COUNTER/Weight 21: Crisis! (A Solemn Vow Above The Sea of Counterweight)
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🗓️ 8 January 2016
⏱️ 179 minutes
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Summary
Military water running down stainless steel cookware. The rustling of paperwork, yet unsigned. The warm hum and soft glow of engines alight. Distance and purpose, intermingling in the space between stars. A hand on a shoulder. A choice that makes itself. Eyes and voices, hearts and threats, and our familiar hesitation.
This week: Crisis! (A Solemn Vow Above The Sea of Counterweight)
Some things last a long time.
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| 0:00.0 | When Jace and Adax finally moved, he'd watch them from the busy shores of Vox, his sight reaching where his own voice no longer could. They moved an asymmetrical |
| 0:16.8 | pair, peace, gigantic, a city-state on wings above the banks of magma and steam, stomping and gliding in mechanical |
| 0:25.8 | oscillation, a fortress of power, and then suddenly a bird of prey on the thermal wind. And all around it, Jasis Panther, a rigor broken into |
| 0:36.8 | pieces, but not like glass, like an inverted puzzle, only complete when taken apart. Its core, dancing balladic between |
| 0:46.4 | incoming beams of light as its dozen metal feathers black and shining returned |
| 0:52.1 | the violence 12elfthfold. |
| 0:54.0 | Each slept soundly that night, and from the busy shores of Vox, |
| 0:59.0 | Ebeks watched, and later he would watch them again. |
| 1:04.0 | So still in the air, together, a crisis, a solemn vow above the sea of counterway. Oh, well, it's a great, Do you back and acts and I just swap rolls? I think so. I think fourth. So someone can make predictions someone can make choices and someone can make predictions, |
| 1:43.0 | someone can make choices, and someone can make... |
| 1:46.0 | Can reflect the current tone of the ship or of the fleet. |
| 1:52.0 | And so either you changed roles and Ebex hasn't yet, but still could. |
| 2:00.0 | Actually, can I just do that right now? |
| 2:04.0 | Maybe we just change both change roles. |
| 2:06.0 | Let me see something. |
| 2:08.0 | Oh, yeah, you can totally overthrow because you've been holding the same role |
| 2:11.0 | since the beginning of the game right yeah so yeah you can |
| 2:13.9 | totally change to my role okay great oh my god so events is power again |
| 2:20.8 | ebeks is power again ebeks is power again. Ebex chooses to be power again at this point. |
| 2:25.0 | I think that... |
| 2:27.0 | But the touch-dome thing is actually really nice because like part of that is literally you're |
| 2:31.3 | coming to the commissary every day. |
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