cacodemomania | Jan. 29th, 2015

Into the woods,
It's time to go,
I hate to leave,
I have to, though.
Into the woods-
It's time, and so
I must begin my journey...

ONCE UPON A TIME there was and is a wood between the worlds. A place where skeletons walk and look for holidays and answers to their empty souls, a place where people stop and run from monsters, a place of fairies and magic for some and carefully constructed bogs and traps for others. A place of hedge mazes and lost boys and boys that live forever and t r u t h.

but really it's just an ordinary wood full of animals (that sometimes come when called), occasional earthquakes (there might be giants about) and the occasional sounds of ghosts, forgotten promises, and ideas because the woods are the w o r l d and into the woods you have to go and face yourself and who you are. We all come to the woods at some point or another in our lives, and while many sing and dance, some do not.

THESE ARE THE RULES
A. the woods reveal truth. Everyone has lies that they tell themselves throughout their life. When you are in the woods, your ability to lie to others has been stripped out of you and you don't know it.

Inevitably you are wiser in the woods then you would be outside of them. A man who thinks he is generous and good would confess that he is secretly vain and greedy for praise. A woman who thinks she is strong and knows no fear would confess that she does fear - she's afraid for her loved ones and sometimes afraid for herself.

YOU CAN ARRIVE WITH WHATEVER YOU'D LIKE. except your lies, and your ability to lie to others and possibly yourself.

B. There is a way out of the woods. You leave the woods when you realize a great personal truth. Inevitably that you can't lie to yourself any longer and that it's time to go and your journey is over. You may find a clearing, you may find a pathway out, or...you may fall off a cliff, fall into rushing rocks, or be eaten by the wolf.

C. Your character may feel compelled to break out into song about their great learned truth, or not. They may encounter others, they may have a sense of someone or something watching, or they may see a flash of a massive gray tail or hear and feel the sound of an earthquake. You can investigate the tail, you can investigate the sounds, but you will see and hear nothing.

perhaps.