TSOS- Getting To The Spiral

Getting To the Spiral

While the most common paths of meditative enlightenment, psychedelics and death are well understood, nerds hotly debate the existence of other ways to make the journey between the material plane and the outer spiral. Some have even suggested that all one needs to make the journey there and back, is a good imagination, these nerds are generally regarded as kooks and loons. Nerds do agree however, that every conscious thing in the spiral, from great trees and beasts to the various settled peoples within, all originated from the inner plane and travelled here via some mechanism of the quantum realm. 

Living things in the spiral all at some point had one VERYBIGTHOUGHT that catapulted it's the consciousness into the aether, free to drift amongst the stars.  When you look up to a night sky you will see them amongst the stars and galaxies. Space nerds estimate that up to 10% of these pinpoints of light are the formless sparks, watching, waiting and twinkling. Should that spark choose it may try to regain a physical form and a new life in one of two ways:

• Starseed: You fall from the sky like a comet, hurtling towards a vacated (dead) body. Your aetheric essence revitalizes the body and you retain much of who you were in the material plane. Your new body may have a history and burdens of its own for you to discover but you are alive. 
• Awoken: You inhabit a new naturally/magically conceived being and live your new life in your new home until one day flashes of memories of your old life and strange powers manifest changing you forever. The process of awakening is different for everyone who undergoes it. Many retain everything of who they were, others merge their two lives into one and some only retain the occasional memory of their past life. Some never wake up or embrace the powers they are given. Instead they choose to live a simpler life free from the dangers of adventuring. Most people fall into this category of Sleepers. It is the rare few who are able and willing to entertain the danger and high drama of adventuring life. 
  

"The last thing I remember was three little pink mushrooms... I was holding them... They were a gift from someone... I can't remember who.

Then I saw a hole, a black spot forming in the centre of my vision. The harder I looked at it the closer it drew. A hole in the universe not black but filled with fractal patterns. I fell into this hole, I needed to see where it went, I had to understand. I can't explain why. I couldn't stop myself.

Like Cinderella I tumbled far and deep. Then came the pain. A thousand flames lit up across my skin. I was going so fast it peeled my skin off and I screamed with a mouth that no longer existed, then my muscles, and then my bones shattered into dust until I was just the memory of me thinking about the memory of my pain and my muscles and my skin.

I had become bigger, cosmic somehow I could see in a new dimension.

I drifted in that space for a long while until my earless starform heard something across the expanse. 

It was a song. One of sorrow and loss. One of hope and warmth and love. It reached out to me and pulled me here."

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• Ghosts: Sometimes a spark becomes damaged through trauma or magic and become locked to a place and time. Drifting amongst the living like energy vampires.