The Broken Portal
Captain and crew float through an abyss of pitch black, you can hear talking in the void.
"This blackness is too much for me to take, it's a dark evil, will it ever end?"
"I don't know private," sobs a little.
People are heard talking, "Blackness, days? or eons of silence and blackness?"
"No time here."
"How long have we been here Lieutenant?"
"Eons Damn it." You hear dry heaving in the background.
"This forsaken place," is muttered by another random person on the ship.
Blackness…
…blacknesS
"I cant take it!" Screams through the void.
"Eons, soul crushing eooooooooooooons……………………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Nothing.
Eternities of nothing.
“Hello?!?!??!!!!”
“Helllooooooo!?!!” echoes through crushing nothingness.
No color, no goals to pursue, nothing to do, nothing to think about, nothing to see, nothing to smell, nowhere to go, no mysteries to unravel, no edges to explore, no marvels to witness, no substance to lend to even a spark of imagination, no discoveries to make or tools to innovate and create.
Existencelessness………..
black, black, black, black…....................................
.....................the never ending abyss hangs heavy.
and then,
AND
THEN
"Captain, captain we've found it, we've found a portal into existence!"
The captain turns back from the helm, eyes wide. It's the first time his eyes have ever been seen since it's the first time light has ever struck them. If anybody were looking at them that is, because they were all fixed on the portal like frozen statues, light flooding through. To them the light was equivalent to an explosive fire ball pouring down through their ranks. This fire ball though, welcomed by all with every eager ecstatic electrified hyper stimulated particle of their beings. .. Jaws dropped hearts pounding. Time starts and then stops again, standing still, but only in their minds this time.
A speaker erupts through the newly found air and the permeating silence, thrusting time into full speed again. They start to slowly move and make exclamations.
"We have found a portal." Is said in electrifying exasperation.
From afar can be revealed an ever widening sea of people frozen in the on rush of the explosion of light, into this dark, dark eternity of void.
Somebody yells "Yes!" or “I can’t believe it!" or "damn!" or some exclamation in all the different regions of the crowd, the sea of crowds, as time picks up. In the distance you can see an orb of light broadcasting in through a distant portal, but that portal, is broken.
"Its broken. The portal is broken." Some one says.
"The fucking portal is broken!" Someone else nearest it screams.
"But its broken." Screams another
"Its broken! Damn it!!! The portal is brokeeeennnn!!!"
Some sighs and sobs can be heard around, but mostly in the form of slight gasps.
"Hold it open, hold it open god damn it." Screams the captain. "We've been searching for this for eons, we'll find a way, bring in the army. We are fixing this portal if it's the last thing we do."
The astonishment of what they are witnessing through the portal is almost suffocating to them. Their joy is explosive. It's a miracle. Not only is there a portal into SOME thing, ANY thing, AND they've found it, but its filled with things that exceed their wildest dreams all combined by, by an infinity. They've found an infinity of substance and they are about to pour through that portal into it like jar of sea monkeys into an ocean that never ends, a bottomless box of tools at their side.
"What are we going to do captain?"
"I said bring in the army. Im not going back to that forsaken fucking void. Im not. I AM NOT! Do you hear me? We are going to do whatever it takes. You see that twinkling of glimmering gold Lieutenant? That light that you've never seen before? What is that huh? Where did it come from? We'll call them stars. However this all got here, it must be one hell of a story. If we ca.. if we, better.. if we can stay here.. keep this glorious,"
Long pause.
"forsaken portal from crumbling down around us." The captain almost trembles with grief.
In a low, frustrated, exasperated tone he goes on. "It's a conundrum, we've found it, but it’s broken. We got it open, but it’s broken, we're here, but it’s leaving. We finally made it, but it’s departing. … I can’t turn from it, the twinkling of these stars; look over there Lieutenant."
He points to some planets. Those places, each vast and abounding with centuries of mystery and intrigue and discovery and joy and adventure. The journey of it all…."
He pauses in its incredible magnificence to take it all in.
"and that's just 3 of them. Look over there."
He points into the mystery.
"That's infinity, that goes on, forevvverrr. There's an endless well fountain of lands, endless I tell you…"
The captain puts his head to his hand.
"The history, the future of each, what we can create and bring to life and do and discover, not to mention as I said… We haven't a clue as to what it is, how it got here, what is going … my god…
This portal is staying propped open, I will dig into it to hold it open until my fingers are raw to the bone. I will die to keep this open. There's no going back from here. There's no going back from this glory to the abyss. "
The captain gives off a very noticeable shudder. He almost collapses. The lieutenant grabs his arm and stands him back up.
"Let’s get to work!" The captain bellows out as the ship bumps the dock of the portal.
"Go, go, go!!!! get the army in here, get the supplies, call in new orders, unlimited supplies full steam ahead. Full steam. We have got this, and we will win this, we are NOT, letting go."
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Dark eons, followed by a broken portal into an existence of infinite mystery require that we fix the portal. If we are to be then this is what we must do. This grand symphony of splendor is ours for the taking.
This existence and universe are the essence of infinite potential, they are everything, and just because someone, maybe you, can’t see the scope of that magnitude and appreciate it for what its worth doesn't mean other people can’t, or that you shouldn't stay to see it anyways. You are robbing and raping and murdering your soul if you are content to die and I will fight to shake that horrible tragic indifference out of your mind. I will figure this place out and explore it if I have it my way, and I will work to give you that opportunity to do it as well. I will not lie down like a scared dog while the grim reaper stalks me, I will fight. I will fight for this life, I will fight tooth and nail, I will fight to prop that portal open, this is a sacred place and we have no story, no manual, no guidance, no idea what is going on here and we have only begun to try to figure out how to scratch the surface of what we can see here in this ONE little PIN HEAD of light that we've been thrust into and are in here so far. There are only clues in this game. This is the game of all games and we shall play it valiantly standing tall, all the way through, eyes wide open, paying attention, for all its worth, Figuring it all out is our opportunity for the taking.
Edited by brokenportal, 20 October 2011 - 03:37 AM.
