>>6326058
Despite the minuscule, yet lingering, fear that if you close your eyes, you'll find yourself in an altogether different place, you do so. In the middle of a strange room, you sit cross-legged and perform a motion that is not dissimilar from prayer, only instead, your concentration is on your mana and the magic around you, rather than reciting verses ingrained in your memory. Then your eyes shoot open, and as you fall, you fall with the most outrageous of headaches. Sure, you understood something was wrong here, of course it is, this place looks like where you imagined Asher lived on Earth, but now you understand this place is wrong. The mana scattered through the air resembles more a storm than the tranquil floating dandelion petals that you’re used to. As you work your way through the pain, you try to make sense of the convoluted maze of magic this place has. Maybe that's why you felt ill here, not from the stench or moist air but from your mana interacting with what is floating around.
You stumble to your feet and begin walking. Despite your only brief glimpse into the void, you thought you saw at least something different. And you have the feeling the sooner you’re out of here, the better. Just where the hell even are you? Dammit, if you stumble upon any more critters that speak in nothing but verse, you swear it will be the last rhyme they ever make.
By the time your head is clear, you’re in a completely new place. Not that you can actually tell, seeing as this whole building(?) looks the same, but you are intelligent enough to understand you’re in a new place. It takes about an hour for your head to clear up, right? That's how long it felt like. Has it been an hour? Surely, something would have happened by then, no?
Something is going to happen, right?
Right?
You'll keep walking just in case, keep following the glint of golden mana you glimpsed in the sea of chaos. Surely, this is where you are supposed to go.
Surely, once you get there, something will happen.
Surely, you’re not alone here. Maybe there'll be a big monster you have to fight!
Or a Stranger, that's what you do now, fight Strangers.
Ah, maybe this is a Cheat Skill! Where a Stranger put you in a prison.
Or wouldn't it be that Alice put you in prison?
Surely, she didn't, right?
You have way more use than just being discarded! Everybody knows this! Alice must be watching you right now, toying with you even.
Someone has to be watching you.
You can't be alone here. After all, you've already had to sleep thrice, there's no way a place like this could just be empty.
Oh, you're probably wondering how you haven't had to eat anything, right? Of course, you'd be thinking that. It doesn't make sense to stay alive and not eat, doesn't it? Well, the answer is. Pause for dramatic effect. It is! The answer is!
The paint is peeling on that wall. That's new, right? Isn't that interesting?
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>>40781171
>you'd constantly get really good stories and ARGs.
This is nostalgia speaking. Most creepypastas were awful, we just didn't know any better as kids.
>The internet felt bigger
The internet was much smaller, but much less controlled than it is now. Common search engines actually worked and sites weren't under a stranglehold by shit loads if algorithms trying to fry your brain.
However, I bet 12 year old kid who hasn't had his brain fried - because of being on a tablet all day for his whole life, can probably still pick up a computer and feel the wonder of the internet.
You don't feel that anymore because you grew up.
>Are people just way more cynic nowadays and don't entertain/play along with anything?
This is the main issue. The 12 year old kid I gave as an example above assumes that the kid hasn't had his brain friend.
The problem is that most kids nowadays get to 10-12 years old and they already have seen everything there is to see. A creepypasta or ARG is a joke. The real world is much darker.
Kids and young teens are way more skeptical now than they were in 2010. The world in general is a more cynical and dark place than in 2010.
>you'd constantly get really good stories and ARGs.
This is nostalgia speaking. Most creepypastas were awful, we just didn't know any better as kids.
>The internet felt bigger
The internet was much smaller, but much less controlled than it is now. Common search engines actually worked and sites weren't under a stranglehold by shit loads if algorithms trying to fry your brain.
However, I bet 12 year old kid who hasn't had his brain fried - because of being on a tablet all day for his whole life, can probably still pick up a computer and feel the wonder of the internet.
You don't feel that anymore because you grew up.
>Are people just way more cynic nowadays and don't entertain/play along with anything?
This is the main issue. The 12 year old kid I gave as an example above assumes that the kid hasn't had his brain friend.
The problem is that most kids nowadays get to 10-12 years old and they already have seen everything there is to see. A creepypasta or ARG is a joke. The real world is much darker.
Kids and young teens are way more skeptical now than they were in 2010. The world in general is a more cynical and dark place than in 2010.
