/vr/ - Retro Games

There is something in Quake: Scourge of Armagon that never seems to be used anywhere else in the series, yet I find extremely fascinating.
The second episode completion text reads:
>After destroying the power generator, you pass beyond the gate of Mortum's Keep. A wave of nausea suddenly flows over you and you find yourself cast out into a liquid void. You float lifelessly, yet aware, in a lavender sea of energy. After what seems like an eternity, you feel the presence of a diabolical intelligence. You are held helpless for a moment as your mind is open to that of Armagon -- Quake's general and master of this realm. Recognizing you as the one who foiled his attempt to conquer Earth, a hellish howl fills your mind and blots out all consciousness. When you awake, you find yourself on the shores of reality, but in a time and place unknown to you.

>you find yourself cast out into a liquid void.
>You float lifelessly
>yet aware
>in a lavender sea of energy.
>After what seems like an eternity, you feel the presence of a diabolical intelligence.

Imagine what it must feel to stay in a place where you are basically dead, but your consciousness still still active, for what "seems like an eternity". And then you "awake" and just live again.