Echoes From The Other Side

Fifth of July, 20██
Heavy Facility 13

TF Omicron-7 (Compromised Site Securement Team) has arrived at the compromised site. Multiple personnel are missing. Units 4, 5 and 1 are present.

U1 (Commander Brandon): We're at the facility.

U4 (Lieutenant Hoover): Whats up? Why we're here?

U5 (Cadet Percy): Everyone disappeared. Possibly down that hole. What even are we dealing with here?

U1: Wasn't told. They said that they didn't know. CCC-42 is the designation.

U4: Its at the bottom of a 1km shaft, but-

U5: That isn't 1km? Looks more like two or three meters?

U1: Agreed! It's a literal meter deep? Has something been affecting local reality?

* U4 drops a stone down the hole*

U4: It, disappeared? It literally vanished?

U1: Lemme just-

U5: DON'T!

* The sound of U1 repeating "Huh?" is heard*

U4: Dear god. He vanished and is, uh, echoing?

U5: We're dealing with something weird here. Control, what is it?

Control: Don't know? Its redacted or something!?

U4: Five, wait here. Let me see if I can climb in. Really strange.

* The sound of U4 repeating "Really Strange" is heard*

U5: No! Come back! NO!

* The sound of U5 saying "NO!" is heard*

Darkness. Only that. I can't feel anything. Not my limbs. I can't see. No. I can. I can't see, yet I can imagine. This is reality. Real reality. But wait. Does this mean? What was meant to be reality? This? How? Of course. This is thought. Reality was meant to be thought, sentience. Pure consciousness! Something made us mortal, able to die. This is the other side. This is liberation. No death, no pain. Nothing...