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...~;%*&## #       the name is a little mis-      # ##&*%;~...
..~;%*&### ~  giving, because of course there is  ~ ###&*%;~..
...~;%*&## no real geometry  in the  caves. you may ##&*%;~...
....~;%*&# feel as  if you are venturing  into some #&*%;~....
.....~;%*& vast  structure,  but you  are  in  fact &*%;~.....
......~;%* leaving any such thing at the  entrance. *%;~......
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......~;%*     leaving physical tethers behind,     *%;~......
.....~;%*&  submitting to an inescapable darkness,  &*%;~.....
....~;%*&# the world around you becomes  more  of a #&*%;~....
...~;%*&## manifestation  of   your  mind,   or   a ##&*%;~...
..~;%*&### collective  mind,  with  a  shape  and a ###&*%;~..
...~;%*&##          direction and a taste.          ##&*%;~...
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.....~;%*&  inescapeable darkness, because if you   &*%;~.....
......~;%* bring   a  candle  or  mount  electrical *%;~......
.......~;% lights,   the   walls  only  serves   as %;~.......
......~;%* markers  to   where  the  tiny   spatial *%;~......
.....~;%*& existence ends and the  darkness beneath &*%;~.....
....~;%*&#                it begins.                #&*%;~....
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..~;%*&### like an inverted  mandelbrot,  the  real ###&*%;~..
...~;%*&## cave  is  actually not the  pockets, but ##&*%;~...
....~;%*&# the  black  around  them.  keep  that in #&*%;~....
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.....~;%*& the  moisture  that  permeates any  cave &*%;~.....
....~;%*&# worth  it's  name...  it's the water the #&*%;~....
...~;%*&## world  rose  from.  it's  the  water you ##&*%;~...
..~;%*&###         drown in, in your dreams.        ###&*%;~..
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....~;%*&# the only sounds in  the  cave  are those #&*%;~....
.....~;%*& that  you  make yourselves. they may  be &*%;~.....
......~;%* distorted  by the  stone structure,  and *%;~......
.......~;% amplified  by  your mind.  try not to be %;~.......
......~;%* alarmed,  try  to remember  the  persons *%;~......
.....~;%*& and objects  around  you,  and  you  can &*%;~.....
....~;%*&# discern   a   mirage   from  a   friend. #&*%;~....
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