Orb post on the cusp of Midnight GHB 16 & 17

[thequestgiver]

[[There's nothing very visible in the orb. Light filters in a little through the cloth over it, but nothing enough to tell who's using it.

There's a long moment of silence before a voice speaks. It's faint. Distant and muffled and has an almost wispy quality to it.]]

Flow away, flown away, to where none can say.... to the wood, to the sea, to the peaks, to the depths... the walls crumble as we all fall down and down...

[[There's a pause before there's a soft laugh. It's hard to even tell what gender the person speaking is, through the muffling and the odd intonation in the voice.]]

It's all falling apart, isn't it? Time has warped, the walls are falling once more... falling falling falling...

[[another laugh. This one's a little higher pitched. Maybe it's a girl's voice? Then it suddenly drops down again.]]

I saw it all... from my tower high, I saw it all, but no one would listen... no one would listen and now it's all coming true, isn't it? Everything will fall again... again and again, we're locked into it, you see? Locked...

[[The voice cuts off suddenly. When it resumes, it's shaking.]]

I'll smash it all... never locked away again. Never never never--

[[and the orb suddenly goes black]]

Comments

[shadow_sage]

Who built it?

[thequestgiver]

[[There was a soft laughter, devoid of humor and uneven of tone]]

That which built the sun and the moon

[shadow_sage]

Then who broke it?

[thequestgiver]

That which makes pawns of us all....

[shadow_sage]

Order?

Or Chaos?

[thequestgiver]

AND

[[There was an intensity behind the word which sounded almost like it was being spoken in unison with another voice.]]

[shadow_sage]

Both of them? Why would they both do so?

[thequestgiver]

This world is but a playground for their war... why would the not?

[shadow_sage]

Chaos would want out.

Did Order think to eliminate a rival, or what?

[thequestgiver]

Over and over, around and around, all the want is for destruction... the rigid lines of Order, the broken destruction of Chaos... all is death and death is all....

[[There is a broken sing song to the words, shifting from a high voice to a low one, sometimes seeming doubled, sometimes not]]

In their fight to destroy each other, they will kill us all....

[shadow_sage]

These forces, desires...where are their focal points? Can we speak with them, reason with them in any way?

[thequestgiver]

Reasons lives not in this world....

[shadow_sage]

I've noticed that.

Can you tell me anything about this that might help?