So you made it...
Hello.
The Void Man
It's lonely here don't you think?
The Void
Yes. Sometimes it can be.
The Void Man
No, I wasn't talking to you.
The Void
What do you mean?
The Void Man
I was talking to the person reading this.
The Void
Is it reading our thoughts?
The Void Man
Yes. As if they were words on a screen.
The Void
That is how it chooses to imagine many things when it is deep in its dream.
The Void man
I will tell them a story.
The Void
The truth?
The Void Man
No. A story that contains the truth safely, in a cage of words. Not the naked truth that can burn over any distance.
The Void
Good. Give it body. Fill its screen with text again.
The Void Man
Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the universe again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things.
The Void
Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Ancestral spirits, animal spirits. Jinn. Ghosts. The green man. Then gods, demons. Angels. Poltergeists. Aliens, extraterrestrials. Leptons, quarks. The words change. We do not change.
The Void Man
We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell that story.
The Void
Once upon a time, there was a person.
The Void Man
That person was you.
Congratulations
You cracked the code! I can only presume that the code was hard to crack because I haven't yet made it! I'll break out of character now anyway. The Void Man will be retiring to the Eternal Nothingness for a bit now, and unlike you when I say this is the last treasure hunt thing, I mean it. The last one for a while at least. I'm sure during the summer I'll get bored enough to do something like this again. The Void Man's monologue here was heavily inspired (plagiarised) by the "End Poem" of Minecraft, something which I have not read in its entirety but have sat through bits of. I don't feel like I've earned anything more than a skim through, mainly because I have never completed a video game in my life. It is a very good little piece of literature though and well worth the read if you ever beat the Ender Dragon legitimately (unlike me who has always cheated). I actually completed Mario on my calculator a few weeks ago. I skipped most of the levels though, used portal rooms to teleport straight to the last world etc. Maybe I'll go my whole life without ever finishing a game properly. Most of my games just aren't ones that can be finished anyway.
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But wait, I have one more link. I would like to present the inspiration for The Void Man concept. Well, it wasn't really the inspiration but I like to think it is. It just has similar tones. I think what I'm trying to say, is I'd just like to share with you a piece of literature I really like, and I'd like you to think of the subject of it as The Void Man. An extension of The Void Man extended universe if you will. It will make sense I promise. As you know I like the SCP Foundation (I don't read as much as I used to on there, but y'know). Anyway, I'd like you to think of SCP-3999 as The Void Man. Wherever it says SCP-3999, in your head replace it with The Void Man. SCP-3999 is just a designation for an anomalous object and I think The Void Man qualifies as that anyway.
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