Characters:OPEN
Date/Time: A little after noon on Monday, October 24th
Location: Everywhere
Rating: N/A
The destruction of Edensphere started from the bottom up. As the end of October approached, the strange rips in space began to consume everything, leaving a white void in its place. Any creature or being that failed to avoid the increasing void was consumed by the blankness. Soon there was nothing at all on the 4th and 5th floors. By the dawn of the 24th, no one who pushed the elevator buttons to the 5th floor ever reached their destination--their elevator ride simply descended into nothingness and brought nothing up in return.
As noon of the 24th approached, the death of the Great Oak seemed more certain and terrible than ever. Few if any leaves remained, the trunk of the tree was a sickly gray and there was a terrible lack of bird songs or rustling of animals.
The earth began to shake. It started with trembling at noon, a rolling sensation. Perhaps some of the wiser residents who saw a strange
rainbow colored entry made the wise decision to run to the wilderness. Some might have stayed. For those who were on the 1st and 2nd floors, the rocking increased to the point where they struggled to stand upright. The glass of the sphere itself seemed to vibrate.
Then the world itself exploded.
The world begins to undo itself in the bazaar, from the very spot where Fugue and Cancer? disappear. The blankness rushes like a wave that can be seen coming at residents faster than they can outrun it. For a terrifying moment, on every floor but the Wilderness, there is only pure silence that pierces the air louder than any sound could. There is no sign of the objects that had once been there being tugged into any different universe; where there was once life, there is now only blankness.
For the residents who are quickly consumed by the whiteness, there is no sensation of pain. Just a blinding white light that forces them to close their eyes. When they open them they aren't where they once were. They will find that they have been transported to the wilderness, into the peaceful meadow.
Those in the Wilderness are also subjected to a blast of blinding white light, and once vision returns to them they discover the entire population has appeared with them. The Great Oak that had been the center of the Wilderness takes on a different appearance, leaves glossy with good health and branches thrusting ever upwards, into an endlessly blue sky. The glass sphere is now broken into a million shards of magically floating glass that occasionally clink together in the breeze. The Wilderness itself seems to extend into forever, yet there is something different about this new landscape. Something deceptive.
As for the Tree, it has also changed. The elevator that once dropped residents off on the third floor, which was mounted into the base of the tree, has changed. The five floor buttons that once operated the elevator are now missing, replaced with buttons that read UP, MIDDLE and DOWN. The wilderness has become the ground floor. Pushing UP takes the residents back home.
Yes, home. For the wilderness Tree is just like the Great Oak with some slight adjustments. For one thing, the islands that once floated at the base of the tree now surround its lowermost branches and upper trunk and what was once the Access Point has become a built in platform that runs around the trunk of the tree. If residents continue up, the elevator lets them out on the top of the tree, where they will find their homes exactly as they left them, with all their possessions and pets intact. Everything has been replicated from the 1st and 2nd floors, although the bridges that connected the islands are all in much better shape and the monsters that haunted Crystala are now gone. The library island and the music room are also completely accessible to residents.
Finally, after this miraculous transformation, there will one final event from Rembrandt Lloyd. Memory recovery. As mentioned in a previous post, all characters that will be recovering their memories will fall into a dead sleep that will last 24 hours. Residents can remember all events from before their canon pull points and all of their Edensphere memories. Additionally, any memories of Edensphere lost previously can now be recovered (or not depending on preference). The memory recovery can start at any time after noon on the 24th.
((If anyone has any questions regarding the events and settings described here, feel free to ask them in
this post.))