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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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......~~:% worth it's name... it's the water the %:~~......
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......~~:% 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 ##@%:~~...
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