The Center of The Storm (Location)

dodo_bear

Fort_Master_Gustav FangTheCat Nekhala shunts the lever into the up position, and moves through the gate.

Fort_Master_Gustav

As Orion returns to the pool, he sees that the lever that was located behind the grate seems to have been moved. The grate goes down and so does the wall that lever was in, slotting into the ground and revealing a small room with a marble pedestal, and a book on top of it.

dodo_bear
The lever seems to activate some kind of mechanism that shunts it to the ground and reveals a book atop a pedestal in a small room behind the wall that the lever was on.
Beyond the large gate on the other side of place relative to the lever, the seems to be a somewhat spacious room with a door on the end. However, there are two barriers of some kind of whiteness that Nekhala seems unable to trespass in his form. On this side of the room, there are some large cubes of some kind of black metal, they seem to emanate a different aura and feeling than everything else, you feel like you can reach out and transform them with your power, but not only so they enact their normal functions, but shape and shift at your will.

FangTheCat

Fort_Master_Gustav

Before Orion enters the pool.. he turns to look at his surroundings
"Perhaps one must be physical and the other something much different. Perhaps our differing forms could be of Use."

dodo_bear

FangTheCat Fort_Master_Gustav Nekhala asks, "Orion, could you try to move those black metal cubes through the barrier?"

Fort_Master_Gustav

FangTheCat
As Orion sat in the pool, he felt the world surrounding him beckon him somewhere else. His body began to turn into dust and gas from the air, however, the reaction seemed to slow down. There seemed to be some kind of piece missing, a small yet deeper thought to unveil the curtains and disconnect him from the physical form to the other form. A small ammount of effort left to bridge the gap.

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.

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.."

dodo_bear

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

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.