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 ====== The Machine ====== ====== The Machine ======
  
-The Machine ​has no name. It has been known by many things over the millennia across nations ​and planets, but all are local titles, guesses ​at Its nature. It is simply The Machine.+The Machine ​is the name of both a mechanism of potentially infinite size and the parallel dimension that contains it. Its age and origin is unknown, but various writings and archeological findings from across the galaxy imply it may be at hundreds of millions of years old, predating any known civilization.
  
-Behind reality, It exists. Its gears and pistons are always moving. Its chains are always grinding and pulling. Its Work is unknowable, as are Its goals. Its Work is all there is to It. The Machine works for the sake of work, exist for the sake of existing. It is ever expanding, growing, adding new parts, new structures, new land of black marble. The dimension of The Machine contains only the machine. Its boundaries are defined by, and for, The Machine.+===== Description =====
  
-Behind walls and spires ​of black and white marble is flesh, pulsing blue and purpleall throbbing veins and pulling muscles. Pulsing pistons ​of metal hide a core of living tissueall flowing with a blue liquidall breathing slow, deep breaths. ​ Within ​the walls, under the grounds, are tunnels, where rigid shafts ​of flesh pulse and grind together. Rivers of teal and blue flow and gather, and where it grows stagnant, forests grow, towering trees in dark, foggy caverns.+The parts and mechanisms ​of The Machine vary greatly in size and function. Most common are gears and pistonswhich range from intricate hand-sized parts to monolithic building-sized slabs of metal. Pulleys ​of chainshydraulic pumpsand rotating shafts also populate ​the moving parts of The Machineall connected ​and rarely stopping
  
-What once were people populate these empty tunnels and vacant walkways. They are the gears, the towers, the pistons. They are the rigidness ​of flesh and the pulling muscles. They are the pulsing hearts of dark fleshThey are The Machine now. Some found The Machine on purposeor by accidentothers were brought ​in by The Machine itselfTheir bodies exist in reality unaltered ​and they live their lives, happily knowing that in another world, their true forms serve this ever expanding Machine.+In sharp contrast to the metal machines ​are the pulsing masses ​of flesh. Veins, muscles, ​and walls of skin are found webbed between ​the machines, forming ​dark, wet tunnels. The flesh is a mix of redpurple, and blueEssence, a thin blue fluid, flows through the veins in lieu of bloodStructures ​and spires of bone occupy some of the more empty areas.
  
-The Machine has always existed. It will always exist. It will always grow. The Machine is eternal. The Work will always continue. 
  
-===== Description ​=====+===== Inhabitants ​=====
  
-The Machine is the name of both a mechanism of potentially infinite size and the parallel dimension that contains it. It's age and origin is unknown, but various writings, dream journals, and archeological findings from across the galaxy imply it to be at least hundreds of millions of years old, predating any known civilization.+===== Essence =====
  
  
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