| game,character,aliases,num_appearances,total_scenes,scene_ids,example_0,example_1,example_2,example_3,example_4,valid | |
| silverworld,Alexius III Heliopolitan,"['Alexius III Heliopolitan', 'Alex', 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if realizing his opinions of Mali might have annoyed you, the merchant says, ""Oh, forgive me…I myself am Alexius III Heliopolitan, of Byzantium by way of…well, nowhere that matters.""","Alexius is getting ready to say more when a ship of the Byzantine merchant fleet emerges from the mist. A colossal steamer with four funnels and a golden icon covering most of its bow, it seems to glide through the mist that hovers over the Bosphorus. Your captain steers his little single-masted ship out of the way as the huge steamer picks up speed. | |
| ""Less than an hour until we reach Prosphorion Harbor,"" Alexius says. He keeps smiling, but his eyes betray his nervousness. | |
| ""So,"" he says, his gloved hands tight on the rail, ""are you excited to work for Dr. Sabbatine?""","""I'm excited to meet one of Byzantium's greatest scholars and see what she can teach me about how to construct weapons of war."" | |
| ""You know you've just been hired as a guard, right?"" Alexius says. ""Though I suppose Dr. Sabbatine might need guards who can do more than sharpen their knives and growl at street urchins. I'm sure she picked you for a reason.""","""I may start as a simple guard, but I won't stay there. I plan to keep my wits about me and take what advantages I see in Byzantium."" | |
| ""You're such a disappointment, you know,"" Alexius says with an ironic smile. ""I expect the barbarians I meet to display the barbaric virtues. But you're a devious little swindler at heart, aren't you?"" Alexius laughs. ""Well, as long as you know how to hold a gun, Dr. Sabbatine probably won't throw you out on your ear.""","""There are many opportunities for a guard who is brave and knows how to survive in the wild lands Dr. Sabbatine explored in her youth."" | |
| ""Ah, it's good to meet a Malian who truly embodies the barbarian virtues—physical courage coupled with total conviction that strength is found in untrammeled nature. Byzantium needs soldiers like that. Not in positions of authority, of course."" Alexius looks philosophical. ""I suppose that's the problem with the warrior ethic…it's only good for the rank and file.""", | |
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spell breaks when a young man in a long white linen robe, wooden miter, and pale gloves comes tripping and stumbling toward you, his expression as harried and overwhelmed as a Byzantine bureaucrat on his first day of work. | |
| He speaks to Keimia, and then you, in a confused babble of languages, then settles on the River People tongue, addressing you with great solemnity and considerable nervousness. He is Therko, this is the Apostolic Mound, and…are you here for questions? Did you send a messenger ahead? He trips over his own words to get all his questions out, glancing back at the indifferent Mound as if for reassurance. | |
| Keimia's warriors look unhappy to be addressed by this bumbling administrator, but Keimia looks shocked.","When Therko notices her, you understand why. Their faces show recognition, anger, longing, regret. You wonder how their relationship began, when it ended, and whether Chief Kothis's questions to the Apostolic Mound concern it in any way.","Therko notices her, too, and their faces flash through a variety of emotions. Vecla pitches her high voice as low as possible and tells you that Keimia was once close to someone at the Apostolic Mound. Things, she implies but does not say outright, ended badly.","I address Therko politely but skeptically, informing him that we have come to ask questions of the Apostolic Mound, and not treading on his relationship with Keimia.","I aim for a bit of theatricality, informing Therko that we are travelers from ""fabulously distant lands"" and hoping my River Tongue is up to the task.", | |
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ask Keimia where I am. | |
| The local language contains no cognates with Koiné or Bambara, but it contains two registers, one so simple it's more of a pidgin than a full language. You address Keimia that way because that's all you can manage. Keimia is laconic and clearly dislikes speaking except to give orders, but the man in gold and amber calls Keimia ""daughter"" and encourages her to speak. Keimia explains that the man in gold and amber, Chief Kothis, chose to protect you rather than leave you to be devoured by monsters. | |
| The tiny herbalist—Vecla—treated both you and Alexius.","I ask the tiny herbalist what she is, hoping to learn both her nature and what she knows of the healing arts. | |
| The local language contains no cognates with Koiné or Bambara, but it contains two registers, one so simple it's more of a pidgin than a full language. You address ""Vecla,"" the worm-woman, that way because that's all you can manage. | |
| Given the difficulty of communication, Vecla simply reveals what she is, hopping off her porter to balance on a basket. You had expected some kind of little person, perhaps with a body twisted by some strange birth defect, but Vecla appears to be…a worm. | |
| ""They let that maggot-thing hover over you, muttering magic words and smearing you with paste,"" Stralchus says.","""Stralchus, where are Alexius and Control?"" | |
| ""The barbarian princess over here locked up all the controllers,"" Stralchus says, hooking a thumb at Keimia. The warrior woman bares her teeth at the mystic. ""I've tried to convince Chief Kothis—that's her father there, painted like the heathen he is—to let them go, but these barbarians won't listen to reason. And Alexius…"" | |
| The mystic sighs and scratches his beard. | |
| ""Alexius got hit in the head during the crash. He blacked out. I don't know if you remember. Vecla–this creature,"" Stralchus says, nodding to the tiny herbalist, ""has him wrapped up in some kind of sacred grove and is convinced he'll be fine, but he keeps fading in and out of consciousness. Even if we had a physician, I don't think he would make it."" | |
| Stralchus can barely disguise his rage at the situation. ""If you want to know where we are in the bigger sense, I don't know. Neither do these heathens. They call themselves the People of the River, and they talk about rivers and forests and, of course, the silver thing that's appeared in the sky, but it's not like they can point us in the direction of civilization.""","You healed with the help of local poultices and some of the Byzantine medicines, which Vecla eagerly adopted.","The near-miraculous speed and completeness of your healing has filled the mystic, not with awe at Vecla's apparent powers, but deep horror.", | |
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woman, who appears to be their leader, takes a hesitant step forward. Control has retreated into the thinning mist, while, beside you, Stralchus and Alexius regard the woman with haughty contempt mixed with fear. The woman studies the three of you with brown eyes so bright they almost seem golden, then puts her hand on her chest and says, ""Keimia.""","""Alexius, this is what you're here for. Show her proper respect."" | |
| ""I'm in charge here,"" Stralchus snaps at you. He glares at the merchant. ""Don't give this naked savage an inch."" | |
| ""I'm not going to insult the girl with the braining-stick,"" Alexius tells the mystic, his eyes on the polished club at Keimia's hip.","Alexius flits through Koiné Greek, Armenian, a few Bantu languages, Punjabi, and others you don't recognize. | |
| Dr. Sabbatine chose the young Persian for a good reason. Though, in the languages you speak, you realize he is complimenting Keimia's appearance.","Alexius and Keimia trade languages, the merchant's fingers twitching as if he were tabulating sums, the warrior fiddling with a braid from her long black hair. As Alexius tries language after language under the increasingly hot midday sun, a piece of the [i]Specular[/i] previously lost beneath ferns sputters to life. Keimia and Alexius both jump back. Then, realizing there's no threat, Alexius edges toward the machinery. | |
| ""The chronometer,"" Alexius says. ""Years past. Day. Month."" | |
| It reads 0000000011000. | |
| ""She really did it,"" the merchant says. ""Eleven thousand years ago. The dawn of time."" | |
| Keimia looks ready to smash the machine.","Keimia touches the polished wooden cudgel at her side but lets you move between her and the machinery. She remains tense, but now she seems curious about what you're trying to protect.", | |
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white-haired, with a monocle and pocket watch that shine in the limelight, Dr. Sabbatine wears a long golden mantle that makes her look more like a historical dowager than a modern scientist. | |
| Other, younger scientists, including a few women, stand in the great doctor's shadow—perhaps a carefully orchestrated metaphor. The woman in the red jacket who registered everyone also waits behind Sabbatine. Off to one side, you notice a tall, bearded man dressed in a dark, sober suit. As Dr. Sabbatine resembles an ancient potentate, this man resembles a modern diplomat, but you know he is not. He is Stralchus Petron: theologian, philosopher, visionary mystic—or deadly fanatic, depending on who you ask. Everyone in Byzantium has an opinion about him, but you cannot tell truth from fiction well enough to appraise the man honestly. | |
| Stralchus peers into the darkness with eyes unaffected by the limelight and spots you. He holds your gaze for a moment before turning to regard the doctor. | |
| ""Ladies and gentlemen,"" Dr. Sabbatine says, without preamble or even waiting for everyone to look her way, ""I have invented a device that permits us to travel through time.""","Elderly, white-haired, with a monocle and pocket watch that shine in the limelight, Dr. Sabbatine wears a long golden mantle that makes her look more like a historical dowager than a modern scientist. | |
| Other, younger scientists, including a few women, stand in the great doctor's shadow—perhaps a carefully orchestrated metaphor. The woman in the red jacket who registered everyone also waits behind Sabbatine. Off to one side, you notice a tall, bearded man dressed in a dark, sober suit. As Dr. Sabbatine resembles an ancient potentate, this man resembles a modern diplomat, but you know he is not. He is Stralchus Petron: theologian, philosopher, visionary mystic—or deadly fanatic, depending on who you ask. Everyone in Byzantium has an opinion about him, but you cannot tell truth from fiction well enough to appraise the man honestly. | |
| Stralchus peers into the darkness with eyes unaffected by the limelight and spots you. He holds your gaze for a moment before turning to regard the doctor. | |
| ""Ladies and gentlemen,"" Dr. Sabbatine says, without preamble or even waiting for everyone to look her way, ""I have invented a device that permits us to travel through time.""","The reaction from the scientists, soldiers, and assembled mercantile interests is stunned disbelief. Is this a joke? A metaphor for some more subtle process? | |
| Then the journalists remember their jobs and start shouting questions from behind their velvet rope. | |
| ""Permit me to explain,"" the doctor says, her soft voice enhanced by an amplifier attached to the balcony railing. She waits for silence. In seconds, there are only the sounds of machines. | |
| ""As we have learned through geological and astronomical analysis, our world dates back roughly eleven thousand years, to its formation by the so-called Icons."" | |
| The theologian Stralchus seems ready to dispute the words ""so-called,"" but Dr. Sabbatine keeps talking: ""The work of the Icons has left distinct traces throughout history. You are no doubt familiar with the discovery of X-rays reported by Dr. Kattan of Alexandria. The work of the Icons has left similar emanations, emanations I have learned to detect—and to follow."" | |
| There's some polite throat-clearing from the scientists. The lights flicker back on, revealing a middle-aged man with dark skin and an old, stained suit. | |
| ""Ah yes,"" Dr. Sabbatine says, ""Dr. Kattan the Younger. I called you here to organize the scientific branch of my expedition because your father's research—"" | |
| ""—does not imply anything about the Icons,"" the younger Dr. Kattan says, breezily speaking over his elder, ""let alone…"" He scoffs. ""…time travel. In fact—"" | |
| ""I have seen it."" A deep, hollow voice, like a funeral bell: Stralchus. ""I have seen the beginning."" | |
| Nearby, Alexius raises an eloquent eyebrow as if inviting your opinion of all this.","Stralchus is a superstitious zealot, but a true believer nonetheless, whose fiery oratory reminds me of my own.",I've kept my eyes open my whole life and I've never seen anything like what Stralchus is talking about. He's a fraud or a madman., | |
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past was never supposed to be like this. | |
| A poor provincial soldier, you receive an incredible opportunity: the chance to see the Divine Host assembling the world at the dawn of time. Dr. Sabbatine—gnostic, visionary, inventor—claims she can step into the past. And she needs someone to stand guard. | |
| But the doctor's gate doesn't open onto the first courtyard of Creation, and you find yourself trapped in a savage wilderness like nothing you've ever seen, or could even imagine! Where, or when, is this place? Forced to work together with imperialists and zealots from your own time, suspicious local tribespeople, and a robot who claims to speak for Dr. Sabbatine, you must find some way to survive and escape. | |
| But Silverworld threatens more than physical harm. Its existence is an abomination to some, a mystery to others, and its teeming wealth is an opportunity many can't resist. Explorer, plunderer, peacemaker, war-bringer…your choices will determine the fate of Silverworld, and of your own world.","It is summer, and the whole world seems made of brass: the wooden ship, the golden sea touched by the setting sun, and on the far horizon, the towers lining the shore. You have traveled across land and water, faced hunger, piracy, and betrayal, and now, on this small, creaking ship, your journey to Byzantium is nearly at an end. | |
| You have already said farewell to your companions, and now find yourself among unfamiliar faces: the soldiers, scholars, and merchants who, like you, have answered the call of Dr. Sabbatine. | |
| You realize you're squeezing the doctor's letter tight in your ungloved hand. A young man—a merchant, you guess—notices what you're holding. Smiling, he holds up his own version before tucking the paper back into his waistcoat. | |
| ""A soldier, hmm?"" he says. He sizes you up and tries to peer under your broad hat. ""And not a local, it appears. Where are you from?"" He regards you for another second, then says, ""You speak Koiné, right?""","""I'm part of my people's sacred bardic tradition. If you're looking for a savage warrior, you're going to be disappointed."" | |
| ""Oh, splendid, a sacred poet!"" the merchant cries. ""Perhaps after we meet Dr. Sabbatine, you can recite some of your savage poetry! You can sing to us about blood feuds, cattle raids, all those weighty topics!"" | |
| You can't tell if the young man is being sarcastic.","""Ah, another one of those Malian rascals,"" the merchant says, perturbed. ""Here for employment on honest terms, I suppose? Well, you're a fool if you think your clever devices and the alliances you made with the savage tribes will keep you from joining Byzantium, in the end. I suppose you're one of their directors, like Dr. Sabbatine, fallen on hard times?""","Alexius is getting ready to say more when a ship of the Byzantine merchant fleet emerges from the mist. A colossal steamer with four funnels and a golden icon covering most of its bow, it seems to glide through the mist that hovers over the Bosphorus. Your captain steers his little single-masted ship out of the way as the huge steamer picks up speed. | |
| ""Less than an hour until we reach Prosphorion Harbor,"" Alexius says. He keeps smiling, but his eyes betray his nervousness. | |
| ""So,"" he says, his gloved hands tight on the rail, ""are you excited to work for Dr. Sabbatine?""", | |
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guard repeats your name slowly. ""Do you mean Namandjé?""","""Right,"" the guard calls out, ""Namandjé Kangapolitan."" | |
| Another guard records the information and amends your passport. Before you can offer advice or consultation on your new name, you're ushered through the Gate of Hercules and into the heart of Byzantium.","""No, Namandjé. The difference is important."" | |
| The guard rolls his eyes but records your name correctly.","""Right,"" the clerk calls out, ""Namandjé Kangapolitan."" | |
| Another clerk records the information and amends your passport. Before you can offer advice or consultation on your new name, you're ushered through the Gate of Hestia and into the heart of Byzantium.","""No, Namandjé. The difference is important."" | |
| The clerk smiles indulgently and records your name correctly.", | |
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ask Keimia where I am. | |
| The local language contains no cognates with Koiné or Bambara, but it contains two registers, one so simple it's more of a pidgin than a full language. You address Keimia that way because that's all you can manage. Keimia is laconic and clearly dislikes speaking except to give orders, but the man in gold and amber calls Keimia ""daughter"" and encourages her to speak. Keimia explains that the man in gold and amber, Chief Kothis, chose to protect you rather than leave you to be devoured by monsters. | |
| The tiny herbalist—Vecla—treated both you and Alexius.","""Stralchus, get me caught up on everything that's happened."" | |
| ""If you're asking me where or when we are, I don't know,"" Stralchus says. ""These heathen barbarians call themselves the People of the River, but they don't know where their own village is. They just keep yammering about forests and rivers and the silver mountain that's appeared in the sky. | |
| ""That painted man with the jewelry is their chief. He calls himself Kothis. His daughter Keimia is in charge of the warriors, or hunters. Same thing here.","""Stralchus, where are Alexius and Control?"" | |
| ""The barbarian princess over here locked up all the controllers,"" Stralchus says, hooking a thumb at Keimia. The warrior woman bares her teeth at the mystic. ""I've tried to convince Chief Kothis—that's her father there, painted like the heathen he is—to let them go, but these barbarians won't listen to reason. And Alexius…"" | |
| The mystic sighs and scratches his beard. | |
| ""Alexius got hit in the head during the crash. He blacked out. I don't know if you remember. Vecla–this creature,"" Stralchus says, nodding to the tiny herbalist, ""has him wrapped up in some kind of sacred grove and is convinced he'll be fine, but he keeps fading in and out of consciousness. Even if we had a physician, I don't think he would make it."" | |
| Stralchus can barely disguise his rage at the situation. ""If you want to know where we are in the bigger sense, I don't know. Neither do these heathens. They call themselves the People of the River, and they talk about rivers and forests and, of course, the silver thing that's appeared in the sky, but it's not like they can point us in the direction of civilization.""","At last Chief Kothis addresses you. He understands the general situation: you are lost travelers from a faraway land who need to contact your distant leader. But the chief proposes a solution, speaking with the confidence of someone who knows exactly how to solve a particular problem. | |
| ""You must,"" Chief Kothis says, ""speak to the Apostolic Mound.""","At least that's what he seems to be saying; your understanding of the local language is still limited, though you seem to have acquired a rudimentary understanding of the tongue during your long convalescence. | |
| Because people spoke around you while you slept? That must be why. You force yourself to stop scratching at your hand. | |
| This ""Apostolic Mound""—that's the best translation you can manage—has the ability to speak with the voice of distant people, even, Chief Kothis insists, the gods. | |
| Stralchus scoffs. Keimia states that since Stralchus is too afraid of the journey, she and her warriors will guard you on the way. You suspect she and Stralchus have sparred over this before. | |
| Kothis says that he, too, has questions of the Apostolic Mound. You and he can work together.", | |
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River People's three worthies converse among themselves too quickly for you to follow, then Vecla and her carrier, Losh, encourage you to get out into the open air.","The River People's three worthies converse among themselves too quickly for you to follow, then Vecla seems to remember your presence. She tells you to take in the open air to speed your healing. The tiny herbalist wiggles away from her porter, the scarred man named Losh. She lands on a basket near the screen door and you are finally able to see more of her than her small golden face. | |
| You had expected some kind of little person, perhaps with a birth defect. But Vecla appears to be…a worm. | |
| ""Don't ask me,"" Stralchus mutters, slipping out past the herbalist. | |
| Vecla's body is small, pale, and grub-like, with two soft gripping appendages instead of hands. Her face is golden with black eyes and spiky black hair; her features are different from the other River People, but you have no idea what she actually is. The herbalist manages a little shrug, as if to make it clear she does not know either, then gestures again for you to step out into the village.","Vecla has been turning over the issue of the controllers ever since their arrival. She bargains shrewdly, but for something that will cost you nothing: explanations and digressions during your shared journey to the Apostolic Mound. You agree happily, and Vecla summons Losh, who carries her down to the cage. | |
| You don't understand most of what Vecla, Keimia, and Chief Kothis say, nor can you understand all the undercurrents of their political relationship. Stralchus watches thoughtfully but he, too, seems lost. Control just waits until Keimia, with a frustrated shrug, opens her door. The controllers file out of their prison, and one immediately engages a curious Vecla in conversation about the coming journey.","Though Vecla has clearly been turning over the issue of the controllers ever since their arrival, she is skeptical of what you can offer her. Unconvinced by you, she instead decides to seek out Control directly; you can only follow as the herbalist summons Losh to carry her down the hill to the prison, where she intends to bargain with Control for information, in exchange for Control's freedom. | |
| But Vecla's simple plan soon gets bogged down as she argues with Keimia and Chief Kothis. You don't understand most of what they say, nor can you understand all the undercurrents of their political relationship. But it's clear that in your absence Stralchus has sufficiently aggrieved both the chief and his daughter that they are now united in keeping Control imprisoned. | |
| Vecla retreats, frustrated and defeated, and manages a small shrug despite her lack of shoulders. Control won't be going anywhere any time soon.","You spend most of the day preparing for the journey. Keimia intends to take two of the River People's small reed boats, which will hold you, Stralchus, the herbalist Vecla, Keimia, a few of her best warriors, and the controllers. Control vanishes for most of the day, then returns and says, ""I have instructed Vecla's assistant Losh to find all the remaining pieces of the [i]Specular[/i] and return them here. Fortunately, no piece is bigger than two strong men can carry."" | |
| Several controllers offer you a strained smile at the good news.", | |
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| ""The barbarian princess over here locked up all the controllers,"" Stralchus says, hooking a thumb at Keimia. The warrior woman bares her teeth at the mystic. ""I've tried to convince Chief Kothis—that's her father there, painted like the heathen he is—to let them go, but these barbarians won't listen to reason. And Alexius…"" | |
| The mystic sighs and scratches his beard. | |
| ""Alexius got hit in the head during the crash. He blacked out. I don't know if you remember. Vecla–this creature,"" Stralchus says, nodding to the tiny herbalist, ""has him wrapped up in some kind of sacred grove and is convinced he'll be fine, but he keeps fading in and out of consciousness. Even if we had a physician, I don't think he would make it."" | |
| Stralchus can barely disguise his rage at the situation. ""If you want to know where we are in the bigger sense, I don't know. Neither do these heathens. They call themselves the People of the River, and they talk about rivers and forests and, of course, the silver thing that's appeared in the sky, but it's not like they can point us in the direction of civilization.""","I just can't stop thinking about poor Control, unjustly imprisoned. I'm going to rescue her!","I don't need Control; I'm better off using Keimia's warriors. | |
| You let Stralchus and Keimia argue for a bit, but as things grow heated and it's clear the mystic won't get anywhere with the stubborn warrior woman, you signal for him to call it off. Suspicious of Control for his own reasons, Stralchus just shrugs and stalks away. | |
| Maybe Control will be able to learn something useful about the village while you're away.","""We need to rescue Control!"" To my surprise, I can't stop thinking about how upset she must be as a prisoner.", | |
| silverworld,Skull Ripper,"['Skull Ripper', 'Skull Rip']",152,10554,"cog_691,cog_765,cog_770,cog_825,cog_785,cog_795,cog_804,improve_village_900,improve_village_929,cog_843,cog_877,cog_878,cog_886,cog_921,improve_village_1332,improve_village_1369,11_homeland_60,reactive_3_67,cog_1074,cog_1098,cog_1118,cog_1195,cog_1196,cog_1201,cog_1221,cog_1252,reactive_3_2548,reactive_2_599,reactive_2_609,reactive_2_619,cog_1375,cog_1751,reactive_3_2881,cog_1772,reactive_2_1694,reactive_2_1724,reactive_2_1817,reactive_2_1737,cog_1850,cog_1866,cog_1863,reactive_2_1735,reactive_2_1831,reactive_2_1842,reactive_3_3245,cog_2072,cog_2130,cog_2100,cog_2139,cog_2148,cog_2182,cog_2190,cog_2037,cog_2054,cog_2154,cog_2092,cog_3869,cog_2046,cog_2063,cog_3948,cog_2826,cog_2832,cog_2242,cog_2931,cog_2248,cog_3342,cog_3969,cog_2893,cog_2901,cog_2996,cog_2253,cog_2268,cog_2894,cog_2898,cog_2946,cog_2257,cog_2264,cog_2277,cog_2295,cog_2320,cog_2327,cog_2331,cog_3346,cog_3708,cog_4045,cog_4070,cog_2914,cog_2270,cog_2282,cog_3349,cog_2907,cog_2289,cog_2340,cog_3353,cog_3368,cog_3492,cog_3496,cog_3983,cog_4014,cog_4107,cog_2310,cog_2718,cog_3364,cog_3377,cog_3396,cog_3426,cog_3430,cog_3370,cog_3383,cog_3420,cog_3390,cog_3796,cog_3253,cog_3256,cog_3808,cog_3814,cog_3411,13_ziggurat_288,12_village_fate_3750,12_village_fate_4384,12_village_fate_4132,12_village_fate_3321,12_village_fate_3329,12_village_fate_4141,12_village_fate_4145,12_village_fate_4777,13_ziggurat_2065,13_ziggurat_2079,13_ziggurat_11442,12_village_fate_6800,12_village_fate_6804,12_village_fate_5056,12_village_fate_5060,12_village_fate_5073,12_village_fate_5048,12_village_fate_5030,12_village_fate_5035,12_village_fate_5015,12_village_fate_5019,12_village_fate_5002,12_village_fate_5009,12_village_fate_4982,12_village_fate_4986,12_village_fate_4965,12_village_fate_4969,12_village_fate_4953,12_village_fate_4959,12_village_fate_4943,12_village_fate_4948,cog_4568,cog_4573,reactive_3_3837","""I am Skull Ripper,"" he says conversationally, ""and we welcome the River People into the presence of our mighty god.""","""Vecla, could this Triune be more than just swindlers? Herbalists, for example?"" | |
| ""I doubt it,"" Vecla says. ""Look at these crude huts and their simple weapons. Skull Ripper's people don't have much…what did you call it? Material culture. They probably know the locations of medicinal herbs, but I doubt they can do much with them.""","""Our god has many powers,"" Skull Ripper says, first looking to the Triune as if for approval. ""He has brought us food and ended our wars."" You get the impression Skull Ripper isn't entirely happy with that, but the Triune seems pleased. | |
| ""Only after these people did well for themselves,"" Alexius says, hooking his thumb toward a well-guarded hut in which you can see the glint of ivory and other plunder. | |
| ""Why have you come, Riverlanders?"" one of the Triune says. | |
| ""They are not like the sky hunters,"" Skull Ripper tells the Triune. ""I saw how they look different, so I did not kill them."" | |
| ""I think,"" Alexius whispers, ""honesty is the best policy, especially if skull ripping is on the table."" | |
| The others nod, but honesty has risks.","No way am I telling the truth, when these people have no reason to doubt me. ""We are here as traders, nothing more."" | |
| Your allies look a bit uncomfortable with this approach, but the Triune does not expect deception. | |
| ""We look forward to hosting you,"" one of them says. ""We are a civilized people and respect our guests."" | |
| ""They seem new to, um, 'civilization,'"" Therko whispers to you. ""But they seem honest enough. Even Skull Ripper there.""","""Rude,"" Skull Ripper says, his tone low and dangerous, but you meet his gaze. After a moment, one of the Triune holds up his hand for peace. | |
| ""But the Golden Eye is the strength of our god,"" he says, ""that he might heal and bless us."" | |
| ""Though we are…civilized people,"" another Triune member says, though he seems new to the idea, ""and we respect property."" | |
| The others seem to remember that fact, too, and nod. | |
| ""Perhaps a replacement could be fashioned,"" the third Triune member says to the others, ""if these people truly—"" | |
| The first holds his hand up again. | |
| ""We will discuss these matters once we know more of our guests,"" he declares.", | |
| silverworld,the False Icon,"['the False Icon', 'The False Icon', 'Icon', 'False Icon']",103,10554,"4_apostolic_mound_2024,reactive_1_87,reactive_1_114,reactive_1_136,reactive_1_136,reactive_1_136,reactive_1_121,reactive_1_237,reactive_1_240,reactive_1_215,reactive_1_215,cog_209,prism_295,prism_309,cog_369,improve_village_130,tabulation_chart_1664,tabulation_chart_2575,improve_village_197,improve_village_453,improve_village_523,reactive_2_222,reactive_2_237,reactive_2_266,reactive_2_286,reactive_2_305,reactive_3_507,reactive_3_605,reactive_3_720,reactive_3_853,reactive_2_170,prism_1412,prism_1992,prism_2002,prism_2012,11_homeland_777,11_homeland_788,11_homeland_791,cog_1582,cog_1562,cog_1637,cog_1668,reactive_3_2712,reactive_2_1252,reactive_2_1690,cog_1801,reactive_3_3417,cog_1931,cog_2182,11_homeland_1433,cog_2671,cog_2692,cog_3749,cog_3770,11_homeland_1739,11_homeland_1776,11_homeland_2711,11_homeland_2771,12_village_fate_259,12_village_fate_546,12_village_fate_1098,12_village_fate_1642,12_village_fate_1680,12_village_fate_1665,13_ziggurat_474,13_ziggurat_478,13_ziggurat_803,13_ziggurat_1645,13_ziggurat_1782,12_village_fate_3393,13_ziggurat_1900,12_village_fate_4145,12_village_fate_4171,12_village_fate_3973,12_village_fate_2765,12_village_fate_4353,13_ziggurat_2090,13_ziggurat_5199,13_ziggurat_6371,13_ziggurat_5276,13_ziggurat_2622,13_ziggurat_8598,13_ziggurat_4112,13_ziggurat_4116,13_ziggurat_4211,13_ziggurat_3211,13_ziggurat_3216,13_ziggurat_3238,13_ziggurat_3459,13_ziggurat_7957,13_ziggurat_8032,13_ziggurat_8044,13_ziggurat_8060,13_ziggurat_8104,13_ziggurat_8161,13_ziggurat_10543,13_ziggurat_11408,13_ziggurat_11726,13_ziggurat_11706,13_ziggurat_11714,13_ziggurat_12061,12_village_fate_7238,12_village_fate_7131","The doctor confirms what I glimpsed in the mind of the False Icon. ""If we capture the False Icon, does this world vanish?"" | |
| ""A good question,"" Dr. Sabbatine says, ""to which I do not know the answer. Perhaps Stralchus is right, and this world, these eons, they're like a dream. Or perhaps the world has changed forever, grown richer and more complex."" | |
| You glance at Stralchus, whose expression of horror and rage shows that he has already made up his mind.","Despite the hostile and unfamiliar environment, you encounter nothing truly dangerous. You're even able to light fires each night, which Therko advises to keep the beasts away. One night, staring into the fire, the flames seem to gutter and turn silver-gray. You realize too late that you are dreaming, but also not dreaming. The False Icon has returned.","I want to repair the [i]Specular[/i] and go home. | |
| The False Icon seems amused and perhaps even disgusted. You want to escape this savage world, only to return to a Byzantium that has no use for you, that will never respect a Malian or offer you a position worthy of your abilities? What a peculiar form of escape. | |
| But you see opportunities in Byzantium; the empress and Sabbatine both offer lucrative and honorable employment, if you can earn their trust.","Stralchus is right to oppose you, False Icon, but he will fail. I will take over his great project and see it done right. | |
| The False Icon seems amused by your bravado and promises you an exquisite death should you manage to ally with, or overthrow, Stralchus. Of course, it also seems to think Stralchus will kill you before the False Icon kills him.","Stralchus is right to oppose you, False Icon, but he will fail. I will take over his great project and see it done right. | |
| The False Icon seems amused by your bravado and promises you an exquisite death should you manage to ally with, or overthrow, Stralchus. Of course, it also seems to think Stralchus will kill you before the False Icon kills him.", | |
| silverworld,the Crowned Serpent,"['the Crowned Serpent', 'The Crowned Serpent']",96,10554,"tabulation_chart_3347,tabulation_chart_3357,reactive_2_642,reactive_2_673,11_homeland_1219,reactive_2_1551,11_homeland_1279,11_homeland_1282,11_homeland_1289,11_homeland_1292,11_homeland_1354,11_homeland_1369,11_homeland_1369,11_homeland_1433,11_homeland_1579,11_homeland_1634,11_homeland_1634,11_homeland_1639,11_homeland_1639,11_homeland_1709,11_homeland_1739,11_homeland_1754,11_homeland_1650,11_homeland_1698,11_homeland_1705,11_homeland_1716,11_homeland_1720,11_homeland_1731,11_homeland_1735,11_homeland_1746,11_homeland_1750,11_homeland_1761,11_homeland_1664,11_homeland_1793,11_homeland_1663,11_homeland_1776,11_homeland_1891,11_homeland_1872,11_homeland_1882,11_homeland_1887,11_homeland_2136,11_homeland_2434,11_homeland_2310,11_homeland_2272,11_homeland_2552,12_village_fate_250,12_village_fate_259,12_village_fate_3414,12_village_fate_3434,12_village_fate_3715,12_village_fate_3511,12_village_fate_3467,12_village_fate_3491,12_village_fate_3659,13_ziggurat_2538,13_ziggurat_2542,13_ziggurat_2598,13_ziggurat_2894,13_ziggurat_3698,13_ziggurat_2659,13_ziggurat_3791,13_ziggurat_3850,13_ziggurat_3896,13_ziggurat_3896,13_ziggurat_2900,13_ziggurat_3706,13_ziggurat_3735,13_ziggurat_3853,13_ziggurat_3856,13_ziggurat_3859,13_ziggurat_3904,13_ziggurat_2783,13_ziggurat_3764,13_ziggurat_3794,13_ziggurat_3799,13_ziggurat_3959,13_ziggurat_3405,13_ziggurat_3411,13_ziggurat_3453,13_ziggurat_4096,13_ziggurat_4100,13_ziggurat_3196,13_ziggurat_3333,13_ziggurat_3440,13_ziggurat_3211,13_ziggurat_3282,13_ziggurat_3336,13_ziggurat_3348,13_ziggurat_3398,13_ziggurat_3315,13_ziggurat_3298,13_ziggurat_3387,13_ziggurat_3302,13_ziggurat_3391,13_ziggurat_3393,13_ziggurat_3395","""But people are already saying that a new champion has arisen among the snake people,"" Alexius says, giving the fishermen one last wave. ""They call him the Crowned Serpent, but everyone has a different story about who he is and where he comes from.""","You stop only long enough for Alexius to speak to some fishermen and swap information. | |
| ""With Keimia dead,"" he says, ""the ophidians are in disarray. The local traders already know what happened, though servants of the False Icon tried to hide it."" | |
| Therko nods grimly. | |
| ""Unfortunately,"" Alexius says, ""the snake people already have a new champion. Someone called the Crowned Serpent."" | |
| ""It might just be a rumor,"" Control says. | |
| ""So far, the Crowned Serpent is nothing but rumors,"" Alexius says. ""I can't get clear answers out of anyone. But we should be worried.""","""Monster!"" Therko roars. Without another word, he rushes the Crowned Serpent, his macuahuitl held high, but the fighting is so thick the Painted Guardian cannot reach the raiders' leader. Instead he contents himself with fighting side by side with Chief Kothis.","I ask the Crowned Serpent what he really wants, trying to ferret out a sense of the False Icon's goals here.","The Crowned Serpent is there, strapped to a table as ophidians work on him with their long volcanic-glass knives. He looks like a man still, without horns. Has this already happened? His eyes meet yours.", | |
| silverworld,Queen Acma,"['Queen Acma', 'Acma']",91,10554,"prism_796,prism_808,prism_816,prism_837,prism_779,prism_789,prism_846,prism_848,prism_826,prism_860,prism_896,prism_905,prism_956,prism_1020,prism_919,prism_925,prism_930,prism_940,prism_945,prism_950,prism_998,prism_1015,prism_961,prism_969,prism_976,prism_981,prism_990,prism_1007,prism_1331,reactive_2_494,reactive_3_2429,prism_1425,prism_1834,prism_1836,prism_1839,prism_1597,prism_1618,prism_1639,prism_1803,prism_1809,prism_1816,prism_1828,11_homeland_828,prism_1456,prism_1456,prism_1464,prism_1464,prism_1534,prism_1540,prism_1601,prism_1607,prism_1622,prism_1628,prism_1644,prism_1649,prism_1713,prism_1719,prism_1727,prism_1733,prism_1739,prism_1440,prism_1447,prism_1473,prism_1508,prism_1558,prism_1579,prism_1586,prism_1765,prism_1771,prism_1776,prism_1899,prism_1940,prism_1959,prism_1976,prism_2180,prism_1681,prism_1687,prism_1751,prism_1981,prism_1878,prism_1908,prism_1928,prism_2123,prism_1936,11_homeland_845,prism_2172,prism_1999,prism_2143,prism_2206,prism_2218,cog_1668","""Trade?"" Queen Acma says, her tone dismissive. ""Humans do not trade, they take."" | |
| ""As should be obvious,"" Control says, ""we are not like the humans you know. We seek a crystal prism of exacting specifications and flawless quality."" | |
| ""Interesting,"" the queen says, though she still sounds skeptical. ""Normally humans are attracted to the healing properties of our honey crystals, for when they fight their endless wars."" She arches a feathery eyebrow. ""Do you not have enemies?"" | |
| ""We were attacked by wasps,"" Therko says. ""Our enemy is the False Icon—the gray mountain that now hangs in the sky. We seek its destruction!"" | |
| ""Hmm,"" Queen Acma says, ""and before you spoke, Painted Guardian, did you not think to wonder whom we serve?"" | |
| Therko tenses as the hundreds of bees above you turn to watch the throne.","""I respect your honesty,"" Queen Acma says, speaking carefully, ""so let me be honest with you, human. We have no interest in wars or in making enemies. We are healers and we trade with all—humans, ophidians, even our ancient enemies, the swarmwalkers, who need our crystalline honey to maintain their half-living hosts."" | |
| Therko's expression of angry disgust does not escape the old queen, but before she can rebuke him, Alexius says, ""Though we have enemies, our purpose here is trade."" | |
| ""We seek a crystal prism of exacting specifications and flawless quality,"" Control says. | |
| Queen Acma raises a feathery eyebrow. ""We may be able to come to an arrangement,"" she says. But then she turns her gaze upon Vecla.","""What makes you think I care about your enemies?"" Queen Acma asks. ""We have no interest in war, human. We are healers and we trade with all—humans, ophidians, even our ancient enemies, the swarmwalkers, who need our crystalline honey to maintain their half-living hosts."" | |
| Therko looks ready to say something ill-advised. Before he can, Control steps forward and says, ""We are not simply warriors, Your Majesty. We seek a crystal prism of exacting specifications and flawless quality and are willing to trade for it."" | |
| Queen Acma looks skeptically upon your motley group, but after a moment she says, ""Perhaps we can come to an arrangement."" Then she turns her gaze upon Vecla.","""Yes,"" Queen Acma says, her eyes on Vecla, ""you strike me as very ignorant. It's clear we must correct you on certain matters. Tell me, little one, are you a servant of the Apostolic Mound?"" | |
| Vecla shakes her head. ""The Apostolic Mound was murdered by servants of the False Icon—the gray mountain in the sky."" | |
| ""We know those servants,"" Queen Acma says. ""The ophidians, the swarmwalkers. They will not threaten you here. This is neutral ground. We offer our healing honey equally to all, you see."" | |
| Therko's eyes narrow dangerously, but before he can say anything impolitic, Control says, ""We are particularly impressed by your crystals. In fact, we are willing to trade for a crystal of sufficient size and clarity."" | |
| ""Well, which is it?"" Queen Acma asks. ""Are you traders or scholars or—like this Painted Guardian—warriors? I suspect you're here to damage the peace I've sought to maintain. But first things first…"" The old queen's black eyes return to Vecla.","""Trade?"" Queen Acma says, betraying surprise. ""Have humans grown so civilized? We are used to brigandage, not exchange. How splendid!"" | |
| ""In particular,"" Control says before Alexius can set up shop, ""we seek a crystal prism of exacting specifications and flawless quality."" | |
| ""My, you are peculiar! Normally humans are interested in the healing properties of our honey crystals,"" the queen says, ""for when they fight their endless wars. Do you not have enemies?"" | |
| ""We were attacked by wasps,"" Therko says. ""Our enemy is the False Icon—the gray mountain that now hangs in the sky. We seek its destruction!"" | |
| ""Hmm,"" Queen Acma says, ""and before you spoke, Painted Guardian, did you not think to wonder whom we serve?"" | |
| Therko tenses as the hundreds of bees above you turn to watch the throne.", | |
| silverworld,Xander Metochites,"['Meto', 'Xander Metochites']",61,10554,"2_outfitting_189,2_outfitting_189,2_outfitting_194,2_outfitting_196,2_outfitting_270,3_crisis_11,3_crisis_46,3_crisis_50,3_crisis_56,3_crisis_65,4_apostolic_mound_580,4_apostolic_mound_757,5_fracturing_790,improve_village_1418,improve_village_1431,cog_4395,cog_4118,cog_4127,cog_4142,cog_4158,cog_4174,cog_4190,cog_4206,13_ziggurat_626,12_village_fate_3994,12_village_fate_3209,12_village_fate_4628,13_ziggurat_2017,13_ziggurat_2021,13_ziggurat_2032,13_ziggurat_2038,13_ziggurat_9999,13_ziggurat_10112,12_village_fate_6465,12_village_fate_6502,12_village_fate_6517,12_village_fate_6522,12_village_fate_6491,12_village_fate_6469,12_village_fate_7119,12_village_fate_5346,12_village_fate_5376,12_village_fate_5391,12_village_fate_5226,12_village_fate_5378,12_village_fate_5305,12_village_fate_5393,12_village_fate_5406,12_village_fate_5231,12_village_fate_5257,12_village_fate_5264,12_village_fate_5365,12_village_fate_5307,12_village_fate_5222,12_village_fate_5293,12_village_fate_5276,12_village_fate_5286,12_village_fate_5289,12_village_fate_5295,12_village_fate_5316,12_village_fate_5329","""My offer is simple,"" Dr. Sabbatine says over the hubbub. ""Those assembled here step onto the [i]Specular[/i], watch for about five minutes, and then we get to work understanding what my device can do for Byzantium. Are we agreed?"" | |
| ""I have one question,"" says one of the journalists as the others frantically and unconditionally agree. ""Why do you have a small army? Are you expecting to pass through the last Malian War on your way to the dawn of time?"" | |
| A ripple of laughter spreads through the crowd. | |
| ""That's Xander Metochites,"" Alexius tells you—unnecessarily. Even you know ""Meto"" is one of the most famous journalists and novelists in Byzantium, and a famous wit.","""My offer is simple,"" Dr. Sabbatine says over the hubbub. ""Those assembled here step onto the [i]Specular[/i], watch for about five minutes, and then we get to work understanding what my device can do for Byzantium. Are we agreed?"" | |
| ""I have one question,"" says one of the journalists as the others frantically and unconditionally agree. ""Why do you have a small army? Are you expecting to pass through the last Malian War on your way to the dawn of time?"" | |
| A ripple of laughter spreads through the crowd. | |
| ""That's Xander Metochites,"" Alexius tells you—unnecessarily. Even you know ""Meto"" is one of the most famous journalists and novelists in Byzantium, and a famous wit.","No doubt Meto would have something clever to say about the Malian soldier in Dr. Sabbatine's entourage, had he noticed you.","""Everyone needs to see,"" the mystic Stralchus tells Meto, emphasizing the word ""need."" | |
| Dr. Sabbatine nods and says, ""They need to know what they'll be guarding from people who might object to my latest discovery, and they need to know how important it is."" | |
| The doctor seems tired of ceremony and limelight; she turns to Stralchus, who begins the mundane task of getting everyone onto the [i]Specular[/i]. The woman in the red jacket helps him. | |
| Wait, no, she's standing between you and Alexius. But how… | |
| Except, actually, she appears to be helping the researchers move some equipment. In fact, there appear to be quite a few of these young women. Over a dozen.","Stralchus scowls at you, then he turns his furious expression upon Meto as the journalist chuckles. | |
| ""Maybe Dr. Sabbatine can prepare dinner for the men while we go on our little expedition,"" Meto says. ""Would you like that, Stralchus?"" | |
| Before the mystic and the journalist can get into it, Sabbatine shouts down, ""Stop bothering her! I called her here from Mali for a reason!"" | |
| Meto puffs on his pipe as Stralchus stomps away.", | |
| silverworld,Cyril,['Cyril'],52,10554,"1_to_byzantium_339,1_to_byzantium_346,1_to_byzantium_348,1_to_byzantium_351,1_to_byzantium_353,1_to_byzantium_355,1_to_byzantium_358,1_to_byzantium_360,1_to_byzantium_364,1_to_byzantium_370,1_to_byzantium_379,1_to_byzantium_388,1_to_byzantium_405,1_to_byzantium_415,1_to_byzantium_423,1_to_byzantium_432,1_to_byzantium_440,1_to_byzantium_449,1_to_byzantium_457,1_to_byzantium_469,1_to_byzantium_481,1_to_byzantium_491,1_to_byzantium_502,1_to_byzantium_514,1_to_byzantium_868,1_to_byzantium_980,2_outfitting_83,2_outfitting_62,2_outfitting_70,2_outfitting_129,2_outfitting_138,2_outfitting_152,2_outfitting_165,2_outfitting_178,2_outfitting_201,2_outfitting_213,2_outfitting_438,3_crisis_11,3_crisis_16,3_crisis_20,3_crisis_27,3_crisis_23,3_crisis_68,3_crisis_71,cog_4120,12_village_fate_288,12_village_fate_291,12_village_fate_294,13_ziggurat_639,13_ziggurat_2044,12_village_fate_6475,12_village_fate_7123","The golden mist surrounding Byzantium starts to fade. Your little ship leaves the Bosphorus and crosses beneath the first of a dozen colossal bridges that span the Golden Horn, and there it is: Byzantium, shining in the sunset. | |
| You've seen postcards and photographs, but those don't capture the sheer size of the city, how it has spilled out of its ancient and medieval confines to sprawl across the land, or how smoke and steam hide three-quarters of it at a time. Smells and sounds arrive: the acrid reek of burning coal, the clanking of enormous machinery, the aroma of a thousand spices hauled in from every corner of the empire, and the clattering of bells as a million merchants trade with a million more. | |
| Other travelers bearing letters from Dr. Sabbatine crowd the ship's bow, all of them trying to see the city. You jostle against a soldier, who apologizes as you're both pressed against the railing. | |
| ""I'm Cyril,"" the soldier shouts over the crash of waves. The wind whips his long auburn hair around his face. A Byzantine from his clothing; his accent indicates birth in the countryside. ""You're here to guard the doctor, too, eh?"" Then he takes in your unusual appearance: your torn and travel-stained garments and broad-brimmed hat.","""You came all the way here from Cathay!"" Cyril cries, astounded. ""How did you survive the Crimson Horde? I hear they've been plundering both corridors of the Silk Road so badly Cathay has started building ships again. We'll be fighting on the steppe again soon enough, I bet.""","""You're Eirish,"" Cyril cries, astounded. ""Or are you a Viking? Are they still called Vikings? Or…I can't keep all those warring tribes clear in my head, honestly. But tell me, how did you survive to reach the Pillars of Hercules? The Mediterranean is safe enough, but the Atlantic coast must have swarmed with pirates and wreckers!""","""You're a Frank!"" Cyril cries, as if making an incredible discovery. ""Good on you, getting out while you still could! But you couldn't have traveled on the rivers all the way here. How did you survive the woods? I mean, I hear most of the forests of central Europe have more bandits than trees!""","""Are you Egyptian?"" Cyril asks. ""No, wait, you're from the Golden Empire! I've never met someone from Mali before. How did you get across the Sahara? I know there are roads now because we keep trying to invade along them, but still!""", | |
| silverworld,Icons,['Icons'],41,10554,"4_apostolic_mound_231,4_apostolic_mound_208,4_apostolic_mound_705,reactive_1_89,reactive_1_99,improve_village_399,cog_1577,reactive_3_335,reactive_3_3510,reactive_3_3504,reactive_3_3590,cog_4206,13_ziggurat_7455,13_ziggurat_5361,13_ziggurat_5696,13_ziggurat_6468,13_ziggurat_5377,13_ziggurat_2502,13_ziggurat_6478,13_ziggurat_9271,13_ziggurat_8284,13_ziggurat_8406,13_ziggurat_8990,13_ziggurat_3933,13_ziggurat_8501,13_ziggurat_8589,13_ziggurat_8629,13_ziggurat_8711,13_ziggurat_3138,13_ziggurat_7863,13_ziggurat_7865,13_ziggurat_10157,13_ziggurat_10168,13_ziggurat_10459,13_ziggurat_10527,13_ziggurat_10531,13_ziggurat_11720,13_ziggurat_11700,13_ziggurat_11708,13_ziggurat_11811,13_ziggurat_11148","""Maybe you can talk sense into her, one she-wolf to another. Icons know I haven't had any luck.""","Their witch doctor, or witch nurse, I guess I should say–they call her Vecla–spent her time muttering incantations and smearing you with paste, but you had strength enough to pull out of your fever on your own, thank the Icons."" He gives you a skeptical look, as if unsure whom to thank, or blame, for your rapid healing.","""I intend to,"" Stralchus says. ""If Alexius lives, I plan to turn his genius for economic cunning on the locals. That will work better than the few rifles we have. Broken and indebted, they will come to the service of Byzantium and the worship of the Icons. The empire has employed the same trick again and again, from India to Francia and beyond, and it always works."" | |
| His eyes are bright with ambition, but you wonder if Stralchus is overestimating his abilities, and your resources, in this savage place.","The fire grows solid and sluggish, then enormous, until you are once again looking at the False Icon as if it were a colossal monolith across from you on an empty plain. Its insides churn and this time it holds not signs and symbols but images. | |
| You see Stralchus, his beard and eyes wild, leading the River People he lured away from Chief Kothis downriver. You see another village, a battle, men killing and dying. Is this happening? Has it already happened? Or is it just some phantasm? Then you see Stralchus victorious, leading…hundreds? Could it be that many? They have arrived near a lake, and Stralchus is speaking. | |
| They will build, he says. They will build a great temple to the Icons—a Ziggurat–and from there they will build a weapon to destroy the gray mountain in the sky. And they will build with impossible speed, for the Icons are with them. Stralchus points toward something you cannot see, and his followers fall to their knees as one, and you understand that the Icons are ""with"" Stralchus in a more than metaphorical sense. Stralchus has…you almost…you almost understand… | |
| Using arts that stray far from orthodoxy, Stralchus has imprisoned the Icons. He's bottled them up like a fairy-tale sorcerer with a jar full of genies. They serve him now. | |
| The False Icon seems to be watching you, to figure out what sort of woman you are when presented with something wholly unfamiliar. It seems to believe it already knows what sort of man Stralchus is.","Stralchus is desperate but I know I can still reason with him. Perhaps I can reach him through this strange medium and speak to him. | |
| You strain to speak in this unreal place and then just try thinking as clearly as you can. The darkness around you churns, and for a moment the mystic seems to react to an unknown presence. He looks around, his eyes narrowed, then quickly makes a sign of warding–a vulgar superstition with no place in Orthodoxy. His fellow mystics would abjure him for that, but his fellow mystics have not imprisoned the Icons.", | |
| silverworld,Dr. Kattan the Younger,"['Dr. Kattan', 'Kattan', 'Kattan the Younger', 'Dr. Kattan the Younger']",24,10554,"2_outfitting_95,2_outfitting_121,3_crisis_11,3_crisis_31,3_crisis_35,3_crisis_42,3_crisis_38,3_crisis_65,3_crisis_71,cog_4122,13_ziggurat_642,13_ziggurat_2041,13_ziggurat_10646,13_ziggurat_8901,13_ziggurat_8901,13_ziggurat_8904,13_ziggurat_8943,13_ziggurat_8947,13_ziggurat_9045,13_ziggurat_9238,13_ziggurat_10419,13_ziggurat_10422,12_village_fate_6478,12_village_fate_7127","The reaction from the scientists, soldiers, and assembled mercantile interests is stunned disbelief. Is this a joke? A metaphor for some more subtle process? | |
| Then the journalists remember their jobs and start shouting questions from behind their velvet rope. | |
| ""Permit me to explain,"" the doctor says, her soft voice enhanced by an amplifier attached to the balcony railing. She waits for silence. In seconds, there are only the sounds of machines. | |
| ""As we have learned through geological and astronomical analysis, our world dates back roughly eleven thousand years, to its formation by the so-called Icons."" | |
| The theologian Stralchus seems ready to dispute the words ""so-called,"" but Dr. Sabbatine keeps talking: ""The work of the Icons has left distinct traces throughout history. You are no doubt familiar with the discovery of X-rays reported by Dr. Kattan of Alexandria. The work of the Icons has left similar emanations, emanations I have learned to detect—and to follow."" | |
| There's some polite throat-clearing from the scientists. The lights flicker back on, revealing a middle-aged man with dark skin and an old, stained suit. | |
| ""Ah yes,"" Dr. Sabbatine says, ""Dr. Kattan the Younger. I called you here to organize the scientific branch of my expedition because your father's research—"" | |
| ""—does not imply anything about the Icons,"" the younger Dr. Kattan says, breezily speaking over his elder, ""let alone…"" He scoffs. ""…time travel. In fact—"" | |
| ""I have seen it."" A deep, hollow voice, like a funeral bell: Stralchus. ""I have seen the beginning."" | |
| Nearby, Alexius raises an eloquent eyebrow as if inviting your opinion of all this.","The stark conviction in the mystic's words makes even Dr. Kattan hesitate. Speaking so quickly you cannot share your thoughts with Alexius, Dr. Sabbatine says, ""Stralchus and I, with a small group, previously took the [i]Specular[/i] back to the beginning, if only for a moment."" She gestures to the mirrored-steel circular viewing platform. ""We, um, took photographs."" | |
| The lights dim again and a magic lantern projects an image against one wall: a flat, featureless plain marked only by a single tree, and in the moonless night sky…things. Abstract geometric shapes surrounded by halo-like motion blurs.","The pain recedes, and you lurch to your knees amid flame and smoke. Several controllers are down, their brass innards clattering along the deck. A pie-slice has been taken out of the [i]Specular[/i]; the people there—mostly scientists—are just gone. As you watch, something like lightning rips into the vessel, blasting a half dozen journalists into nothingness. The [i]Specular[/i] starts to break apart as you catch a glimpse of a vast, wild landscape below. | |
| The people you just met are dying all around you. Nearby, the soldier Cyril clings to a broken railing and the scientist Kattan shouts as a console burns around him. On the far side of the [i]Specular[/i], the satirist Meto, writing in his notebook even as the [i]Specular[/i] burns, is unaware of a pillar about to fall upon him.","Moving fast, I pull Kattan quickly away from the burning console. We're going to need answers only a scientist can provide, not more lies and tricks.","Stepping quickly, you reach Kattan the Younger as he and a controller try to hold onto some kind of attitude wheel. You pull him away as flames suddenly engulf the mechanism. The controller blackens, still clinging to the wheel. Kattan spins around, wild-eyed, then looks back at the burning console.", | |
| silverworld,the Painted Guardian,"['the Painted Guardian', 'Guardian', 'Painted Guardian', 'The Painted Guardian']",22,10554,"4_apostolic_mound_2218,4_apostolic_mound_2465,tabulation_chart_128,tabulation_chart_310,tabulation_chart_438,tabulation_chart_433,prism_796,prism_779,reactive_2_399,tabulation_chart_2224,reactive_3_1857,cog_1196,reactive_3_1814,11_homeland_1085,cog_2724,12_village_fate_1141,12_village_fate_1121,12_village_fate_3283,13_ziggurat_7775,13_ziggurat_7778,13_ziggurat_11636,reactive_3_3834","She turns and spots you, her golden eyes going wide, just as you pull the trigger. | |
| But then—confound it!—a feathered ape leaps between you and her as it charges a wounded Guardian. Your bullet kills it instantly, and it careens into Keimia, who drops her spear, pinwheels as you reload, and falls! | |
| You scan the smoke and darkness, taking a moment to make sure. She and the dead ape just fell off the precipice. You suspect that won't be the last you see of Keimia, but she's out of the fight for now, and the feathered apes know it.","Vecla, bruised but still alive, wiggles out from beneath a dead Guardian and bounces onto your shoulder.","Therko nods. | |
| ""For the Apostolic Mound, my people, and everyone Keimia has hurt,"" the Painted Guardian says, turning the clay pot over in his hand. ""The Apostolic Mound is gone, but Keimia will destroy other wonders unless we stop her.""","I give Therko the nod. | |
| The Painted Guardian runs his hand gently over the crude, infected tattoos covering the man's shoulder, then finds a gap near his flank and slips the obsidian knife into his heart. He breathes out one last time and dies.",You and Therko set to work organizing the lines and soon begin your climb. Things go well until the Painted Guardian grabs a solid-looking escarpment that crumbles beneath his fingers., | |
| silverworld,The River People,"['The River People', 'the River People']",17,10554,"4_apostolic_mound_884,4_apostolic_mound_888,4_apostolic_mound_1466,reactive_1_334,reactive_1_204,improve_village_929,improve_village_932,cog_1118,reactive_2_521,reactive_2_1767,reactive_2_1715,13_ziggurat_5506,13_ziggurat_5514,13_ziggurat_10095,13_ziggurat_11444,13_ziggurat_11446,13_ziggurat_12022","You spend most of the day preparing for the journey. Keimia intends to take two of the River People's small reed boats, which will hold you, Stralchus, the herbalist Vecla, Keimia, a few of her best warriors, and the controllers. Control vanishes for most of the day, then returns and says, ""I have instructed Vecla's assistant Losh to find all the remaining pieces of the [i]Specular[/i] and return them here. Fortunately, no piece is bigger than two strong men can carry."" | |
| Several controllers offer you a strained smile at the good news.","Despite, or perhaps because of, Control's continued imprisonment, Chief Kothis seems determined to show you every courtesy. You spend most of the day with him preparing for the journey upriver to the Apostolic Mound. Keimia intends to take two of the River People's small reed boats, which will hold you, Stralchus, the herbalist Vecla, and Keimia with about a dozen of her warriors. Vecla's assistant Losh won't be joining you, and you soon learn from Vecla that Control, despite being a prisoner, has convinced him to return the pieces of the [i]Specular[/i] to the village. Vecla conveys some ""good news"": there isn't a single piece of your ship so large that two strong men can't carry it back.","One of the River People's flint-tipped spears comes readily to hand and you seek an opening, but the fighting between apes and controllers is so furious you can't treat this like a hunting expedition. The feathered apes may be animals, but in the cramped confines of the canoe, the melee is like a fight among people. | |
| At last one of the brutes shoves past the controllers and leaps toward you. Your spear catches it in the chest—as much luck as skill going into the strike—and it flies past you to splash into the water, taking the spear with it. Ducking claws and oars, you look for another weapon and grab a cudgel as the fighting rages. When you're back on your feet, the apes are falling back, having done some damage.",Help the River People. I'm not doing this just for me.,Help the River People. I'm not doing this just for me., | |
| silverworld,the Apostolic Mound,"['Mound', 'Apostolic Mound', 'the Apostolic Mound']",16,10554,"4_apostolic_mound_1778,4_apostolic_mound_1848,4_apostolic_mound_2150,4_apostolic_mound_2444,4_apostolic_mound_2485,5_fracturing_136,5_fracturing_238,5_fracturing_249,5_fracturing_234,5_fracturing_246,tabulation_chart_151,reactive_3_1465,prism_1392,reactive_3_2274,reactive_3_2597,13_ziggurat_10059","The spell breaks when a young man in a long white linen robe, wooden miter, and pale gloves comes tripping and stumbling toward you, his expression as harried and overwhelmed as a Byzantine bureaucrat on his first day of work. | |
| He speaks to Keimia, and then you, in a confused babble of languages, then settles on the River People tongue, addressing you with great solemnity and considerable nervousness. He is Therko, this is the Apostolic Mound, and…are you here for questions? Did you send a messenger ahead? He trips over his own words to get all his questions out, glancing back at the indifferent Mound as if for reassurance. | |
| Keimia's warriors look unhappy to be addressed by this bumbling administrator, but Keimia looks shocked.","The Apostolic Mound opens its huge, dripping mouth, and to your total surprise, it addresses you in fluent Koiné. | |
| ""Ah, Namandjé Kangapolitan—or perhaps I should say Namandjé of Mali, as that is how Dr. Sabbatine addressed you in her letter—I am pleased that you survived the journey here and the attack of the feathered apes, who have grown more vicious and organized since the appearance of the False Icon in the skies above our world,"" the Apostolic Mound says. ""I suppose you have many questions."" | |
| You do, but before you can formulate one, the Apostolic Mound holds up one jeweled finger and says, ""But first, in order to facilitate your communion with the doctor after so many exhausting conversations across space and time, I must regain my strength."" | |
| The Mound addresses Therko, the bureaucrat, who hastens away and orders a huge wooden door opened. After much rope-and-pulley work, the door opens to reveal two aged but still powerful Guardians leading an elephant. The elephant has been painted much like the Guardians and anointed with scented oils, the smell of which waft in your direction. | |
| Therko and the Guardians bow and withdraw. The elephant kneels before the Apostolic Mound, which regards it thoughtfully for a second, then picks it up with both hands and crams it into its dripping mouth. The painted elephant vanishes without a sound. There is a great deal of chewing. | |
| ""This cannot be real,"" Stralchus says, to the annoyance of the warriors who catch the tone of his words. Keimia, beside him, seems lost—or trapped—in dark thoughts, while Vecla watches the goings-on with a philosopher's curiosity.","""Keimia, why!"" Maybe there's some hope of reaching this savage woman by understanding her world. | |
| Keimia lands beside the dying Apostolic Mound and turns to look up at you, both hands on her gore-slick spear. Her golden eyes shine with triumph, all doubts banished, and in a way, you have your answer. | |
| ""Girl!"" It's Stralchus. He tosses you your rifle, then sees what's transpired below and cries out in mortal horror.","I order Control to grab a ring from the murdered Apostolic Mound. That should get the Empress off our back! | |
| If Control has any problems robbing the dead oracle, she gives no sign. The controllers leap down the steps in a mechanized wave, moving quickly toward the corpse of the Apostolic Mound.","Then you spot one of Keimia's warriors…former warriors, you suppose. His body rent and bloodied, he's holding his torn throat with one hand and the diagrams in the other. He must have grasped their value! He spots you and collapses at your feet. As blood spills from his mortal wound, you realize there's nothing you can do for the man. But you have the diagrams. | |
| Another of the surviving warriors shouts for you to follow. You head through the archway and down the stairs, away from the corpse of the Apostolic Mound and Keimia's victorious army of apes.", | |
| silverworld,Prince Zeno,['Prince Zeno'],15,10554,"2_outfitting_401,4_apostolic_mound_1181,4_apostolic_mound_1124,5_fracturing_688,5_fracturing_691,5_fracturing_694,reactive_2_78,11_homeland_110,11_homeland_1564,13_ziggurat_10684,13_ziggurat_9529,13_ziggurat_8926,13_ziggurat_9086,13_ziggurat_10402,13_ziggurat_10543","""Namandjé?"" a gruff voice calls. ""Namandjé Kangapolitan? There you are, girl! Get with the others!"" | |
| Captain Kamateros, the small company's commanding officer, seems alarmed by Dr. Sabbatine's desire for immediate use of the [i]Specular[/i]. A tall man dressed in immaculate gold-and-gray regimentals, Captain Kamateros does not look like the sort of man who enjoys surprises. | |
| As if not sure you speak Koiné, the Captain points angrily from you to the weapons locker. Firearms haven't been permitted on the streets of the city since that deranged English queen, Victoria, and her husband tried to assassinate the Empress of Byzantium and her heir, Prince Zeno. Nonetheless Dr. Sabbatine keeps an impressive armory.","You describe Byzantium's people and its history without lingering on its cruelty and its conquests, call to mind its towers without overwhelming Keimia and her warriors with descriptions of its trains and airships. | |
| Vecla is delighted by your descriptions, especially as you start to describe the rivers of Byzantium and Mali—that's something she understands, after all—and neither Stralchus nor Keimia seem troubled by your words. You let yourself relax; that could have gone worse. At least Stralchus and Control didn't start arguing about Prince Zeno and the succession, or conspiracy theories surrounding the mad queen of the north's life and death.","Though you don't deny the empire's many scientific and artistic accomplishments, you don't spare your descriptions of the Empress's greed, her court's corruption, the brutal wars of conquest centuries ago against Europa, and the more recent attacks against Asia, Africa, and the Greater West, and the arrogant complacency of so many of Byzantium's citizens, who enjoy special prerogatives over people from client states. You take a few swipes at Prince Zeno, too, and everyone likes him after he stopped the mad queen of the north. | |
| Keimia and Vecla seem more fascinated than disappointed by your descriptions, but when you touch upon the excesses of the temples, Stralchus at last leaps to his feet.","Her Majesty seems intrigued by developments on the other side of the rift, Namandjé, and impressed by what she has heard about you. However, her authority is not limitless. The temples still have power, after all, and Prince Zeno is serious about national security after everything that has happened. However, her favor should keep any demanded payments to a minimum.""","While Her Majesty is not outright hostile to our endeavor, the scope of my project has her worried…especially since certain temple hierarchs have taken this opportunity to move against me by informing Prince Zeno that I may represent a security risk. She will maintain my laboratory and the rift, but only in exchange for regular payments.""", | |
| silverworld,Koiné,['Koiné'],14,10554,"1_to_byzantium_520,2_outfitting_401,4_apostolic_mound_2094,reactive_1_349,5_fracturing_786,cog_281,11_homeland_97,11_homeland_936,11_homeland_943,11_homeland_1139,13_ziggurat_9004,13_ziggurat_9008,13_ziggurat_10473,13_ziggurat_10477","I guess I have to wait behind Alexius, Cyril, and the other guards and sailors at the Gate of Hercules. | |
| It takes so long that food carts appear halfway through your wait. At least you have a chance to eat as you shuffle forward, inch by inch, until you're at last beneath the marble loincloth of the son of Zeus. | |
| Bored-looking guards in their golden uniforms lounge about, handling the paperwork. Everything is still done by hand here; you see no clacking mechanical adding machines, no pneumatic tubes. The guards check that your passport is stamped, then one says, ""You, Malian,"" in insultingly slow Koiné. ""What's your first name?"" | |
| Your personal name, he probably means. | |
| ""Don't mess this up,"" Alexius whispers. ""A Turkman I know is named 'Comeagain?' in all the official records.""","""Namandjé?"" a gruff voice calls. ""Namandjé Kangapolitan? There you are, girl! Get with the others!"" | |
| Captain Kamateros, the small company's commanding officer, seems alarmed by Dr. Sabbatine's desire for immediate use of the [i]Specular[/i]. A tall man dressed in immaculate gold-and-gray regimentals, Captain Kamateros does not look like the sort of man who enjoys surprises. | |
| As if not sure you speak Koiné, the Captain points angrily from you to the weapons locker. Firearms haven't been permitted on the streets of the city since that deranged English queen, Victoria, and her husband tried to assassinate the Empress of Byzantium and her heir, Prince Zeno. Nonetheless Dr. Sabbatine keeps an impressive armory.","The doctor's voice starts to break up again. | |
| ""I can't remain in this strange communion much longer,"" she says. ""Tonight I shall return to instruct the Apostolic Mound in the repairs the [i]Specular[/i] needs. Stay here, all of you, and remember—there is a way home!"" | |
| The Apostolic Mound's eyes turn blue again, and it looks down upon you thoughtfully. | |
| ""Therko will provide you with quarters,"" it says, once again speaking excellent Koiné, then repeating the words in the River Tongue. ""Keimia, I know you and your father have questions. You may ask them of me now."" | |
| Painted Guardians lead you away from the colossal eminence as Keimia approaches, sparing an anxious glance at Therko. You see her again as you wind your way up the steps of the cliffside village. Whatever the Apostolic Mound told her, she does not look happy. Therko and the Guardians leave you in a small, mostly empty stone room. They don't set any kind of guard, and you realize your mind is racing with questions and excitement. You can't sleep, at least not yet.","""Namandjé? Namandjé!"" | |
| Someone shakes your shoulder. You awaken and look up at a blank, cloudy night sky. | |
| ""You appeared discomfited. Are you running a fever? Let me check."" | |
| Vecla's rudimentary hand feels cool against your forehead. | |
| ""Just bad dreams, then?"" | |
| Then you realize she's not speaking Koiné or Bambara, but the River Tongue. You understand it perfectly now. For a moment your hand burns. Vecla turns it over and frowns as if she might see something there, but you realize she's only checking your pulse. | |
| ""You keep having these bad dreams, Namandjé,"" she says. ""Try to get some more sleep.","You coordinate with Alexius and Dr. Sabbatine. Passing quickly between Koiné and the River Language, you deploy every rhetorical trick you know, employing both the doctor's vast erudition and Alexius's dazzling wit to oppose the mystic's zeal.", | |
| silverworld,Queen Victoria,"['Victoria', 'Queen Victoria']",13,10554,"1_to_byzantium_98,2_outfitting_225,2_outfitting_401,11_homeland_1564,12_village_fate_386,12_village_fate_399,12_village_fate_546,12_village_fate_540,12_village_fate_625,12_village_fate_742,13_ziggurat_10684,13_ziggurat_8251,13_ziggurat_9086","""Ah,"" the merchant says, ""the people of the north are a strong and brave people—useful to Byzantium, in their own simple way. Sorry about what happened to your queen and her husband, by the way."" | |
| Victoria was not exactly your queen, but no matter.","""so why is a possible Victorian allowed among the soldiers of Byzantium?"" | |
| Everyone seems to expect you to honor the memory of poor, mad, dead Queen Victoria. Strange.","""Namandjé?"" a gruff voice calls. ""Namandjé Kangapolitan? There you are, girl! Get with the others!"" | |
| Captain Kamateros, the small company's commanding officer, seems alarmed by Dr. Sabbatine's desire for immediate use of the [i]Specular[/i]. A tall man dressed in immaculate gold-and-gray regimentals, Captain Kamateros does not look like the sort of man who enjoys surprises. | |
| As if not sure you speak Koiné, the Captain points angrily from you to the weapons locker. Firearms haven't been permitted on the streets of the city since that deranged English queen, Victoria, and her husband tried to assassinate the Empress of Byzantium and her heir, Prince Zeno. Nonetheless Dr. Sabbatine keeps an impressive armory.","The city sprawls like corpses on a battlefield, without order or reason, in every direction. Everywhere, chimneys belch smoke into the air, staining the buildings black and filling every street with fog. The air is fresher here, which only lets you finally appreciate the stink of the place: rotting sewers, rotting food, and the endless smoke. | |
| ""Luna Din,"" Stralchus says. ""London. But a London that never was, that never should have been."" He grabs a blowing bit of trash paper and unfurls it. You recognize the woman it depicts: the self-proclaimed Queen of the North, who tried to murder the Empress with the help of her mad husband. Dressed in finery, she looks nothing like the howling woman Prince Zeno led to the gallows ten years ago. | |
| ""Victoria,"" Stralchus reads. ""Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Empress of India. Euphrasia! Euphrasia, get me out of this hell!"" | |
| ""Get to the adjoining building,"" the crackling voice says. ""I've opened a rift there. That place is coterminous with the laboratory I have established back in Istanbul."" | |
| ""What, in the twenty names of Artemis, is Istanb–?"" | |
| ""Just hurry!"" | |
| You see the building, a decaying warehouse with broken or dirty windows through which you can see a faint distortion. You also see how to reach it: drop down onto a sloping tin roof nearby, then run across to one of the broken windows. | |
| Then Keimia steps between you and the warehouse.","You could seize the Ziggurat from Stralchus, blast the gray mountain, then let the False Icon escape. This world and Byzantium, then, would both endure. If you succeed, which does not sound easy. | |
| Or you could seize the Ziggurat, then secure it against the coming impact. The gray mountain will (eventually) destroy the lizards and ophidians, leaving humanity–and the Ziggurat–intact. Of course, that also means Byzantium vanishes, replaced by Queen Victoria's empire. | |
| Finally, you could take the Ziggurat knowing you would have to abandon it. By destroying the gray mountain with the sun lens and recapturing the False Icon, you would unmake this world, then everyone could retreat back through the rift to Byzantium.", | |
| silverworld,Dr. Euphrasia I Sabbatine,"['Dr. Euphrasia I Sabbatine', 'Euphrasia']",12,10554,"1_to_byzantium_975,4_apostolic_mound_1926,4_apostolic_mound_2036,5_fracturing_575,5_fracturing_704,reactive_3_3445,13_ziggurat_1872,13_ziggurat_7439,13_ziggurat_9529,13_ziggurat_9231,13_ziggurat_11428,13_ziggurat_11420","[i]To this end, and due to your own circumstances, which I know are desperate through no fault of your own, I hope that you will reply to this letter and begin the long journey to Byzantium, that you may guard my greatest—and perhaps last—experiment from those who would see such work destroyed.[/i] | |
| [i]Sincerely,[/i] | |
| [i]Dr. Euphrasia I Sabbatine of Byzantium[/i]","""An incomplete description of a far more complicated phenomenon,"" Dr. Sabbatine says. | |
| ""I've seen it, Euphrasia!"" Stralchus cries. ""It rules this nightmare realm!""","""I'm not going to loot this world for you or the Empress!"" | |
| Dr. Sabbatine sighs and says, ""I understand your frustration, Namandjé. I've seen how Byzantium has plundered Persia, Egypt, Cathay, Europa, Hy-Brasil—"" | |
| ""You've seen nothing, Euphrasia!"" Stralchus shouts. | |
| ""Oh, do shut up."" | |
| Stralchus lapses into furious silence. | |
| ""This is the butcher's bill,"" the doctor says. ""It's come due, and it must be paid. But it doesn't have to be paid in blood. What about trade? What about gratitude for improving the lives of these simple people? If you can find a more honorable path, take it. But if the Empress turns against me, you are doomed, and if the False Icon is left to its own devices, perhaps we all are.""","""This is madness, Euphrasia!"" Stralchus shouts. He's gathered a considerable crowd around himself. Vecla gives you a worried look as the mystic goes on, ""You're playing money games when we're trapped in what might as well be hell!"" | |
| ""It's not hell, Stralchus, it's the past,"" Dr. Sabbatine says with an audible sigh. | |
| ""There's no past anymore,"" Stralchus says. ""The False Icon destroyed our history, replacing it with this mockery, this illusion!"" | |
| ""Well, I need money from the illusion, or I'm going to get shut down and you're going to be trapped there, so—"" | |
| ""You don't understand what it's like!"" Stralchus screams. ""Looking up and seeing that thing in the sky every day, hearing its whispers every night!"" | |
| ""Its whispers…?"" Dr. Sabbatine asks, but the mystic suddenly storms off, taking with him a dozen or more of Chief Kothis's warriors. The chief has returned to brooding over the fate of his daughter and makes no response. | |
| ""Stralchus is going to be trouble,"" Alexius says. ""He's been preaching to the locals, Doctor. And I think he's—"" | |
| ""Stepped outside the bounds of Orthodoxy,"" Control finishes. | |
| ""Well then, let's try to kill two birds with one time-space transference,"" the doctor says. ""I'll test the rift's symmetric stability by transferring something the locals might like but won't seem too extravagant.""","""A coup? Hardly,"" Stralchus says. His voice has power in it, and though the mystic's beard has grown ragged and he's bitten his fingernails down to the quick, you realize you're standing across from one of Byzantium's most capable orators and political philosophers. ""I've simply realized that I cannot stop the False Icon here, with the interference of Euphrasia and Kothis and his treacherous daughter. This is a parting, Alexius."" | |
| Then he turns to the River People and speaks with clarity, precision, and power about the horror of the False Icon, the weakness of Kothis, the treachery of Keimia, and how Dr. Sabbatine cannot help them. He speaks of a new way, a spiritual road that has the power to destroy illusions and save them all. Alexius curses, realizing he has neither the language skills nor theological background to oppose one of Byzantium's foremost orators. Chief Kothis looks like he's already been defeated. The controllers turn to you. | |
| ""Do something,"" Control whispers. ""We will not survive here long without the River People's protection.""", | |
| silverworld,Riverlanders,"['Riverlanders', 'Riverlander']",9,10554,"prism_772,cog_921,cog_1069,cog_1751,cog_1922,cog_2009,cog_2130,cog_2169,cog_2084","""I am Queen Acma,"" she says in the River Language. ""Why have you come, Riverlanders?""","""Why do you stare, Riverlander?"" one of the Triune says. ""Do not look to me for divinity, for I am but a man, and our god is there before you."" | |
| This seems funny to Skull Ripper and some of the other warriors, who chuckle quietly among themselves. If there's some undercurrent you should be able to observe here, you're not subtle enough.","""Are you with Losh on this, Riverlander?"" the third Triune member asks. ""What is the God of the Golden Eye to you?"" | |
| The villagers watch you, some zealously convinced of the idol's power, others doubtful, having considered Losh's words.","""There you are, Riverlander!"" It's Skull Ripper, his voice a thunderous boom that rouses the villagers. A dozen Forest Tribe warriors flank him. Two hold a dazed-looking controller. | |
| The Triune spill out of their hut, adjusting their masks like Byzantine merchants straightening their cravats. | |
| ""I've caught them,"" Skull Ripper says.","The Triune laugh at your threats. | |
| ""You cannot frighten us, Riverlander!"" they cry. ""We have a god, and it serves us. We know what you want, and you cannot have it!"" | |
| Their bravado is not entirely false; you see the warriors shifting behind them, readying themselves for a fight.", | |
| silverworld,Captain Kamateros,['Captain Kamateros'],8,10554,"2_outfitting_401,2_outfitting_434,2_outfitting_438,3_crisis_124,4_apostolic_mound_1904,11_homeland_1041,11_homeland_2621,13_ziggurat_623","""Namandjé?"" a gruff voice calls. ""Namandjé Kangapolitan? There you are, girl! Get with the others!"" | |
| Captain Kamateros, the small company's commanding officer, seems alarmed by Dr. Sabbatine's desire for immediate use of the [i]Specular[/i]. A tall man dressed in immaculate gold-and-gray regimentals, Captain Kamateros does not look like the sort of man who enjoys surprises. | |
| As if not sure you speak Koiné, the Captain points angrily from you to the weapons locker. Firearms haven't been permitted on the streets of the city since that deranged English queen, Victoria, and her husband tried to assassinate the Empress of Byzantium and her heir, Prince Zeno. Nonetheless Dr. Sabbatine keeps an impressive armory.","""What on earth are you doing?"" Captain Kamateros snaps. ""Don't just grab it now! We're only going to be on the [i]Specular[/i] for a few minutes. Tell one of the girls what you want and she'll write it down! We'll arm ourselves when we get back."" | |
| ""Let's not waste any more time,"" Dr. Sabbatine says before the Captain can berate you further. ""There's less of it than you think!"" | |
| A controller writes down your weapon preference and then leaves to load a few crates onto the [i]Specular[/i] as her sisters get everyone positioned. Soon the [i]Specular[/i]'s circular viewing platform contains almost fifty people, including scientists, journalists, and guards like yourself. The atmosphere is festive, the people curious but skeptical. | |
| You too would be skeptical if not for the weird ease with which the doctor's soldiers, including yourself, conduct themselves, despite not knowing one another. Even a neophyte like you has made only one mistake, trying to procure that carbine.","You find yourself between Cyril and Captain Kamateros, beneath the chronometer of the [i]Specular[/i]. It reads ""0000000000000"" and is intended to go backward. A switch adjusts the chronometer's precision down to the second. | |
| ""Remember,"" Dr. Sabbatine says as the controllers work with the efficiency of a naval crew, ""this journey will be as brief as possible. Then the real…difficulty…will begin."" | |
| She and Stralchus share a look. | |
| ""You're not coming with us this time,"" Stralchus says. You can tell he's suspicious of Dr. Sabbatine, and you're not sure exactly what their personal or professional relationship is. Byzantine politics are…well, they're so Byzantine. | |
| ""Not with so many,"" the doctor says. A controller fastens a pair of brass goggles over her eyes. ""Control will join you to manage the return trip. Journalists, now would be a good time to check your cameras. You will have…"" She checks a brass clock sticking out of the wall. ""…four minutes and eighteen seconds at the dawn of time."" | |
| Both journalists and scientists ready their investigative apparatuses. The controllers file into the [i]Specular[/i], working huge knobs along its perimeter. | |
| ""Please don't stick your hands outside the perimeter,"" Dr. Sabbatine says, throwing a knife switch. ""The reason why will be obvious in a m—"" | |
| The doctor's voice fades as a kind of silver ripple spreads out across the [i]Specular[/i]. The controllers throw switches, their coordination perfect. Then you have a sensation of falling back, back, into an unimaginable abyss.","Well, you're not dead. | |
| ""Ah, my damn head! Son of a bitch!"" | |
| Neither is Alexius. | |
| Blood, illuminated by a sputtering chemical fire, spreads down the sloping deck of the [i]Specular[/i] toward you. It spills from the throat of Captain Kamateros. You reach for him but he's already dead, his eyes blank. This close, you can see how the [i]Specular[/i]'s mirrorlike deck is divided into regular hexagons; the captain's blood follows the channels in the metal. | |
| Stralchus kneels in moss beside the broken craft, examining one of the scientists. He drops the man's head back to the turf; he's dead, too. Bodies are scattered everywhere, many of them mercifully hidden by a silver-gray fog that hangs over everything and scatters the light of the flames. Controllers, several of them catastrophically damaged, work patiently to unload equipment before the chemical fires claim everything. | |
| Through the mist, you notice what appears to be several human figures on a low hill. None came from the [i]Specular[/i]. You can almost make out the features of the nearest one: a woman in tattered-looking clothes, holding…a rifle? A walking stick? You can't be sure, but you see her watching Control with a look of profound alarm, bordering on horror.","""Ah, yes,"" the Apostolic Mound says, its shapeless head tilting back so the golden pectoral on its breast catches the moonlight, ""I am in contact."" | |
| Its eyes turn silver-gray, and a crackling hiss emerges from the Apostolic Mound's gore-slick mouth. Then you hear a familiar voice. | |
| ""Hello? Stralchus? Captain Kamateros?"" | |
| It's Dr. Sabbatine!", | |
| silverworld,Christopher,['Christopher'],7,10554,"11_homeland_2517,11_homeland_2574,11_homeland_2580,11_homeland_2589,11_homeland_2595,11_homeland_2607,11_homeland_2612","The constable–a short, middle-aged Scot–looks you up and down and says, ""What are you're doin' just wanderin' about, girl?"" | |
| Aaron and Christopher, emerging through the fog behind you, stop as they spot the bobby, as if unsure how much trouble he can make for you.","The man's eyes widen a moment before the blow. You punch him across the face, and he goes down hard. | |
| ""My God!"" Christopher shouts as you grab a broken cobblestone and crack the Crowned Serpent across the skull. The man meets your gaze. | |
| ""It's all an illusion!"" you scream into his face. And the man beneath you nods. | |
| ""None of this is real,"" you tell your companions as you raise the bloody cobblestone again.","You strike the man across the face. He screams in pain and rage, then grabs you and throws you to the ground. | |
| ""My God!"" Christopher shouts as you tumble across the cobblestones. | |
| ""All an illusion!"" you shriek. It doesn't sound like your voice. ""None of it is real,"" you shout as the bobby slams you to the ground.","You push away from the bobby and rush the woman, catching a flash of golden eyes before you strike her to the ground. | |
| ""My God!"" Christopher shouts as you grab a broken cobblestone and crack the huntress across the head. The woman meets your gaze. | |
| ""It's all an illusion!"" you scream into her face. And the woman beneath you nods. | |
| ""None of this is real,"" you tell your companions as you raise the bloody cobblestone again.","You push away from the bobby and rush the woman, catching a flash of golden eyes before you grab her. But she pushes you away. | |
| ""My God!"" Christopher shouts just as the bobby hits you from behind, bearing you to the ground. ""All an illusion!"" you shriek. It doesn't sound like your voice. ""None of it is real,"" you shout as the bobby raises his truncheon.", | |
| silverworld,Tyrant,['Tyrant'],6,10554,"13_ziggurat_952,12_village_fate_3860,13_ziggurat_926,13_ziggurat_964,13_ziggurat_1128,13_ziggurat_1114","""We can't get close enough,"" Therko says, his tone furious. | |
| ""You hurt it, at least,"" Vecla reports. You look down beside her, and indeed, the wounded Tyrant is slinking back into the woods. The canoes are safe.","But then the Tyrant rushes the village. River People lining the wall shoot down at it, but that only infuriates the colossal beast, who charges the wall. The impact shatters wood and overturns earth—villagers fall into the ruin to be devoured. The Tyrant's rampage continues before you can get close; it rips the wall down with its huge teeth, rends villagers with its claws, then at last retreats under a final hail of arrows and javelins, disappearing back into the woods. | |
| But the wall is in ruins.","""How are we?"" the merchant asks, struggling back to his feet. | |
| ""We can keep flying,"" Control says. ""The Tyrant?"" | |
| ""You hurt it, at least,"" Vecla reports. You look down beside her, and indeed, the wounded Tyrant is slinking back into the woods. The canoes are safe.","Floating above the canoes, you hastily signal the villagers, extolling them to be brave…and extremely accurate. As the Tyrant roars, you shout for them to shoot. Arrows pepper the creature's hide, angering but not seriously wounding it. But then the javelins take their toll, cutting its face before it can reach the first canoe. Finally a canoe is near enough for it to reach, but at your order, the warriors grab spears and dive into the water just ahead of the little boat's destruction. The villagers from the first canoe are on land, circling the Tyrant, who is starting to slow down. | |
| Another wave of arrows, then more javelins, and more villagers piling out of their canoes to attack with long spears. One old huntress gets directly behind and below the Tyrant, thrusts up with her long flint-tipped spear, ripping open the Tyrant's guts. She vanishes in a shower of steaming blood as the Tyrant screams in mortal agony and falls sideways. Then the villagers no longer need your guidance; they strike with spears, then axes, until the Tyrant lies still. | |
| The old huntress is gone, but there were no other casualties. Covered in the blood of their longtime enemy, the villagers nod up to you, looking satisfied.","Slowing your own canoe, you hastily signal the villagers, extolling them to be brave…and extremely accurate. As the Tyrant roars, you shout for them to shoot. Arrows fly over your head to pepper the creature's hide, angering but not seriously wounding it. But then the javelins take their toll, cutting its face before it can even attack. Finally the closest canoe is near enough for the Tyrant to reach it, but at your order, the warriors grab spears and dive into the water just ahead of the little boat's destruction. More arrows, then the villagers from the first canoe are on land, circling the Tyrant, who is starting to slow down. | |
| Another wave of arrows, then more javelins, and more villagers piling out of their canoes to attack with long spears, including Therko and Vecla. One old huntress gets directly behind and below the Tyrant, thrusts up with her long flint-tipped spear, ripping open the Tyrant's guts. She vanishes in a shower of steaming blood as the Tyrant screams in mortal agony and falls sideways. Then the villagers no longer need your guidance; they strike with spears, then axes, until the Tyrant lies still. | |
| The old huntress is gone, but there were no other casualties. The villagers nod to you, covered in the blood of their old enemy, looking satisfied.", | |
| silverworld,Aaron Harker,"['Aaron', 'Aaron Harker']",5,10554,"11_homeland_2517,11_homeland_2600,11_homeland_2603,11_homeland_2607,11_homeland_2612","The constable–a short, middle-aged Scot–looks you up and down and says, ""What are you're doin' just wanderin' about, girl?"" | |
| Aaron and Christopher, emerging through the fog behind you, stop as they spot the bobby, as if unsure how much trouble he can make for you.","The merchant called himself Aaron Harker, but no, that's Alexius! I reach for him, pleading.","The merchant called himself Aaron Harker, but no! That's Alexius Heliopolitan! I plead for help from my old friend.","Christopher recoils, but Aaron grabs your hand. Is his hand green, or is it the pea-soup fog and gaslight of this filthy city? | |
| ""None of it is real,"" you shout as the bobby rushes you, and the merchant nods.","But Aaron and Christopher recoil from you, as if you were some kind of lunatic! Then the bobby hits you from behind, bearing you down onto the cobblestones. | |
| ""All an illusion!"" you shriek. It doesn't sound like your voice. ""None of it is real,"" you shout as the bobby raises his truncheon.", | |
| silverworld,Echidnos,['Echidnos'],5,10554,"13_ziggurat_2073,13_ziggurat_11192,13_ziggurat_11237,13_ziggurat_11252,13_ziggurat_11271","In less than a minute, Echidnos and the Tyrant are both dead, and Keimia orders a general charge. | |
| ""Well, it was going to disappear anyway,"" Stralchus says.","Arrows fly up into Echidnos's face from every direction, and he squeals with pain. His tusks drop low, trying to scythe into the River People, but they maneuver skillfully out of the way and continue to shoot. The cannons roar, but Echidnos's shaking and trampling ruins their aim. Suddenly one tears away, dangling from ropes, and the colossal elephant lurches sideways! The elephant's captain runs outside, shouting for workers to cut the cannon loose, and you point him out to the archers. A half dozen arrows hit him, and with the captain dead, morale disintegrates in the pagoda. Terrified soldiers fling themselves to their deaths. Echidnos tries to flee and gets maybe a hundred yards before his legs give out. River People raise spears and charge. | |
| You're not sure who lands the killing blow on the huge creature.","Stralchus, or the Icons, or whoever constructed these cannons, built them in a familiar and recognizable manner. Ducking an officer's sword, you slash through a key line with your machete, grab a length of burning cord from an artillerist Therko has conveniently killed, and touch the fuse. The cannonball rips deep into Echidnos, who screams and falls.","War elephants can be as much a danger to their own troops as to the enemy's, so there is usually a way to disable them. The Indians favored poison spears, but the Persians…there it is, a mechanical spike with a spring-powered lever, right where the skull meets the shoulders! Dodging an officer's sword, you leap for the mahout's position, before Alexius shot him, and find two metal rods holding the fatal spike in place. You yank them out, use them to parry a crewman's spear-thrusts until Therko hits him from behind, then pull the spring-powered lever. | |
| The yard-long, iron-tipped spike slams into Echidnos's spine. The creature doesn't even scream; it just falls.","With mahout and captain both dead, Echidnos goes on a rampage; Therko secures lines of his own and gets everyone off. You barely avoid getting trampled as you get clear, but the surviving crew members are fleeing in a blind panic, as is Echidnos. You doubt you'll see him again.", | |
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