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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. ##@#¤*=«..
..«===¤¤## ##¤¤===«..
.......«*# 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. ##@#¤*=«..
......«*## ##*«......
..«=*¤#@## 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 ##@#¤*=«..
..«=*¤#@## mind. ##@#¤*=«..
..«=*¤#@## ##@#¤*=«..
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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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