...okay. This didn't look anything like the mines.
One minute he'd been trying to fend off a swarm of those horrific bugs that stung relentlessly, and the next--well, there was nothing before he opened his eyes and he was sprawled out on a smooth, but strangely not too cold floor of pink marble tile.
Once he gets to his feet, it takes Joseph a second to get his bearings. The staircases--they make his head spin a little with their seemingly impossible construction, not unlike the strange woodland brew the wizard in Cindersnap Forest had him drink. He finally has to shut his eyes until his head calms, then take it in stages to make it to one of the staircases. If he just puts one foot in front of the other, it's safe enough. He doesn't get dizzy again, and gradually his foot finds a landing.
When he lifts his gaze from his feet, there's...nothing. No, literally, there's nothing, he's floating in a blank white void with no sense of direction...
...no, no wait. After a few fumbling steps he stays still, realizing that, once his eyes adjust, there's a--a floor. It's subtle, but there's a difference in shade or texture (???) between the ground (the floor?) and the sky (ceiling???...) that keeps him from getting too disoriented.
The problem is that he's alone. Alone in this barely sensical liminal space--and while he's growing to enjoy the solitude of the farm he's slowly shaping into something that Grandpa can be proud of--something safe from the bats and the slimes and the strange, dried out husk creatures that seem to spring from pure shadow and earth--this isn't that. There's no sound from the owls in the trees or the crickets in the nearby forest borders, no rustle of Timer--the cat Marnie brought to his door--pouncing on some invisible threat in the tall grass, no flickering light show from the fireflies that dot the sweet spring nights.
Joseph Rambeau is, well and truly, alone in this place, and it's kind of terrifying. So, with no other option, he calls out.
"Hello? Is anyone there?...Can anyone hear me?..."
Joseph Rambeau | Stardew Valley {Farmer Protagonist OC}
...okay. This didn't look anything like the mines.
One minute he'd been trying to fend off a swarm of those horrific bugs that stung relentlessly, and the next--well, there was nothing before he opened his eyes and he was sprawled out on a smooth, but strangely not too cold floor of pink marble tile.
Once he gets to his feet, it takes Joseph a second to get his bearings. The staircases--they make his head spin a little with their seemingly impossible construction, not unlike the strange woodland brew the wizard in Cindersnap Forest had him drink. He finally has to shut his eyes until his head calms, then take it in stages to make it to one of the staircases. If he just puts one foot in front of the other, it's safe enough. He doesn't get dizzy again, and gradually his foot finds a landing.
When he lifts his gaze from his feet, there's...nothing. No, literally, there's nothing, he's floating in a blank white void with no sense of direction...
...no, no wait. After a few fumbling steps he stays still, realizing that, once his eyes adjust, there's a--a floor. It's subtle, but there's a difference in shade or texture (???) between the ground (the floor?) and the sky (ceiling???...) that keeps him from getting too disoriented.
The problem is that he's alone. Alone in this barely sensical liminal space--and while he's growing to enjoy the solitude of the farm he's slowly shaping into something that Grandpa can be proud of--something safe from the bats and the slimes and the strange, dried out husk creatures that seem to spring from pure shadow and earth--this isn't that. There's no sound from the owls in the trees or the crickets in the nearby forest borders, no rustle of Timer--the cat Marnie brought to his door--pouncing on some invisible threat in the tall grass, no flickering light show from the fireflies that dot the sweet spring nights.
Joseph Rambeau is, well and truly, alone in this place, and it's kind of terrifying. So, with no other option, he calls out.
"Hello? Is anyone there?...Can anyone hear me?..."