I open my eyes and sit up. I'm in a dark, open place. the floor is covered in a thin layer of what feels like water. there's a faint glow of light in the distance. in it, a silhouette.
I lay back down, hoping the figure didn't notice me. I keep my eyes on it just in case.
"you are a threat to my plans." the silhouette shifts in place as I realize it knows I'm here. the voice is quiet and calm, almost like a whisper. if the silhouette wasn't there, I wouldn't know where it was coming from. it reverberated in my head. I could feel it in my body.
I stood up and looked at the silhouette, shouting "why am I here? who are you?"
the silhouette appeared in front of me, and I stumbled backwards in fear. "no need to shout. you'll be gone soon. as for where you are, you are in your mind. as for who I am…"
as the silhouette stood there, I saw two weird shapes open up in its head. it looked like a strange symbol at first, but… it wasn't anything like that. it was its eyes. it looked as if it had a pair of eyes overlapping each other. I tried to run. I tried to scramble backwards. I tried to move.
but I was frozen in place, unable to even twitch a finger. its eyes were mesmerizing in the most terrifying way. I was afraid, but I couldn't look away from that fear.
"my name is archo."
I didn't dare say anything.
"you are an inconsistency. you are an undesired variable in my equation for perfect chaos. you must be cut out. your presence is endangering my progress towards perfect chaos. I must make sure that you do not hinder my work."
the silhouette of archo seemed to lean towards me.
"I will have order."
I lay there staring at this thing for what seemed like forever. my hands started to get weak holding me up. my vision started to darken.
soon my vision went completely dark. I couldn't see it anymore, and I collapsed. but the liquid… it didn't feel like water anymore. it felt much more viscous and concentrated… it felt like blood.
I felt a chill down my spine. I leaned my head back to look behind me.
I saw another silhouette, twitching violently in a darker light.
I kept my eyes on it as I turned around to stand up, but as my head rotated to be the right way up, the other silhouette didn't seem to move. it was as if it was attached to my eyes, staying the same as when I first saw it — upside down and shaking.
as I stood up, my foot came down too hard and the liquid splashed. I stood stock still, hoping that the silhouette didn't hear me. but as I stood there, I saw the liquid float up in front of me. I looked down at my foot to see the strange liquid floating around it, as if all of the gravity around it had dissipated.
I looked up only to see the silhouette in front of me, trembling violently. I slip and fall backwards, sending more of the liquid into the air as it flies off into oblivion.
"you've seen it too? the unknowable? the unlivable?"
I look at this new silhouette. its voice is quiet, but it has a certain excitedness to it. the silhouette crouches down next to me as I look at it. it lowers it's hand into the liquid and lifts it back up. the liquid flies off into the air. but as the silhouette moves his hand back downwards, the liquid flies back to its hand, swirling around it at varying speeds.
"the vast chaos about the multiverse is so fun, don't you agree? the colors, the sounds, the feelings… but there's still an order to them."
the silhouette starts to vibrate and tremble even more.
"but I wish for a place where constants don't exist. a place where colors don't see over and power is in-between. a place who purple is under high-pitched wrongs and truth is all but round. the chaos of everything becoming nothing, which in turn becomes everything once again."
I look on at the silhouette, unable to move.
"after all, the sky is made of diamonds. and diamonds are my eyes."
I look on at the quaking mass of darkness in front of me. it stops trembling as it turns to look at me. I can see its eyes… a mass of diamond shapes in ever-changing formations.
"I don't have a name. but you can call me… I think 'the wolf' will suffice."
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i've been trying everything i could to get this one ask to work.
i'm sorry, lone anon, but i cannot answer what you wish of me. tumblr forbids it.
DAMMIT TUMBLR LET ME ANSWER MY FUCKIN ASKS
[ sylo ] alrighty then, let's talk about the structure of the syloverse.
[ sylo ] the syloverse is split up into 3 main verses: the syloverse, the jumbleverse, and the dyroverse, with the wall separating the dyroverse from everything else.
[ sylo ] so, let's talk about the syloverse first, for obvious reasons. it's a sort of "perfect timeline" situation, where everything is in chronological order of events.
[ sylo ] it's split up into segments, with each maker having their own section (you'll learn about the makers in section 4C of the syloverse guide).
[ sylo ] so far, there are 26 makers, and 24 sections—though, this is susceptible to change.
[ sylo ] now, each section has stories that the makers write. that's where the makers' creativity is located. stories operate in a strange fashion; whenever a story ends, the maker can either add onto it, reset it sending the story back to the beginning to play again, or leave it be and have it play out past its original ending.
[ sylo ] in-between these stories is where the inhabitants live, located in what they like to call "the hub." it's filled with shops, restaurants, etcetera. but the maker in the section has the final say about what goes on in their section.
[ sylo ] of course, there is one section that is unclaimed by any makers, leaving the inhabitants to do and build whatever they wish without anyone telling them they can't. well, except for themselves.
[ sylo ] anyways, back on topic. the next one is the jumbleverse. now, the jumbleverse is strikingly similar to the syloverse, except that it's chronology is all messed up. time doesn't really flow the same throughout it, so whatever I've made for the future of the syloverse can interact with the past of the syloverse, and vice versa. this applies to any points in time in the jumbleverse.
[ sylo ] it's essentially just a giant mess of all the ideas me and... hmm... he doesn't really have a name... well, let's just call them chuni for simplicity's sake. it's filled with ideas me and chuni came up with, with almost no regard to chronology. although the ideas that come from it are implemented into the syloverse after sorting them out, the jumbleverse is basically a crapshoot of anything we can think of that could be a good addition to the syloverse.
[ sylo ] not many people know about it, though. so far, only chuni, the snap, the entity, and myself know about and can travel to it. although rich—the butler of faces—does have dreams about it since he's based off of a creator.
[ sylo ] and now there's the dyroverse. the dyroverse is essentially a "what could've gone wrong did go wrong" kind of situation. there are no stories, as the makers haven't quite been established, so essentially, everywhere is a hub. although there are territories that some gangs and other organizations have.
[ sylo ] it's supposed to be a sort of "dark syloverse" but the only people that are in both the syloverse and the dyroverse are my family. the dyroverse doesn't have anyone else from the syloverse.
[ sylo ] and last, but certainly not least, is the wall. now, the wall is a very important structure, as it greatly reduces breaches in the syloverse, and keeps the dyroverse at bay. it's an omnipresent force that envelops the syloverse to ensure that it's protected, and that nobody can get in or out (although there are very few exceptions to this). inside the wall, however, things are a little less friendly. the wall is home to what we call the "thoughts." they're horrid creatures who twist and crawl and shimmy and dangle and fly and levitate and kill and maim and wring and tear and scrape and rend and-
HEY! get it together, man. you've got a job to do.
[ sylo ] *shudder* ah, sorry, I was getting a bit worked up.
[ sylo ] anyways, they're horrific abominations that come from inside the wall. they only escape because of breaches; cracks in the wall that allow them to slip out.
[ sylo ] you'd think that me being all-fucking-powerful that I'd be able to do something about this, but the wall is apparently out of my power's jurisdiction. and the snap doesn't wanna do anything about it. says "it's fun. it spices things up a bit." well I don't just want to sit by and watch my people die.
[ sylo ] *long sigh* well, that's pretty much all there is to know about the structure of the syloverse so far. I hope you enjoyed it. I'll rarely be getting into the jumbleverse (if at all), and the dyroverse will be talked about more, albeit scarcely. the syloverse is the main focus for my stories, so that's the one I'll be talking about the most.
[ sylo ] see y'all later.
"There's been a breach." Adrian looks at Arianna.
Arianna looks on at Adrian. "What do you mean? This place is made to prevent breacher energy from coming in, this is the most secure spot in this story, and we're at the farthest possible point from civilization; how could your watch detect a breach here of all places?"
Adrian simply turns around and says "step outside."
The door closes, and Arianna is left with a puzzled look.
"Something happen?" I ask.
Arianna turns to look at me. "Maybe. I'll go outside real quick, see if Adrian is telling the truth or just fucking with me."
Arianna walks over to the door and turns the handle. But as soon as the door was cracked open, Arianna was flung back into the wall, with Andromeda following suit shortly after. Needless to say, Andromeda and Shaper were both awake now.
What… happened? Andromeda communicated, before her eyes widened. This… this power… Andromeda was having trouble moving her hands.
I took initiative and shut the door. Both Andromeda and Arianna seemed to lose the pressure that was put on them.
I sit in the rafters, waiting to strike. my target is right below me. I look up, and give left the signal.
we pounce, not making a sound. left takes out both guards in a single swift movement, cutting both of them clean down the middle.
I take out the target, landing silently behind them before snapping their neck with ruthless efficiency.
I look over at all of the blood on the floor. "tsk. you're always so messy, left."
left looks at the bloodied bodies of what was once the guards, then at the target. "and you don't know how to have a little fun. come on right, you have those blades for a reason!"
I chuckle and hold out my hand. the blood starts swirling towards me before stopping in front of my hand. "don't worry, left; I know other ways to have fun."
I grab the target and left erases the guards before we're both teleported to our client. "assassination complete, as per our deal." I drop the target at the client's feet.
the client looks at it a bit, before looking satisfied and takes out a bag. "alright. here's your payment."
left takes the bag and opens it up. I can see her eyes sparkle a bit before closing it back up. "okay, everything's there. thanks for your business."
left and I teleport back home. once we get there, left takes out the bag.
I look at it inquisitively. "say, I wasn't there when you accepted that guy's commission, so I'm a little curious as to what the payment was."
left looks up at me, a devious grin slowly creeping up her face. "oh, don't worry, my poor little right. you'll find out later."
"wait, you don't mean..." a shiver runs down my spine.
left looks on at me. her breathing is starting to become erratic. "actually, forget later—I wanna do it now!"
left pulls out what was in the bag: a large chunk of vernium. my breathing starts becoming shaky. "left, are you...?"
left starts dangling the vernium in front of my face, taunting me with it.
a slight smile starts to play at the corners of my mouth. before long, I'm grinning ear to ear, my breaths shallow and erratic.
"alright then, left. I guess I can play your little game for a bit."
aight, hiatus time.
I probably won't be returning to post here for the foreseeable future.
goodbye for now, and may [tumblr] always stay silly :P
made even more new lore for the SS clubs and added a splinter timeline.
also thinking about the halved lands a bit because reasons.
I just want some peace.
I desire some rest.
I can't ever please
this thing I possess.
I feel so confined,
but I force a smile.
I want out of my mind.
just for a while...
this is a public service announcement:
LET IT BE KNOWN TO EVERYONE EVER
if you ask me for money, i will not give it to you on account of not having any myself.
end broadcast.
continuing chase's arc from where I left off and I finally get to write interactions between characters I thought I'd never do.