??? Explora Session 3: 9AM PST/11AM CST/Noon EST Start

[idolpro]

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THE GATES | THE COURTYARD | THE FOUNTAINS | THE GARDENS

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[idolpro]

[ There's a moment, as you begin to break the stem, of intense discomfort.

It's a feeling deep within you that seems to say, ah, you should be kind to yourself.

Continue? Y/N ]

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[asonoficeandfire]

[winces and stills his movements

be kind to himself? after that shower of you're not worthy and also a bad person at the gate? hm. he pulls his hand back and gets back to his feet.

he's so tired what if he just wanders over to the tree to sit down for a second instead.]

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[idolpro]

[ Well, this place is not the Gates of Heaven, now is it? There's something more private about it. Personal, even.

Up close to the tree, you can see that its leaves are lush and green, but not of any species you can particularly identify. Actually, it's more like... the platonic ideal of a tree?

And still, taking a rest beneath its branches feels like the most natural thing in the world, somehow. You sit, and you surely don't mean to nod off, but you find yourself drifting off anyway.

You don't remember what you dream, but you wake up to strange pinpricks—as though your leg had fallen asleep, but across your entire body. . .

Oh, what an embarrassing position for you. ]

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[asonoficeandfire]

[shifts to sit up with a groan and flops back down until the feeling dissipates holy shit.

carefully going to get up after a bit, swaying and trying to shake the feeling off augh.

looking around himself too, how long did he sleep? did anything change?]

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[idolpro]

[ Nothing is... different, exactly, but something about that rest had been remarkably peaceful, despite the strange, almost out-of-body feeling it left you with when you came back to yourself. You could compare it to a particularly distilled form of meditation. ]

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[asonoficeandfire]

[hm. well.

if he's not tired anymore, he'll go back to look around the flowers, and see if the one he almost picked is okay :<

can he leave through the gate?]

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[idolpro]

[ You can. It's pure white heat, but it does not burn.

As you pass through, it's as though a heaviness lifts from your chest—some terrible weight that you hadn't realized you'd been carrying. It had felt like terrible anguish, but now you can hardly remember it—it's as though it was a dream.

You find yourself in front of a fountain, with no way to cross back to where you were before. ]