OPAL GATE
There are rumors that in this island lies a Gate inhabited by celestial beings. You arrive to an island with abandoned ships all around it. As you explore around the area, everything makes you feel nostalgic, I’ve been here before, perhaps in a dream.
You find Splitskull, a mysterious, dead super computer. Its cables run all across the island but they don’t seem to be connected to anything. Some of its monitors still flicker.
You begin transferring all this information to the base but something seems to be interrupting the upload. As you explore deeper inside the ruins you find a door, made of solid wood. You push it but it won’t open. It doesn’t have a doorknob. You knock on the door a few times to no response. You decide to keep exploring the ruins and come back to the door later. As you turn around you hear the door creak. It’s dark inside. You turn on the flashlight but it doesn’t help. After roaming around for 10 minutes, you get out before night time arrives.
A helicopter with supplies was supposed to arrive but it never came. You try your best to survive the cold night on this island. Gathering various leafs and branches you manage to make a small tent to cover yourself. You try communicating with the base but they won’t send a signal. With your last hopes, you try one more time. They tell you they’ve been looking for you for an hour, they’re on the island. The island is not that big. How have they not found me? How did I not see them? This has to be some sick joke, right? The call breaks up. This island is more mysterious than you thought.
You can’t sleep so you get ready and try going in that door again. It might be a bad idea, but I’m probably dead already. As you enter the ruins you immediately notice a light blue glow coming from where the door was. You prepare yourself for anything that may come. As you slowly walk towards the door, you start feeling brave, each step feels like a shot of pure adrenaline. You are ready for anything. At the door, you see it. There it is. The Gate. You cant believe your eyes. It is the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen. While you appreciate the beauty of this place, a person approaches you. This person was very peculiar, it had a glowing aura around it and it’s eyes glow like light-bulbs. You don’t feel scared. For some reason you feel at home. This person greets you very politely “Welcome to the Earth”. It invites you inside the Gate, you cannot talk but you do want to enter the gate. You feel anxious and excited. The gate looked like a small, circular bath but the water looked like the night sky. As he walks you inside The Gate, your feet feel cold, and slowly you feel vibrations all over your body. It is intense. You cannot comprehend anything happening. You are not at the gate anymore. You are nowhere. Darkness. The vibrations intensify until you are back at the gate. It is not the same. There is no cave.
The night sky shines like the sun. A wave of emotional stability and well being washes over you every few seconds. "We heartily welcome you“ says the person. It is not the same. He doesn’t glow like before. You walk out the gate to see the rest of the island with this new state. Everything is restored. The ruins are now a beautiful Palace. There are people living here. They seem happy. The waves begin to calm down. You don’t feel as powerful as before. You go back to the gate to find the person for guidance. He is not there, you walk back outside to speak with anyone, no one is there. The houses begin to collapse, the palace slowly disintegrates. Running to the gate, you begin to understand. You understand everything now.
You’re outside the door, laying down. Empty.
That’s what I get for venturing into the deep.
