"No, I can't reach things in a memory. In a memory everything is locked. I can't move."
'Then unlock it. You have the power, I can sence it.'
"You really don't get what I am saying do you? This is an actual thing in Space. I don't know or remember what is in it. Therefore unlocking it would probably trigger some sort of vision..."
'Then unlock it. You have the power, I can sence it.'
"You really don't get what I am saying do you? This is an actual thing in Space. I don't know or remember what is in it. Therefore unlocking it would probably trigger some sort of vision..."
'That is what you want, if you stay down here nothing will happen. It's when you go out and do something that puts things in motion. Rot here in madness, or discover your true self and Destiny inside that box.'
"You really don't get what I am saying do you? This is an actual thing in Space. I don't know or remember what is in it. Therefore unlocking it would probably trigger some sort of vision..."
'That is what you want, if you stay down here nothing will happen. It's when you go out and do something that puts things in motion. Rot here in madness, or discover your true self and Destiny inside that box.'
"Fine I'll go build a spaceship. Now how do I get back to Atero?"
'That is what you want, if you stay down here nothing will happen. It's when you go out and do something that puts things in motion. Rot here in madness, or discover your true self and Destiny inside that box.'
"Fine I'll go build a spaceship. Now how do I get back to Atero?"
'You need to learn something, this is in your mind. You have no need to build a spaceship, just let a memory happen. Unlock it, experience it. You will understand everything once this is all over.'
"Fine I'll go build a spaceship. Now how do I get back to Atero?"
'You need to learn something, this is in your mind. You have no need to build a spaceship, just let a memory happen. Unlock it, experience it. You will understand everything once this is all over.'
"Fine." The memory plays and the cube gets really small and falls out of sight as Secret falls unconscious.
'You need to learn something, this is in your mind. You have no need to build a spaceship, just let a memory happen. Unlock it, experience it. You will understand everything once this is all over.'
"Fine." The memory plays and the cube gets really small and falls out of sight as Secret falls unconscious.
Skotadi gathers his antidermis into one location, and says a word of farewell to his rahkshi. 'I must recommit myself to darkness, and to moral Shadow. But this time I want something permanent, so if I succeed, you will no longer know me as I am, but as a new being.'
He condenses his antidermis further, and a form of pain begins to set in. Even so, he pushes himself beyond any reasonable density, forcing himself to go further and further until he resembles a mere marble of Makuta essence. "Agonizing, but necessary." Elemental shadow eclipses the ordinary pitch darkness of the Cavern and envelopes Skotadi in rapidly moving patterns of black silk-like emptiness... it would almost be beautiful if it weren't for its purpose; To compress into the heart of The Makuta and pull him even further into microscopic oblivion.
Skotadi gathers his antidermis into one location, and says a word of farewell to his rahkshi. 'I must recommit myself to darkness, and to moral Shadow. But this time I want something permanent, so if I succeed, you will no longer know me as I am, but as a new being.'
He condenses his antidermis further, and a form of pain begins to set in. Even so, he pushes himself beyond any reasonable density, forcing himself to go further and further until he resembles a mere marble of Makuta essence. "Agonizing, but necessary." Elemental shadow eclipses the ordinary pitch darkness of the Cavern and envelopes Skotadi in rapidly moving patterns of black silk-like emptiness... it would almost be beautiful if it weren't for its purpose; To compress into the heart of The Makuta and pull him even further into microscopic oblivion.
The empty void of Pure Shadow pulls the last of the antidermis past the visible state...
Skotadi gathers his antidermis into one location, and says a word of farewell to his rahkshi. 'I must recommit myself to darkness, and to moral Shadow. But this time I want something permanent, so if I succeed, you will no longer know me as I am, but as a new being.'
He condenses his antidermis further, and a form of pain begins to set in. Even so, he pushes himself beyond any reasonable density, forcing himself to go further and further until he resembles a mere marble of Makuta essence. "Agonizing, but necessary." Elemental shadow eclipses the ordinary pitch darkness of the Cavern and envelopes Skotadi in rapidly moving patterns of black silk-like emptiness... it would almost be beautiful if it weren't for its purpose; To compress into the heart of The Makuta and pull him even further into microscopic oblivion.
The empty void of Pure Shadow pulls the last of the antidermis past the visible state...
The Caverns grow darker and darker as any miniscule amount of light gets suckered from existance and pulled in with the antidermis.
Still, Skotadi constricts his remaining form even further.
Everything in the cavern loses all of their features to what any eye could see.
The soft squirming noises and the metallic clanking of rahkshi armor die down... either they have stopped in admiration of the evolution process, the entire Cavern had lost the ability to transfer sound, or the kraata and rahkshi got sucked into the "black hole" of antidermis... or perhaps it was a combination of all three.
Everything in the cavern loses all of their features to what any eye could see.
The soft squirming noises and the metallic clanking of rahkshi armor die down... either they have stopped in admiration of the evolution process, the entire Cavern had lost the ability to transfer sound, or the kraata and rahkshi got sucked into the "black hole" of antidermis... or perhaps it was a combination of all three.
By now, Skotadi has lost any control over his collapsing form. The laws of the Universe have taken authority, and continue to rip any remaining particles of antidermis from the fabric of space and transfer them to an infinitely deep yet infinitely weightless pit of Umbra.
The Makuta can do nothing more then focus on his morality, now a perfect reflection of his physical form.
The soft squirming noises and the metallic clanking of rahkshi armor die down... either they have stopped in admiration of the evolution process, the entire Cavern had lost the ability to transfer sound, or the kraata and rahkshi got sucked into the "black hole" of antidermis... or perhaps it was a combination of all three.
By now, Skotadi has lost any control over his collapsing form. The laws of the Universe have taken authority, and continue to rip any remaining particles of antidermis from the fabric of space and transfer them to an infinitely deep yet infinitely weightless pit of Umbra.
The Makuta can do nothing more then focus on his morality, now a perfect reflection of his physical form.
By now, Skotadi has lost any control over his collapsing form. The laws of the Universe have taken authority, and continue to rip any remaining particles of antidermis from the fabric of space and transfer them to an infinitely deep yet infinitely weightless pit of Umbra.
The Makuta can do nothing more then focus on his morality, now a perfect reflection of his physical form.
Alas, he has vanished from reality.
An explosion of epic proportions rocks the mountain, and an Umbra-Nui leaks out from the former location of the makuta.
"It worked..." It tries to call out to its former rahkshi, but to no avail. He tries to read Secret's mind, and finds it impossible. Then Skotadi notices something. It was as if he had no essence, no form, no tangibility. "Am I even still alive?" He reaches out with his control over Shadow, and he surges forward. "I am truly the Umbra now." He strikes a bolt of lightning at the ice wall, and featureless shadow extends outward, disintegrating the wall from the fabric of space.