Category: Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage
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Intermission: the Duress of Bottom Feeders
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage Shelilafior Seventy-six-centimeters was, among other things, the grand high poobah in charge of PR, editorial duties, management, headhunting, (occasionally) drug-dealing, and everything else on the part of Ghost Grid Caliber Publications. It meant he was used to dealing with unusual people, normal people, people who probably ought not to…
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Turning Off the Needle Highway
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Milk teeth. Hot pink. Thrill seeking. Kosckelezern. Methamphetamine. Un-god supplication. Salt of Solomon. Lily-in-the-Deepest-Dark. Partial asphyxiation. Betel nuts. Gambling. Snow. Eating. Opium. There is a long, long ladder of interesting substances or activities to which susceptible persons of weak will or unfortunate neurobiology might slave themselves. These have, almost…
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Making Acquaintances of the Worst Kind
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “If when you wake up, you’re heavily sensorily deprived, gagged, bound to an immobile surface, cut off from non-verbal and networked communications, and the first thing you perceive is someone telling you that everything is going to be fine so long as you cooperate… maybe it still won’t end…
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One Shore or Another
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Nearly everything is conditional, in the context of existence. Integrated information theory proves inadequate as well as incomplete when describing thoughts and qualia on bound-psyche facets. Death or permanent deterioration is a frequent but non-universal happenstance. Even you are subject to change, in one sense or another. If there…
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Intermission: the Jealousy of In-Laws
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage Hoping and fearing to believe. That was one way to describe Leiaren, a prince of one of the numerous extrafacetary Unseelie Courts. Leiaren Ad-Horsig Drjemear, Fifth of His Name, lounged in a cavernous clamshell seat that might have been called a throne were it smaller, as he considered one…
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Welcome Zero Hour
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “If you’re non-sentient, then you don’t have to worry about dynamism in the world or the lack thereof. If you’re sentient, then you not only need to worry on such matters for your own sake, but for the sake of others. We safeguard any experimented-upon facets we observe around…
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Dearly Won Constants
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “How did I even get here?” -A common reaction by those washed from their original facet in uncontrolled type nine Willabarm events Daylight made Ktsn wince, and turn one closed eye toward the sky while her open eye faced down in her head’s shadow. She didn’t much care for…
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Those Who Cannot Help But Live
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “You know, I enjoy having woodglass splinters shoved under my fingernails. I love it so much that I actually enjoy it more than having my ambitions deferred.” -Fallow Srid “The Estuesse-ModKrtAktMdm, please,” said the voice attached to the human hand that was pointed at the wine in question. “Excellent…
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Memory and Dream
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “A good stageplay without the right characters is a bad stageplay.” -Eighteenth age Údanese master dramatist Epinoster Nine-thousand-six-hundred-thirty-centimeters Ktsn Wdondf Daephod didn’t wake up. The woman found herself standing on her fastlegs, in a daylight-suffused circular clearing, and somehow prevented herself from reacting at all to the sight of…