It starts, of course, with you falling.
But, unlike most starts, it is a gentle fall... more like you're gliding really.
Also important, who "you" are, though matters of name can wait for now.
You look downwards and see blackness, complete and utter unfailing blackness. You open your mouth and bubbles escape you.
Ah...
You're underwater, of course! As well, you're also upside down.
There is a shifting in the water (?), and you're no longer upside down. You feel your feet, which are also completely black touch down on what feels like glass. Suddenly, all around you, birds of white start appearing and flying off into the blackness and eventually fade away. The ground beneath you however, reveals itself to be completely solid. A massive glass-stained mural that spreads off more than a couple dozen feet into the distance is what you are currently standing on.
Your Awakening
There is a twitching on your head. You instinctively reach up with a hand which has one less finger than you remember and is also completely black.
You feel two twitching things, you tug it a little and find out these ropy-protrusions are apart of you, looking up a you see two twitching black insect-like antenna flopping about. You definitely don't remember having those.
You don't remember much of anything, but what you do remember is that you were probably human and a girl, so there's that.
The only thing that isn't black is the skin of your torso, which is actually kinda pale. Shadow-'stuff' covers your privates, so that's also nice... huh, you aren't wearing clothes.
You'd think you might have been more bothered by that some other time, but right now you are standing on this stained glass mural with symbols and creatures you've never seen before! Though they do look 'kinda' cool, still wouldn't want to have faced them up-front however, that's for sure!
There appears to be nothing outside this massive platform and it is just completely black. That's not what catches your attention, at the edge of the mural, shaped to look like a triangle are three small pedestals with a item floating on each. On one, there appears to be a disembodied dark blue hand with four fingers that are crimson and claw-like. On another is a dull grey-blue shield with a... dog's head in the middle of it with a spiky collar and three glowing yellow eyes. The last just looks to be a purple and blue staff who's top end has a bright yellow gem and is in the shape of a lilac 'W.'
Light shines on each of these three pedestal and they look easy enough to get on. even if it feels like you have to jump on them. You feel... smaller than you remember, among other things.
Despite having never seen or remember seeing these things in your life, you feel compelled to walk up to one of them and do... something.
Which do you walk up too?
{X} The Claw
{X} The Shield
{X} The Staff
{X} (Write-in?)
(No-one else is to join, merely vote for what you want to happen next.)