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...
Female, Non-Linear, Sethura, Sythkyllya
Save Point: Infang Journal
The Island Of Infang, Somewhere In The Pacific
_First Day Of Expedition (See associated schedule)_
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The first day of the expedition, and we begin to make our way inland over the low grassy hills on the borderland of...
Non-Linear, Sethura, Sythkyllya, expedition
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...
Non-Linear, Poetry, Sethura, Sythkyllya
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...
Non-Linear, Sethura, Sythkyllya, Tentacles
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...
Non-Linear, Sethura, Sythkyllya, synopsis
Save Point: How to Build A Sphinx
The Khem Delta
One of the other members of the committee is a very deeply black-coloured sethuress with lots of gold tattoos, gilded scarifications and bangles. Her horns have seen decorated so as to spread out into...
Female, Non-Linear, Sethura, Sythkyllya
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...
Kine, Non-Linear, Sethura, Sythkyllya
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...
Non-Linear, Orme, Sethura, Sythkyllya
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...
Lioness, Non-Linear, Sethura, Sythkyllya
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...
Default, Non-Linear, Sethura, Sythkyllya
Cut Scene: White Chalk Markings
Several Days After The Ascension Of Kith-Rhiannon
And at first the light is white and terrible and all-engulfing, but then it begins to resolve itself into whirring, spinning patterns, faintly deeper patches against...
Female, Non-Linear, Sethura, Sythkyllya, combat
Cut Scene: Fractal Temple
AfterTime
The final place in which Sethkill finds himself, at the end of all things, has the appearance of a vast fractal temple.
At first it seems that he is in the centre, and alone, and that vast bands of something...
Fractal, Non-Linear, Sethura, Sythkyllya, Temple