Well this is the second time SWIM has entered the realm. The first, almost 10 years ago, he vaugley remembers coming out of hyperspace-- quickly, and seeing a giant pyramid made of multi-colored numbers and letters, and then zap, he was standing in the hall outside the room he was physically in. The hall was greyish and pale, and he was wondering where they were, why they didn't want to talk to him. He wondered if he was in a dead area, whether they didn't know he was here, or where to look for him. He wondered whether or not he should open the door at the end of the hall and look for them. He realized he probably couldn't open the door. Either it was locked, or he didn't have time. Then someone spoke, another laughed, and he was awake again.
Fast forward 10 years and many hours pondering what was behind the door. The procurement of techniques and materials synthesizing into agents he thought had passed beyond his grasp. And then tonight, finally, the chance to find the door and open it, to finally see what they had to say.
But SWIMS ride through hyperspace was turbulent, and his body was unwilling to let him go. Therianthropic owls clutched at him, shot their red darts as he accelerated through geometrics of hyperspace; trying to snag him, trying to anchor him in their reality. But he was moving to fast, and his body was to heavey. His eyes fluttered, his back spasmed. No relaxing words came from a sitter, no comfort could be found on his resting place. He sat up, looked around and thought it was over, he looked at himself and realized it wasn't. His arms were a mass of writhing multicolored snakes. The room kept dissapering into a tumult of chromatic patterns. He closed his eyes and was again hurtling through hyperspace, but the discomfort of reality was wracking his body, and the journey was short lived. The sharp patterns subsided into waves of colour, lapping into his vision until earth was once again visible.
He entered reality again and this time stayed.
He is now contemplating the next attempt, and hopes to breakthrough.
Fast forward 10 years and many hours pondering what was behind the door. The procurement of techniques and materials synthesizing into agents he thought had passed beyond his grasp. And then tonight, finally, the chance to find the door and open it, to finally see what they had to say.
But SWIMS ride through hyperspace was turbulent, and his body was unwilling to let him go. Therianthropic owls clutched at him, shot their red darts as he accelerated through geometrics of hyperspace; trying to snag him, trying to anchor him in their reality. But he was moving to fast, and his body was to heavey. His eyes fluttered, his back spasmed. No relaxing words came from a sitter, no comfort could be found on his resting place. He sat up, looked around and thought it was over, he looked at himself and realized it wasn't. His arms were a mass of writhing multicolored snakes. The room kept dissapering into a tumult of chromatic patterns. He closed his eyes and was again hurtling through hyperspace, but the discomfort of reality was wracking his body, and the journey was short lived. The sharp patterns subsided into waves of colour, lapping into his vision until earth was once again visible.
He entered reality again and this time stayed.
He is now contemplating the next attempt, and hopes to breakthrough.