The Flat Woods (WIP) (Patreon)

✧ The Previous Stage

L: I like this part of the woods. It starts off looking completely ordinary—trees, moss, a familiar path underfoot. But slowly, it begins to melt into something… wrong. The shapes stay recognizable, but they twist, stretch, like they’re trying to become something else. Something new.

This is the Level 1 zone, as Ada mentioned in the previous post—a threshold space. It’s flooded with thick, cloying smells that don't belong in a forest. They trigger subtle hallucinations, a creeping sense of derealization. You think you see something shift out of the corner of your eye, but when you turn, nothing’s there. Or worse—something is.

It’s still the woods. But it's no longer just the woods.