Another Mage (Steel Destiny) session.

This time (we haven’t finished the mission yet; we barely started) – we got into a ship and traveled to a deep underwater base where… along the way things began to go wrong… so I used the anology of the deep ocean to be about deep emotions… and created this (fictional) song written by James Aldrich (the fictional bass player of the fictional band Steel Destiny). See my previous post about more.

“Descending into Madness” © 2024, Steel Destiny written by James Aldrich

Tides of the vast and eternal ocean
Washing over me, pulling me beneath the tide
Burying me beneath my hidden emotion
Exposing me, tearing me apart, with nowhere to hide

The sea is endless, eternity before me, eternity beneath me
Drowning, gasping for air, so that I might catch my breath
But this far down, plunged into darkness, I can not see
Am I swimming up or down, is this where I meet my death?

Descending into madness, descending into darkness
Descending into the shadows of the undertow
Descending into madness, I have nowhere else to go
Descending into madness, I feel its dark caress

Crashing waves of endless desperation
Pulling me under, slamming me against the shattered pieces of my soul
Is this all a part of the madness, is this all my creation
Is there any hope of me regaining control?

This far down, the pressure of the sea is the pressure against my mind
Am I so far gone, that in the shadows of the dark, I see spirits
I wish I could just close my eyes, I wish I could just be blind
I wish I could plug my ears, just so I can’t hear it

Descending into madness, descending into darkness
Descending into the shadows of the undertow
Descending into madness, I have nowhere else to go
Descending into madness, I feel its dark caress

And naturally, as always, the fictional single CD (they still make those?) cover.