001 Sythkyllya
"It is very important that you listen to this. None of this is true. Every word is a lie. Especially since all of it is real." Opening Cut Scene: Full Motion Standstill The Age Of Azatlan Behold Sethkill, he who would be lord of all...
000 Readme
The Sythkyllya is a long-term writing project that I've been working on (and off) for the past decade or so. I've always wanted to create something for others to enjoy, but I'm no popular author and my choice of content and style probably differs too...
500 In The Previous Episode of Sythkyllya
Cut Scene: In The Previous Episode Of Sythkyllya Immortality is a long business, and when you live forever, the world becomes something like a game. Cleo and Terrowne play house in various corners of the earth, walking back and forth and up and...
240 A Placidity Of Kine
Save Point: A Placidity Of Kine Live Stock Pools, Nile River, Khem Sethkill is hanging out with the kine when they find him. The kine are large herd animals descended from what Terrowne has dubbed the 'gazelle' side of the strange sethura dual...
387 Variable Overclocking
Save Point: Variable Overclocking The House Of Life, Khem "What do you think you're doing?" exclaims Zair, not with shock but with genuine concern, as Sethkill starts taking apart his backup generator. It's not so much a process of engineering as of...
199 Who Walks by Herself In The Rain
Save Point: Who Walks by Herself In The Rain Once Cleos eye has healed and the button is discarded, she comes to visit Terrowne in the green garden, the fruiting apple orchard that is the third part of the City of Uruk, a shared space where all are...
994 The Default
Save Point: The Default In Aftertime \<system initialization\> There is a moment of disorientation. (It is happening again, all over again, it is happening again all over again again again....) Sethkill circles, casually, arms upraised in a...
502 The Old New World
Save Point: The Old New World Somewhere In North America, 1500's One of her earliest memories is of playing, literally, with the bronze keys of the clavichord and the skull to keep her company. The skull is a great friend and likes to listen to...
575 Infang Journal
Save Point: Infang Journal The Island Of Infang, Somewhere In The Pacific _First Day Of Expedition (See associated schedule)_ _ _ The first day of the expedition, and we begin to make our way inland over the low grassy hills on the borderland of...
395 The Epitaph Of The Dragon
Ascension: The Epitaph of The Dragon Beautiful eerie softlight of deep time falls the rain on the bare rock my sorrows the sun the bones of the creatures far below crumbled stone marks forever the fall a second sun on the last day the fire...
681 Gratuitous Tentacles
Save Point: Gratuitous Tentacles Somewhere On Exmoor, August, 1983 They lie prone just behind the rim of the slope for a few seconds, then Terrowne dares to raise his head for a swift fraction of a second, just to get a glimpse. "Holy hell, look at...
200 In The Previous Episode of Sythkyllya
Cut Scene: In The Previous Episode Of Sythkyllya Terrowne is revealed as the Dragon of Shadow, a creature out of urban myth known only from blurry and static-spoiled pictures, that destroyed the entire Azatlani underworld in one dusk to dawn...