[Anniversary] Morpheus strikes at noon

After she finally finished unpacking her room, Live was exhausted. It had been a long day and she was ready for some rest. She laid down on her bed, her old worn sheets making the unfamiliar room feel slightly less foreign. It didn't take more than a few minutes until she had drifted off into her dreams...


The room was dark, completely black. In fact, it was so dark that Live couldn't even tell the size or shape as to which the space occupied. For all she knew it could be two feet big or go on for an infinity. Live sat in a white chair in the middle of this darkness wearing a knee length white dress, almost like something a mental patient might wear. Strangely, even though the space was filled with darkness with no light source, Live and the chair could be clearly seen. She sat there looking around trying to gain a better grasp on her surroundings but after a moment or two she realized that she would never be able to understand the darkness by just staring at it. She had to go into it.

Slowly Live rose to her feet. As she looked down to the ground all she could see was black. She wondered for a moment if she was actually standing at the edge of the cliff and if one step forward would send her falling into some bottomless pit. Well, there was only one way to find out. Live began to walk forward, keeping her eyes on her bare feet as they moved further into the darkness.

After about ten steps and no changes in the darkness, Live wondered if she had made the wrong choice leaving the chair. She turned around to try to go back but the chair was gone. She looked around franticly, turning in place and quickly losing any sense of direction she had left. She looked harder into the darkness, trying to see anything but there was nothing. She tried to move the shadows or change her form but nothing happened. Strangely Live felt no connection to the black around her, like it was its own creature separate from any shadow or darkness she had ever come upon. Live stood frozen in it, unsure if she should run or just wait this out, whatever it was.

Neil Harmon stood in his room, or he thought it was his room? Everything was upside down, that was weird, it wasn't normally upside down. He carefully avoided the ceiling fan in his bedroom and managed to get into the living room. He looked down, or up I guess, at his coffee table, which still had a mug of black coffee from the night before.
"Darn, maybe if I had longer arms I could get a cup of coffee, I feel like coffee would help out somehow." he tapped his chin in thought. "This reminds me of that movie Upside Down, released in 2013, staring Kirsten Dunst, and Jim Sturgess, written by Juan Diego Solanas and Santiago Amigorena, and directed by Juan Diego Solanas. I never saw the film and it got some pretty bad reviews, but im sure it was good! Hmm perhaps I should go to the rental store and pick it up, after I finish up with whatever this is." he decided as soon as he figured out how to get 'un upsidedowned' he would run to the rental store and watch the movie, probably about four to five times so that he could memorize some of the better lines. But before that he needed to get down, or up, Neil decided to try getting the coffee again, he jumped up to the coffee table. He managed to touch the table with the tip of his fingers, making it shake a little.

"Hah! One more time and im sure ill get it. Once I get my coffee im sure ill get my answer." He jumped up again and managed o grab the cup, though a bit of the contents spilled out and got on to the table, no big deal he could clean it up later. He took a sip from the upside down coffee cup, just like a promotional picture from the movie Upside Down, or he thought it was Upside Down? Hed find out later when he watched the movie.

Usually, Amaranth did not dream. She slept too sporadically to really delve into her own mind like that, but she could make herself dream when awake, if it suited her. Sometimes, she'd climb up into a tall tree and just lay there, awake, but dreaming. She liked to construct cities; she'd stroll through the streets of crowded markets, always at night and always conveniently quiet.

That was a good way to describe it now, on the shore of a lake she had never seen before: conveniently quiet. Everything was clear, but somehow it felt muffled, soft around the edges. The lake was glassy, reflecting the cloudy night sky. She couldn't see anyone, but it had to be easy enough to hide in the trees that surrounded the lake.

If she looked up, she couldn't see the moon, however, it's reflection in the lake was gargantuan. At the center, the water welled up, cascading over itself until the tower was roughly twice Ann's size, in the form of a woman.

Come to me, child...

Ann shook her head.

There's nothing to be afraid of, little one. I'm the one who'll take care of you.

Amaranth fled the lake.

Neil opened his eyes back up, his room wasn't back to normal, infact his room had completely vanished. He was now in a big white space, there was nothing but whiteness, which was weird because he had never been in a giant white void before, it was a new experience for him. He tried to look around, but there wasn't much to see. But then suddenly, 7 dots of varying colors appeared, and a voice spoke to him, with some music to accompany it.

"Welcome to zombo com!"

Zombo com? What the hell is zombo com?

"This is zombo com!"

Well that answers that question.

"Welcome" "This is zombo com, welcome... to zombo com."

This place was very welcoming.

"You can do anything at zombo com! Anything at all!" "The only limit is yourself."

How very interesting, here, at zombo com, Neil could apparently do anything, anything at all.

"This is zombo com and welcome to you who have come to zombo com!" "The unobtainable is unknown at zombo com!"

Wow... what a nice place, Neil liked it

(Dedicated to the greatest website on the entire internet zombo.com RIP)

Someone was carrying a door.

Lochlann was trotting behind her, his hooves clacking off the path.

"Hey there," he said, "that's a mighty big piece of wood there. I bet you I have some wood that's bigger--"

Only it wasn't an innuendo because Lochlann was thinking about carrying a tree. He needed help finding the right one.

[ Marina Bellamy ]

Marina got in line for lunch today. She got a burger, unknowing that it would make her hips fatter and also that it was made from human flesh. She took a bite.

"Geez, it tastes like what I had for dinner."

What she had for dinner was human flesh.

Emmeline

Something was off about the room she'd found herself in.

There was no door.