A light flickers, and suddenly a projector activates. The illusion of a man, dressed in a red suit, appears in the middle of the room, eyes closed and a look of concentration on his face.
(This is entirely feigned. The hard part of alethics is almost always in the design of the spell, not the casting.)
For a moment, he simply hovers there, unmoving.
Then the room - unblurs, sharpens unnaturally, every edge picked out in a glaring color not of this world. The light fantastic reaches out from him in curlicued fractals, cracks in reality growing like writhing vines to the edges of the room.
When they reach the floor and walls and ceiling, they seem to lose coherence, the light rushing across the Boundary of the room in a wave of unlight, a computerized grid appearing momentarily.
"Within this space, may the Truth be known to all.
And Aisilian vanishes, replaced by an image of a tower, reaching to the skies, phantasmal clouds around its base and stars about its tip. A tower of Babel. A tower in slow, tumbling ruin, beautiful arches formed of crumbling masonry and spires of exposed iron and blue crystal, caught in mid-fall.
no subject
(This is entirely feigned. The hard part of alethics is almost always in the design of the spell, not the casting.)
For a moment, he simply hovers there, unmoving.
Then the room - unblurs, sharpens unnaturally, every edge picked out in a glaring color not of this world. The light fantastic reaches out from him in curlicued fractals, cracks in reality growing like writhing vines to the edges of the room.
When they reach the floor and walls and ceiling, they seem to lose coherence, the light rushing across the Boundary of the room in a wave of unlight, a computerized grid appearing momentarily.
"Within this space, may the Truth be known to all.
Blur. Blur. Blur. Blur. Blur.
Five times blur and then hold."
/.[[Transmission] [Truth] [Connection] [Truth] [Reception]] [Blur]./ ->
/.[[[Communication] [Outward]] [Truth] [Connection] [Truth] [[Communication] [Inward]]] [[Chaos] [Distortion]]./ ->
/.[[[Communication] [[Momentum Ephemeralized Reified] [Symmetry Ephemeralized Reified]]] [Truth] [Connection] [Truth] [[Communication] [[Momentum Ephemeralized Reified] [[Symmetry Ephemeralized Reified] [Void Reified Ephemeralized]]] [[Possibility Ephemeralized] [Warp Ephemeralized]]./ ----
And Aisilian vanishes, replaced by an image of a tower, reaching to the skies, phantasmal clouds around its base and stars about its tip. A tower of Babel. A tower in slow, tumbling ruin, beautiful arches formed of crumbling masonry and spires of exposed iron and blue crystal, caught in mid-fall.