white room anon

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."