Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-31073921-20170221004409

Deep in Africa if you travel enough through marsh and grass, you will find a small village called ‘Zujudi’.

The village will appear normal, and the villagers will be kind to you, yet anxious for you to leave. If you do so then be on your way, but remember that you can never come back to that village no matter how hard you try. But, if you mention ‘The Record of Insanity’ your journey will not end. The Villagers will look at you with a stone expression, their faces unreadable. One villager will walk out of the crowd, and old man led by a cane. He will show you the directions. He will start to walk through the bushes around the village, and although he is slow you must be patient. Remember that during this walk, this is your last chance to turn around, and if you are going to brave the journey than keep forward. After a mile of this slow fallow you will enter a clearing with a huge temple, which you are surprised you have not seen for miles. When you turn the old man will be gone, but do not fret - he is safe at his village. Your only option then is to turn to the temple and enter it.

When you enter it will seem dusty, as if out of an indiana jones movie. The walls will be lined with carvings, and out of the corner of your eye they will look like eyes that gaze is burning into your soul. If you turn they will again appear as the regular drawings. As you walk along the temple it will become more and more apparent that no one has entered for centuries, and that it is falling apart. After a few more yards you will come upon a podium, where a crack in the wall lets light shine through on it. Walk to it, and you will see a chair next to the podium. Sit in it. Suddenly you will feel like something is watching you, now you should close your eyes, though that may add to your feeling of defencelessness. You will start to hear whispering in your ear, do not concentrate on it, for whatever it is that they’re whispering have drove all mad that have listened. Keep steady and sit. If you had opened your eyes at this part, you will seem to see flickering and faces out of the corner of your eye. Now, the whisperings growing louder and your hearing giggling, so keep in your chair - grip it if you have to. This is very important, because the beings that are whispering will appear if you get up, and they aren’t imaginary. But, if you keep still eventually the voices will stop, so open your eyes and stand. On the podium will be two records. One is small as dusted, and the other big and glamorous. No matter what your regular opinion would be, you will be inclined to take the bigger record. Don’t, take the smaller one. If you do the chair and bigger record will fade away, as if they were never there. You can walk out of the temple now, and will see yourself outside of the village. But what have you gained on this journey? The record, for it will play the voices you heard but more intensely, and will drive even the most sane man to insanity. But, if you had chosen the big one you would turn into one of the hideous creatures that make the whispering, your only goal to drive people to the temple, and try your hardest to make them stand from their chairs with your whispering. Because if you do, you’ll finally be free.  