Task of the Year: The Massoleum of Mollosus
06.10.2009
Task of the Year Masoleum at Mollosus (WILD)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
I was standing on the edge of the woods. A plain opened up before me. The Massoleum rose from the Earth. It looked like a great white Greek temple sitting on a large stand. I saw depicted on the bottom a bas-relief strange battle of centaurs and humans, and Amazons and Greeks.
The battle with the centaurs came to life. I was thrust into the middle of it. It appeared that the centaurs and humans had been having a party together outside, like a great picnic. There was food and musical instruments strewn about, and lots of wine. Both sides had little weapons.
The centaurs were overcome with a wild-eyed madness. They were trying to screw everything in sight, or fighting, or trying to buck off an imagined foe.
There were corpses of humans everywhere with hoof prints smashed into their faces and torsos. There were many dead centaurs also with knife wounds and spears stuck in them. The humans were screaming in anger, pain, and anguish.
The centaurs were chuffing and roaring with an unearthly rage.
Suddenly, I was a centaur. The emotion of the moment made me semi-lucid.
I was freaking out. I could feel the wine going to my brain, making me go insane. I was trying to take cotrol over my mind, but I couldn't. I ran away from the scene into the woods. Some of the humans ran after me, and threw spears, but missed.
I turned backwards as I ran, and fired at the humans with a small bow, killing two or three. I did not want to kill anyone. The gods made us go insane. The humans were our friends. What was happening? I couldn't think straight. I didn't want to kill the humans. They attacked us? Why? Then, I remembered how one of the centaurs got drunk, leapt up, and tried to mount one of the female humans. We all started going insane at about the same time. I hated myself. I hated the freak body that the gods gave me. I cursed Dionysis. The humans were still chasing me.
I leapt off a great cliff in madness, and fell, killing myself on jagged rocks below.
My spirit floated up and away from my body. I had a human spirit somehow. Why? I floated toward the masoleum. I saw the battle was over. Humans and centaurs were both mourning their dead.
I felt sad, but removed from it all.
I knew I could see the scene with the Amazons if I wanted to, but I wasn't ready to experience that.
I was curious about the tomb. I floated in, then down. I was in a dimly lit room. There was a table with an ancient corpse of a king on it.
I saw a hall beyond the king's chamber. I followed it. It came to a strange dead end. I kept going, and ended up in Hades. I was in a great cave, full of pits of fire. I saw the god Hades sitting on his throne in the distance.
"Aha!" I thought. "This is another entrance to Hollow Earth! They are interdimensional somehow. You go down the tunnel, and keep going... some kind of wormhole. They pyramids, the ziggurats, and this place, they are all somehow portals to Hollow Earth!"