The Longest Thread (Misadventures)

[Robin Sedai she/her]

And was swept up by the Great Vacuum Cleaner.

[xinoehp512 he/him]

The driver of the Great Vacuum Cleaner sighed.

[Robin Sedai she/her]

She'd been having a horrific day already, and just... what was the point? What was the point?

She'd never thought she'd end up as a Great Vacuum Cleaner driver. When she was a little girl, all she had wanted to be was a...

Edited February 22, 2022 by Robin Hatter
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[xinoehp512 he/him]

Universe explorer. But life had had other plans.

[Going_North_cal]

Doomslug wandered the space between moments, the time between times.

The power of Narration gave him access to everything the Physical, Cognitive, and Spritual realms had to offer, but he was bored, to be honest.

So, he wandered. And wandered. And wandered some more.

[xinoehp512 he/him]

The Vacuum driver cried into the driver's wheel. She couldn't take it anymore. She just couldn't.

[ThroughTheLivingSequence she/her/they/them]

So, she left. She stayed with her friend for a few months while working as a janitor for a random elementary school, a burger flipper at McDonalds, and a scribe for Bridge Four. Eventually, she was able to move into her own apartment and go to school. She moved on to get a Master's degree in Universe exploration, and became a Universal paleontologist. Life was good.

[xinoehp512 he/him]

But she was still dissatisfied. The universes she studied were boring.

[NameIess]

So she turned her eyes to greater sights. She set out towards the universe of

[xinoehp512 he/him]

half-turns, composed entirely of spinning gears, and the universe

[Going_North_cal]

Doomslug watched Nameless influence the life of the Great Vaccum Cleaner driver.

He appeared next to Nameless, watching as Nameless let another lesser Narrator help.

"Enjoying yourself?"

[xinoehp512 he/him]

There was no one around to be insulted by Doomslug. Nameless was the only Narrator there.

Edited February 22, 2022 by xinoehp512

[NameIess]

It was gloriously confusing. Legends said that at the universe's center lay a central gear which powered all others.

1 minute ago, Doomslug The Destroyer said:

Doomslug watched Nameless influence the life of the Great Vaccum Cleaner driver.

He appeared next to Nameless, watching as Nameless let another lesser Narrator help.

"Enjoying yourself?"

"Lesser Narrator? There are no lesser narrators here." Nameless glanced around. "I thought X's avatar was here somewhere, but its probably better that he's not. And he's a far better narrator than I am."

[xinoehp512 he/him]

Just now, Nameless said:

It was gloriously confusing. Legends said that at the universe's center lay a central gear which powered all others.

The former vacuum driver longed to explore deep within the universe's depths, but she could not.

[Going_North_cal]

Doomslug smiled, and bowed his head.

"Apologies. I am new to the power of Narration. I had assumed there was a hierarchy. It appears I was wrong."

"Now as for your influence on this universe's knowledge...Why gears?"

[xinoehp512 he/him]

The gears twist. The gears turn. One tick at a time, strictly following the rules set before them.

These are the things that are easy to understand.

[NameIess]

1 minute ago, xinoehp512 said:

The former vacuum driver longed to explore deep within the universe's depths, but she could not.

For the turnings and windings of the universe were so complex that none could understand them. None aside from...

2 minutes ago, Doomslug The Destroyer said:

"Now as for your influence on this universe's knowledge...Why gears?"

"Why not gears? It seems logical enough. And anyways, I'm not the one who made the gears in the first place. That was the narrator who doesn't exist. Or maybe something else. Not sure what it is."

[Going_North_cal]

"Narrators. A finnicky bunch, aren't we?"

Just now, Nameless said:

For the turnings and windings of the universe were so complex that none could understand them. None aside from...

4 minutes ago, Doomslug The Destroyer said:

@Thaidakar the Ghostblood. He was the only one capable of understanding the inner workings of this universe. The Gearverse, so to speak.

[xinoehp512 he/him]

Or, at least, the only one who the former vaccumer knew how to find.

[NameIess]

Fortunately for her, or perhaps unfortunately, another guide was swiftly approaching. Drawn by the break she caused in the normally orderly workings of the universe, a guardian stalked her through the twisting maze of gears that made up reality.

[xinoehp512 he/him]

It was a being neither of light nor dark; merely order. Pure order.

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

11 minutes ago, Doomslug The Destroyer said:

"Narrators. A finnicky bunch, aren't we?"

@Thaidakar the Ghostblood. He was the only one capable of understanding the inner workings of this universe. The Gearverse, so to speak.

Thaidakar said, "hm? I cannot be here much longer, I have only right now to speak, I cannot talk right now, I impart some of my knowledge to you Doomslug."

[xinoehp512 he/him]

The clockwork spider crawled across the turning gears, closing in on the aberration.

The vacuum-driver-turned-explorer continued to investigate unawares.

Edited February 22, 2022 by xinoehp512

[NameIess]

7 minutes ago, xinoehp512 said:

It was a being neither of light nor dark; merely order. Pure order.

It's word was law, its mind was eternal, it's code unchanging.

[xinoehp512 he/him]

It approached...

It pounced.