01-14-2010, 06:05 AM
The Trials
Original Author: Xoylo
Edited and Revised by: Hissil
The Trials are believed to take place after one dies. It is the ââ¬ÅLimboââ¬Â between Heaven and Hell where you are tested and tried for your sins. The person telling this story had vividly experienced this on an astral projection into a higher dimension. I grammatically revised this story for easier reading. This story is assumed to be true.
Rooms:
1. Distortion of Faith
2. Contorted Monk
3. Deformed Runt
4. Disjointed Warrior
5. Eternity of Bliss
6. Delusions of Grandeur
7. Punisher of Sin
8. Conception of Cannibalism
9. Labyrinth Puppet
10. Decomposition of Reflection
11. Sacrifice of Mortality
12. Torturous King
13. Device of Impossibility
I am in a long hall that seems to stretch on forever in two directions. In both directions I can see light, so I start walking in the same direction I was facing when I fell asleep. I start to hear screaming, and as I walk further it gets louder. I stop and head back the other way. I keep walking and again I hear screaming.
Soon I find myself in a large stone room with many doors and angels. The air is thick with dust and I can taste it. There are 13 doorways with a figure standing in front of each one. I am not alone in this room; there are a few dozen other men, women and children of all ages. The doors are very thick solid wood and have strange brass symbols riveted to them.
Others are going to the doors and going into them, and some are coming out of the doors. Those coming out sometimes come out crying or laughing. I approach the first door. The creature introduces herself as an angel.
Distortion of Faith - She has an ornate headdress like an upturned Guillotine, pale clammy skin with a bluish tint, as if she was cold or dead. She is a wearing a black and red gothic dress. She says to me, "In this room your faith will be tested, are you ready to enter?" I pass through the doorway.
I am standing dead center on a rope and wooden slat bridge, over a massive void in an area I can only describe as apocalyptic and hellish. The sky is boiling red and the clouds take form of screaming babies. There is an atmosphere of suffering and pain; blood is raining down. The bridge is long and narrow and I am carefully balanced on it. Below me is the void, pure darkness. There are thousands of flashes of light dancing within it; orbs of fallen souls. The bridgeââ¬â¢s length stretches far behind sight indefinitely into some sort of horizon. The slightest movement makes the bridge sway and creek. I start walking very slowly holding on tight to the ropes. As the bridge sways from side to side, I try to steady it by spreading my legs as I walk.
I hear the angelââ¬â¢s voice call to me, "You can fly, have faith in me, let yourself fall." I think to myself, her name is Distortion of Faith, surely she is lying to me. I ignore her and keep walking. She calls out again after a while saying the same thing. I am tempted as I am making no progress and the screams and the blood rain is becoming unbearable; and the flashing lights are now taking interest in me and flying at my face. They don't make impact they just make me flinch and the bridge sways all the more. I close my eyes to block out the rain and the lights and keep walking. I hear her voice again, saying "Open your eyes my child.ââ¬Â I open them. I am back outside the room in front of her. She says to me, "You have passed the first trial, continue onwards."
I do so, but instead of walking to the next door I walk across the room towards the opposite door, laughing nervously. The next room I reach also has an angel standing in front of the doorway.
Contorted Monk - A tall man, pale white eyes and soft looking. His head is tilted to one side due to a chain fitted tightly around the temples on his head to his shoulder. He says to me, "Twisted are the words and founding of God and religion, here you will find no solace; do you wish to enter?ââ¬Â I enterââ¬Â¦
I am in a giant church; the stained glass windows are casting light on me. I am chained to the floor inside of a pentacle. My head is in the top point and my other limbs to each of the other points. I can only look up, and have some vision to my left and right due to a neck clamp; each way I look is tinted a different shade from the glass. It's a bewildering sight that scares me and the floor is stone cold. I feel I am naked, and feel I am not alone. I hear the voice of the angel call out, "God didn't build a church, Jesus never set foot in a church, a church is not a safe place do you agree? Or is the church the house of God ?" I I reply that I do not agree I am in the house of God. I feel a sharp pressure on my chest and it runs slowly down to my belly. I realize I am being cut open and start screaming. "I am safe, I am safe God save me!" The voice asks me again the same question. I answer the same as I did before. I feel a deep pressure in my body followed by a wriggling and a tugging inside me as if someone has their hand in me. Held in front of my face is my heart, the warm blood dripping on my face. I feel the floor becoming warmer... I feel comfort in the warmth, and the pain starts to fade away. My head is light, and my mouth dry. I feel like I am dieing, but I feel comfort, a confliction like none other. The voice calls to me again but this time says, "you shall die if you answer the same again.ââ¬Â And then the question is repeated. I answer the same. I hoped God was listening; I hoped to die after being mutilated. I wanted to die. I close my eyes knowing more pain is to come. But no pain comesââ¬Â¦ I open my eyes. I am outside of the door, no wounds and no pain, but I still have the feeling of inner warmth.
The angel says to me "The trials continue, your journey awaits." I sit down to focus my thoughts. I try to speak to a lady with a small child, but no words come out of my mouth. It seems talking is forbidden here. After taking a rest and reflecting on the last two rooms, I continue. The next door I come to again has a creature that calls itself an angel.
Deformed Runt - Sitting in a wheelchair is a lump of a man, with deformed features and missing limbs, wired into many life keeping devices.
He says to me, "Those less fortunate than you are still human, even if they are less mobile or different, in here you shall be tested, do you wish to enter?" I enterââ¬Â¦
I am in what looks like a hospital. The fire alarm and sprinklers are going off. People are panicking and running around. I am pushed against a wall by a nurse. She screams, "The childrenââ¬â¢s ward is on fire! Just up the corridor on the left." I just notice I am wearing what looks like a Fire Marshallââ¬â¢s jacket. I run up the narrow corridors, with angels standing to the left and right watching. There is smoke and following the signs for the childrenââ¬â¢s ward is hard. I finally reach it and go in. Inside there are several children all huddled together, too scared to move. There is fire all around the door way, I jump through and I am nearing the huddled up children. Outside of the group is a child in a wheelchair, head to one side, passed out from the smoke. Thinking of what the angel said to me, I know I will be tested for the child in the wheelchair. I tell the other children to keep low and breathe gently as little as possible. The fire is being kept suppressed by the sprinklers but the smoke is becoming thick. I hurriedly push the child out of the room. The wheelchair is big and clumsy; getting it down the corridors is no easy task. It's taking too long and the smoke is choking me. I feel start getting drowsy, then I fall. As I am falling I hear the angel's voice, "You have failed the test. You sacrificed the many for one. I told you the disabled are an equal but you took it I meant they are a priority.ââ¬Â
I go over to the room I failed at. The angel looks at me and says, "You have passed two rooms and failed one, fail on more than 6 rooms and you fail the trials. Continue onwards.ââ¬Â I decide to walk around and hear what each of the angels has to say, before going in anymore doors.
Conception of Cannibalism - "Looking at you fellow man as a meal to survival is the trial. Do you wish to enter?"
Decomposition of Reflection - "Yourself in the mirror. Are you ready to enter?"
Punisher of Sin - "Face the sins of your life by trial of pain. Are you ready to enter?"
Eternity of Bliss - "I offer you your own personal Heaven. Do you wish to enter?"
The young girl I saw with the lady when I took a rest early on is outside of a room crying and pointing at the door. That is the next room I am heading towards. The Lady who was with her is not to be seen, I assume she is in the room.
Disjointed Warrior - He says to me, "The trial is your survival over anotherââ¬â¢s, do you wish to enter?" I continue around the room, but set in my mind to look for the childââ¬â¢s mother.
Delusions of Grandeur - "Just a Human. Do you want to enter?"
Sacrifice of Mortality - "Giving your own life to save anotherââ¬â¢s. do you want to enter?"
Device of Impossibility - "Problems are to be solved, but only when there is a problem. Do you want to enter?"
Torturous King - "Give your heart for those in power. Enter?"
Labyrinth Puppet - "Lost in a maze. Try looking at the back. Do you wish to Enter?"
I thought about what they had to say, some I disliked more than others. I remembered the girl and her mother so I headed back to the disjointed warrior and entered his room.
Disjointed Warrior ââ¬â The guardian is a solider from what looks like World War 1 or 2. He is strapped up in wooden splints and large rusted pinning joints.
As I enter everything goes dark for a brief second. Once I see light again, my arms are outstretched and up to the elbow are encompassed into some wooden stocks. I can't move them, and I am stripped to my underwear. To my right is the lady from earlier and she is in the same predicament. She tries to speak to me. I see her lips move but I can't hear her voice, it seems we are unable to hear each other. She soon notices I can't hear her so she juts her head up and looks to the ceiling. I look up, then I see what she wants me to see.
Above our arms are large weights on a pulley system, as soon as I notice them hers falls, smashing her arms to bits. She starts screaming and crying and falls to the ground, yet I donââ¬â¢t hear her. I then feel a sharp pain in my own arms and feel the bones cracking followed by a heavy thud. The pain is like nothing else.
The voice of the angel calls out, "Disjointed you will fight until only one of you draws breathe.ââ¬Â The lady looks at me. She has no fear in her eyes. She looks like she already knows how she is going to get the job done. The stocks are then removed from the mangled remains of our arms.
The lady hangs her head, her hair covers her face. She starts walking closer towards me, slowly. She lunges forwards and bites into the flesh just to the side of my neck and shoulder, causing sharp pain. I go to push her off, forgetting that my arms are smashed,. Again the pain in my arms hits me causing me to almost fall to the floor. I stumble and strike her with my knee to her groin. Her mouth comes away from my flesh dripping with blood.
She looks towards my groin. I can see she is thinking of her next attack. I think to myself she is going to hit me where it hurts. She runs towards me like she is about to take a field kick. I dive at her head first and strike her face hard with the top of my head.
We both hit the floor, unable to brace ourselves with our arms. She is knocked out in a pool of blood, a few teeth scattered by her head. I have disarmed her to a degree. I look at the mess I have painted, I crumble into a slump, asking the angel to release me. The angel repeats the trial to meââ¬Â¦
I get back on my feet. I think to myself we are already dead, and one of us has to fail the task at hand. I jump above her head and land upon it with both of my knees. Her skull cracks, one of her eyes pops out, hanging on the optic nerve. As her nerves give out her body twitches systematically.
The door opens and I walk out. For a brief second again it goes dark, then I am back outside with the lady I had just killed in front of the angel.
He tells me I have passed the trial and to move on. I can't hear what he said to the lady, I suppose it's for her ears only. I hug her and her child and move on, the lady walks in the opposite direction.
Thinking back to the walk around earlier on, I liked the sound of Eternity of Bliss. I head back towards that room. The angel in front of this room is dressed in white leather unlike the others with dark skin and looks more angelic. She is tall, but still looks sinister in white leather and chains for a cloak.
Eternity of Bliss - "I offer you your own personal Heaven. Do you wish to enter?" I enter...
There is a blinding light, and when the light fades to a bearable level I un-squint my eyes. I look around. All around me are amazing colors and vivid images of towns and rooms, on display in floating window frames. I hear the angelââ¬â¢s voice call to me, "Each of these windows is a frame from your past, you can relive them forever if you wish." I see all those I love, and times in my life I wish I had done different. But then I remember that this is a trial. So I reply, ââ¬ÅI wish to come out of here.ââ¬Â
The windows shatter and are replaced by new ones. Some of these new ones show me in an amazing house with a family, some show me with several hot women, some show me on a stage singing... They all show me things I wished I could have been or had, and the voice says, "Each of the windows is a frame from your past you wish you had, you can live them forever if you wish". I see all these things I that I would love to have, the opportunity to relive experiences and dreams I never fulfilled. But then I remembered this is a trial. So I say again, ââ¬ÅI wish to come out of here.ââ¬Â
Again the windows shatter. They get replaced by only two. One with what I would imagine Heaven to be and one that I would envision Hell to look like. I think to myself, those are my ideas therefore they obviously can't be the actual thing. I again ask to leave.
I am back outside the room in front of the angel, she says to me, "You have passed the trail.ââ¬Â I head to the next room that sounded more like a trial of mind than trials of the body, Delusions of Grandeur.
Delusions of Grandeur- The guardian stands on one foot balanced and still. His eyes barely open, he looks at peace despite the multiple metal rods through his body and face. "Just a Human. Do you want to enter?" I enter...
In front of me is a giant stone scroll, with text describing the timeline of Xoylo (my spiritual name). The last entry on the scroll shows present from human. The list goes right back showing names of creatures I have supposedly been prior to a man. It seems I had been human a few times. Some of the creatureââ¬â¢s names don't look like they come from Earth. I follow it back to my first form: Energyist Godling.
The voice of the angel calls out to me, "Have you sampled life enough? Would you like to become a God once more?" Looking at the list I can see I have only taken that form once, but most others I have repeated, having no memory of those forms or lives I don't know how to answer. I can see in between each form there is a break in the timeline of around a few years. I think to myself, maybe should I pass these Trials I will get to see the choice in life I can choose from and make a decision based on that. I tell the Angel, ââ¬ÅI want to join the afterlife, I want rest.ââ¬Â
I am taken back before him he says to me, "You have passed this trial, the only way to fail would be to accept a God has a better existence over those who wish to sample their creations of life. Please continue.ââ¬Â
Confused about this, I wander around the side of the room, and bump into an angel. The angel has shredded skin and large metal circular blades through his body. His mouth is stitched up and his words are heard in my head.
Punisher of Sin - "Face the sins of your life by trial of pain. Are you ready to enter?"
I enter, still thinking of the previous room. Maybe I was suffering from the Delusions of Grandeur still. Maybe I should have failed.
I look around me, it's dark but I can make out I am in a court room, a spotlight shines onto the largest of the decks and a ghostly figure stands there. The judge says to me, "You are to be tried for your sins."
He then lists off around 8 sins that I have committed in my life that deserve punishment. I am taken down some stairs and laid on a small wooden like skateboard, my hands and ankles bound, and a chain around my neck, for each of my sins is placed ground spikes, barbed wire, glass, salt and vinegar, acid bath, hot plates, sand paper, and serrated wood floor. I suppose if I had more sins I would have more inflictions.
I am then pulled down a ramp by the neck chain, there is a small curb the board is taken away. I am pulled down a corridor with the before mentioned obstacles. Crowds of odd looking creatures and people are cheering as I am pulled down there. I first hit the spikes, they catch the skin and the chain around my neck gets tighter, it really pinches. My skin in places is broken. I continue being pulled. I then hit the barbed wire, it wraps into my flesh, and tugs the chain well into my neck. I break free from the barbed wire. Then I am pulled through some glass, my body is bleeding badly. My neck is also bleeding and I am almost choked to death. I am then pulled through the salt and vinegar. I slide through it with ease but the pain is terrible, my flesh is burning. The chain loosens from around my neck; I take a lung full of air. I am then pulled through a shallow acid bath. At first I think it's water, it takes the bitter smell of the vinegar away, but the burning becomes more intense as my skin blisters and bursts. At this point it feels like I have no skin. I hit the hot plates and pretty much stick to them, the chain recoils and the tug of the chain snaps through my neck severing the spine, the room spins. My head has come away from my shoulders.
I can just hear the words "You have failed.ââ¬Â I went to the room after the previous room eight. I went for the one I least liked the sound of.
This angel has a large elongated jaw, almost canine like, eyes are slit and narrow, a grin with massive dimples, like the joker in Batman, but he looks like he has no skin. His flesh has been well weathered, no moisture, like a dark red meat. I can't tell if he is naked or clothed, he has a reddish aura from head to toe.
Conception of Cannibalism - "Looking at your fellow man as a meal to survival is the trial. Do you wish to enter?" I enter...
I am in a dark small room, around 20 feet square. It smells like dead animals and human waste. In one corner are two really skinny men huddled together, in another corner a pile of bones, and in another a makeshift toilet area. The light in the room is coming from small slots near the ceiling. The slots start out wide and chamfer inwards as they reach the outside, at first glance it looks like you could climb out of them, but trying proves you wrong. There seems to be no escape. I sit in the corner opposite the two skinny men. I am looking at them and wondering how they have survived so long. Again, in this room you can't voice words, it seems talking is not allowed. One man looks fearful of me, and hides behind the other as I am staring over at them, just pondering. The stronger looking of the two pulls the weaker on to one side and head butts him, as the weaker of the twoââ¬â¢s head reels backwards the other bites into his neck tearing his throat out. Blood sprays around the room, the body of the weaker man drops to the floor twitching and gurgling. The stronger of the two starts eating the weaker man. I then know how they have stayed alive as long as they had. And for fear of becoming the next meal, while he was feasting I made haste to the pile of bones. I lean one against the wall and stamp on it shattering it in half. It splinters creating a point, I pick it and run at the man thatââ¬â¢s eating the other and drive it deep into his side, he barely puts up a fight and drops to his knee's gasping for breath. He falls to his side in a slump. I fall back into the corner, watching him slowly die, wondering if I should speed the process up by stabbing him again, but I can't. I can't move. I am too sickened at my plight. Both men are dead, I am on my own, and I am starting to feel hungry. But I am thinking to myself, I watched one man eat another yet the angel didn't come to his aid or set him free of the room. I decide that's not the angelââ¬â¢s wish, and I choose not to eat the remains. Instead I look at the size of their heads and the gaps near the ceiling. Their heads being much smaller than my own due to starvation, I lift one of the bodies up and start pushing it through the hole. I first smear the face in blood as a lubricant, the head passes through and so do the shoulders, but the belly being bloated stops it from going any further. I figure should I would starve myself, and then try and fit my self through in a similar fashion, and should I get stuck, slit my stomach in an attempt to free myself. No sooner than I think up this plan I am thin with my head through the hole and in that very situation! I carry out my plan. I am back in front of the angel, and I am back to a healthy weight with no tear to my belly.
The angel tells me I have passed and to move on...
As I do so I think to myself, the angel gave me no help during the last room, and I am not seeing a pattern or reason to the rooms other than their own entertainment. I start to wonder why I should move on at this point, and start to wonder if itââ¬â¢s worth anything at all. The angel then calls out to me, and says, the test was self preservation of all others, the test was testing your human nature; you would have passed should you have eaten all others that came, the fact you escaped was not foreseen, you passed in an act of self preservation and own sacrifice, you should be proud, keep going. With this I then see some logic in his words and feel encouraged to continue.
I reach the next angel. The angel looks male almost, apart from the VERY slender figure, he stands limp and his feet are not on the ground, he seems dead. His arms are at his side and head hung to his chest, yet I hear him speak without movement.
Labyrinth Puppet - "Lost in a maze. Try looking at the back. Do you wish to enter?"
Itââ¬â¢s then I notice the voice is coming from above him, and he springs to life making me jump. I then notice an array of strings like cheese wire animating the body, the puppeteer above is a giant hand with a smiling face dead center of the palm, and it's this creature that speaks for the angel.
The puppet spins and dances around and it repeats itself. Labyrinth Puppet - "Lost in a maze. Try looking at the back. Do you wish to enter?"
As it spins I see on its back a strange tattoo, like a grid with dots. I then think, 'try looking at the back." I commit to memory the grid, giving it a battle ship reference. I remember the red dots being in holes A6 and G6. I enter the room...
In front of me is a giant flat surface with holes in it, just like the grid on the puppetââ¬â¢s back. The voice calls out to me, "Two holes lead you back out of the room, the others take you into the Labyrinth, should you fall into the Labyrinth you could spend eternity finding your way out."
I get myself to the hole I think to be A6 and jump into it. I wind up back outside the room. The voice of the angel seems displeased to tell me I can continue onwards, and that I passed so easily!
I have a new found confidence, and I have passed more rooms than I could possibly fail now, doing better than 50% no matter even if I failed all other rooms. I have passed 7 and failed two. But then I think to myself, if I am to be graded I want to get the best result I can. I try to get back into the frame of mind that everything counts.
I move to the next angel. He seems the most human looking and unshaved of angels. Apart from his voice, it's like nothing I have heard before, it's like a choir of tortured screams.
Decomposition of Reflection - "Yourself in the mirror. Are you ready to enter?"
There is nothing defining about the Angel, he isn't good looking nor ugly, he looks like the average Joe, which looks out of place compared to the other angels. I enter the room.
I am back in my bedroom. By the door to the bedroom, my bed side light is on and my girlfriend asleep in the bed. Everything seems like I have just awoken from a sleep walk, apart from the mirror on my wardrobe which has a glow to the edges. I walk over to it, placing my hands to the sides from the point of the glow. I feel no tube lights and my hands don't seem to dim the effect. I then recall the name of the room and the words of the angel, I then realize I am in the room set by them. I look into the mirror at my own reflection, my reflection is covered in blood, I look a mess, dirty, my lips blistered. There is nothing left of my ears and around the eyes seem to be lots of puncture wounds. I look at my arms, not in my reflection and they seem fine, yet in the reflection they are blistered with scratches and broken areas. I put my hand up to the mirror to touch it and my reflection mirrors me, as I touch the mirror the reflection grabs my hand and pulls me through the face of the mirror.
I am in a desert, a barren landscape. The heat is immense, the sun beating down, I have to squint to see, and all I can see in the distance is a large rock formation with a glint at the top of it. I head for the rocks to seek shade. Above me I have a few birds circling. I am walking at a good pace and sweating badly in the heat. More buzzards start hovering above me and occasionally peck at each other like theyââ¬â¢re fighting over me. I have been walking for ages and the rocks seem to be getting closer. My lips have split and are starting to bleed. The birds must catch wind of this and start dive bombing me, pecking at my back and hands as I shield my face. I start running or at least trying to run, I was out of breath just walking. I have a stitch, and the running soon turns to a plod. I have no strength to keep my arms up and the birds just keeping coming at me, I can feel them impaling me with their beaks. I muster enough strength to interlock my hands at the back of my head and raise my elbows to the side of my head. I continue walking with the intensive squawks and scratching of claws on my arms and head.
I reach the rocks and start the climb to the top. It's not too steep, but it's steep enough to force me to crawl. As I reach the top I realize the glint is a giant mirror. As I walk towards it, the angel calls out to me, "For you to leave another must enter."
I look into the mirror and in front of me stands my girlfriend in the mirror. She raises her hand to the face of it. I pull her through and I escape. I end up back in front of the angel.
I am back to my normal self. The Angel is not his normal self anymore, he looks like a picasso painting, like a surge of twisted and contorted souls. He tells me I have failed the test, He tells me part of me will remain with him. He points to his solder and I can see part of my face there. He then tells me the other way out would have been to throw myself from the ledge, that a loved ones torment was not a fair trade for my release.
I feel ashamed. That was my girlfriend I pulled into that realm, I felt less a man. This room hurt me more than any other, and I hoped to God (if there was one) that should I awake my girlfriend would be safe in her bed. I move on...
The next angel stands before me, like a Hindu God, with blue skin and four arms. Neither looking male or Female, and kind of scary, the soft voice speaks to me.
Sacrifice of Mortality - "Giving your own life to save anotherââ¬â¢s. Do you want to enter?" I feel this is the right room for me, especially from the previous room. I enterââ¬Â¦
The young girl from early on has a noose around her neck and is hanging. There is a weight system keeping her up, and for her to be lowered I have to fill a giant urn with a liquid. Yet there is no liquid, just a large blade around the lip of the urn. I think I know what I need to do. I run over to the urn and slit my wrists against the sides and let my blood flow into its mouth. The girl is slowly lowering but not fast enough. Knowing it will take five minutes or longer for me to bleed out, and her breath maybe only lasting a few moments I can't see any real way of speeding the process up. I bite my tongue off and spit it into the pot, I cut my face against the side, I have blood streaming into the pot yet the girl lowers fairly slowly, she is turning blue and choking. I run my neck along the side of the jar, and place a downward pressure on my neck to stop it spewing out I am holding my breath and spluttering on my own blood climbing up onto the urn. I am now sitting on it. I release the pressure on my neck and the blood pours down. My blood is like an open tap. As I am losing sight and things start going blurry I see the girl on the floor, laying there, but still moving. She slowly removes the rope and rises to her feet. At this point every thing goes dark. And I wake back up, outside the room, in front of the angel.
The delicate voice tells me I have passed and asks that I move on. The angel smiles at me, it's the first smile I have seen and I smile back. I feel warm inside as I move on. I reach the next angel, the door behind him I notice is bricked over. But I speak to him anyway.
Torturous King - "Give your heart for those in power. Enter?" He is tall man, dressed in black leather, gimp like, pretty much like most of the other angels. As he talks his head winds slowly from side to side. He stoops down to me. He does this snake-like placing his face right up to mine. His eyes have black veins. His head is bald, and his skin transparent and thin. I ask to enter the room...
I hear a knock on the palm of my hand. I look at my hand, and I have some double doors grafted into it. I open them and there is small man standing inside my hand, waving at me. He gestures me with his hand to follow him and runs down a winding stair case into my arm.
I move my hand towards my face and my face towards my hand and enter into my own hand. Shrinking as I do so, following this chuckling chap down a winding stairwell. The walls are pulsating, like my heart beat, and it keeps getting louder. I lose sight of the man I was following, and the stairwell opens out into a corridor. The walls are fleshy and pulsating to the heart beat. I follow the corridor, I can hear the man I followed giggling. It echoes up the corridor. I reach a large open room. The man I followed is kneeling before a large throne with a giant man sitting upon it. He stands up and walks towards the giggling chap I followed. The ,an I followed falls backwards with his heart in his hand. The man from the throne now standing in front of the dying but still laughing man takes the heart and starts eating it in front of him. I turn to run, but the corridor is has been sealed off.
The giant, bloody mouthed king looks at me and says, "Will you give your heart to those that strive to give you power?" His head drops to one side, like a dog waiting for a reply.
I look at him blank. He walks towards me, he says "Would you lay down your life for your King?"
I think to myself, I am inside myself, my heart is his heart. I agree. He walks over and places his hand on my chest... Bang!
I am back outside. I have one room left, and Iââ¬â¢m not sure if I passed or failed the last room I was in.
Device of Impossibility - "Problems are to be solved, but only when there is a problem, do you want to enter?" I have no memory of this room. I cannot prompt this dream to start again.
Original Author: Xoylo
Edited and Revised by: Hissil
The Trials are believed to take place after one dies. It is the ââ¬ÅLimboââ¬Â between Heaven and Hell where you are tested and tried for your sins. The person telling this story had vividly experienced this on an astral projection into a higher dimension. I grammatically revised this story for easier reading. This story is assumed to be true.
Rooms:
1. Distortion of Faith
2. Contorted Monk
3. Deformed Runt
4. Disjointed Warrior
5. Eternity of Bliss
6. Delusions of Grandeur
7. Punisher of Sin
8. Conception of Cannibalism
9. Labyrinth Puppet
10. Decomposition of Reflection
11. Sacrifice of Mortality
12. Torturous King
13. Device of Impossibility
I am in a long hall that seems to stretch on forever in two directions. In both directions I can see light, so I start walking in the same direction I was facing when I fell asleep. I start to hear screaming, and as I walk further it gets louder. I stop and head back the other way. I keep walking and again I hear screaming.
Soon I find myself in a large stone room with many doors and angels. The air is thick with dust and I can taste it. There are 13 doorways with a figure standing in front of each one. I am not alone in this room; there are a few dozen other men, women and children of all ages. The doors are very thick solid wood and have strange brass symbols riveted to them.
Others are going to the doors and going into them, and some are coming out of the doors. Those coming out sometimes come out crying or laughing. I approach the first door. The creature introduces herself as an angel.
Distortion of Faith - She has an ornate headdress like an upturned Guillotine, pale clammy skin with a bluish tint, as if she was cold or dead. She is a wearing a black and red gothic dress. She says to me, "In this room your faith will be tested, are you ready to enter?" I pass through the doorway.
I am standing dead center on a rope and wooden slat bridge, over a massive void in an area I can only describe as apocalyptic and hellish. The sky is boiling red and the clouds take form of screaming babies. There is an atmosphere of suffering and pain; blood is raining down. The bridge is long and narrow and I am carefully balanced on it. Below me is the void, pure darkness. There are thousands of flashes of light dancing within it; orbs of fallen souls. The bridgeââ¬â¢s length stretches far behind sight indefinitely into some sort of horizon. The slightest movement makes the bridge sway and creek. I start walking very slowly holding on tight to the ropes. As the bridge sways from side to side, I try to steady it by spreading my legs as I walk.
I hear the angelââ¬â¢s voice call to me, "You can fly, have faith in me, let yourself fall." I think to myself, her name is Distortion of Faith, surely she is lying to me. I ignore her and keep walking. She calls out again after a while saying the same thing. I am tempted as I am making no progress and the screams and the blood rain is becoming unbearable; and the flashing lights are now taking interest in me and flying at my face. They don't make impact they just make me flinch and the bridge sways all the more. I close my eyes to block out the rain and the lights and keep walking. I hear her voice again, saying "Open your eyes my child.ââ¬Â I open them. I am back outside the room in front of her. She says to me, "You have passed the first trial, continue onwards."
I do so, but instead of walking to the next door I walk across the room towards the opposite door, laughing nervously. The next room I reach also has an angel standing in front of the doorway.
Contorted Monk - A tall man, pale white eyes and soft looking. His head is tilted to one side due to a chain fitted tightly around the temples on his head to his shoulder. He says to me, "Twisted are the words and founding of God and religion, here you will find no solace; do you wish to enter?ââ¬Â I enterââ¬Â¦
I am in a giant church; the stained glass windows are casting light on me. I am chained to the floor inside of a pentacle. My head is in the top point and my other limbs to each of the other points. I can only look up, and have some vision to my left and right due to a neck clamp; each way I look is tinted a different shade from the glass. It's a bewildering sight that scares me and the floor is stone cold. I feel I am naked, and feel I am not alone. I hear the voice of the angel call out, "God didn't build a church, Jesus never set foot in a church, a church is not a safe place do you agree? Or is the church the house of God ?" I I reply that I do not agree I am in the house of God. I feel a sharp pressure on my chest and it runs slowly down to my belly. I realize I am being cut open and start screaming. "I am safe, I am safe God save me!" The voice asks me again the same question. I answer the same as I did before. I feel a deep pressure in my body followed by a wriggling and a tugging inside me as if someone has their hand in me. Held in front of my face is my heart, the warm blood dripping on my face. I feel the floor becoming warmer... I feel comfort in the warmth, and the pain starts to fade away. My head is light, and my mouth dry. I feel like I am dieing, but I feel comfort, a confliction like none other. The voice calls to me again but this time says, "you shall die if you answer the same again.ââ¬Â And then the question is repeated. I answer the same. I hoped God was listening; I hoped to die after being mutilated. I wanted to die. I close my eyes knowing more pain is to come. But no pain comesââ¬Â¦ I open my eyes. I am outside of the door, no wounds and no pain, but I still have the feeling of inner warmth.
The angel says to me "The trials continue, your journey awaits." I sit down to focus my thoughts. I try to speak to a lady with a small child, but no words come out of my mouth. It seems talking is forbidden here. After taking a rest and reflecting on the last two rooms, I continue. The next door I come to again has a creature that calls itself an angel.
Deformed Runt - Sitting in a wheelchair is a lump of a man, with deformed features and missing limbs, wired into many life keeping devices.
He says to me, "Those less fortunate than you are still human, even if they are less mobile or different, in here you shall be tested, do you wish to enter?" I enterââ¬Â¦
I am in what looks like a hospital. The fire alarm and sprinklers are going off. People are panicking and running around. I am pushed against a wall by a nurse. She screams, "The childrenââ¬â¢s ward is on fire! Just up the corridor on the left." I just notice I am wearing what looks like a Fire Marshallââ¬â¢s jacket. I run up the narrow corridors, with angels standing to the left and right watching. There is smoke and following the signs for the childrenââ¬â¢s ward is hard. I finally reach it and go in. Inside there are several children all huddled together, too scared to move. There is fire all around the door way, I jump through and I am nearing the huddled up children. Outside of the group is a child in a wheelchair, head to one side, passed out from the smoke. Thinking of what the angel said to me, I know I will be tested for the child in the wheelchair. I tell the other children to keep low and breathe gently as little as possible. The fire is being kept suppressed by the sprinklers but the smoke is becoming thick. I hurriedly push the child out of the room. The wheelchair is big and clumsy; getting it down the corridors is no easy task. It's taking too long and the smoke is choking me. I feel start getting drowsy, then I fall. As I am falling I hear the angel's voice, "You have failed the test. You sacrificed the many for one. I told you the disabled are an equal but you took it I meant they are a priority.ââ¬Â
I go over to the room I failed at. The angel looks at me and says, "You have passed two rooms and failed one, fail on more than 6 rooms and you fail the trials. Continue onwards.ââ¬Â I decide to walk around and hear what each of the angels has to say, before going in anymore doors.
Conception of Cannibalism - "Looking at you fellow man as a meal to survival is the trial. Do you wish to enter?"
Decomposition of Reflection - "Yourself in the mirror. Are you ready to enter?"
Punisher of Sin - "Face the sins of your life by trial of pain. Are you ready to enter?"
Eternity of Bliss - "I offer you your own personal Heaven. Do you wish to enter?"
The young girl I saw with the lady when I took a rest early on is outside of a room crying and pointing at the door. That is the next room I am heading towards. The Lady who was with her is not to be seen, I assume she is in the room.
Disjointed Warrior - He says to me, "The trial is your survival over anotherââ¬â¢s, do you wish to enter?" I continue around the room, but set in my mind to look for the childââ¬â¢s mother.
Delusions of Grandeur - "Just a Human. Do you want to enter?"
Sacrifice of Mortality - "Giving your own life to save anotherââ¬â¢s. do you want to enter?"
Device of Impossibility - "Problems are to be solved, but only when there is a problem. Do you want to enter?"
Torturous King - "Give your heart for those in power. Enter?"
Labyrinth Puppet - "Lost in a maze. Try looking at the back. Do you wish to Enter?"
I thought about what they had to say, some I disliked more than others. I remembered the girl and her mother so I headed back to the disjointed warrior and entered his room.
Disjointed Warrior ââ¬â The guardian is a solider from what looks like World War 1 or 2. He is strapped up in wooden splints and large rusted pinning joints.
As I enter everything goes dark for a brief second. Once I see light again, my arms are outstretched and up to the elbow are encompassed into some wooden stocks. I can't move them, and I am stripped to my underwear. To my right is the lady from earlier and she is in the same predicament. She tries to speak to me. I see her lips move but I can't hear her voice, it seems we are unable to hear each other. She soon notices I can't hear her so she juts her head up and looks to the ceiling. I look up, then I see what she wants me to see.
Above our arms are large weights on a pulley system, as soon as I notice them hers falls, smashing her arms to bits. She starts screaming and crying and falls to the ground, yet I donââ¬â¢t hear her. I then feel a sharp pain in my own arms and feel the bones cracking followed by a heavy thud. The pain is like nothing else.
The voice of the angel calls out, "Disjointed you will fight until only one of you draws breathe.ââ¬Â The lady looks at me. She has no fear in her eyes. She looks like she already knows how she is going to get the job done. The stocks are then removed from the mangled remains of our arms.
The lady hangs her head, her hair covers her face. She starts walking closer towards me, slowly. She lunges forwards and bites into the flesh just to the side of my neck and shoulder, causing sharp pain. I go to push her off, forgetting that my arms are smashed,. Again the pain in my arms hits me causing me to almost fall to the floor. I stumble and strike her with my knee to her groin. Her mouth comes away from my flesh dripping with blood.
She looks towards my groin. I can see she is thinking of her next attack. I think to myself she is going to hit me where it hurts. She runs towards me like she is about to take a field kick. I dive at her head first and strike her face hard with the top of my head.
We both hit the floor, unable to brace ourselves with our arms. She is knocked out in a pool of blood, a few teeth scattered by her head. I have disarmed her to a degree. I look at the mess I have painted, I crumble into a slump, asking the angel to release me. The angel repeats the trial to meââ¬Â¦
I get back on my feet. I think to myself we are already dead, and one of us has to fail the task at hand. I jump above her head and land upon it with both of my knees. Her skull cracks, one of her eyes pops out, hanging on the optic nerve. As her nerves give out her body twitches systematically.
The door opens and I walk out. For a brief second again it goes dark, then I am back outside with the lady I had just killed in front of the angel.
He tells me I have passed the trial and to move on. I can't hear what he said to the lady, I suppose it's for her ears only. I hug her and her child and move on, the lady walks in the opposite direction.
Thinking back to the walk around earlier on, I liked the sound of Eternity of Bliss. I head back towards that room. The angel in front of this room is dressed in white leather unlike the others with dark skin and looks more angelic. She is tall, but still looks sinister in white leather and chains for a cloak.
Eternity of Bliss - "I offer you your own personal Heaven. Do you wish to enter?" I enter...
There is a blinding light, and when the light fades to a bearable level I un-squint my eyes. I look around. All around me are amazing colors and vivid images of towns and rooms, on display in floating window frames. I hear the angelââ¬â¢s voice call to me, "Each of these windows is a frame from your past, you can relive them forever if you wish." I see all those I love, and times in my life I wish I had done different. But then I remember that this is a trial. So I reply, ââ¬ÅI wish to come out of here.ââ¬Â
The windows shatter and are replaced by new ones. Some of these new ones show me in an amazing house with a family, some show me with several hot women, some show me on a stage singing... They all show me things I wished I could have been or had, and the voice says, "Each of the windows is a frame from your past you wish you had, you can live them forever if you wish". I see all these things I that I would love to have, the opportunity to relive experiences and dreams I never fulfilled. But then I remembered this is a trial. So I say again, ââ¬ÅI wish to come out of here.ââ¬Â
Again the windows shatter. They get replaced by only two. One with what I would imagine Heaven to be and one that I would envision Hell to look like. I think to myself, those are my ideas therefore they obviously can't be the actual thing. I again ask to leave.
I am back outside the room in front of the angel, she says to me, "You have passed the trail.ââ¬Â I head to the next room that sounded more like a trial of mind than trials of the body, Delusions of Grandeur.
Delusions of Grandeur- The guardian stands on one foot balanced and still. His eyes barely open, he looks at peace despite the multiple metal rods through his body and face. "Just a Human. Do you want to enter?" I enter...
In front of me is a giant stone scroll, with text describing the timeline of Xoylo (my spiritual name). The last entry on the scroll shows present from human. The list goes right back showing names of creatures I have supposedly been prior to a man. It seems I had been human a few times. Some of the creatureââ¬â¢s names don't look like they come from Earth. I follow it back to my first form: Energyist Godling.
The voice of the angel calls out to me, "Have you sampled life enough? Would you like to become a God once more?" Looking at the list I can see I have only taken that form once, but most others I have repeated, having no memory of those forms or lives I don't know how to answer. I can see in between each form there is a break in the timeline of around a few years. I think to myself, maybe should I pass these Trials I will get to see the choice in life I can choose from and make a decision based on that. I tell the Angel, ââ¬ÅI want to join the afterlife, I want rest.ââ¬Â
I am taken back before him he says to me, "You have passed this trial, the only way to fail would be to accept a God has a better existence over those who wish to sample their creations of life. Please continue.ââ¬Â
Confused about this, I wander around the side of the room, and bump into an angel. The angel has shredded skin and large metal circular blades through his body. His mouth is stitched up and his words are heard in my head.
Punisher of Sin - "Face the sins of your life by trial of pain. Are you ready to enter?"
I enter, still thinking of the previous room. Maybe I was suffering from the Delusions of Grandeur still. Maybe I should have failed.
I look around me, it's dark but I can make out I am in a court room, a spotlight shines onto the largest of the decks and a ghostly figure stands there. The judge says to me, "You are to be tried for your sins."
He then lists off around 8 sins that I have committed in my life that deserve punishment. I am taken down some stairs and laid on a small wooden like skateboard, my hands and ankles bound, and a chain around my neck, for each of my sins is placed ground spikes, barbed wire, glass, salt and vinegar, acid bath, hot plates, sand paper, and serrated wood floor. I suppose if I had more sins I would have more inflictions.
I am then pulled down a ramp by the neck chain, there is a small curb the board is taken away. I am pulled down a corridor with the before mentioned obstacles. Crowds of odd looking creatures and people are cheering as I am pulled down there. I first hit the spikes, they catch the skin and the chain around my neck gets tighter, it really pinches. My skin in places is broken. I continue being pulled. I then hit the barbed wire, it wraps into my flesh, and tugs the chain well into my neck. I break free from the barbed wire. Then I am pulled through some glass, my body is bleeding badly. My neck is also bleeding and I am almost choked to death. I am then pulled through the salt and vinegar. I slide through it with ease but the pain is terrible, my flesh is burning. The chain loosens from around my neck; I take a lung full of air. I am then pulled through a shallow acid bath. At first I think it's water, it takes the bitter smell of the vinegar away, but the burning becomes more intense as my skin blisters and bursts. At this point it feels like I have no skin. I hit the hot plates and pretty much stick to them, the chain recoils and the tug of the chain snaps through my neck severing the spine, the room spins. My head has come away from my shoulders.
I can just hear the words "You have failed.ââ¬Â I went to the room after the previous room eight. I went for the one I least liked the sound of.
This angel has a large elongated jaw, almost canine like, eyes are slit and narrow, a grin with massive dimples, like the joker in Batman, but he looks like he has no skin. His flesh has been well weathered, no moisture, like a dark red meat. I can't tell if he is naked or clothed, he has a reddish aura from head to toe.
Conception of Cannibalism - "Looking at your fellow man as a meal to survival is the trial. Do you wish to enter?" I enter...
I am in a dark small room, around 20 feet square. It smells like dead animals and human waste. In one corner are two really skinny men huddled together, in another corner a pile of bones, and in another a makeshift toilet area. The light in the room is coming from small slots near the ceiling. The slots start out wide and chamfer inwards as they reach the outside, at first glance it looks like you could climb out of them, but trying proves you wrong. There seems to be no escape. I sit in the corner opposite the two skinny men. I am looking at them and wondering how they have survived so long. Again, in this room you can't voice words, it seems talking is not allowed. One man looks fearful of me, and hides behind the other as I am staring over at them, just pondering. The stronger looking of the two pulls the weaker on to one side and head butts him, as the weaker of the twoââ¬â¢s head reels backwards the other bites into his neck tearing his throat out. Blood sprays around the room, the body of the weaker man drops to the floor twitching and gurgling. The stronger of the two starts eating the weaker man. I then know how they have stayed alive as long as they had. And for fear of becoming the next meal, while he was feasting I made haste to the pile of bones. I lean one against the wall and stamp on it shattering it in half. It splinters creating a point, I pick it and run at the man thatââ¬â¢s eating the other and drive it deep into his side, he barely puts up a fight and drops to his knee's gasping for breath. He falls to his side in a slump. I fall back into the corner, watching him slowly die, wondering if I should speed the process up by stabbing him again, but I can't. I can't move. I am too sickened at my plight. Both men are dead, I am on my own, and I am starting to feel hungry. But I am thinking to myself, I watched one man eat another yet the angel didn't come to his aid or set him free of the room. I decide that's not the angelââ¬â¢s wish, and I choose not to eat the remains. Instead I look at the size of their heads and the gaps near the ceiling. Their heads being much smaller than my own due to starvation, I lift one of the bodies up and start pushing it through the hole. I first smear the face in blood as a lubricant, the head passes through and so do the shoulders, but the belly being bloated stops it from going any further. I figure should I would starve myself, and then try and fit my self through in a similar fashion, and should I get stuck, slit my stomach in an attempt to free myself. No sooner than I think up this plan I am thin with my head through the hole and in that very situation! I carry out my plan. I am back in front of the angel, and I am back to a healthy weight with no tear to my belly.
The angel tells me I have passed and to move on...
As I do so I think to myself, the angel gave me no help during the last room, and I am not seeing a pattern or reason to the rooms other than their own entertainment. I start to wonder why I should move on at this point, and start to wonder if itââ¬â¢s worth anything at all. The angel then calls out to me, and says, the test was self preservation of all others, the test was testing your human nature; you would have passed should you have eaten all others that came, the fact you escaped was not foreseen, you passed in an act of self preservation and own sacrifice, you should be proud, keep going. With this I then see some logic in his words and feel encouraged to continue.
I reach the next angel. The angel looks male almost, apart from the VERY slender figure, he stands limp and his feet are not on the ground, he seems dead. His arms are at his side and head hung to his chest, yet I hear him speak without movement.
Labyrinth Puppet - "Lost in a maze. Try looking at the back. Do you wish to enter?"
Itââ¬â¢s then I notice the voice is coming from above him, and he springs to life making me jump. I then notice an array of strings like cheese wire animating the body, the puppeteer above is a giant hand with a smiling face dead center of the palm, and it's this creature that speaks for the angel.
The puppet spins and dances around and it repeats itself. Labyrinth Puppet - "Lost in a maze. Try looking at the back. Do you wish to enter?"
As it spins I see on its back a strange tattoo, like a grid with dots. I then think, 'try looking at the back." I commit to memory the grid, giving it a battle ship reference. I remember the red dots being in holes A6 and G6. I enter the room...
In front of me is a giant flat surface with holes in it, just like the grid on the puppetââ¬â¢s back. The voice calls out to me, "Two holes lead you back out of the room, the others take you into the Labyrinth, should you fall into the Labyrinth you could spend eternity finding your way out."
I get myself to the hole I think to be A6 and jump into it. I wind up back outside the room. The voice of the angel seems displeased to tell me I can continue onwards, and that I passed so easily!
I have a new found confidence, and I have passed more rooms than I could possibly fail now, doing better than 50% no matter even if I failed all other rooms. I have passed 7 and failed two. But then I think to myself, if I am to be graded I want to get the best result I can. I try to get back into the frame of mind that everything counts.
I move to the next angel. He seems the most human looking and unshaved of angels. Apart from his voice, it's like nothing I have heard before, it's like a choir of tortured screams.
Decomposition of Reflection - "Yourself in the mirror. Are you ready to enter?"
There is nothing defining about the Angel, he isn't good looking nor ugly, he looks like the average Joe, which looks out of place compared to the other angels. I enter the room.
I am back in my bedroom. By the door to the bedroom, my bed side light is on and my girlfriend asleep in the bed. Everything seems like I have just awoken from a sleep walk, apart from the mirror on my wardrobe which has a glow to the edges. I walk over to it, placing my hands to the sides from the point of the glow. I feel no tube lights and my hands don't seem to dim the effect. I then recall the name of the room and the words of the angel, I then realize I am in the room set by them. I look into the mirror at my own reflection, my reflection is covered in blood, I look a mess, dirty, my lips blistered. There is nothing left of my ears and around the eyes seem to be lots of puncture wounds. I look at my arms, not in my reflection and they seem fine, yet in the reflection they are blistered with scratches and broken areas. I put my hand up to the mirror to touch it and my reflection mirrors me, as I touch the mirror the reflection grabs my hand and pulls me through the face of the mirror.
I am in a desert, a barren landscape. The heat is immense, the sun beating down, I have to squint to see, and all I can see in the distance is a large rock formation with a glint at the top of it. I head for the rocks to seek shade. Above me I have a few birds circling. I am walking at a good pace and sweating badly in the heat. More buzzards start hovering above me and occasionally peck at each other like theyââ¬â¢re fighting over me. I have been walking for ages and the rocks seem to be getting closer. My lips have split and are starting to bleed. The birds must catch wind of this and start dive bombing me, pecking at my back and hands as I shield my face. I start running or at least trying to run, I was out of breath just walking. I have a stitch, and the running soon turns to a plod. I have no strength to keep my arms up and the birds just keeping coming at me, I can feel them impaling me with their beaks. I muster enough strength to interlock my hands at the back of my head and raise my elbows to the side of my head. I continue walking with the intensive squawks and scratching of claws on my arms and head.
I reach the rocks and start the climb to the top. It's not too steep, but it's steep enough to force me to crawl. As I reach the top I realize the glint is a giant mirror. As I walk towards it, the angel calls out to me, "For you to leave another must enter."
I look into the mirror and in front of me stands my girlfriend in the mirror. She raises her hand to the face of it. I pull her through and I escape. I end up back in front of the angel.
I am back to my normal self. The Angel is not his normal self anymore, he looks like a picasso painting, like a surge of twisted and contorted souls. He tells me I have failed the test, He tells me part of me will remain with him. He points to his solder and I can see part of my face there. He then tells me the other way out would have been to throw myself from the ledge, that a loved ones torment was not a fair trade for my release.
I feel ashamed. That was my girlfriend I pulled into that realm, I felt less a man. This room hurt me more than any other, and I hoped to God (if there was one) that should I awake my girlfriend would be safe in her bed. I move on...
The next angel stands before me, like a Hindu God, with blue skin and four arms. Neither looking male or Female, and kind of scary, the soft voice speaks to me.
Sacrifice of Mortality - "Giving your own life to save anotherââ¬â¢s. Do you want to enter?" I feel this is the right room for me, especially from the previous room. I enterââ¬Â¦
The young girl from early on has a noose around her neck and is hanging. There is a weight system keeping her up, and for her to be lowered I have to fill a giant urn with a liquid. Yet there is no liquid, just a large blade around the lip of the urn. I think I know what I need to do. I run over to the urn and slit my wrists against the sides and let my blood flow into its mouth. The girl is slowly lowering but not fast enough. Knowing it will take five minutes or longer for me to bleed out, and her breath maybe only lasting a few moments I can't see any real way of speeding the process up. I bite my tongue off and spit it into the pot, I cut my face against the side, I have blood streaming into the pot yet the girl lowers fairly slowly, she is turning blue and choking. I run my neck along the side of the jar, and place a downward pressure on my neck to stop it spewing out I am holding my breath and spluttering on my own blood climbing up onto the urn. I am now sitting on it. I release the pressure on my neck and the blood pours down. My blood is like an open tap. As I am losing sight and things start going blurry I see the girl on the floor, laying there, but still moving. She slowly removes the rope and rises to her feet. At this point every thing goes dark. And I wake back up, outside the room, in front of the angel.
The delicate voice tells me I have passed and asks that I move on. The angel smiles at me, it's the first smile I have seen and I smile back. I feel warm inside as I move on. I reach the next angel, the door behind him I notice is bricked over. But I speak to him anyway.
Torturous King - "Give your heart for those in power. Enter?" He is tall man, dressed in black leather, gimp like, pretty much like most of the other angels. As he talks his head winds slowly from side to side. He stoops down to me. He does this snake-like placing his face right up to mine. His eyes have black veins. His head is bald, and his skin transparent and thin. I ask to enter the room...
I hear a knock on the palm of my hand. I look at my hand, and I have some double doors grafted into it. I open them and there is small man standing inside my hand, waving at me. He gestures me with his hand to follow him and runs down a winding stair case into my arm.
I move my hand towards my face and my face towards my hand and enter into my own hand. Shrinking as I do so, following this chuckling chap down a winding stairwell. The walls are pulsating, like my heart beat, and it keeps getting louder. I lose sight of the man I was following, and the stairwell opens out into a corridor. The walls are fleshy and pulsating to the heart beat. I follow the corridor, I can hear the man I followed giggling. It echoes up the corridor. I reach a large open room. The man I followed is kneeling before a large throne with a giant man sitting upon it. He stands up and walks towards the giggling chap I followed. The ,an I followed falls backwards with his heart in his hand. The man from the throne now standing in front of the dying but still laughing man takes the heart and starts eating it in front of him. I turn to run, but the corridor is has been sealed off.
The giant, bloody mouthed king looks at me and says, "Will you give your heart to those that strive to give you power?" His head drops to one side, like a dog waiting for a reply.
I look at him blank. He walks towards me, he says "Would you lay down your life for your King?"
I think to myself, I am inside myself, my heart is his heart. I agree. He walks over and places his hand on my chest... Bang!
I am back outside. I have one room left, and Iââ¬â¢m not sure if I passed or failed the last room I was in.
Device of Impossibility - "Problems are to be solved, but only when there is a problem, do you want to enter?" I have no memory of this room. I cannot prompt this dream to start again.