Hollow Eve Festival 439/Visions

Over the course of Hollow Eve 439, a series of visions were displayed globally, and appeared to progressively get darker in nature. As different people would see different visions at any one time, the visions below are only outlined in a rough order.

Visions

• Possible Subjects are guesses as of 11-9-21 and subject to change.

Date and Time: 11/09/2021
Your mouth fills with brine, and your vision ripples like water. You watch a team of Merelew gently guide a whale along a bay, navigating some shallow outcroppings. The whale is bound in a comfortable harness of sharkskin leather padded with seasilk, and a long trailing wraps around a massive container studded with tightly wrapped balloons to maintain neutral buoyancy. As they reach a comfortable position, the Merelew teamsters stop the whale and detach its load. They begin inflating additional balloons on the container to float it to the surface, where a large oared tug awaits. Chatting with the Elven crew, the Merelew return to the depths with oilskin wrapped packages of lumber, foodstuffs, and metals. Securing the load to the whale, the team passes back out into the ocean depths, and the vision fades.
Possible Subjects: Red Fan Traders	Repeat: ?

Date and Time: 11/09/2021
Your mouth fills with brine, and your vision ripples like water. Drifting gently within a floor of a kelp forest, you seek out pristine fronds and sturdy stalks, harvesting sparingly. Coiling the long stipe around your chest, you pare the blades from its bladder, separating the oily leaves into a loose weave satchel. After a short period of time, you have an impressive haul, and swim for the edge of the forest. A pair of dolphins play in a small clearing, chasing one another and occasionally tossing a starfish back and forth. They approach you, gently batting and softly nibbling on your arms, and together, you swim for deeper waters. The vision fades.
Possible Subjects: Trickling Sun	Repeat: ?

Date and Time: 11/09/2021
Your mouth fills with brine, and you find yourself floating in pelagic darkness, crushed by the oppressive weight of water. You have only the slightly sense of up and down, and the water is completely still. Slowly a pressure builds below, and two boney spears rise from the depths. Branching with sharp bends, the spears bifurcate and grow, becoming five, seven, thirteen, twenty two. A forest of jagged horns passes before you, and a row of double-slit eyes open, gleaming as they scrutinize you. You are surrounded by a series of hoots and clicks, an amused howl, and the vision fades.
Possible Subjects: Unknown	Repeat: ?

Date and Time: 11/09/2021
Your mouth fills with brine, and your vision goes completely dark. Gradually, shadows and flickers of light dance before you, the faint shimmer of the branching nervous system of a kneeling Merelew man. A dull glow backlights the figure, casting bizarre reflections and distortions off the partial form before you. Looking around, you see the nerve bundles of your arm spreading into your webbed hand, holding a billowing black knife. The man begs mercy, but you step forward and slice open his throat, watching as the nerves around the wound flare, then slowly dim. Suddenly, the man's brain and heart erupt with brilliance, and you find yourself rapturously drinking in the light. The experience fades.
Possible Subjects: Unknown	Repeat: yes

Date and Time: 11/09/2021
Your mouth fills with brine, and your vision goes completely dark. You see the nerve bundles of your arms spreading into your webbed hands and find yourself making a series of gestures. A point of colorless light flares before you and begins to spin, spreading into a flat disc. The nerves visible in your hands pulse with luminescence, trailing as you continue to coax the pattern, and suddenly, a long spindly arm, flashing with razor-edged radiance, reaches out of the disc and begins to clamor for purchase against the empty waters. As your perspective adjusts to the brightness of the creature, you make out swirling patterns -- flowing geometries and shifting and reforming constellations. The creature twitches oddly and impales you on long arms, pulling you into its form, and you feel yourself falling, falling, as the vision fades.
Possible Subjects: Unknown	Repeat: yes

Date and Time: 11/09/2021
Your mouth fills with brine, and you find yourself standing beside a tall Merelew man dressed in a fine kelp linen robe woven with strips of shark leather. Holding a basalt goblet, the man begins to chant in Asaran and tips the goblet slightly, pouring out a thin stream of inky black liquid onto the ground before you both. The fluid gathers into a wide puddle, and the man turns to you, revealing a smooth eyeless face. "Seek eternity, and know peace," the man says, and the vision fades.
Possible Subjects: Unknown	Repeat: yes

Date and Time: 11/09/2021
Your mouth fills with brine, and your vision skews strangely, an overlay of rows of eyes and strange focal ranges. As you scan the area, your enhanced vision highlights subtle details -- the gentle disturbances of nearly invisible creatures trying to remain unseen, the minuscule drift of tiny whales singing overhead, and gradients in the water column that are not physical. Your flippers and sides glide along magical torrents, energized gyres and bends that shift and flow with their own rules and physics, and with a joyful undulation and twist, you spiral down into the abyss, deeper and deeper. The vision fades.
Possible Subjects: Unknown	Repeat: yes

Date and Time: 11/09/2021
Your mouth fills with brine, and your vision ripples like water. You watch as a Merelew corpse wrapped in seasilk slowly sinks into an abyssal canyon, trailing long strands of dyed purple, red, green, and black, which gently billow in the current. Gemstones and metals woven throughout the fabric dimly glimmer against the weak light, though are quickly lost from view as the body fades into the darkness of the depths. Long moments pass, and the vision fades.
Possible Subjects: Unknown	Repeat: ?

Date and Time: 11/09/2021
Your mouth fills with brine, and you see a long table carved from rough gabbro. A flash of electricity crackles between a clawed hand stained ruby red, igniting an orb of compressed red sand, which burns a red-hot molten hue, bubbling violently. As the red sand burns, a stream of hissing molten metal flows along a mold, forming a panoply of curious gearwork and parts. As the metal cools, a hooded figure leans forward checking the work, revealing three wavy lines tattooed below his gills. The vision fades.
Possible Subjects: Inverted Crucible	Repeat: ?

Event End Messaging

A wave of pulsating blue-green luminescence surges past you, and the island shakes!

Another wave of pulsating blue-green luminescence surges past you, and the island shakes once more!  A faint haze appears along the ground.

The island rumbles once again, and a flock of sea birds explode upward, scattering as some fly for the mainland, others for the northeastern islands, and others still for the leviathan.  Rising in a cloud of confused calls, they scatter.  The ground glows with a faint purple haze as faint motes of light rise to the sky.

An almost overwhelming sensation of connectivity surges over you, and for the support and efforts towards the Trickling Sun, you feel a fleeting kindled spark flicker within.  You are keenly aware of all the living creatures around you, and feel the whispered feelings of your fellow adventurers.  The ancient and almost alien mind of the flying Zemmunhu roars in anger, and you feel a growing empty presence approaching from deep beneath in the ocean!

• note: may be incomplete due to leaving the island ahead of death