Anonymous Canine

Interrogation of the Temple Spirits

Bruised and battered I entered the temple doors.

"Why have you resisted my entrance so? Why have you tested me so?"

I cried to the keepers of the holy place.

"Because of your wisdom and your ignorance!

" Your pursuit of wisdom has brought you to this point. You began your quest for knowledge shortly before the beginning of the end. You planned to gain the knowledge to work towards preventing the failure and destruction of all that you held dear. And over the following years, you gained a great deal of knowledge. However, that knowledge came too late.

"The World has ended. The remains of the destruction are all around you. All of your kind have been destroyed, betrayed by your very own tribe. The future of all is in question, and you know nothing of this. You have been blind to the apocalypse which has occurred under your very nose. The day of judgment has come and gone and you have been completely unaware! You have sidestepped prophecy."

Images of chaos swirl all around. Great monuments of triumph are torn down, colossal fractal webs of organization are sliced to strands, and a poison seeps across the world, tainting everything. Even the mightiest of defenders are subject to its toxin. Few resist, and even those are quickly shouted down by the infected. This venom is ubiquitous, it is the venom of Fear.

"What would have had me do? Given up my quest for wisdom? Joined the warriors who fought so valiantly? What would I have accomplished? Most likely I would be lying dead with all the others, or worse been poisoned with the others and found myself fighting AGAINST what I believed in?"

The Keepers remained silent

"Now I am alone, the last of my kind. But one survivor of a lost world is better than no survivors. Though I may be the end of the line for my kind, at least I can tell our story. While we may die out in the material world, at least we shall have immortality as our wisdom is passed on. Perhaps in time I may come across another who, like me has escaped a rightly deserved doom. Either way, I have what tools I have, and now I learn to use them for purposes other than they were intended."

"That is the reason you were permitted to enter"

posted by AnonymousCanine @ 8/03/2005 10:27:00 PM