Clavius woke up. While he is not able to see even his own hand in front of his eyes, Clavius tried to ascertain his situation. His body feels weary and sore. His memories seem lacking, like a huge hole was ripped into his head and the most important things, which happened in his life, disappeared. Frowning, Clavius wondered if he might be blind.
Maybe he even prayed to the gods:“If only a little bit of light could be seen from anywhere! Please! I just want to find out if I'm blind!“.
It doesn't seem like Clavius is a person of piety and we wouldn't want him to fake it right?
While it seems like a normal person would freak out and panic, Clavius only felt tired and disoriented.
Clavius started to feel around the ground. He followed the rough surface of a lever like object, only to accidentally push it into the ground. Shrinking back from the sudden impulse, the ground disappeared and he fell.
Pitch-black surroundings and the sound of the wind whistling by his ears made Clavius really afraid.
He should be nervous! He should start panicking at least! But it seems like our Clavius is excited? Which normal, and sane person, would feel excitement falling down a dark space, while steadily gaining speed?
Back to the story.
Clavius felt the wind whistling by, as it started to lightly cut him. His insane falling speed didn't seem to shrink even an iota, instead gaining even more. The cuts started accumulating and his body was like a Canvas, while the sharp wind was the pencil, cutting him ever so slowly.
Not a single sound escaped Clavius, as his skin started to peel off and his muscles started lacerating. Slashing open his skin. His raw flesh and sinews dissolved, while the ghastly white from his bones shone through, till even they couldn't hold on. Clavius completely disintegrated.
You might ask me things like: „Hey, is this for real?", "Wasn't Clavius our main character?", "Why did he try to caress a lever in a place without even a tiny speck of light?", "Is Clavius a lever-pervert?", or, " Is he a nutcase for feeling excitement in the dark and getting ripped apart?“.
NO. Well.. yes this is for real. Yes, Clavius is our main character. Well why shouldn't he be allowed to caress a lever? Maybe he is a lever-pervert. We won't find out about him, if nobody will try to uncover his secrets and guide him the 'right' path!
Clavius is like a newborn, well maybe not completely like a newborn. Clavius is a handsome, dark haired, dark eyed, little above the usual average height, slightly muscular- type of character without memories in a mysterious place.
He is not sure what he should do, so I took it upon myself to guide our little Clavius with your help!
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I dare say two minds are better than one, and maybe lots of brains are better than two.
Everyone together should be able to help our puppet..-*cough* sorry for the slip of the tongue.
Everyone together should be able to help our hero through this dangerous place, guide him to a few hundred deaths, directly into another dangerous place or maybe even find his one true love?(Or 100 unique girls which are all of deep character and charisma in a harem!)
Lets go back in the story and try to help out Clavius for starters!
Clavius woke up blind..- no.
Clavius woke up without eyes..that's not it..where was the spirit?!
CLAVIUS WOKE..-
Clavius tried to feast his eyes on the new world. He got a new chance at life while his past mistake, by pushing a lever in a dark place, was annulled. Clavius was still surrounded by darkness, so he couldn't feast his eyes on anything at all, so he tried to listen.
From far away a wild rushing noise was heard. The noise could be a stream, might be a river of acid or maybe hundreds of thousands of insects, clacking and clicking away with their small carapaces, emulating the sound of a rushing river. Yuck. Good luck Clavius.
His next option was to use his sense of taste.
You think Clavius is not idiotic enough to taste the ground to get information on his surroundings?! Wrong.
The ground tastes of dust, dirt and stones.
Using his amazing intellect, Clavius decided to use his sense of smell initially, and his sense of touch for last.
Clavius started sniffing the air, like the dog he is. A small air current, coming from his right side, smelled like faeces, while the other directions had no distinct odour.
Clavius started flailing around in the air, without reason nor purpose. Strengthening his resolve with that bizarre goblin mating dance, our hero set out to feel around his vicinity.
He found himself hitting his head onto the hard ceiling. Grumbling, Clavius stared into empty space, giving someone a really annoyed look.
I wonder what Clavius tried to tell us with that action.
Slowly putting one foot in front the other, our hero reached a wall.
Our amazing and exciting first adventure with the best and strongest hero(in the makings) alive comes to an end. What will await Clavius in his next adventure? Will he walk into the lever and fortuitously set it off again and fall to his death? Is he in front of a metaphorical wall or a real one?! Will he really find a river of acid and accidentally fall into it?! WILL HE EVER BE ABLE TO SEE AGAIN?!
Find out in the next chapter of AEAC!