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Serial Experiments: Chair
Serial Experiments: Chair is a surreal philosphical book of the Scourges Pentadecaphron which tends to confuse most fans of the original Elemenstor Cycle.
It follows the chronicles of Chair, a simply-named Furniliar owned by a kindly family of Elemenstors. When Chair's neighbor, another Furniliar named Julie the Shoerack commits suicide via fireplace, Chair starts to question her place in the world as she investigates Julie's death. As her inquiries progress, she begins to grow more and more insane, having hallucinations about a myriad of symbolic subjects that are largely indecipherable to most people.
Chair gazed down at her seat, and noticed a purple haze wafting off of her varnish. She began to laugh incontrollably as she twisted and melted into a sea of ocean.
Suddenly, there was a "pop" as Ms Beattie dropped her broom, and everything was back to normal. The middle-aged woman glanced at chair curiously, "Anything wrong, dear?"
"N . . .nothing. Nothing at all," the young Furniliar replied.
Eventually, Chair learns she can tap into the various plains of the Elmether, and she progresses from a shy young female Furniliar on the cusp of adulthood into a confident and powerful young chair exploring her strange powers. However, despair and death tend to follow her wherever she goes, causing sorrow in her oaken wake.
Finally, after much searching, she discovers that she is actually a hybrid of all the the Four Most Discerning Races created by one of the The Twelve Scourges of Battal, a being known as the Spix, so that he could tap into the Elemether directly and become a God. Chair fights him in a battle of wills herself, and prevails. Finally becoming a Hierarch herself and erasing her former existance, and thus the tragedy she wrought on her loved ones, off the face of Battal.
Of course, it takes about seventeen re-readings for anyone to understand all of this, since the first sixteen times, most people understandibly stare at the pages going "WTF?!?!"
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