“Before the cities rose and the skies of Asthortera burned with progress,
the Abyss had already claimed its first.”

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🎬 Scene Overview

The First Unraveling introduces the core horror of The Abyss of Comfort through the experience of two characters—Andy Elian and Bruce Kalen—whose bond becomes the battleground for memory, comfort, and erasure.

What begins as a tale of two close companions, filled with exploration and shared dreams, becomes the opening whisper of the most terrifying force in Asthortera:
Nytherion Abyss.

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📖 Summary

• Andy Elian and Bruce Kalen are lifelong companions—explorers, creators, or defenders of knowledge.
• Andy Elian begins showing signs of emotional retreat: longing for comfort, avoiding discomfort, and clinging to routine.
• In an instant that no one recalls, Andy Elian is gone. Not dead—absent.
  There is no body. No history. No trace in collective memory.
• Bruce Kalen feels an unexplainable loss—an ache where meaning used to live.
• Attempts to ask about Andy Elian result in confusion, blank stares, or complete memory gaps.

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🩸 Impact of the Scene

This episode functions like the "Hom-Dai scene" in The Mummy (1999),
but with a different weapon:

Comfort, silence, and acceptance as the instruments of deletion.

• The audience is introduced to how quiet the Abyss moves.
• No warning, no monster, no dramatic music—only distorted stillness and an ache in the soul.
• This is the true face of Nytherion Abyss—a reality that kills not by violence, but by unbeing.

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🧠 Symbolism

📍 Vanishing of Andy Elian
→ The price of surrendering to comfort.
When one lets go of truth, even their existence can fade.

💔 Emotional Vacuum in Bruce
→ Remnant echo of authentic human bond.
An unexplainable ache that survives even after memories are wiped.

📸 Erased Photos & Broken Journals
→ Physical manifestation of the Abyss erasing narrative.
The world rewrites itself to forget what was once meaningful.

🎶 Music Heard Only by Bruce
→ Nytherion’s pulse reacting to memory.
The Abyss sings only to those who still feel what should’ve been remembered.

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🚪 Ending Transition

The scene ends with Bruce Kalen standing alone at Hargenbor Bay,
hearing the faint sound of reversed melodies only he can hear.

He turns to the sea… and whispers:

“I know someone was here with me.”

The sound stops.
The water remains silent.
The spiral begins.

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Let Astralis remember what the world forgot.
Let those who walk toward silence carry the burden of meaning.