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.,~:*%##@# ##@@#######%*:~,. cave .,~:*%#######@@## #@##%*:~,.
.,~:*%##@# #####@@##%*:~,. geometry .,~:*%##@@##### #@##%*:~,.
.,~:*%##@# ##########@@ @@########## #@##%*:~,.
.,~:*%##@# #####@% %@##### #@##%*:~,.
.,~:*%#### # 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. #**:~.....
.,~:*%#### ####%*:~,.
.....~*%## like an inverted mandelbrot, the real ##%*~.....
.,~:*%##@# cave is actually not the pockets, but #@##%*:~,.
.,~:*%#### the black around them. keep that in ####%*:~,.
.,~:*%##@# mind. #@##%*:~,.
.,~:*%##@# #@##%*:~,.
.,~:***%#@ ....,,,~~%#%~~,,,... @#%***:~,.
.,~:*%###@ @###%*:~,.
...,:*%%#@ 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. #@##%*:~,.
.....~~**# #**~~.....
.,~:*%%%%# 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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