Category: Mourners, Abednego, Persistence
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Coda
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence The man in front of the podium reached out and plucked the storage brick from the air. Hmmmm… Another chapter in another life. The creation called Malumortis, or Caladhbolg, made waves of considerable size – no matter in what form it strode the pages of history. The vessel who gave it…
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Amen
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “To the ourselves of the uneditable past: pay attention to your words.” -Etched on the side of Drämostigth’s Monument to Ideals, at the Kinsmen College of Information Integrity Preservation The young man came out of the exaltation clinic where they were doing things to people. He looked to be in a…
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The Glory
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “A creature who disobeys rules usually does so because of one of a very small number of reasons. It might be that it does not know of those rules’ existence. It might be that it does not grasp that rules are more than descriptions of ideas, but directives and imperatives. It…
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The Power
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “Sixteen chimes in five fourths time / breaking our backs we yet climb. / By poor rhyme and pond sublime / we alight midst hilltop’s rime. / Ere we live and after lie / we into clouds gray do cry. / Reach topward for future sky / to well dream and…
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The Kingdom
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “We have an almost ubiquitous grasp of ‘home.’ Not everyone, perhaps – there are those who do not have the corresponding emotive and perceptive mechanisms. For the majority of us, though, there’s a place in and to which we most belong. Not a place where we might just survive. It’s not…
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The Verdigris Bleak
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “Salutations! If you are reading this, you are paying visit to that gem of civilization, the Parsed City-State of Rhaagm. You are a human, or otherwise a creature whose physical attributes and basic requirements for life are comparable to those of many subvarieties of the human species. Welcome, and may your…
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Live, Beige, Live
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “… And on that day, the prophet Petteri said, ‘Let those who seek wisdom write this down! A time shall come when all palimpsests die, and each written word will to its original story be restored. As the child to the parent, and the sand to the stone, and the word…
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Purple Like the Sky
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “When a person arrives in the world outside the gem, they arrive in a place thoroughly inundated with human-culture values. The reasons for this have received much speculation throughout history. More to the point, the reasons for the disproportionate effects of humans on existence as a whole have received much speculation…
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Darkest Orange
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “Marry me to an Yrdkish Lady. / Marry me to an udod aodod. / Marry me to that one called Adz. / Because an editor is what I need.” -Shear Boot, When All Else Fails, An Album of Our Crying Simulations “ABSOLUTELY NOT.” The Ptilit chamber, named after the head of…
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Intermission
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence If one’s occupation leeches traits from the people one meets as part of their duties, then the Herald of the Olds had an occupation which came very close to “complex beyond adequate comparison” despite his duties being fully encompassed by two words: passing messages. It was, in fact, the sort of…