Ascension Up 809 Briggs Way (2020)

***Ascension Up 809 Brigg's Way*** is a story that is in the process of being written by Cognitive Wiki user Vendellium. One can read it ***here***.

## Setting

The story takes place as part of the Corridoria mythos, or anything pertaining to the fictional dimension of Corridoria, which in turn leads to **many** other dimensions. It specifically takes place within YggdraCole, a dimension within Corridoria that takes the form of a library with floors that keep on going.

## Synopsis

### Chapter I: *Pacman*

Chapter one sees the main character (first person character whose name is never revealed but is Blake Lance of TAOCEAR) preparing and entering Corridoria to enter YggdraCole. After doing so with his two friends, Giselle and Edwin, Blake keeps ascending levels with the team until they reach the eighth iteration or version of the Boris Meier Cole library, in which they're all scared witless by a race of six-foot spiders that no one else seems to be bothered by. They speak with two of these spiders named Bob and Shirley. Calming down, Edwin gets some lemonade.

### Chapter II: The Origamist

After seeking refreshment and continuing their ascent they go up 12 more iterations, placing them at L-XX. They are now 560 floors up from where they started; the presence of elevators making ascent significantly easier. More spider librarians (*Librararachnians*) are observed roving about, along with a presentation by a figure known as "The Origamist" who appears on multiple levels. Giselle finds out first-hand he has used his ability to make origami creations come to life in a nefarious way when he is seen slaying one of the *Librararachnians*.

### Chapter III

Shook by her encounter with The Origamist, Giselle resumes their journey upwards with the group, an additional 80 libraries and 2240 floors being traversed. It is time to rest, but the group must find a secure place where they are protected from nightly security guards, which take the form of large purple spiders. All three fall asleep but Edwin has a dream where a being known as "Ixillith 28" makes him a very special offer...

### Chapter IV

Edwin seems a bit nervous but Blake and Giselle don't think much of it. They continue their ascension, going up 100 more libraries throughout the day, encountering more fantastical creatures. At this point there are large cyclops which tend to the books. Suddenly, Edwin tells one of the cyclops Giselle and Blake don't have their library IDs, causing the cylops to become irate and bring them to a prison where they must complete a series of surreal tasks to atone for their error.

### Chapter V

After selling out his friends, Edwin adopts the name Ixillith 29, and becomes the pupil of Ixillith 28, who offered him all the knowledge in all iterations of the library if Edwin helps Ixillith 28 ascend to the higher levels of the library, which Ixillith 28 is incapable of doing alone, but has only found out by reading the minds of passing explorers. To move Ixillith 28 every 100 libraries requires a soul sacrifice, until Ixillith can gain total control of YggdraCole at L-M (the 1,000th library up).

### Chapter VI

With Ixillith 29 and Ixillith 28 wrecking death and destruction on their journey upwards, Giselle and Blake finally escape the cyclopian prison and ascend the elevators to accost 'Edwin'. Attempting to do this however, they must contend with a series of elevator failures, forcing them to use the stairs. A being named Exixillith appears to Blake in a dream and teams up with them, helping them find shortcuts so as to ascend higher.

### Chapter VII

After a fire alarm on the 774th library (L-DLXXIV), Blake and Giselle are forced outside, where they find a world drastically different from the first iteration of the Cole Library. They must play a *Shogi*-esque game with a flock of hyperintelligent geese to go back to the library, where they discover through a series of stairwell paintings that Ixillith 28 and 29 are almost at the 1,000th library.

### Chapter VIII

Blake, Exixillith, Giselle, Ixillith 28 and Ixillith 29 meet on the 997th library (L-CMXCVII), where a battle takes place for an artifact that will lend one control over the entirety of YggdraCole. Here, Ixillith 28 betrays Ixillith 29 causing him to rethink his actions, though Blake and Giselle are apathetic to his apologies. At this point, an origami crane animated by The Origamist escapes from Giselle's backpack and touches the artifact, proceeding to instantly turn every book into a flock of paper cranes that fly off into the sunset as they hold the artifact with them. With the means of control gone, Ixillith 28 begins to burn out the library from the top down, with Ixillith 29/Edwin caught in the fire.

### Chapter IX

Blake and Giselle exit just in time as the massive frame of L-I and every iteration above begins to collapse in on itself, closing the door as the fire consumes everything behind them. They trudge weary and without any artifacts back to the abandoned dormitory, save a single origami paper crane that is still alive.

## Inspiration

* The "Boris Meier Cole Library" is based heavily after the W. E. B. Du Bois Library.
* The trollish nature of Edwin is based on the past persona of my past main-use FANDOM account Edwin Shade