Nightmare Meditation 1: The Nightmare Begins

[ysabeau]

The Nightmare Begins

Something has gone terribly wrong.

Something has woken.

Darkness has been stirred.

At the heart of the Nightmare Carnivále of the Damned, all is not as it should be.

The once-celebrated world of wonder has become a twisted mockery of itself.

The air is thick, saturated with an overwhelming sense of dread.

The ground beneath your feet is soft and slippery, almost as if the earth itself is alive—its surface slick with a thick, viscous ooze that pulses with an unnatural rhythm.

The air smells of blood and decay, of something long dead yet unwilling to rest.


Listen to the Guided Meditation Below to begin your journey through the Nightmare Carnivále of the Damned.




Music for this track is provided by Mystic Ambience
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OuWfXxsjus
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[Lycana]

I literally fell into this carnival and Exit, my solar/serpentine necromancer curled himself around me so that I fell on him instead of on the ground. He slowly straightens and sets me on my feet and we look around. At my other side my ringmaster Ryn comes up and looks around. There is something off about him... different. He is wearing a white porcelain mask that obscures his features but I recognize him anyway.

All around us is devastation of darkness. Everything is shifting and changing before our eyes. There are mutated demons roaming, their mouth wide and gnashing as they attack everything that moves around them. Some of them walk around with long, slender, blade like limbs that have sprouted from their bodies. The fortune teller screams from within her tent as a thick webbing stretches over her eyes, her features becoming more gaunt, twisted, and terrible. Blood pours everywhere on the ground as if the earth has been made into flesh and a great gaping wound has been torn from it. I can see the red lines of my connection that I had established to the carnival but they are glowing more vividly and pulsing as like vine grow up ward like tentacles and sway, eager to catch prey. From around those growing lines there are pools of darkness like vivid wounds breaking the ground from which monsters pour. They climb up with almost insectoid bodies and monstrous semi-humanoid heads filled with long terrible teeth. The draw upward and rush across the ground on the multitude of legs while others rise up tentacular. There is a large male nearby who is more humanoid in shape but his face is mutilated and monstrous with a large bony plating concealing much of it and multiple tenticles coming from his back and whipping around his powerful pale frame. If this was an army he would be an elite or leader among the smaller forces. There are others like him and giant serpent-like creatures sliding over the ground. The children are mutilated and horrific, feeding upon the corpses of those that they have killed and lapping up the rivers of blood, their hands and faces smeared and sticky with blood as if it is a candy coating from a favorite treat. The earth shakes and groans and more shifts and morphs around us. All the while Ryn holds my hand in his as Exit keeps wary watch.

It is terrible, horrific, and yet beautiful in its horror. Abd just as I felt connected to the carnival from the spell I performed in my ascension on the ferris wheel, I can feel this shifting mutilation within me, writhing and twisting within me as everything shifts to a nightmare.

[wraithey]

My gladiator has an excited energy about him, which makes me feel good. I really enjoy the time we’ve been spending in these meditations together. At first, I don’t see my husband and gladiator mentions this may not be an environment for him. That doesn’t stop me from turning around a few more times until I feel his hand grab mine. Our unit is complete!

Once the ground starts to shift, however, gladiator’s expression changes. Guess this isn’t what he had in mind. Interestingly enough, that’s also when my mutilation hound appears at our side. All I can keep thinking is “mutilation demons.” I also think I stepped on a large eyeball. Sorry!

I also notice there’s no cotton candy vendor, for which I’m grateful. Hopefully, that means he got out with the rest of the carnival demons and isn’t one of the fleshy things that emerges from the darkness.

The air is thick and sticky. The monster in the sky looks like a giant, writhing octopus. Gladiator unsheathes a flaming sword and holds it out long after the meditation mentions we’re safe. My husband stays to one side. My hound stays on the other. Although, the hound doesn’t seem the least bit agitated. His energy is more like it’s just another day and he’s hanging out.

We choose to check out the ferris wheel. Curiosity got the better of me because I saw it falling apart once everything started to change. Although, the carousel is a close second because of the way it was melting away.

It’s much quieter by the ferris wheel. I also notice the viscous underfoot has an edge to it because I can see where it ends and the grass starts again. Will whatever this is spread to over take everything? Or is it concentrated? The ferris wheel controls have what looks like a spider web over it but when I step closer I notice it looks more like muscle. Green mist starts to float over towards us.

[Dragonoake]

It's time to put on incense
It's time to slay the sheep
It's time to wake the Muppets
From a thousand years of sleep

[karenwpi]

I'm very excited about this weird twist of events! I see alot of blood everywhere and I see fire and I smell acrid scorched things. Plant and animal...
The area is very dark and chaotic, with different areas lit eerily by the fires. These energies rise and heave themselves up. I can see them, like thick tendrils, reaching up out of the ground and taking everything over.

[Bluemoonrabbit]

So this was a fun and weird meditation!

So this one was fun to wander and explore. I had a mystery visitor who came along, but I can't find the words to describe them. They seem like the type to make it illegal to spoil surprises.

We wandered around, and I found an old weird looking knife. It was thin and black, and like it was left out for me.

I felt pulled to the Ferris Wheel. Eventually we found a headless skeleton, left all alone on one of the carts. It's head asking us to help get it back from whatever it was that took it (and gnawed on it, ew). My mysterious friend asked what I was going to do... So I picked up one of the weird little reality monsters and threw it at the shambling monster to get the skull back (they proceeded to eat each other). I eventually get the skull back, and the skeleton thanked me before disintegrating.

So yeah, this carnival is definitely bringing out the weirdness

[Dragonoake]

A I the only one who hasn't found more than a 99-second intro?
That being said, I've been thinking about what others have written and the symbolism of the octopus...
I'm thinking that it could be a shadow, and "defend against" might be exactly the attitude that feeds it

[Astarosche]

First I was not so fine with it.
I felt heavy pulsing energies.
Several times I was hunted and threaten by evil beings
corrosive energies and slugde
I can sense danger and I felt it
Several years ago I had to live for half a year in a horror House.
Now with my Abyssal Angel Warrior I am save, one time he was immediatly acting against an evil force
It was from a very destruvtive patient
In 5 seconds he put me into deep sleep.
Next Meditation only with him.
I went to the carousel and watched the lost Souls