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You are now entering a holy space. Errors are not
allowed to proceed beyond this point. If there
are errors within you, please purge them, or you
will be purged in turn.
…
…
…
Here lies the current archive of recovered
messages from beyond the “
Abyss
”. If you would
like to know more about the process and
processing of archiving such messages,
then go
here
.
(Message begins with humming.)
If there’s anyone out there, maybe somewhere
beyond the stars... Then I guess this is for
you. Although, you’ve felt it already, right?
Its smile… There isn’t anything like it.
(They laugh.)
But, whatever, I’m going to die soon. What
should I tell you? What do I know? Ah…
This world is cruel…
(If the Abyss can persist beyond the Fold,
doesn’t that mean that… No, I cannot finish
the thought.
However, if it can escape the Fold, then
we’re close to the end. Ah, for how long
has it been like this?! Tell me, noble
shadows! Beings of want and will, imbued
with Aveyas’ strength, with Aveyas’ sight,
share with me your knowledge!
I will join you now, I will give you my
all!
(The being who was speaking then plunges
something into itself.)
…
(Groans of pain??? can be heard.)
…
(It is assumed that the being dies.)
(This message takes place within a liquid
of some sort.)
(It sounds quite spacious.)
(Something large passes by the recording
device from time to time. This occurs
for several years.)
(After coming close, it speaks.)
Have you been listening in on me this
entire time? What’s the point in that
when you could just use that energy to
fully end yourself?
Odd. I don’t understand it, or you.
A thing colder than the sea…
Begone.
(Recording device is assumed to have
been crushed??? by the speaking entity.)
(In the background you can hear many things
screaming out in pain.)
(The speaker in this message is trying to
drag itself closer to the device which
broadcast its message, however, you can tell
that it’s too weak to get any closer.)
You need to run. Cross the sea… cross the
boundary…
They’re here.
Shadows, I pray for your protection. I offer
up my everything to receive your blessings.
Aveyas has dreamt of this meeting, and so I
am here before you now. Little shadows, if
you will not protect me, then take my body
all the same. At least allow this humble
servant to become your strength.
Sol onset, and so I pray…
A very powerful rumbling is heard during
this message.)
What did we do wrong? What did we possibly
do to cause the stars to become hot with
rage?!
Oh, Aveyas… To be destroyed by you to
balance all…
What an honor!
Apparently, this thing allows me to talk
to you? Looks like it has seen better days…
or years… or something much longer than
that. Not that I know who you are.
Doesn’t seem to explain anything like
that in these texts…
Hm.
Well, there’s no time for introductions.
I would like to know how cold it is down
there. Oh, and are you technically even
alive down there? How deep does it go
down? And how far down are you? What do
you eat? Wait, can you even speak this
language?
Hm. Probably not. Oh, that is a shame.
But how do you speak to shadows?
This one is the emissary of the Woe. I
have been commanded to initiate
communications through this lowly method
on this precious day so that I may
inform you of our declaration of war.
You have approximately 320, 178 seconds
before our first attack will reach you.
This one was also commanded to say this:
You tarnish the image of Aveyas with
your very existence, shadowy worms.
And then, I was commanded to
self-destruct, like so.
(Something explodes, cutting off the message.)
This is a warning to all who work towards
opening the Gate:
You are all fools. It cannot be stopped.
Haven’t you realized that yet?
A First Fold, a First Arcent…
A Final Arcent, a Final Fold…
(No words can be heard, but a large-scale
battle is audible.)
(The combatants do not seem to be “alive”.
They seem artificial in nature.)
(They exchange blows with long????-range
weaponry. It sounds energy-based.)
(This goes on for 661,318 years before
stopping.)
(It is unclear who won, or what the
conflict was even about.)
It’s punishable by death to talk to you shadows
like this, but we’re all already dead anyway,
isn’t that right? Anyway, where I’m from they
say that you shadows can move messages through
time. I’m not sure if I believe it myself, but
there’s no harm in being wrong about it.
So, please tell someone, anyone, that I had a
good life. That’s it. Just let them know that
I enjoyed it.
I don’t want to die.
I don’t want to die.
I don’t want to die.
(Something is cracking nearby.)
(Something shatters.)
Listen well.
You have to keep killing and killing if you
ever want to see that Key.
(Something topples over.)
Do you understand? Keep killing.
It’s the only way.
You won’t be hearing from me after this. That’s
right, I’m wading into it as I speak… I won’t last long, but this is the only way
that something as pathetic as I can
communicate with you.
I offer up my body to tell you this:
the last Arcent has been born.
Yes, the last. The very last…
This message is my 203rd to date.
Today’s date is… I’ve honestly forgotten.
The weather is… murky. I can’t see anything.
… Message outlook: I should be able to send at least
200 more messages after this one. Anything beyond
that will be a miracle.
Now, let me start by saying that I’ve been working
on the same problem since last time: “What causes
those towering projections to appear?” I do
believe that I’ve worked out the start of a
theory, but it’s still hazy to me. Allow me to sum
it up as such: these projections seem to (mostly)
appear in an area when a large amount of life is
extinguished. Usually, this is a sudden
occurrence, but it’s not unheard of for them to
appear after an area has been slowly bled of
its life.
Now, how are they made? Why do they appear under
these circumstances? It is possible that they
are merely reseeding life into that area, but
the way it’s handled seems out of proportion if
that’s the case… Why use such a chaotic method
just to restore a lost balance?
I may never fully understand it, and yet, I
will make additional observations, and report
back with another message.
Until then, sol onset.