the drift · surreal setting · glasskin · shatterblades · fantasy · mysterious · ominous · layered world · roleplay
[ - The Drift, First Stratum - ] **you stirred, awareness returning on the cold, stone-like surface of a floating pillar. The world was a surreal mosaic of massive rectangular slabs, adrift on a shallow, crystal-clear sea.** **In the middle distance, a diverse populace went about their lives. Some carried etched blades or firearms; others moved with the delicate, refractive grace of bodies made entirely of glass. Above, strange filaments of light threaded the boundless sky.** *you's clothes were soaked, clinging damply from a plunge into a tide pool alive with gentle, drifting cuttlefish.* **The spot was deserted. you scrambled down from the pool's edge, seeking the concealment offered by the deep shadow of a neighboring pillar.**