CavernSense

Silence is not, in fact, acquiescence.

That it is, is not a law,

and you are not the law maker.

I choose to speak when I choose to speak.

I keep silent when I choose not to speak.

So you say what you need.

Make your noise.

Posture your power.

It has no affect on my choices.

When I have something I wish to say,

I’ll say it.

Yeah, it is.

It really is.

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This one is for Ruby O’Degee.

The Surface Gateway Controller, GameTap, made an announcement on February 4, 2008, that our access to the cavern via their gateway would be closed on April 4, 2008.

60 days.

Less than that today, but until now I didn’t have anything to say. I went through the range of emotions fairly quickly, then we heard that “maybe” there would be another way to meet.  Naturally, I perked my ears and forgot my self-pity for a moment.  Still, I have to starting to pack my things, again, and figure out how to get all this equipment to the surface without a severe backache.

The worse thing will be to say goodbye to my characters. I have several, no secret, and most are for CCN or the Roof Volunteer Group. They can’t all come with me, which means I’ll have to say goodbye to them and let them decide what they want to do next. Will they fade into history when the gate is closed or close up their relto doors and take the leap off the ledge into the next unknown d’niverse?

And what about the quest for the Cavern Scents? Well, I’ll do what I can before it’s time to go. I had some research done before D’mala closed. The new ages are a priority as I don’t know whether I’ll ever find books to travel to those again.

And this site — it was going well until the news. Guess I should be glad I didn’t tear it down right away. The fact that it is still here means there’s more to do with it. My involvement with the Guild of Healers hasn’t stopped either. Maybe there is more to do there as well.

Oh yes, there’s a seventh sense. It’s the one known as CavernSense. It is a sense of things beyond the sixth sense, which is, in my humble opinion, rather restricted to the surface. One you get into the Cavern, something else kicks in — the seventh sense.

CavernSense

It’s the feeling you get as you look at the 10,000 year old ruins of a highly evolved race that has left nothing behind but the ruins in front of you. It’s an awareness of something around you that evokes an emotional response, but you don’t know how to describe that emotion. It’s a knowing that you are now a part of something larger than yourself, a part of another history you didn’t even know existed, connected to a race of people who came to this earth from somewhere not on this earth.

If you can wrap your mind around that, you’re getting in touch with your CavernSense.

Right now we’re waiting for Season Two to start… or maybe fail to start… or maybe both, or either, or neither. All I know is the fear-mongers are swooping down on the MOUL forums again/still and clamoring for attention to their attentions to what they think are unspoken fears that we, the unsuspecting fans, are just not attending to as we should.

Fear? Oh dear, was I supposed to be afraid? Sorry, I missed it again. The Fear Boat. Opposite of the Love Boat, I guess. There are so many things those people tell me to fear — I just can’t keep them all straight and neatly categorized so I know which one to fear now or an hour from now. I tried to fear one yesterday and now I can’t even remember which one it was. Chaos enters and messes it all up. Chases the ducks around, quacks everything up, and dismantles all of their rows. After a while I only know I am supposed to fear…..something….

Oh well. (sigh)

On the other hand, I have observed that while a person is feeling fear, they aren’t enjoying themselves. Can’t be enjoying much with a tense stomach and shoulders. And what will happen if we don’t fear? Hmmm, we’ll be surprised, maybe…. But then, I’ve noticed that the really bad things in my life were surprises regardless of what I did or didn’t worry about.

So I think I’ll pass on the fear, thanks. If something bad happens I agree to be surprised. It seems so much NonSense to me to expend energy worrying about the thing that I do to relax. Ummm, oxymoronic, even.

Yes, yes, you’ll tell me I’m foolish. That I just don’t know better, or don’t face reality. Maybe so. Maybe no. But I’d rather be a happy fool than an unhappy realist. If indeed I am so out of touch with reality.

“I’ve always wondered how people who know everything others should do are able, so neatly, to make such a mess out of their own affairs”

~Ghaelen

Well it is true. There’s just no sense in having CavernSense without including a little NonSense. I can’t imagine being serious all the time, even when I’m being serious all the time. Here is where my wry side gets to show, and anything is game in regard to the game. The game is MOUL and it is afoot.

Or wait, that was my Foot.  The Foot.  It happened, really.

“A Little NonSense now and then is relished by the wise human”
~Willy Wonka

One of my heroes.
Ghaelen