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ELDER ART
[Project Moon - Library Of Ruina / Netzach Story]
2024-12-21 18:59:11
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Posted by ID #118
Last edit: 2025-11-17 14:32:23

-Clack Clack Clack-

The artist before you uses a hammer and chisel to carve out their latest work. You've look at many wonderful carvings before you, but this one is of particular interest to you: A carefully crafted clock which exudes an unsettling vibe.

2024-12-21 18:59:45
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Posted by ID #2
Last edit: 2024-12-23 19:39:04

"Small Ben" - By Azathoth

There are no comments on the bottom plate, not because the artist has yet to finish it, but because this particular artist leaves no comments.

You must have gotten too close to the artist, as when you look away from the artwork, you find them glaring daggers at you as they liquefy before your very eyes.
What do you do?
Chosen Action
Apologize for getting too close.

You apologize for getting so close and back up a few steps in fear, but this seems to only anger the artist more, like a shark smelling blood in water.

"Weak-willed and unable to stick to commitments. You reek of it."
Azathoth
2024-12-21 19:06:34
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Posted by ID #118
Last edit: 2025-11-17 14:32:55
"May the season of harvest stomp you out before first bloom," they croak, before going back to chiseling once more into the clock.
What will you do?
Chosen Action
Ignore the artist, look at other artworks.

You ignore the artist and instead move to another artwork in the room.

"Rising Tower" - By Azathoth

No comment.

The artwork gives you ominous vibes. In fact, everything in the room gives the horrible feeling of dread and discomfort. The clack of the artist working turns from a minor annoyance, to a thunderous roar in your head. You try to keep yourself together, unsure why you suddenly feel so sick to your stomach.

What will you do?
Chosen Action
Ask the artist what's up with these art pieces.
2024-12-21 19:10:39
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Posted by ID #118
Last edit: 2025-11-17 14:34:14

You can't take it, and swing around back to the artist. You ask (as nicely as you could while feeling like you're about to die) what's up with the artworks.


As the artist stops chiseling, the tremors ripping through your body stop. The artist shuts the open book next to him and holds it up. You nearly hurl just from looking at the cover.

"Can't appreciate human architecture, can you?"
"The greats of our universe, taken from us before they could cover our worlds with their handcrafted works."
"You feel it don't you, the way the world shifts and distorts around their monuments. Even in death their creations still cause the universe to implode around them. Uncontainable. Uncontrollable."

You feel like you're going to explode.


What do you do?
Chosen Action
Refuse to be consumed by your anger and faint instead.

You grab Small Ben, ready to go on the attack, but you hold yourself back. Refusing to be consumed by the anger ready to burst out of your body. Refusing to become an animal. You faint.
.............
.......

Azathoth
2024-12-21 19:13:44
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Posted by ID #53
Last edit: 2024-12-21 19:13:51
You find the artist, standing, no, hovering over your body when you come to.

"You're quite terrible at performance art. No battle? No murdering of the artist in their own work station?"
"I find that the rich are so committed to their need for elegance that they refuse to engage with the art as intended. Is there even a creature within you, or is it all manners and training by now?"
What will you do?
Chosen Action
Sarcastically say sorry and state you'll give it another swing in just a moment.

You state that you're "sooooooo sorry" for not attacking someone you don't know, and that "next time you'll tooooooootally give it another swing", maybe directly at his head.


The artist either doesn't pick up the sarcasm, or is genuinely excited about this reaction. They clap their hands as if closing a deal. "Fantastic darling, I want to see the real you that's been domesticated by the years break forth!"
"Don't do it right now though, you've already embarrassed yourself in front of the crowd. They're all laughing at you." You sit up, and find that there's no one but you and the artist in the room.
Chosen Action
Who are you?

You bring to ask the artist who they are, when you stop. You point at the artist and call them Azathoth. You've met this person before, in fact you feel a certain way about them....

Chosen Action
You're married to Azathoth? Oh the mistakes you've made in your life.

You raise your hand to point at Azathoth when you spot the wedding band on your finger. You freeze as your mind puts together the reality of the situation.

Azathoth can tell where this is going. "No!"

You stutter out that you forgot they and you were married.


"No!!!!!"

You clench your fist and remind Azathoth that you told them before that this was the last straw and that if they tossed you into an anomalous haze due to their artwork again that you would divorce them.

"WE ARE NOT MARRIED!!!!!!!! AND WE'RE ESPECIALLY NOT GETTING A DIVORCE."
Azathoth
2024-12-21 19:19:35
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Posted by ID #118
Last edit: 2025-11-17 14:38:03
"Everyone who meets me thinks they "remember me". It's annoying. Snap out of it. Quick. Before you forget the actual person you're married to." Azathoth frets, slapping their hands together as if that would fix the situation.
Chosen Action
"But......I'm....married to you?"
2024-12-21 19:20:27
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Last edit: 2025-11-17 14:38:49

You fold your arms and refuse this. You know it in your head what's true. You begin to shift through your wallet for your marriage license, your collected brodskul feathers falling around you. When you fail to find that, you instead pull out your ID, handing it over.

"SEE YOU CAN'T EVEN FIND EVIDENCE THAT-"
"Hey wait, is your name Walton?"
Azathoth
2024-12-21 19:21:10
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Posted by ID #118
Last edit: 2025-11-17 14:39:29
"The Walton Wallington, owner of the Wallington store franchise?.......No one knows who you're married to, or if you're married at all....."
"I was told by a prophet that one day a 'great Walton' would come into my life and take me away from the horrors of 'Art.' Eugh....."
Azathoth
2024-12-21 19:21:42
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Posted by ID #118
Last edit: 2025-11-17 14:40:12
"But I can't just lie and say we're married. What if you're married to someone and just forgot about it?" You try to remind them that you two are married, but they refuse to listen.
"Dealing with a rich guy with amnesia is such a bother....."
"Why couldn't I be dealing with a rich guy who has simpler issues, like war crimes, or ethical horrors?"
"Those are easy to deal with, but breaking up a marriage is disgusting...."
"Surely it would be ok if I spent a long time searching for your wife, husband, or rich volkronn other? After all, if I can't find them, it wouldn't be a divorce caused by my hand, but by theirs."
"Walton Wallington owner of the Wallington store franchise, I will join you on a quest to find out who you are married to, and if we fail, it will be clear that the gods are good, and my mother has finally delivered to me a rich man who will force me to leave her house."
Azathoth
2024-12-21 19:22:33
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Posted by ID #118
Last edit: 2025-11-17 14:40:50
"I must say...these feathers are a bit childish aren't they? You're a rich man Walton, you could buy anything you ever wanted. Are you seriously collecting these feathers like an arma child who fears the reality of war?"
Chosen Action
When it comes to massive businesses like mine, you gotta engage with the supernatural time to time, yeehaw!

"When it comes to massive businesses like mine, you gotta engage with the supernatural time to time." You cheer before letting out a healthy "Yeeeeehaaaw!"

"Oh no....."
"You're extremely rich but extremely unrefined....."
"Obscene. Nauseating, and repugnant."
Something tells you these aren't bad terms to Azathoth.
"Well if you're going to engage in such childish endeavors, I am happy to hold on to your feathers for you so you don't lose them. If someone sees you amassing many of these preposterous momentos, they may take you as a simple minded target of un-lawful larceny."
"You might as well keep your wishes with me as well, least your selective amnesia take claim to that as well. I'll keep both of those things with me."
"I haven't forgotten a single second of my life since I was born."
"Not one fact."
"And of course, if you happen to find the actual person you're married to out there, you just tell me. I truly hope you find that person if they do indeed exist."
Chosen Action
Due to my latest conviction my probation says I'm owned by the state, but you're second in line. Yeehaw!

"Due to my latest conviction my probation says I'm owned by the state, but you're second in line. Yeehaw!"


"mmmghm....I wonder...did you commit "rich" crimes like embezzlement or the crimes of the people, like stealing a tv from a competitor's store....No! Don't tell me! The imagination is more wonderful than reality!"
("Oh how I hope you broke into the owner of No-Mart's home and robbed every single item in their fridge. Sigh.~")
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