Title:           white room anon
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First Edit:      Thursday 26th of April 2012 07:40:44 PM CDT
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white room, 1/? (commentary/reaction welcome) Anonymous 04/26/12(Thu)19:02 No.1557044
 
    >white emptiness
    >directionless pale light
    >you stand on something solid but you can't even distinguish it from the ceiling, or sky
    >also, you're naked
    >is this a dream?
    >what is this place?
    >where were you yesterday?
    >you don't recall
    >you see a dot in the distance
    >for lack of a better plan, you walk toward it
    >you walk at least half an hour
    >you begin to notice that the dot is a feature on some kind of wall or hillside
    >you continue to approach
    >it is a doorway in a vertical white wall
    >you enter
 
white room, 2/? (commentary/reaction welcome) Anonymous 04/26/12(Thu)19:04 No.1557069
 
    >narrow passageway with smooth white walls shortly leads to a broad, sparsely furnished room
    >a window on the opposite wall admits more of the colorless light
    >a large bed, a bench of some kind, pillows
    >also, perhaps unsurprisingly, all white
    >but in the middle of the room you see it
    >the creature resembles a horse at first glance
    >a smallish one, or a tall slender pony
    >white, with sparkly rainbow colored mane and tail that move in a breeze you can't feel
    >you notice she also has a single long slender tapering horn
    >and wings
    >wtf?
    >she turns to look at you
    >okay, definitely NOT a horse
    >as if the horn and wings weren't enough of a clue, derp
    >not a horse face
    >horses should have long muzzles and little beady eyes on the sides of their heads
    >her face is not quite human
    >eerily beautiful, though, in an alien and unsettling sort of way
    >big expressive violet eyes
    >for a moment you think of a young Elizabeth Taylor
    >rowr, Liz Taylor
    >also, horses don't talk
 
white room, 3/? (commentary/reaction welcome) Anonymous 04/26/12(Thu)19:13 No.1557233
 
    >her face is more than sufficiently human that it's obvious she's not pleased to have visitors
    >you crouch by the entrance, eyes locked on hers
    >"Who are you? WHAT are you?" she asks
    >that is most definitely a woman's voice
    >you say nothing
    >you've never been asked that second question, actually
    >you are a bit thrown off by it actually
    >you frown and stand up
    >you step slowly towards her
    >she stands her ground
    >you circle one another slowly, looking one another up and down
    >you are a bit embarrassed at your nekkidness, actually
    >not that she's wearing any more than you are, unless hair counts
    >"Are you some kind of ape? Or a monster? Are you a beast?"
    >finally you find your voice
    >"Are you a horse?"
    >her eyes narrow at that
    >uh oh
    >"Point taken. But I don't know what to call you, and I've never seen anything quite like you."
    >"My people call our species 'human,' but I do not know whether that word means anything to you. You may call me 'Anonymous.'"
    >she nods slowly. "Fair enough. Call me Tia."
 
white room, 4/? (commentary/reaction welcome) Anonymous 04/26/12(Thu)19:41 No.1557689
 
    >you are more than a bit curious
    >"so... what are you, exactly? I've seen similar... creatures, but not quite like you."
    >she smiles at that
    >"the word is 'alicorn,' but I do not know whether it holds any meaning for you."
    >you raise an eyebrow
    >"like unicorn? I thought they were mythical. And invisible."
    >she smirks
    >the expression is rather cute on her
    >you plow onward
    >"What is this place? I don't remember much at all before about an hour ago. Did you bring me here?"
    >she makes a movement with her wing
    >instinctively you recognize it as a shrug
    >"I could ask the same of you. Maybe one of us is dreaming."
    >"My dreams normally run in other directions. If this is a dream, it's an odd one, though not unpleasant."
    >"My, Anonymous. You're such a flatterer."
    >you glance at her
    >she's got that smirk again
    >is she trolling you?
 
white room, 5/? (commentary/reaction welcome) Anonymous 04/26/12(Thu)19:58 No.1557973
 
    >you squat on a pillow
    >"So, I'm curious. Tell me about yourself and your, um, species."
    >"It's a long tale."
    >"We appear to have time."
    >she approaches and squats on all fours beside you
    >she's... almost intimidatingly tall, and slender as a thorougbred
    >you wonder idly how much she masses
    >she speaks softly without looking at you, of a world of magic and wonder
    >through the window, as she speaks, you see a beautiful little blue planet, with a moon nearly its size orbiting well within what some thing in the back of your brain says should have been its "Roche limit"
    >and on the opposite side of the planet from its satellite is a tiny, searingly bright little yellow dwarf star
    >even only the size of the moon it should be a millionfold more massive than the other two
    >yet it and the moon appear to orbit the little blue planet
    >interesting
    >and on the planet, we see pristine, untouched forests, and mountain caves in which dragons, with their vast cool intelligences, sleep for years at a time on their hoards of gold and gems
    >you are fascinated by the parallels and divergences of evolution and wonder idly if your gracious hostess, if that is what she is, would give you a DNA sample
    >in a forest you recognize poplar trees and black pine, but you also see brightly colored polka-dot toadstools
    >wouldn't touch those with an eleven-foot electrically grounded pole
 
white room, 6/? (commentary/reaction welcome) Anonymous 04/26/12(Thu)20:04 No.1558052
 
    >you recognize brown bear and black bear, tigers and lions, but also see a bizarre chimera that looks like a contender for heavyweight champion land predator
    >its front half is a lion, its rear half is a gigantic scorpion, complete with articulated stinger tail and chitinous armor
    >what the fuck, that could never have evolved naturally
    >could it?
    >did a wizard create it?
    >you recognize bison and deer and wolves
    >but also sea serpents, dinosaur-ish creatures with multiple heads, and things still less identifiable
    >but never mind that
    >plains creatures evolve over millions of years, she says, obviously equine, with bigger, broader heads than any Earthly horse species
    >she hints that their evolution may have been guided by magic, by powers older still than the dragons
    >she speaks of "the Titans" and "the Creator" and you can hear the capital letters
    >you wonder how much of what she is telling you is religion and how much is science
    >and in the window, the wee ponies, already some showing horns and wings, evolve sentience and speech
    >they are very clever, and cooperate instinctively, as befits herd creatures
    >the unicorns are apparently very dextrous telekinetics and are very skilled at making and using tools
    >it makes sense, you suppose
    >and in the window nations arise among them, and civilizations
    >and your hostess, if that she be, lives in an old castle in one of the more peaceful parts of the world
 
white room, 7/? (commentary/reaction welcome) Anonymous 04/26/12(Thu)20:19 No.1558297
 
    >she turns to you
    >my, what big eyes you've got, Grandma
    >stop that, dammit
    >"Your turn, Anonymous."
    >you think of long-ago science classes
    >you speak of a star forming in a nebula formed by a supernova billions of years ago
    >"a supernova, a phenomenon where an extremely large and powerful star explodes"
    >"it's rare but it's the origin of most elements heavier than helium, and almost all atomic nuclei heavier than iron"
    >you don't know how to interpret the look she's giving you
    >haltingly, in the window, the scene appears
    >the little yellow star--vaster by far than the one in the scene she showed you, but a miniscule speck compared to some of the giants known to exist in your galaxy--
    >cheerfully converts hydrogen to helium, emitting heat and light
    >around it dust and gas congeal into spinning asteroid fields, then planets form
    >one has liquid water on its surface and an ammonia/methane/carbon dioxide atmosphere
 
white room, 8/? (commentary/reaction welcome) Anonymous 04/26/12(Thu)20:21 No.1558336
 
    >you say that how the first life formed is uncertain
    >but the composition of cometary ices and the atmospheres of other planets in your solar system
    >suggest that this was what your world's atmosphere was once
    >and you cite the Miller-Urey experiment
    >with such a foundation, complex chemistry and eventually life are thermodynamically favored
    >the window shows amoebae and paramecia
    >sea spiders and sea anenome
    >primitive bony fish that evolve and improve rapidly
    >because, you explain, there is a struggle for survival, few of any generation survive
    >random mutation and natural selection drive this vast machine
    >which, over billions of years
    >results in vast silent Permian forests full of giant cycad trees and two-foot-long cockroaches
    >and dinosaurs then walk past the window
    >and primitive mammals
    >some of which, small and monkeylike, lived in trees until about three and a half million years ago
    >then came down from the trees, and developed a taste for meat and a knack for making tools
    >and conquered a planet with stone axes and the will to power
    >she gives you a long sidelong glance
    >and bats her eyelashes
    >"You're not going to eat me, are you, Anonymous?"
    >before you can stop yourself, you reply "Not unless you ask nicely."