The Center of The Storm (Location)

Fort_Master_Gustav

dodo_bear
Orion doesn't seem able to hear what Nekhala says. But the metal cubes seem to oscilate to his pseudo-voice, as there is no sound within the realm he currently inhabits, at least not sound in the way people usually see.

dodo_bear

FangTheCat Fort_Master_Gustav Nekhala begins to shout, in order to see just what he can do with the cubes.

FangTheCat

Fort_Master_Gustav

"What must it be?"
Orion looks at himself before his surroundings once again.
"I know already.. I am awake somewhere else, without memory of this storm, this place, this wretched place. How long has it been? Long enough.."

Fort_Master_Gustav

FangTheCat
Orion concentrates in the separation of his being of now and his being of somewhere else, only to come to a realization explicit in the headings of the statues, perhaps only true here, but truth now nonetheless: All beings are made of multiple beings.
Soon, the physical form of Orion dissipates into nothingness, and with that goes away all of what is dirty and undue. What is left is the spirit of Orion and his concept, left in a sea of the same scenery, but bathed in a golden light that illuminates it all and shines the true meaning of all that is exposed to the ones that can see it in that form. He is now left to wander beyond the door, where he senses the presence of one alike.

Fort_Master_Gustav

dodo_bear
Nekhala does so and the cubes shape themselves to whatever he thinks they would, as this realm has no sound. What Nekhala does is shape the metal with his own will to shape the metal, as the metal is like an empty vessel, a flag left to wave on the sea of golden light, and Nekhala has a spirit now strong enough to impose its will upon it. Such a power can be harnessed for much more potent applications, but he is naught but a begginer.

dodo_bear

Fort_Master_Gustav The cubes begin to fluctuate into interlocking poles, which he uses to try and lever the physical door open.

FangTheCat

Fort_Master_Gustav

"More strangeness.. Wonderful.. So this is the way forwards.."

Fort_Master_Gustav

dodo_bear
Sadly, the door seems petrified in place, and the poles don't seem to be able to edge it open. You can somewhat feel Orion's presence though, it seems that he got through with it.

Fort_Master_Gustav

FangTheCat 👍️

Fort_Master_Gustav

FangTheCat (I'll presume that you went through the door, as an internal monologue doesn't really leave much room for me to reply.)
Alas, as Orion's form permeates through the large door that seems etherial now, he comes across a larger room. First of all he bumps into some pieces of some kind of dark metal, that he seems to almost enter inside of for a few moments, before exiting, as if it was a possession of the material.
Then, he notices that the room seems to have a good quantity of these black metal cubes, and that they seem to be manipulated by Nekhala, which is floating in the middle of the room. Then, there are two barriers of whiteness that he doensn't seem to be able to get through.
As an addendum. Nekhala seems to have the same form as Orion, he doesn't physicall see him as there is no physical to either, but he projects an image of him into reality, almost as if automatically, to make him visualize the concept of Nekhala as a person. Orion's mind is far too young to the storm to survive doing otherwise.

dodo_bear

Fort_Master_Gustav Nekhala tries shrinking down a cube as small as it will go to make it into a key, and then notices Orion behind him. "Um, can you hear me?" he asks.

FangTheCat

Fort_Master_Gustav

dodo_bear

"Yes, Yes.. Now How would we get through this little thing.. At this point i'm beginning to hope myself wakes up back at home without memory.. but that still wouldn't be Me."
Orion attempts to passively manipulate one of the spare metal cubes.

Fort_Master_Gustav

dodo_bear
The metal makes itself into a key, however, teh door doesn't seem to have a lock.

dodo_bear

Fort_Master_Gustav Nekhala searches over the door for something that might help to open it. at first, nothing is apparent.

Fort_Master_Gustav

dodo_bear
Indeed nothing is apparent, perhaps more experimentation with the cubes is warrented?

FangTheCat

The metal cubes seem to be manipulated with easy by Orion's form. They shape and shift into whatever he wishes.

Fort_Master_Gustav

dodo_bear

FangTheCat

(I realize that this seems to start becoming a bit too small, and rather than have you guys throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks for the next posts, I'll presume you did what you were meant to do, which was to use the metal to block out the whiteness. Nevertheless, you now know about the metal, so that's enough.)

With the collective effort of Orion and Nekhala, both of the screens of whiteness seem to have been effectively stopped. Now, they are free to wander ahead. The room seems to straighten down to a tunnel, that turns left. They feel something large emanating quite a lot of potency from whatever's ahead.

dodo_bear

Fort_Master_Gustav Nekhala begins shifting the cubes into various shapes, and attemptint to force them to do something out of the ordinary.

dodo_bear

Fort_Master_Gustav Nekhala shoots down the tunnel, at top speed to discover the source of the energy.

FangTheCat

(Having internet issues, hope this didn't double post)
Fort_Master_Gustav

dodo_bear

Orion moves slower, still paying attention to his surroundings and remaining careful of what might be ahead.

Fort_Master_Gustav

dodo_bear

FangTheCat

Turning around the corridor together, the two somewhat non-existant spirits come face-to-face to a whole different scenary than they had faced beforehand.
They seem to be in a long and somewhat open corridor, everything surrounding them is an unprecedented white, except the place they walk on. The corridor stretches on for a while, as they lose awareness of their senses and seem dragged towards its impeding end. Eventually, they come upon the representation of a door, or of transition as it is.
Their meta-hands open the door and push it aside, only to reveal another room with what seems to be a large dark triangle pointing down. They fall into the door, almsot as if the gravity has been inverted, and into the large triangle.
The triangle enlarges and enlarges endlessly, as if it wasn't there, and soon, everything around them is surrounded in darkness. Orion and Nekhala lose conciousness.
Following, they are met with different images within a dream-like state that they can't discern from reality. They first see a large series of rings and structures surrounding a globe of random colors. They see The Inquisitor with a flaming white and black eye on his forehead, sitting on a trone, with the colours exploding behind him. You see a black triangle of enormous proportions occulting the globe of colours and casting a golden light through a rectangular slit, that distances itself and dissapears, swallowed by an ocean of darkness.
Lastly, you see the trifactual proportions of The Storm and its three anchors, as the center enlarges and floods, engulfing everything visible. Seeing this, you achieve the understanding of something about The Storm. (talk to me in Discord)

Then, everything fades to black again. next thing you know, both of you wake up inside of Nekhala's fighter, and slowly drift out of the storm. Barely a single minute had passed since you ingressed into it. Nekhala seems to be back to normal, but Orion seems to still have its weird body, though somewhat similar to Nekhala, and with a similar uniform.