t turn left.”
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“At the crossroads, don’t turn left.”
{To shrieve his soul from the pangs of hell,
The only requiem-bells that rang
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Hushed he is with the holy spell
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And he lies quiet, and sleeps █████}
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{████ ██ my soul, ██ █████ is dead;
Die thou, ██████, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.}
“At the crossroads, don’t turn left.”
A final glimpse of clarity, all for the name of an unfortunate soul. But Wisdom now faltered underneath the weight of knowledge, their final warning obscured by numbers and that which does not live.
“RVN AVERY ITS HERE ”