Over the years, you've
read and heard various places that skydivers experience no sensation of
falling. What a bunch of liars they turned out to be. The second you
tumbled out the bottom of that foxhole you tried to dig in the clouds,
it felt EXACTLY LIKE FALLING. Which should come as no surprise,
as falling is pretty much what you're doing.
On the plus side it takes more time than you'd think to fall all the way
from cloud level to the ground. That gives you plenty of time to think
about just how dumb, as ideas go, digging a foxhole in the clouds was.
Not SO dumb really. I mean sure, the clouds were all that was holding
you up, but obviously the laws of reality, as you knew them had already
been suspended, since clouds are just water vapor and can't really hold
anything up at all. How were you to know the air wasn't going to hold
you up? How were you to know the cloud wasn't plenty deep enough to dig
a foxhole in before falling out the bottom?
And now you think about it, maybe this wasn't a bad idea at all? You
haven't had so much as an instant to think about just what's going on,
but ever since that arcade game appeared in your basement things have
been plenty screwy. Just what's going on?
Hmmmm. The snakes, the green goo, the boxes, the beanstalk, walking on a
cloud... and what about the red bar over your head, the one that keep
having less red in it the further you fall?
Oh! Wait! You get it!
NONE of this is real! Ever since that game showed up, you've been
living in a...
