The mirror where my eyes look

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You're not sure which is stranger—being on the other side of this room or the fact that you can still see yourself in the mirror. A mirror that you last saw standing inside of a strange house just a few hours ago.

You're sitting on a throne in a strange room with ornate gold fixtures and a feel of medieval age to it. You are sitting in a room that is lit with the same light that you just saw yourself in. You are sitting on a throne surrounded by riches and surrounded by other people. None of them are you, but the alcove where you saw yourself has the same sunlight filtering through the gold ceiling, and it's even mirrored to look like it's being reflected from above.

There are other people in the room, but they are all wearing long flowing cloaks, not reflective of the later periods of this planet's history. They openly stare at you as you try to make sense of the mirrors, but they refuse to speak.

You pull the cloak off of the figure on the throne next to you, not recognizing the person there. You note their strong features and the color of their hair—things you would never forget! The area beneath the cloak is hollow.

You look to the doorway you entered through, but it is solid gold, and you can't get out. You try the windows—gold, locked, no escape. As you scan the room looking for a way out, you notice that there is a final figure cloaked in the dimly lit room.

You turn to the figure you first uncovered. They remain still, as if they are frozen. You slowly lean in—and find yourself sitting in a dingy throne room with gold fixtures. Your friends are staring at you across a chess board in pieces of armor, which appears to be a much older time period on this same planet.

Your queen stands up, and speaks to you, "Well done. This out-dates all the information that we have about this planet." It looks to you as if they are joking, but it is a very serious tone in their voice.

You look to the doorway, which is completely gold, and you are still trapped inside the room. The room is not mirror-like. You are not in this strange house you awoke in that has a terrible secret at its core. It's impossible for you to tell if you're even on the same planet.

You spend the night pondering these strange antics. The next morning, the space you thought you were in resembles an underground cavern. It is lit by a row of torches in the distance. It's the same cavern you saw yourself in yesterday, except the air is hot and puts you off, the sound of monsters outside, and there is a cadaver with a missing arm outside again. The monster flies into the air and takes the arm to its prize chest. Another monster rushes in. With one slash of its blade, it has slain an enemy. The arm hits the prize chest. The chest sprouts a green glow, like for a jewel.

As you look on, your friend stands up. The same stranger from the room that opened when you first went inside has stood up in this room.

"Look behind you. Maybe you can go through the door if you go through the mirror?"

You turn around and see the same room, but there is no door behind you—just a mirror. It seems you are still trapped in this strange room.

You turn back to your friend. They seem to be contained on this side of the room.

A treasure chest, which you had not noticed before, glows. A small creature appears—a creature you can't quite make out. It looks to you as if you are in the corner of its eye.

"There's a strange creature behind me. It looks like a small dragon, but its eyes aren't there. It has no eyes and it's very small. You're the only one seeing it."

You look around. You see nothing that resembles a dragon. "I'm not seeing anything, so you must be."

"Okay, but you won't tell anyone you just saw it, right? It's part of the rules."

As the creature walks toward you, you see blue streaks of ice flicker by. You walk toward the creature in the distance, keeping your head bowed to the ground in fear. You look up and it is inches away from your nose. You are not sure whether or not it is an illusion, but you think you are about to fall over.

The creature turns to you and you realize it is laughing at you. It reaches up and cracks your skull. The monster is gone, and you are sitting in the throne of the room. The female who greeted you earlier is there, laughing at you.

"You survived, but by being foolish." You begin to doubt your eyes. Were you really seeing this, or is this some sort of mind game? And what does this creature have to do with anything?

When you regain your composure, you realize that the creature had taken your soul and had used it to create the creature that was next to you in the room. You ask whether this has happened to anyone else who has entered this room...

You are sent here to fight a monster. You stand in a dungeon by yourself, and the sound of a monster as it passes you echoes through the dark tunnel. You look to the horde of soldiers and they look back at you. The soldiers look like those in the room you are put in: their armor is ornate, their cloaks long, and they have smiles on their faces.

They teleport into the dungeon. The door closes and locks behind you.

When you walk along a distorted path toward the door, at each corner there is a silver orb with a black eye in the center. After glimpsing at the black eyes, you remember you are not in the room. You discover that the orbs are looking at you, and you can no longer see the beasts along the corner.

You find a fog machine backstage, but it is broken. You hear a creak as you walk along the wall of the drawing room—you walk into the path between the throne room and the mirror room. As you walk through you can feel a blue energy beating down on you—dropping you down into the hall of monsters—it's a strange way to travel.

You walk around the corner and notice a shield has fallen from the wall. The shield is made of iron—is it from medieval times? You pick it up and hear a satisfying clang as it bucks your arm. There is a man in armor walking toward you. He is wearing the same armor the soldiers in the room you were trapped in had on. He is NOT the same person, but they look similar to each other.

"Don't forget your promise."

"What promise?"

"Don't tell."

You look around but don't see anyone. You walk up to a mirror and look at yourself. Is this the room? Or have you moved to a different space entirely?

While you are looking at yourself you begin to think you can see the orb looking at you. You turn back around. You are again the room. This is the room, aren't you?

You try to find the entrance back to the mirror room and you realize the door is a secret entrance between the walls. You walk into the mirror.

When you walk in, you see an arcade room. The arcade machines have images on them with mountains in the distance. Red, yellow, and orange colors are flowing from them. Above the arcade are circular mirrors with a fog machine behind them. You see a gold chest in the middle of the room.

There are two coin slots on the machine next to the chest. Your friend is inside the glass machine but you are standing outside it.

The mirror where my eyes look | Ecency