Aporeu chronicles Issue 343: Mindscape III
Stories from the adventurers
This issue
More adventurers suffer mental torment at the hands of this mysterious entity. Will they get any closer to figuring out the truth behind these strange quests?Mindscape III
Are you mindstrong? Can you think your way out of dangerous situations? Prove it.Grianne
Heyhey. I wanna write a story about some weird thing I went on which was a mission on the guildhalls billboard, but not one known by the guild. So I saw my friend Melody also joined. And that it would be amazing. I was quite wrong turned out. Somehow my panic attacks kinda maybe ruined the entire thing. And I hate the thing that dragged me through it. It looked weird and stuff. But I didn’t speak to it much. Oh, but that is for later. Now Melody. Amazing woman, purple hair, works at Radiant Raiment and has the best magic I’ve seen. And also a winged cat. I think it's called a tressym. Named Kerby. And Kerby’s so soft. But apart from one of my best friends, a very cute other adventurer joined. He only said “mud”. So we named him Mud. oh, wait, no, he also said “Rawr” and “Rowr”, which we guessed were his wolves. They were really cute, only didn’t like hugs. So we went to Gwen, who I still need to have a drink with. I always forget to visit her after quests. And she seems so nice. But she didn’t know about this quest. Or, not this specific one. We’re not the first to come by for it. And then weird shit happened. She froze, and Rowr, or Rawr, sorry Mud, names are too similar, sank away in the sand. I tried helping with my floating disk from which Mud could try and hold him up. But the sight of someone drowning… I saw it again. The wave. A massive wave, as tall as the mast of my ship, kkkk…
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Sorry, I… It’s too hard to write about. But Melody and I managed to survive. I even… almost… drowned. Something not possible. I can breathe underwater. But not now. I don’t know why. This place or dream or whatever can’t be real, because nothing that happened there was possible. But somehow, Melody managed to not make me scared anymore. In the meantime, Rowr or Rawr became large and was floating. Mud was safe on him. I had tied Melody to me, but somehow it was in a way I’ve seen some people enjoy at brothels. No idea why that happened. But we got on Rowr or Rawr and slowly went to the ship in the distance. Once there, we saw the thing responsible, and got into an argument. Rowr, I’ll settle on Rowr, started flying, and Mud did as well. I just wished to go home. And so I went. No-one was there, but at least I had a solid bed to lay down on.
Next thing I know, I was in the guildhall again. And we had a ring. And we all remembered it happening. It was so weird. I was panicked of having to relive… Not gonna think of that.
Mud went away, and Melody stayed with me for the night. That really helped. She’s really amazing. But in that world, I had no attacks for a while. And I don’t know why, but I want to go back for that. Maybe it can help me sail again. And if I can sail again, then I can go home. And start my trading business between continents. Oh, yes, I’m probably from another continent in the west. But I’m not absolutely sure. However, I have found no maps with my home on it. So there is a good chance.
So weird monster, if you ever decide to take me again like that, I’ll be ready. I hope. As long as we don’t start out the same way. That was bad. Real bad.
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