Phase Q/And Just Because

Then the people came to the civil areas, and gathered together. And in a group voice, they get together and proclaim a new day. It shall be a day of festivities. Hurray!

Anyway, they partied through the night. It was a ball, a blast. Even the dunks were invited, and partied a bit, and had some fun.

The next day, all was hung over. In a fine mist of champagne, all shrouded in white fine particles of cloud matter, the walls floated away. The backdrop featured upward-flowing waterfalls. They kept on doing the things that made them turn around and spin upside down. And day after day, night by night, they arrived closer to who they wanted to become. The foresty backdrop emitted a low resonant hum of dew. The temperature fluctuated rapidly between extremely high desert-like heat, and extremely low arctic-like cold. In the middle, it quickly swung around through the middle comfortable point. And then, the precipitation began falling down.

One time, things turned around and around and around. And after a while, they realized that it was due to magnetic effects. The other thing that was happening was almost like yesterday. However, not all of yesterday came through to today.

“Did you ever notice that every day is today?”

“Well, yes. That’s sort of how things go.”

“OK, then.”

“I accept this glorious gift freely.”

And then the steam let up, the pressure evaporated, dissolved. And then the radio waves went through fifty levels of space. And then light bright yellow costumes came.

The crew of Zonnyxes ride out on a wave of chaos.

Each second that transpires, a meaningful fraction of the orderly progression of systematic order flips, like an Othello board, into topsy-turvy meaningless drivel.

The hounds of noise sweep through millions of lightyears. Wherever they pass, quantum disruptors break apart the logic of the world.

In their wake, a vast sea of burbling, bubbling turmoil.

You rematerialize in an underwater area of some kind, in the body of a whale corpse.

That’s funny.

Feeling your way around in the dark, you float over, through the rib cage, into the tail. Oops, wrong way. You turn around and swim out of the mouth.

In the open water, you feel the rays of light penetrating the surface, igniting the liquid in a sea of colors.

However, the surface seems to extend all around you. In every direction that you look, light drops in from what feels like above. What is this place?

You look more carefully at the incoming light, and see that it moves rapidly. It looks like you’re in a bubble of water, flying through space.

Pulling out your pocket computer, you image the light flying by outside, and map it. Through inference, you figure out that you’re in the stellar range of Tornuqur. A fiery hot planet orbits, covered in volcanoes, with rivers of lava flowing through its canals. Natural lasers and fusion reactors pop up spontaneously. Life thrives on heat.

Home.

Phase Q: An interactive adventure.