Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-32621845-20170719134144

I tired to post this before posting it here on the Writer's Workshop, well that was a mistake

here it is

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Whatever you do, do not trust the jester.

Let me tell you how I spent my lovely afternoon, after reaching rock bottom in my research on how to ascend to lower planes I have decided that it will be a splendid idea to summon an ancient clown-demon,

I have got to say, looking back it wasn’t the brightest idea but I was desperate for new material to investigate, desperate to get out of this “wall” that I have reached and so I did it, I summoned IT and I faced consequence

At first it wasn’t such a bad thing, all I needed to do is exactly what the old book says and I won’t fail at summoning the jester and hurt myself badly, I was surprised to discover all I need to do is a pack of cards and to somehow set up a chair in the gray deserts of Severa, after that I just need to invite him by doing something ridiculous like throwing a water balloon at a red wrath or smashing myself with a cream pie, of course I choose the latter as it was fairly more easier, and not life threatening.

The next step is to invite IT to do a trick far superior then what I did, then the jester is supposed to appear and by chance you can try to converse with it, and by chance you can convince it to play a card game, for you see it loves card games and it will accept almost any offer, and it is said that it can manipulate the very fabric of Severa in the safest way(assuming that summoning a demon clown and offering to it to play a card game in the middle of a monster festival is “Safe”)

So I waited for a new moon, spending my time mostly taking care of my personal life and reading more into that old book, and after a few day I could finally start! So I bought two computable chair & table and set out to do the ritual, I also bought a cream pie and prepared mentally to humiliate myself in front of an ancient being, and so I smashed to pie on my face challenged the jester and,

<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">Nothing.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">For 10 minutes, nothing happened I was sure that I did the ritual wrongly to go back to the real world to read to old book to see if I did anything wrong, and there IT was, sitting on my couch, mocking me. Imagine a 2 meter clown wearing a black and white outfit with fitting black and white gloves on each side and the smile, that bloody haunting smile stretched as far as its “Ears”, it wore a smiling mask and there were 3(4?) eye holes on that mask and 3(4?) predatory eyes looking at me like they have found a new prey.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">The jester gave me the feeling of humiliation and terror all at once, I wasn’t sure how to act

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">“I see that you have summoned me correct?” it said with high pitch voice “I have truly out done myself indeed, surprising you by appearing in your own world, Heck! Your own house!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">“You probably didn’t expect me to appear here but see, I am special in a sense” it continued

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">“Some of the higher ups can manifest in dreams, your thought but I? I go where I please bound by no rules” his eyes widened up “of course I have one rule that is to entrain my summoner of course!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">“So what do you seek, by the nerdy look I assume you seek knowledge is that correct?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">I quickly you collected my thoughts and responded

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">“Y-yes I seek to know how traverse two higher planes” I responded trying to sound calm

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">“Well, then let’s make a game, we play 3 rounds of whatever card game you choose, if I two games win you will simply be stuck in your research unable to continue to purse your goal, that quite entraining for me and it will be enough, if you win I will simply teach a way to get to one layer of Severa”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">“Do we have a deal?” it said reaching its hand to me

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">“Deal” I said as I shake its hand

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">And so we played 2 rounds of poker and it won so I tried to convince it to stay for 5 rounds and it won all 5 of them, mocking me every time, that I will never reach my goal, that I should just give up, and we continued it to 10 rounds and 20 and 30 but I lost every. Single. Time! And after 5 hours it offered me a deal,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">It will teleport me into the highest planes with only a lantern and food ration by my side, if I don’t die within 24 hours, I won. If I lose it will have my soul as some kind of chew toy

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">I was desperate and tired and just felt like it was my last chance so I did it, I risked my life before for my research and I will do it again but never as boldly and idiotically as I did two weeks ago…

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">And so when it spoke it sounded like It won already and told me to go to bed and “the fun will start tomorrow” and so I went to bed and slept to awake to,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">My apartment, nothing changed I was angry to say the least until I looked outside the window…

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">I saw fire, I saw volcanos erupting I saw faceless humans hunting down other faceless humans I was utterly confused and shocked, and with that notion all of that disappeared and was replaced by a vast haze, I noticed that one thing was different, all of the lights were off and only a lantern standing on my door step with a “good luck” writing near it on a paper

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">Well then it gave me an advantage I thought! I have my whole house as stronghold of sorts to protect me, so what’s now? Just surviving the day here won’t be such a hard thing to do and so I waited the first two hours were met with silent, complete and utter lack of sound, I couldn’t even hear my own thoughts, my own thoughts were muted I started to panic and the more I panic to more I started to see faces looking at my window some humans, some were distorted and odd, and some had the mocking façade of the jester, and slowly but surely I started to feel more panic that I felt that the house is slowly closing in on me, which when I felt that

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">It really did started to close in on me, the house starting to get smaller and smaller, and I jolt to action taking the lantern and getting out of the house as I see it collapse into itself, strange I thought, I thought! I rejoiced to find that I can hear my own thought again and for a second I saw a glimpse of what looked like fireworks at the almost invisible sky and so after my small delay that I am only with a lantern at the middle a dark haze where unworldly creature must lurk and so I tried to calm myself and start moving as to not make myself such an easy unmoving target

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">And so as I traveled I heard whisperings and sounds out of the world which most best described as distorted whale calling, though I remained calm I quickly found something

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">It looked like a huge slug with red scale like skin and a mouth that looked like a blender though it was blind so it didn’t not see me and running away from it was no problem and I saw a scarecrow made entirely out of metal jumping around and screaming at me when it spotted me, after that a pack of headless mercury skinned humanoids with claws instead of finger nails hunting me, I saw being made entirely of light bigger than anything I could but yet I tried to remain calm I must remain calm, I saw eyes looking at me from everywhere no matter where I went I saw different of animals and humans screaming for salvation but I kept going and the more I walked the more I felt like I am going in circle like I was stuck in some kind of show and that all the actors meant to kill me, and so when I thought of that I saw a stage with faceless man all dressed in bizarre clothes chasing me and I ran

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">And I ran

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">And I ran

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">And then I fell, I think I tried to bury myself in the earth at one point but couldn’t dig anything, the surface felt like glass but was unbreakable, and then I understood something, all of these thing are made out of things I saw in the lower plane, things I have read in the old book and in mythology all mashed together to scare me but why? And so I discovered something that could very much save me, the higher plane is effected by my thoughts, by my emotions so all I needed to do is not think and so I a scholar who devoted his life knocked myself out with a lantern, to awake in my apartment

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">I still have the bruise on my head that was quite difficult to make a cover story for my doctor, and I awoke with a report on how to reach the higher plane on my own merit, well not as high as the bastard clown send me but enough so I can actually do some research, and so I leave you with that in mind.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-language: HE">My head still hurts

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