641 Resting Your Chemistry
Save Point: Resting Your Chemistry The readouts in her visual field are quite educational and show the full back-traceable history of a really quite simple and subtle psychoactive, in the format of a string of warnings or error-laden messages. It's...
508 Hobbamock Tavern
Save Point: Hobbamock Tavern "Stay sharp, boys. Gonna take you to visit some places you won't ever have heard of, and it's not because they have a bad reputation, which I know you'd see as a challenge. No, these places have a different sort of folks,...
428 Collecting Silphium
Save Point: Collecting Silphium 620-617 BCE, Somewhere Near Cyrenaica Or, "The Laser Dealer" Part 1 Being An Account of Certain Adventures In My Youth and How I started Out in the Trade "(As a result of) various and many indiscretions of such...
330 Restricted Entry
Save Point: Restricted Entry Filling out paperwork on the Rama Empire border. Lots of paperwork. "Don't gloat," Cleo orders the officious nuisance who is busily stamping things with various inks. "It actually wasn't your first strike which got us,...
298 Closing Ceremony
Save Point: Closing Ceremony Jynx leads her by the hand, to what is a very public private surprise. She was taking a shower, as put together by one of the sethura using local and imported components to make a sort of gently solar-warmed black-plastic...
115: Self-Limiting Variable
> Save Point: Self-Limiting Variable > > I still remember the last day I was human. Of course I didn't realise it at the time, but thinking back later, I came to realise that was when it started. > I was at school and one of the other kids decided...
004 Balance and Power
Save Point: Meditations of Balance and Power Sethkill takes the introductory classes at the insistence of his trainers, but it's nothing he doesn't already know. This is basic symbolism, basic theory, and basic practice from the ritual school for a...
Three Very or One Slightly Short Stories
The aeroplanes hang above the city, frozen in mid-frame, captured in invisible bubbles with very slightly different-shaded air inside them. Propellers are frozen crisply in mid-spin, as are the trails of hot exhaust gases behind them from flight and...