The Gathering

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"Not long ago, I had a "normal life". I had a loving mother, a girlfriend of 2 years, a Master's Degree in Psychology, a job that I had always dreamed of.I had it all... or so I thought. At the core of my being, however, I know what there was something missing. There was this ... void inside me. A bottomless black pit inside my soul that no amount of love, sex, money, or prestige could fill. Only one thing could fill this emptiness. And I had no clue what that thing might be.




Something was not right. And not only with the world within, but the world without as well.




I knew. Every day when I came home from work, and instinctively jumped when I heard the rustling of leaves behind me. When I woke up in the middle of the night, covered in sweat, heart pounding, feeling as though someone or something had been there watching me as my girlfriend and I slept. The strange feeling of elation, and anticipation when the sky would grow overcast, the way I'd be filled with so much energy the moment the storm would begin. The times when I'd hear someone speak and respond, only to find out they hadn't said a word, but they had just been thinking of what I mentioned.

Being a psychologist, I wrote these things off in my mind as one sort of disorder or another,or simple coincidence at the very least,in order to rationalize, and in do so, ignore those things that i feared, or did not understand. It's just human nature, right? We would all choose to believe a comfortable lie than face an unnerving truth, am I correct?




This worked.... for a while.




Then.. the dreams started. Or perhaps I should call them visions, as sleep was not always a prerequisite for them to occur. Visions of places I had never been, people I had never met, events that I had never witnessed... Deeds I had never done. But they were so vivid, so... real.




I lost quite a bit of sleep over this. Eventually it began to interfere with my work... I was told I needed to see a specialist, to take time off and recuperate. I did so.... but month after month went by, with no change. No matter how many specialists I went to see, no matter how many therapy sessions, or pills taken, there was no difference.It was maddening. It was if my brain were a hard drive that had been overloaded with too much information... It just wanted to shut down. Eventually, my girlfriend decided she couldn't take it anymore,saying that I was no longer the man she fell in love with. She left, telling me to call her when I finally managed to pull myself together.




Eventually, with me not working, and my savings running low, I had to move out of the house, and into a small apartment on the other end of town. At this point, I spent most of my days barricaded in my room, staring at a wall or the ceiling, trying to piece it all together, to separate reality from fantasy.




Eventually, in a last ditch effort, I made my way to the local library wit ht he hopes of finding accounts of other people who had been through similar experiences. My search took me farther and farther away from “normal”. Eventually bringing me to subjects such as demonic possession, alien abductions, and ESP. I was sure that I was going insane, but I continued to search.




Then...one day, I ran across something that really stood out to me. Something that changed my outlook on everything. What was this life altering bit of information? Well... that part I'll explain later.





Heh.. A normal person would probably call my crazy talking this way, wouldn't they? But, the question is, do you think I am?




If you've received this message, then, you and I have met before, at some point, and when we did, I sensed something special in you. Something inside me resonated with something inside of you, and I believe that this bond is worth further investigation.




Of course, I could be wrong about you. If I am.. then, please, feel free to dismiss this message as the rantings of a madman, and ignore it accordingly. But if you have found yourself in the same sort of situation as I have, if you're experienced similar instances, if you feel that same consuming emptiness within and you desire answers, then perhaps we can find them together...?




You understand why I can't give you my name, don't you? Not fond of the idea of some "Good Samaritan" trying to have me committed. But... If you would like to seek answers to your questions with with me, then you can find me outside the city library on any Monday night. Look for the guy with the dragon tattoo around his neck. I think you'll recognize me when you're close enough."




That's the back story I've come up with. It could probably use some polishing, but I'll get to that later if I get enough people interested.

Basically, the concept that I've come up with here is to have a group of Otherkin-like characters who have started to awaken memories and abilities that they had in their past lives. I assume most people here now what Otherkin are, but for those who don't, they're basically people whose souls are non human.

Anyhow, the general idea is to have these people meet once or twice a week to discuss and compare their individual experiences. I'd like to sort of break it up into "chapters", each one beginning with that weeks' meeting.

Of course I don't intend for things remain that way forever. I'm working on a broader storyline right now, but I won't get into that until I find at least three or four interested people.

As for rules... I have no rules really. All I ask is that if this gets off the ground, that the people involved keep up, and post at least once a day so as not to disrupt the continuity. We all have lives, but I don't think a post a day is asking too much. If you have an idea fro a character, just post a quick description( name,age,and looks everything else you can surprise the rest of us with later on).