Episodes 12 & 13 - The Lighthouse
Zoner Max had that dream again... the dream where he was just a head and a pair of hands, floating...
But if it was just a dream, why doesn’t he remember waking up?
Episode 12 - “The sky turned pink as I ascended the lighthouse stairs...” 53:04
Episode 13 - “And the signs confirm it all...” 53:23
He made camp in the dark, and woke to discover that he had once again slept, and dreamt, by a sinkhole (syncwhole).
Another green mutant walked by, and to the reporter’s surprise this one was friendly! They even took pictures!
And then consciousness altered...
Zoner had a vision of the mannequin again... There was cabin filled with antlers... Then Zoner Max looked up, and he saw the lighthouse.
How did he get there? Had Zoner finally woken up? Or had he once again fallen asleep?
Let’s list the astonishing findings made by Zoner Max at the lighthouse.
Zoner had spoken previously of the lighthouse synchronocities he’d been having, so to arrive here so suddenly, after a vision of the mannequin/goddess, must have been some kind of sign.
At the bottom of the spiral stairs were a set of six lighthouse models, which Max declared he intended to use for ritual magic.
He decided to make the ascent up the lighthouse stairs into a magical ritual as well, like a walking meditation, and the sky turned pink as he did so...
That night Zoner camped as the foot of the cliff beneath the lighthouse. He turned off the recorder on his PipBoy, and fell asleep gazing up at the stars.
Zoner didn’t know how much time had passed when his PipBoy started sending him messages. “The Path to Enlightenment” flashed across the green glowing screen, with a map icon pointing me to the lighthouse.
And then an army of giant frogs arrived.
They just kept coming, hopping right down the hill straight at Zoner, endlessly hopping. He fought them, and killed them, but they kept coming, even when he ran. Zoner ran until he couldn’t anymore and still they persisted.
The frogs were filled with bioluminescent goo...
By the time the ace reporter had killed enough of them to regain his composure and begin recording again, the message on the PipBoy had vanished... Even still, it was clear that now was the time to return.
Exploration commenced again, and at the top of the lighthouse stairs Zoner discovered he was not the only one to see the tower with paranormal vision, for at the top was the corpse (who killed him!?) of a man in service to a PRIESTESS... who intended to use the lighthouse to summon Mothman.
After everything Zoner has talked about, everything he’s been through, everything that’s made him think might be crazy - including the successful use of magical conjuration techniques to summon a being who may or may not be Mothman! - Zoner has found a religion, dedicated to using the lighthouse, to conjure Mothman.
And here’s what might be the strangest thing of all... down at the picnic area, beneath the lighthouse, Zoner found a holotape. The ghoul standing next to it did not attack, but simply stared as I took it. On that tape was the voice of a man who’s experiences seemed strikingly similar to Zoner’s.
It was a recording of a man wandering, lost, seeing the lighthouse in the dark, and then screaming... and screaming... and screaming.
And then Zoner Max found a shrine, to what is either an alien, a forest god, or both...
It’s time for Zoner Max to find some coffee!
(Synchromystica rolplay continues!)
